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I would very much like

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if two, three, or four

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would get up and tell me

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what exactly they want

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out of this seminar.

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I rather expected this.

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So, my teaching is really based

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on three very simple assumptions.

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The first assumption is

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that the totality [br]of manifestation

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has come from the Source.

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The Source is only One.

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So, in creating [br]the manifestation,

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the Source could not [br]possibly have taken

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any other material[br]from anywhere

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to produce[br]the manifestation.

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So it must have [br]been produced

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out of Itself.

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So, strictly therefore,

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if the Source has [br]produced the manifestation,

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if the Consciousness

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unmanifest [br]has become manifested,

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if the potential energy[br]has become activized,

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they are not two.

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It is the same Consciousness

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which was unmanifest

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has become manifest.

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Which is precisely[br]what Buddha meant

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when he said:

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Nirvana and Samsara[br]are one, not two.

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Nirvana in action[br]is Samsara.

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When Samsara [br]is not in action

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it is Nirvana.

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They are not two.[br]Basically, that is the point.

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They are not two.

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And the human being

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is part of that manifestation.

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And what is the manifestation?

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Totality of objects.

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The totality of manifestation[br]is the totality of objects.

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Which means, [br]according to me,

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the human being[br]is an object.

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The rock is an object,

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the animal is an object.

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the human being[br]is an object

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with different [br]characteristics.

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The rock has no senses,[br]

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therefore the rock[br]does not need sensions

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or consciousness[br]for the senses to work.

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The animal has senses,[br]therefore it has sensions

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which enables [br]the senses to work.

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But both the rock[br]and the animal

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are objects in the totality[br]of objects in the manifestation.

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The human being,[br]similarly,

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is an object, [br]like the rock or the animal,

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with the same sensions[br]as the animal has,

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which enables [br]the human being

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to live his life[br]and for the senses to work.

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The second thing [br]that my assumption is based on

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is the statement of[br]Lord Buddha.

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"In life, events happen,[br]deeds are done,

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but there is no individual[br]doer thereof".

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The events and the deeds[br]are actions which happen

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through any body-mind[br]organisms

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or all body-mind[br]organisms

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together constitute[br]the functioning

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of that manifestation.

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There is no individual[br]doer thereof.

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That is precisely[br]what Lord Krishna meant,

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which is my third[br]assumption.

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Lord Krishna, [br]in the Bhagavad Gita, says:

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"You cannot commit a sin,

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you cannot commit[br]a meritorious deed,

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you think in terms of sins[br]and meritorious deeds

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because your knowledge[br]of your true nature

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is clouded or enveloped[br]by ignorance."

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The word used is[br]"ignorance".

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And the ignorance[br]that is referred to

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in the Bhagavad Gita

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is what we in modern times[br]use as the word "ego",

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which is the basic problem[br]of the seeking.

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Most teachings[br]start with

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the basic that it is your ego

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which is the cause[br]of all your suffering.

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It is the ego which is[br]the cause of your suffering.

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Therefore, you must[br]kill the ego.

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And in order to kill[br]the ego,

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various prescriptions[br]are given.

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So my question[br]therefore is:

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if the human being[br]is merely a created object

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which is part of [br]the totality of manifestation,

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
where did this sense[br]of individuality,

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
this ego, which is[br]supposed to be destroyed,

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
where did it come from?

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Where could it have come from

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except from the Source.

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So, my concept is

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that it is the same Source[br]which created the rock

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and the animal [br]with sensions,

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and the human being

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with sensions and intellect

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
which created the ego.

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In fact, my concept is

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
that the thinking mind,

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the intellect, the "me",

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and the ego are names[br]for the same thing.

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The intellect which considers

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
oneself as an individual

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
with a sense of personal doership

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
"I" do things, which is the ego.

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
So the "me"

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to whom a prescription is given

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
to kill the ego

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
is the same thing.

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I repeat:

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you, to whom the prescriptions

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
are given,

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
to kill the ego

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
are not two.

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So how can the ego

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
kill itself?

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
The ego cannot kill itself.

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Therefore, my basic concept is

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
that only that power,

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
the Source,

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
which created the ego

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
can remove the ego

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and that is precisely

9:59:59.000,9:59:59.000
what the source is doing.