Rizwan Virk

He was like 30 years old.

He's like, you know, I just got called out here for some government position.

And he says, well, we need to initiate you in this yoga technique.

And maybe you'll remember then.

And so he initiates him and he starts to remember all this stuff.

And then he says, OK, we're going to initiate you over there.

And Lahiri looks and there's this golden palace that came out of nowhere, you know, right in the middle of the Himalayas.

And he says, we're going to initiate you in this palace.

And it just came from nowhere.

So Yogananda is talking about the dream nature of the world and how yogis can manipulate it.

But then Lahiri says, well, one, how did you create this out of nothing?

But two, why in this golden palace?

And so this kind of immortal figure in the story says, well, in a previous life, you expressed an interest.

a real strong desire to live in a palace in a future life.

And so I've created this dream palace for you.

It's not really real, but you're seeing it.

In order to resolve that karma so that you don't have to go live a whole life in a palace.

Like that karma is done now.

Take that off the database.

So I use that to kind of show that sometimes we put things into the database of karma based upon our strong desires.