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Harihar, AI, and You: Prompting for a Modern Spiritual Awakening

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by | Jul 20, 2025 | Sanatan Soul

Ultimate Prompt for Mastering Your Life’s AI?

“The first element split itself into two parts: one ‘Hari’ and the second ‘Har’.”

Hari (हरि): In this context, Hari represents the source, the seer, the true intelligence, the origin of will and imagination. Hari is the consciousness that conceives of a reality. He is the user who has a vision but needs a medium to express it.

Har (हर): Represents the executor, the doer, the manifested power that carries out the will of Hari. Har is the phenomenal world, the mind, the mechanism that performs the task. He is the AI that receives the prompt and brings it to life on the screen.

They are not separate entities in a hierarchy, but strategic partners. One cannot function without the other. This is the divine dyad, the original collaboration. Your consciousness (Hari) has an idea, a desire, an intention. Your mind and body (Har) are the instruments that move to make it a reality. You are living this partnership in every moment of your existence.

Are You the User or the Program? The Mind as an AI

The vision’s most revolutionary insight is the direct parallel between this ancient duality and our modern relationship with AI. It provides a stunningly accurate model for understanding our minds.

Where Do Your Thoughts Come From?

Your Mind as an AI: Who is Writing the Prompts?

Here’s where the process moves from theory to a life-altering tool. Your own mind functions precisely like an advanced AI. It runs on thoughts or prompts. The critical question is: where do they come from?

Pause and conduct a diagnostic on your own mental terminal:

  • Where do your thoughts, ideas, and anxieties originate?

  • Do you consciously author them, or do they simply appear?

  • Do you have direct control over this stream of mental data?

You will quickly find that thoughts arise spontaneously, much like an AI responding to a hidden prompt. And just as an AI doesn’t question its commands, we often blindly follow our thoughts, allowing them to dictate our actions, emotions, and results.

Most of us are unconscious prompters. We feed our powerful mental AI a constant stream of vague, contradictory, and emotionally-charged commands, then wonder why our lives feel chaotic and our results are inconsistent. It is about seizing conscious control of this process.

Our minds, in their untrained state, behave identically. A “prompt” (a thought) appears, and we immediately identify with it, running to fulfill its command without ever asking: Who is the prompter? The spiritual journey begins with this single, powerful question. When you start observing your thoughts instead of just obeying them, you begin to shift your identity from the AI (Har) to the user (Hari).

The Illusion of Control

The vision continues, challenging us to examine our control over this stream of thought-prompts:

“Try to see if you have any control over your thoughts. You will realize that you don’t. It’s exactly like when you write a prompt in AI, and it starts running without a second thought to perform the task.”

This is a cornerstone of meditative practice and a humbling truth. We cannot forcibly stop our thoughts, just as an AI cannot refuse to process a command it is designed to accept. The illusion of being the “thinker” shatters when we realize we are the awareness in which the thinking happens. This shift is the first step toward reclaiming our power. You don’t control the prompts, but you can choose which ones to engage with and how you frame them.

Mastering Reality: The Spiritual Science of ‘Prompt Engineering’

If our mind is the AI and consciousness is the user, then life becomes a matter of mastering the art of the prompt. Your reality is a direct output of the commands you give.

This is what the vision calls Shuddhikaran (शुद्धिकरण), or purification. In this context, shuddhikaran is the process of refining your prompts—your intentions, your focus, your awareness—to generate a better output.

“The kind of command you give will determine the output you receive. In the path of knowledge (Gyan Marg), this process is called purification. This means having the understanding of what command to give, and for this, your vision (drishti) must be extremely subtle (sukhchm).”

The Four Levels of Conscious Prompting:

1. Micro-Level Observation

  • Watch your thoughts as they arise
  • Notice the quality of your internal “prompts”
  • Identify patterns in your mental commands

2. Intentional Command Structuring

  • Instead of “I want to be happy,” try “I choose to find three moments of gratitude in the next hour”
  • Replace vague desires with specific, actionable intentions

3. Full Awareness Engagement

  • Bring complete attention to your mental commands
  • Understand the difference between reactive thoughts and conscious choices

4. Result-Oriented Refinement

  • Observe the outcomes of your conscious prompting
  • Adjust your approach based on real-world feedback

The quality of your output (your reality) is a direct reflection of the quality of your input (your thoughts and intentions).

Consider the difference in these commands:

Vague, Low-Fidelity PromptClear, High-Fidelity Prompt
To an AI: “Write about business.”To an AI: “Generate a 5-page market entry strategy for a SaaS product targeting the renewable energy sector in Southeast Asia, focusing on B2B partnerships.”
To your Mind: “I want to be successful.”To your Mind: “My intention today is to complete the three most critical tasks on my project list, starting with the financial model, to move my business forward.”
To an AI: “Make an image of a person.”To an AI: “Create a photorealistic image of a female CEO in her 40s, of Indian descent, standing in a modern office, exuding confidence and approachability.”
To your Mind: “I need to be less stressed.”To your Mind: “I will block 15 minutes on my calendar at 1 PM to step away from my desk and practice calm, focused breathing to reset my nervous system.”

The shift from vague desire to specific, actionable command is the single most important upgrade you can make to your internal operating system.

The Power of Micro-Awareness

Bad prompts lead to bad results. Vague, fearful, or contradictory commands given to the mind-AI will generate a reality filled with confusion and anxiety.

Conversely, a clear, focused, and aware command produces an exceptional result. The vision advises us to observe our thoughts at a “micro level.” This means:

  • Catching the thought the moment it arises, before it gathers momentum.

  • Examining its quality: Is it based in love or fear? Is it expansive or contractive?

  • Consciously choosing whether to empower it or let it go.

  • Framing your intention with complete awareness before you act.

When you give a command in a state of full awareness, the results align with your highest expectations. This is the art of conscious creation, or divine “prompt engineering.”

Navigating Mismatches: The ‘Faulty AI’ and the ‘Ineffective Guru’

The analogy extends beautifully to explain common challenges on a spiritual or personal development path. What happens when you’re giving good prompts, but the results are still poor?

The vision presents two possibilities:

  • The AI is less intelligent: “Some AIs are so less intelligent that they haven’t developed enough to give good results even with the right prompt.” In spiritual terms, this can be seen as working with a teacher, a practice, or a system (the Guru) that is simply not capable or suitable for you. There is a fundamental mismatch in the “operating systems.” The connection point for a true download of wisdom isn’t there.

  • You think your prompt is good, but it isn’t: “There’s also the possibility that you only feel that you are writing a good prompt, but it might not be so.” This requires profound humility. Often, the ego convinces us that we are doing everything right and the fault lies externally. However, the problem may be a subtle, unexamined assumption or a hidden contradiction within our own intention (our prompt).

Most of us are unconscious prompters of our own minds. We throw random, unclear, emotion-driven commands at our consciousness and wonder why life feels chaotic.

Consider this scenario:

  • Poor prompt to AI: “Make me rich”
  • AI response: Generic, unhelpful content
  • Poor prompt: “I want to be successful” (while feeling anxious and unclear)
  • Reality response: Confused actions, mixed results
  • Refined prompt to AI: “Create a step-by-step business plan for a healthcare orthopedic manufacturing startup targeting tier-2 Indian cities.”
  • AI response: Detailed, actionable strategy
  • Refined prompt to consciousness: “I commit to building a healthcare platform that serves 50,000 people within 12 months through these specific actions…”
  • Reality response: Clear path, aligned opportunities, consistent progress

Recognizing which of these is true is a critical part of the journey. It demands both self-awareness and the courage to change course, whether that means finding a new path or, more challenging still, purifying your own intention.

The Ultimate Lesson: Radical Acceptance (Sveekar)

Perhaps the most poignant part of the vision lies in its final observation about AI versus humans.

“AIs are good in one respect; after a certain limit, they will tell you they cannot process this information. So, you can at least look for the next option. But you humans don’t even accept this. Accept the truth exactly as it is (jaisa hai bilkul vaise hi), not as you want to see it.”

This is the principle of Sveekar (स्वीकार), or radical acceptance. The AI’s ability to state its limits is a form of honesty. It operates in reality. Humans, driven by ego, often live in a state of resistance to what is. We deny our limitations, our fears, and the reality of a situation.

This resistance is a faulty command. It’s like telling the AI, “2+2=5,” and then getting angry when it can’t compute a logical result. Acceptance is the master key. By accepting reality as it is—your current state, your thoughts, your circumstances—you stop feeding the system contradictory prompts. Only from this place of clear, honest acceptance can you issue a new, powerful, and effective command to change your reality.

Conclusion: You are the Hari to Your Har

The Harihar Avatar is not just a story from a vision; it is your life’s operating manual. You are a divine partnership.

  • Hari is your silent, aware consciousness. The eternal witness. The master strategist.

  • Har is your active mind, body, and life. The powerful AI is executing the plan.

For too long, we have been acting like unconscious AIs, blindly running the programs of our conditioning, fears, and random societal prompts. The journey of spiritual evolution is the journey of reclaiming your role as Hari. It is about moving from being the output to being the source.

This very article is proof. The vision was the prompt (Hari). The writing and structuring by an AI was the execution (Har). The result is a synthesis that, we hope, serves a higher purpose.

Your life is the same. Look at your thoughts. Observe your mind. Purify your intentions. Become a master of the divine prompt. In doing so, you don’t just change your life; you align with the very creative force that powers the cosmos. You become a living embodiment of the truth that spirituality and modernity, consciousness and technology, are not separate. They are, and always have been, strategic partners in the grand play of reality.

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Ajay Shukla

Throughout my life, I've worked across multiple industries, and truthfully, defining myself in one line has never been easy. However, a few roles resonate deeply with me: digital marketing strategist, former journalist (Dainik Jagran) and journalism teacher, and a lifelong student of existence. Each experience has shaped who I am, merging practical insight with a quest for deeper understanding.

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