What is the source of the programming we have?

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last question so what is the source of the programming which we have basically we all get our programming from four different factors one is our association is presently the kind of people we associated that’s how we become more immediately it’s even in the association how we act so it’s our free will beyond that if you go backwards it’s our upbringing and beyond that if we go it’s our past karma so so now this is where the spiritual and the scientific they run in parallel now we may say that okay why do i have particular nature it’s been my genes so biology may attribute it to genes that’s fine but genes what are they ultimately they are some program codes so why did we get that program code in the first place so basically the understanding which reconciles both the karmic perspective and the genetic perspective is that the soul we are all doing activities right now and all those activities have two sets of reactions one is the karmic reaction in terms of external consequence say if somebody drinks excessive alcohol they may get some liver problems that’s a consequence at the level of health it’s external you could say they may intoxication we find or cause accident that’s all external but internally every time a person drinks what happens is that incontinence to drink becomes stronger and that is an internal consequence that is inescapable so now based on the way we have acted in the previous life we acquire a particular set of conditionings so i talked about the soul the mind and the body the soul is eternally pure and when we go from one life to another or when we come into this life we are getting a new body but the soul and the mind travel together and the past impressions that are the past actions that we have done they create impressions on the mind and those we carry on and we can see this sometimes in a positive sense where some children are just precocious they just a few years old and they are great at maths some of them will go great at computer programs some may great at various things so if we have developed certain skills in a previous life those impressions are stored in the mind we carry it on in this life similarly we may have developed certain habits they are carried on in this life so now what happens by the principles of karmic justice that a person who has done a particular kind of karma is given birth in a family where the genes will be according to the karma so genetic is the way in which karma is expressed see the spiritual or we could say the subtle it is not that it is contradictory to the material the two work in parallel so normally it is our past karma which determines our programming and our programming may be expressed through our genes it may be expressed through some other concepts in science may come up in the future but it expresses itself through appropriate mental mechanisms now life is not limited to specific channels for manifestation it means that the soul one of the attributes used to describe it is sarva gataha in the world it is capable of being present anywhere so wherever a suitable biochemical medium manifests the soul appears over there and the soul acquires the body through that so we it’s not that because because the soul is spiritual the soul is not material when it is functioning in this world it requires a biochemical a physical psychophysical medium to function without that it can’t function but how it will acquire the psychophysical vehicle that can really so nature can in its own womb in the womb which is fashioned by nature in a mother’s womb there a soul can appear and there is a traditional way in which it can appear it appears through the man’s sperm going into the woman’s womb and the two uniting but the soul itself is not limited in these things soul can appear in different ways and basically there is ordinary matter and there is matter which life present with it and these two behave in fundamentally different ways ordinary matter it comes into its creative it deteriorates and it’s destroyed so this table for example this is at a particular time over the years it will get eroded deteriorate and one day it will be destroyed now matter where life is present it exhibits three more features one it grows second is it maintains itself third is it reproduces and afterwards there is deterioration and there is destruction so these three additional features of behavior this table no matter how sophisticated we make it the table is not going to grow robots they are created that’s the way they exist but we see that people grow and not just grow if the table is cut it’s going to stay cut if my hand is cut it’s going to clot it’s going to heal it’s going to become normal so there is maintenance and there is reproduction in science fiction movies we may see a mother robot and a father robot and they produce a baby robot but that’s just imagination so reproduction happens now the specific means may be varied but the point is that at a biological level or at a we could say biophysical level there is no difference in terms of composition between the matter that comprises this table and the matter that comprises your and my body it’s ultimately atoms and molecules you go on fundamental particles now why is it that this matter behaves in the way creation deterioration destruction whereas the matter within us it behaves differently it does maintenance there’s reproduction there is growth then there’s deterioration destruction so this is a categorical difference and wherever the difference is manifested we understand that there is something more present over there and that is a spark of spirit so now how that spark of spirit enters that if we are going to reduce ourselves to simply empirical methods then even in a normal process of reproduction we don’t see a soul entering into the body the soul soul’s presence the this presence of the spark of consciousness structure the soul that is to be inferred it is never observed because it is spiritual so the inference is from the presence of consciousness and which is internal experience and for the presence of the transformations of growth reproduction and maintenance which happen in the in embody or we could say ensouled matter matter in which consciousness soul is present so wherever this is present so if we do cloning if we create artificial move where you have a baby come up all that it means is we have succeeded in creating a biochemical medium where consciousness manifests does it answer your question