Inquirer: Karma + Life experiences both past and present + Environment = thoughts.
The Karma part is the one a lot of people can’t understand or handle cause theirs no “science” behind it. But there’s very little science behind the way the human brain mentally works anyways. People don’t realize its karma from our previous 1,000,000,000,000 incarnations. Most think its just about what we have done in this lifetime.
James: Yes to your formula. Everything we call life reduces to the thoughts playing in our reflected consciousness, the mind, our “environment.”
And yes, there is only one of us and we have lived forever. If you can get your head around that idea, then everything known and unknown is already in us and time and karma from the perspective of a single human life is a joke.
You may not be familiar with chapters 2-6 of the Bhagavad Gita or if you are, perhaps you didn’t realize that they unfold the science i.e. knowledge of karma with reference to liberation aka freedom from dissatisfaction with one’s self and the world as the self and the world are at any given moment. And they give the solution to the reduction of karma i.e. karma yoga to produce an inquiry-qualified mind. The rest of the Gita concentrates on Knowledge Yoga aka Vedanta, the epistemology, the means of knowledge for liberation from ignorance, knowledge of the total mind, creator of the field of existence, knowledge of the laws operating in the karma/dharma field and the effect of liberation on one’s character viz, an Self actualized person.
Vedanta is the science of existence shining as unborn bliss/awareness.
