 It's not good to get into spiritual academics. Spiritual process should never become an academic subject. Unfortunately, it has become for a lot of people. So, I want you to relate this question to yourself. Do not use these things because it becomes an academic subject now. There is a… you're assuming there is a karmic body, you're assuming you have a mind. No, I'm saying you don't really know, isn't it? Okay, if you have a mind, you must be able to locate it, isn't it? Can you locate it? Can you locate where your mind is? Then you don't know whether it is there or not. See, suppose you walk into this hall, this guy says, I'm in this hall. You look everywhere. You go behind this pillar, posts here, there, under this bench, everything. You don't find the guy. Do you have a doubt or no whether this guy is in this room or not? You say, no. This is the way, isn't it? So, you look wherever you want. There is no mind. Now, this is not just playing with words. You need to understand, when… if you want to explore this, this must come from your context, from the context of your experience of life. Only then, it will come out well for you. Right now, you're asking academic question. Anywhere you go, the same thing. What is the nature of the Atman? What is the relationship between Atman and Paramatman? You've not seen Atman, you've not seen Paramatman. Why are you interested in the relationship? Atman-Paramatman means for those of you who do not know. These are common terminology in India. This means the soul and God, what's the relationship? You've not seen both. How do you know they have a relationship? Maybe they're divorced? If you look at the quality of life people are living, probably they're divorced, isn't it? So, don't go into academics of spirituality. Spirituality is not an academic process. It has to be an experiential longing to know. So, what you're trying to ask is, what is the impact of my past and my present working of my mind? You tell me, can your mind function without memory? If I wipe out all your memory, would you have a thought? You have to build new memory, otherwise there would be no thought, isn't it? So, that's a relationship. Without one, the other cannot exist. It's only because of the karmic memory, the mind is functioning. If there's no memory, how would it function? It wouldn't function for a moment. So, if you have some esoteric idea of karma, drop that. Karma means just the residual impact of all the actions you have performed in your body, in your mind, in your emotions, in your energies. The residual imprint of that. So, that is the karma. So, without that memory, your mind couldn't even function. There's no such thing. It is, from that this is all coming. Another way of looking at it is, there is no such thing as mind. There's just karma. There is a discriminatory buddhi which is not mind. There's a discriminatory intellect. And there is karma. There's really no mind. There's a huge mass of memory. With a certain discretion, you can pick what you want. But if you don't have the discretion, they just run right within yourself all the time. This is all that's happening. This is all that's happening with people. Because the discriminatory mind or the intellect has not been sufficiently developed or applied to, the past memory is running right. All the time it's going on. What happened ten years ago was still bothering people because it's just going on. So, whatever ideas you may have, whatever intentions you may have, whatever ambitions you may have, the karma will overrun it because the necessary discrimination and awareness is not brought in. For this discretion, you need a certain level of awareness. Only if that is there, karma can be consciously used. Memory is not a bad thing. Whatever the memory is, whatever the content of the memory, no memory is a bad thing. You remember something horrible, you remember something beautiful, you remember all kinds of things. This is not a problem. The problem is you do not have the necessary discretion to pick what you want when you want, isn't it? That's all it is, isn't it? So, all the horrible things that have happened on the planet, usually only what horrible things that are happening, the news cameras go and take all this. It's on the film, it's stored somewhere in a computer. Is it biting you? No. If it is played here also, it need not bite you. Only if you react, it bites you, isn't it? The same thing here, it's all just stored and kept. If you react, it'll bite you. If you consciously use it, you can use it in so many different ways. It doesn't matter what is the recording. What your karma is, is not the problem. Are you able to, do you have the necessary awareness and discretion to employ this in the right sense or not? That's all it is.