People have been noticing how polarized people are. For instance, in America, there's this abject polarization in ideologies, and one of the reasons that some thinkers are putting forward is because of the way we are being controlled by algorithms. When we go online and we make any moves, then immediately it adjusts to trying to catch our attention, to pull us in a certain way, and then it defines who we are according to our profile. You all know more about this than I do. And then, the more we look at it, the more we become isolated in a particular point of view, because we're being controlled by algorithms that are responding to our initial investment of our attention in a certain place that can be measured, and it is being measured at every second. Therefore whatever point of view, whatever rabbit hole we go down, that becomes augmented more and more. That's how Māyā works also. "Prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni guṇaiḥ karmāṇi sarvaśaḥ ahaṅkāra-vimūḍhātmā kartāham iti manyate." For many lifetimes, I've gone down the rabbit hole, and now I come out and I think, "This is who I am. This is how I think. This is my opinion." But it's not your opinion. It's just the algorithms that you've been subjected to. So we're caught in that, and life after life, we're dragged, dragged from one life to the next.

"Sarīraṁ yad avāpnoti yac cāpy utkrāmatīśvaraḥ gṛhītvaitāni saṁyāti vāyur gandhān ivāśayāt."

We are very subtle, we are being blown along into one next situation because we are locked into these algorithms. So to undo all algorithms: "bhidyate hṛdaya-granthiś chidyante sarva-saṁśayāḥ kṣīyante cāsya karmāṇi dṛṣṭa evātmanīśvare." We have to come to see the self as Master. We have to come to see Krishna as master and that we are His servant. We slash through all the algorithms and come to the only algorithm that actually matters, and that is, "I'm a servant of Krishna." The shastra gives us full permission. It says, "You know, break through! Get your algorithm right. You're really messed up, little Jiva. You know, everyone's telling you wrong stuff. Don't believe it. Go to one source, one news channel: Bhagavad-Gītā. Listen to the Bhāgavatam. Don't take in all this other stuff, because it just messes up your algorithms. If you want to fix them, you've got to sit down for a long time every day and really concentrate on these 16 words, 32 syllables. Let it rearrange everything, all the ceta, Ceto-Darpaṇa-Mārjanam. Fix it. And then you'll be happy and you'll have everything. You'll have victory."

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