🔑 TRUTH Is Your SHIELD: Discernment, Liberation & Escaping the Reincarnation Cycle

Added: 2026-05-30

[00:00:00]I have stumbled upon something that I think is so important to the questions that we've been asking to the mission that we've been on and trying to understand the purpose of life, trying to understand if we are indeed in some sort of a cyclic existence as is stated in the Tibetan Book of the Dead that we are aiming to escape it it aiming to be liberated from that this is potentially the key to that liberation or at least one key piece to the puzzle.

[00:00:29]And this is this idea of the relationship between between truthfulness and discernment.

[00:00:33]Discernment, of course, being able to tell fact from fiction, being able to see through deception and manipulation, which I'm believing more and more is very, very important at the moment of death or after the moment of death.

[00:00:46]I have stumbled upon a few different philosophies that talk about the importance of alignment and truthfulness in life, and not just truthfulness from a day-to-day basis of telling the truth and and whatnot, but just living in alignment and understanding the nature of reality that doing this empowers your ability to decipher truth from lies, aka your level of discernment, which I'm starting to really think is absolutely critical for you to go exactly where you want to go when you when you pass on.

[00:01:26]And again, this is something that I've talked about in other videos. If you're new to the channel, I've talked about in other videos. I had this feeling that there is an importance to trying to live honestly and authentically as best you can. We're never Nobody's going to ever be perfect. We're always going to have ar- areas where we're we're going to fail at, we're going to fall short, but trying to do so it's not just appeasing some external deity. This is literally feeding ourself. And I think in opposition, living in opposition to that, living a dishonest life, being disingenuous harms not is not offending some some external deity. It's actually harming ourselves.

[00:02:01]It's hurting our own abilities and our own discernment levels, which ultimately we will have to pay for that.

[00:02:10]And so I'm going to go through these four concepts that I've researched that actually talk about with literally this was just a theory. I don't people in the comments when I mentioned this in live streams or the videos that say yes, there's something to this or this is I think they've referenced different concepts that that connect to this idea, but now I found across the timeline in four different areas and there's maybe more to this.

[00:02:32]These four concepts that speak directly to this idea that living a truthful honest life to the best of our abilities with integrity is actually feeding us and is actually building our our ability to discern fact from fiction. So without further ado, let's get into it, but I just feel like to me this is such a massive revelation.

[00:02:57]It confirms something that I already felt pretty strongly had to be true. I just hadn't seen anybody else talk about this or put terms to it, but now I have.

[00:03:06]And how funny is it that one of the sources here is back is going back to the Upanishads from the Hindu religion, which is a video I made yesterday about us being food for the moon referencing the the Upanishads who talk about this exact concept. So I feel like there's a lot of wisdom in the Upanishads, something that I need to really dig into and dive into more.

[00:03:28]So again today, the idea is effectively the truth shields you. Honesty, integrity shields you, protects you. And this is going to be covered in the following four areas from the Upanishads, the concept of Satya and Viveka, which go together and we're going to talk about Satya and Viveka, essentially truth and discernment and how they how they correspond and relate. This concept of phronesis, an ancient Greek concept again having to do this with this idea of truthfulness leading to an ability to have strong levels of discernment.

[00:04:00]The law of resonance, we're going to talk about that. And finally, this idea of authenticity versus bad faith. All again, these are all concepts very similar, but that emerged in different time periods.

[00:04:16]I'm still tripping out that I came across all this stuff. It's still it's still blowing my mind because it's just something that I felt deep down was true.

[00:04:29]And then now I'm finding it in multiple places. It's just It's just really, really cool. All right, without further ado, let's get into the mix. Satya and Viveka, what are these?

[00:04:38]Satya means truth, reality, truthfulness, essence, or alignment with what is real. Comes from the Sanskrit root sat, meaning being, which means real, true, or that which exists.

[00:04:50]In the deepest Hindu Vedantic sense, satya is not merely don't lie. It points toward the reals itself.

[00:04:57]That which is not temporary, distorted, illusory, or dependent on changing appearances. In yoga, satya becomes And that's kind of that reminds me of realization of self, something I covered in my video yesterday, which is this idea that we have to realize who we really are, not this persona, not this person, not this personality, but understanding the truth of our nature, of our infinite consciousness.

[00:05:21]In yoga, satya becomes one of the five yamas, the ethical restraints in Patanjali's yoga sutras, meaning truthfulness in thought, speed, speech, and action.

[00:05:31]Yeah, just through and through. And I've thought about this. I I don't know I I just had this feeling, even when it comes to to interacting with my dog, with with saying things even to myself, you just feel that. I think you'll you know what I'm talking about. Even Even if you just say something in passing to yourself with nobody around and you and you're like, "Wait a minute.

[00:05:51]I don't think that's right." Like it doesn't Tell me if I'm I'm right or wrong. If you guys agree with this, don't you get a bad feeling, a dirty feeling that something like you've thrown something out of alignment and you want to you want to correct it or you want to say, "No, wait. Wait. I didn't mean that. Oh, let me let me say what I really meant or let me let me correct the record." You guys Do you guys have that same feeling? And maybe there are people that literally feel nothing and that that they could be potentially psychopaths or those that are just completely cut off from Wait, I don't think you can be completely cut off. But maybe they they feel it so minimally that they don't notice it. I don't know.

[00:06:26]So, I I suppose there are people in that that fall into that category. But I would love to know in the comments Do Do most of you guys feel that?

[00:06:34]Whether it's And this could be even along the lines of negative emotions or saying something even potentially slanderous about somebody else. They never even hear it.

[00:06:42]They never even know you said it, but you feel that gross feeling. I think it's kind of the same thing. If you say something even to yourself that's out of alignment, it just It just makes you feel bad.

[00:06:54]Origins of Satya. Satya is one of the oldest concepts in Indian religion and philosophy. In the Vedas, it is closely tied to Rta. I'm not sure I'm pronouncing that right, the cosmic order, harmony, and righteous rightness that sustains the universe.

[00:07:05]Truth is not merely moral correctness.

[00:07:06]It's part of the structure of reality itself. Falsehood is a kind of disorder, a misalignment with the way things truly are.

[00:07:15]Which is rife on this planet. You know, let's let's think about that for a minute. Think about if if they're describing it in this way, which I feel is is legitimate, just think about how if if we're talking about this is essential to cosmic order and harmony, just think about what's around us in the world. Yeah, there's so many things that we tolerate and I've mentioned this many times, but the way that advertising works, the way that companies fund studies that favor their products despite these serious harm effects, all chemicals that are put into our foods that a lot of these people know are harmful, but they're not disclosing it. I mean, just think about how much deception and manipulation is out there all around us and how that must be distorting reality and the nature of this realm.

[00:07:58]In the Upanishads, satya becomes even more metaphysical. The Upanishadic movement turns inward and asks, "What is true self? What is ultimate reality?

[00:08:07]What remains after the body, personality, and changing world are seen as impermanent?" The famous movement from asat to sat, reality unreality to reality appears in the Upanishadic tradition, especially in the spirit of prayer from the unreal "Lead me to the real." Satya also becomes associated with Brahman, the ultimate unchanging reality.

[00:08:29]Viveka means discernment, discrimination, spiritual discrimination, or the power to distinguish the real from the unreal.

[00:08:35]So, right, truth, discernment go hand in hand. Satya viveka.

[00:08:40]In Vedanta, especially Advaita Vedanta, viveka is the ability to separate the eternal from the temporary, self from not self, Atman Brahman from the body, right? Atman is kind of your your spirit, your soul, if I'm understanding that correctly. Brahman is the greater kind of like the god mind as as I understand it. From body, mind, ego, desire, and illusion. It's not discrimination in the modern social sense. It is spiritual clarity, knowing what is real versus what is passing appearance. Meaning, what is real and what is not real. Discernment. The famous Advaita text, the crest jewel of discrimination, centers on this exact idea, discriminating between the unchanging real and the changing unreal as the path to liberation, breaking the cycle, breaking out of cyclic existence. It's all there.

[00:09:28]Viveka develops most fully in Vedanta and the ideas but the ideas older and broader. The basic spiritual problem in many Indian tradition is avidya, ignorance or misperception.

[00:09:38]We mistake [clears throat] the temporary for permanent, the body for the self, pleasure for liberation, ego for identity, and worldly experience for ultimate reality. In Samkhya and Yoga, viveka appears as discrimination between purusha and prakriti.

[00:09:53]Purusha is pure witnessing consciousness.

[00:09:58]Prakriti is nature, mind, matter, sensation, and all changing phenomena.

[00:10:02]Liberation comes when the seer stops identifying with the seen.

[00:10:06]Patanjali's Yoga Sutras describe liberating discernment, often called viveka khyata, as clear knowledge that distinguishes the true seer from everything that is merely observed. The true seer from everything that is merely observed. Okay. This leads towards kaivalya, final liberation in Yoga philosophy.

[00:10:26]Let me read that again. Liberation comes when the seer stops identifying with the seen.

[00:10:30]Purusha is is pure witness Okay, I get it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is that same idea of realizing the self, identifying with the consciousness that is sort of behind the scenes observing everything as opposed to everything you are observing or everything that you think you are in this reality.

[00:10:46]Applied to reincarnation and the afterlife, these two concepts suggest that the real spiritual task is not merely to be good, follow a ritual, enter a light, meet guides, go to heaven, or receive comforting explanations. The deeper task is to recognize what is truly real, refuse false identification, and remain clear enough to distinguish liberation from another layer of experience. In the strongest Vedantic sense, the exit from the reincarnation cycle is not found by moving somewhere else in the cosmos, it is found by realizing the truth of what you are. Truth, again, not the body, not the ego, not the karmic story, not the astral drama, but pure awareness itself.

[00:11:23]Okay, this is concept number one. Let's get into the mix. Let's do the next one.

[00:11:26]Now we move from these Indian texts, the Upanishads, to ancient Greece.

[00:11:33]Plato, Socrates, and the concept here is called a phronesis.

[00:11:37]Phronesis combi- a practicalism combined with a a soul and in alignment. Socrates argued that virtue is a form of knowledge. If your soul is divided or dishonest, your capacity for reason and perception is damaged. Right there, same concept. You damage your own capacity for reason and perception. That's the sermon right there. Socrates continuously argued that the unjust of decept- or deceptive person is fundamentally blind.

[00:12:06]They trick themselves into believing their own illusions, which destroys their capacity for true judgment. This is crazy.

[00:12:12]>> [snorts] >> Socrates famously maintained that a good man cannot be harmed, meaning that a person of absolute integrity possesses a psychological and intellectual immunity to the manipulations of sophists.

[00:12:25]Because the moral philosopher values truth above winning. I love that. Truth above winning. Love that. We need that.

[00:12:31]We need that back in this world. We need that back in American American politics.

[00:12:34]My God. They easily see through the smoke and mirrors of manipulators.

[00:12:40]Amazing. Now, obviously there's not This isn't tied into reincarnation or spiritual elements, but it's talking exactly about the same idea that with living a a virtuous life or living within virtue emboldens you in that ability to see through the smoke and mirrors of manipulators.

[00:13:00]Now we move in to the third reference to this idea. This is called the law of resonance, okay? And this is from a gentleman named David R. Hawkins. We're going to I'm going to talk about who he is in a moment. So, here's the framework. The law of resonance basically means your level of consciousness determines what you are capable of recognizing, attracting, aligning with, and discerning.

[00:13:21]In other words, you do not perceive reality neutrally. You perceive it through frequency or consciousness field that you are currently identified with.

[00:13:29]So, the way that you operate is going to Again, remember how we've we've heard William Bowman many other people talk about this idea that what you're seeing and experiencing is is a projection from your consciousness or or a collective projection of all of our consciousnesses to some extent, but of course, he's saying right here what we are seeing and experiencing and observing has to do with our own consciousness field and the consciousness field is going to be impacted by the way we live, our integrity, our virtues, etc. Same same idea. By the way, Dr. R.

[00:14:03]Hawkins was an American psychiatrist, spiritual teacher, and consciousness researcher. He's best known for creating the map of consciousness, a calibrated scale of human awareness detailing detailed in his in his best-selling book, Power vs. Force. I haven't read this book. I've heard so many people talk about it. I will add it to my list.

[00:14:18]It's not going to be at the very top, but I would love to read this at some point.

[00:14:23]So, the law of resonance will say like resonates with like. A person in fear tends to perceive threat. A person in anger tends to perceive enemies. A person in pride tends to perceive status and insult. A person in reason tends to perceive patterns and meaning. In love, perceive unity, compassion, and sacredness. A person in peace tends to perceive reality without as much distortion.

[00:14:44]So, I think that's the idea. That is the key connection to discernment. So, in peace, in harmony, in unity, in resonance with reality, you would perceive reality without that same amount of distortion and be able to see through the BS, basically, is what the law of resonance is stating.

[00:15:00]In his framework, the law of resonance means that consciousness aligns with and perceives according to its own level.

[00:15:05]Your inner state determines what you attract, what you recognize, what you distort, and what you are vulnerable to.

[00:15:10]This makes discernment relative to alignment. The clearer and higher the alignment, the more trustworthy the discernment.

[00:15:17]In life, this means fear, guilt, anger, pride, craving distort judgment.

[00:15:21]While courage, neutrality, acceptance, reason, love, and peace clarify it.

[00:15:27]Applied to reincarnation or cyclic existence, the idea is that consciousness after death may resonate toward whatever it is still attached to, afraid of, or identified with.

[00:15:34]Therefore, escape is not just about rejecting the wrong light or avoiding the wrong guide. It's about becoming inwardly aligned with truth.

[00:15:42]So that deception no longer has a matching hook inside of you.

[00:15:46]I'm telling you. I'm telling you. This is a big This is a big revelation. I haven't really heard a lot of people talk about this. Maybe they have and I missed it.

[00:15:54]But I'm telling you this is a big revelation and this is what I was feeling. You know, we we are told I think many times across different religious faiths not to lie. Lying is bad. I mean, it's not one of the 10 Commandments, which is a bit bizarre.

[00:16:05]Well, and and and I find it especially bizarre because lying is at the heart of so many things that we do wrong. If we allow ourselves to lie or be dishonest to ourselves, to other people, what not, then that lays the foundation for us to do worse and worse and worse things and more and more things that are damaging to others. But anyways, sometimes we're told not to do it because it's written, it was said by a deity, or we're told that it's just foundationally wrong because it's written in this book or that book, right?

[00:16:34]This is a different thing. This is not about it being a bad thing because the eye in the sky is saying that hey, you shouldn't have done that and you're going to get punished for it. It's not that. It's literally it's just the way another form of self-harm in a in a way. We We lie when we deceive, when we live out of alignment with ourselves.

[00:16:54]We shouldn't be doing it because we're straight-up hurting ourselves. We're straight-up hurting ourselves. Hurting others, obviously, that goes without saying.

[00:17:01]But I think that's a big takeaway. We don't realize it. And if we are truly loving ourselves, coming back to self-love, we should not be doing this to ourselves. We shouldn't be doing it to others, of course, but we shouldn't be doing it to ourselves as well.

[00:17:17]Big takeaways. Big takeaways in this video.

[00:17:20]Finally, we get to number four, authenticity versus bad faith. This is from Jean-Paul Sartre. This idea of bad faith is the existential version of spiritual misalignment. It is when a person lies to themselves about their own freedom, responsibility, and true condition by pretending they are just a role, a victim of circumstance, a fixed fixed personality, a job title, social identity, desire, a program, script.

[00:17:44]Authenticity, by contrast, is the courage to recognize that you are not merely the mask, the role, the fear, the craving, the inherited story. You're the consciousness choosing how to relate to all of that. That sounds exactly like realization of self. Holy smokes. And this is from a much later period. Maybe it was inspired by the Upanishads and whatnot, but that's exactly it, right?

[00:18:04]The consciousness choosing how to relate to all of that.

[00:18:09]The unchanging you.

[00:18:12]Through the lens of satya viveka phronesis and resonance, bad faith is a failure of truth and discernment.

[00:18:18]The person resonates with self-deception, identifies with the false self, and then acts from misalignment. Authenticity is the movement back into truth, seeing clearly, refusing false identification, accepting responsibility for one's choices, and acting with practical wisdom.

[00:18:33]Applied to reincarnation or cyclic existence, bad faith would be the soul continuing to buy into the same karmic identity loops, this is who I am, this is what I need, this is what I fear, this is what I must repeat, while authenticity would be the liberating recognition that those scripts are not the deepest self and do not have to be obeyed.

[00:18:53]I read through all of this already, but now reading it in the midst of making this video, it caused me to read it much more deeply, which is why I love this channel, cuz it's not just for you guys. I've said this many times. This is for me. This is how I am learning. This is how I am growing. This is how I am building a knowledge base and understanding all of this information. By making these videos for everybody, I am also making these for myself.

[00:19:19]And all of this information is is hitting me pretty hard right now.

[00:19:24]Because I'm telling you, I felt something about this. I felt this was somewhere deep inside of me that this was true.

[00:19:33]And I feel that's pretty nice solid confirmation across kind of like four different regions, four different timelines that this is a potentially universal truth. Obviously, that's that's a strong statement to say that. Maybe I need to do more more research and do more digging and really think through this more so. Maybe even look at this in terms of from a physiological, psychological perspective about how lying, maybe there's been studies done, I'm pretty sure they have, and how lying affects your psyche and your brain and and creates new pathways. And I'm sure it it it it does negative things on the front, right? I I think what what what is a compulsive liar? Somebody that has become so acclimated to lying and deceiving that they just they they it seems as though they can't escape that that pattern.

[00:20:22]So, there's got to be more even more to this than simply these four concepts that I've been able to identify. But man, oh man, if we're going back to this idea of what David Icke talks about, the idea of awareness, the idea of discernment, the importance of it, what the what Intuitive Underground is talking about in terms of making it past these certain tests once we've passed out of our bodies.

[00:20:47]This might be the front door to the holy grail of maximizing our discernment.

[00:20:54]And it's easy in a way. I mean, not easy to to be to to be as righteous as possible, but it's easy to understand as as what I mean. It's a it's right there.

[00:21:06]We want to see truth, we have to be truth. You know what I'm saying?

[00:21:10]It doesn't It doesn't take leaps of logic or a lot of uh processing to get our heads around it.

[00:21:18]It feels pretty straightforward.

[00:21:23]And in that simplicity, therein lies its beauty, in my opinion. That's all I got for you guys in this one. Let me know your thoughts in the comments. Man, oh man, thank you guys so much for joining and for just being a part of this community and helping me just do all this and spread this information. And we'll see you in the next video. Take it easy.