12 Nov 2011 - QA 10

Jai Guru Dev, if we are all nothing but waves which go back to the ocean then what is the significance of energies like Yamaraja and Chitragupta in time and space?
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: This is a very deep understanding about Chitragupta.
Our consciousness has records of all that is happening, what we call akashic records.
Now, in this place, there are one thousand television channels right here. If you take a very powerful television channel and put a booster you can get all the channels of the world right now in this place.
That means the empty space which we think is empty is not empty. It has records of all that is going on, of all that has happened in the past and all that will happen in the future, now in this moment.
It is a very fascinating aspect of consciousness.
Read Yoga Vasistha and you will understand the three types of aakasha (space); Bhoot Aakasha, Chidakasha and Chittakasha.