Rizwan Virk

You say, okay, here's some other people.

We're going to do this together, you know, later on in some point while we're playing the game.

We're going to have this particular experience of being business partners or lovers or enemies or whatever the case, you know, whatever the situation is.

But this idea that these experiences...

could be there for a reason when we have tough experiences is, I think, something that can be comforting.

I know it was for me when I went through certain health crises, for example, that we are here to experience some of these things.

And so if you look at karma more deeply, there's a story from Autobiography of a Yogi that sounds unbelievable to people that I think is worth maybe just telling the story because people read that book and they say, did this guy just make this shit up?

Right?

Did this stuff really happen, right?

Or is this from the Arabian Nights?

So there's a story of this guy named Babaji who supposedly lived for hundreds of years in the Himalayas and supposedly is still there.

Okay, so that's pretty weird to begin with.

But there's a story of Yogananda's guru's guru, a guy named Lahiri, who went up into the mountains and meets this Babaji, right?

And Babaji says, Lahiri, you have found me.

Finally, I've summoned you to me.

I've been watching you your whole life.

And now I'm going to reinitiate you.

Don't you remember you used to sit in this cave and you used to meditate with me?

And there's your blanket.

And Lahiri's like, I don't remember any of this stuff.