Your Desires Shape What You Get from the World

If you have watched YouTube, you would know this.

If you watch a cookery show, YouTube will suggest another cookery show next. If you watch a few of them, then your screen will be full of cookery shows. If you listen to old songs, that only will come up as the next suggestion. YouTube knows what you want, what you are interested in.

There is an algorithm behind this. The first time you watch YouTube, it will install a cookie—a small program inside your browser. That program will keep track of what you are watching and send feedback to YouTube servers. Those servers will keep on sending you what you want, what you are interested in. In the YouTube app, it works in a slightly different but similar way.

God also uses this algorithm to give you your own world experience. If you listen to negative, negative will keep on coming to you. If you listen to positive, positive will keep on coming to you. So don’t take it casually.

What you listen to, what you watch, whom you listen to, what you read—that is what will come to you, even in terms of real experience. If you keep on watching horror movies, your life will be full of fears in some time. What you will get to hear even outside—from your friends, relatives—will be all about ghosts. Your life will be full of ghosts.

Be very careful and choosy about what you listen to, what you watch, what you read. A WhatsApp group chat on politics may look harmless, but observe your character and how it changes after some time. You will become a cynic. You will start finding fault with everyone.

This is what our scriptures, our Vedas tell us.

Bhadram Karnebhi – Listen to only positive.
See only positive.

Yadantarama – What is outside, what you choose from what is there outside.

A rose plant has both. You can see the flower, or you can see the thorns. Or you can see a worm crawling through its leaves. What you choose to focus on is up to you. That is what your world experience will become in some time.

If you keep on listening to fake news, you will become fake after some time. You don’t even have to believe in them. You can reject them as fake. Still, if you listen to fake news, in some time, there will be only fakes, frauds, and criminals around you—because that is what you are attracting.

It is a simple algorithm.

Ramaswamy Sastry and Vighnesh Ghanapaathi