Vāsanā

Now moving ahead, let's look at karma as a mechanism, not as a punishment, not as some cosmic ledger or for good and bad deeds.

We will look at how karma actually works because I want you to stop using karma as an excuse or as a word to sound a little wise because karma is majorly a mechanism so so far what we know that there is ahankar your identity it wants evidences to prove itself that the story is alive to prove itself that it is alive it is fighting for its existence Then how karma works? There is vasana.

Vasana means your desire.

It could be your tendency.

Okay, let's keep it as tendency.

Your tendency is the residue of everything that you have lived.

Vasana is a tendency.

tendency of everything that you have lived so far.

Of course, vasanas are just inclinations.

So we're not bound by our inclinations.

Vasanas are the seeds that give rise to likes, dislikes, desires, and so on.

So we can say they're the likes, dislikes, desires, and so on in their seed form.

So, uh, we are generally act...

You have to listen.

Vasana pressure will be there.

Of course, there is no doubt it is always Agre Vishamiva.

In the beginning it is like Visham.

Mm.

Vasana itself is māyā, is ignorance.

Yeah.

So it's a very, very s- subtle, uh, verse that he's referring to, and I think in the next few verses, he gives indications of Ātman.