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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 
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 
the manifestation,

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the Source could not 
possibly have taken

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any other material
from anywhere

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to produce
the manifestation.

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So it must have 
been produced

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out of Itself.

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So, strictly therefore,

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if the Source has 
produced the manifestation,

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if the Consciousness

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unmanifest 
has become manifested,

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if the potential energy
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
what Buddha meant

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when he said:

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Nirvana and Samsara
are one, not two.

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Nirvana in action
is Samsara.

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When Samsara 
is not in action

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it is Nirvana.

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They are not two.
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
is the totality of objects.

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Which means, 
according to me,

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the human being
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
is an object

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with different 
characteristics.

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The rock has no senses,


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therefore the rock
does not need sensions

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or consciousness
for the senses to work.

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The animal has senses,
therefore it has sensions

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which enables 
the senses to work.

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But both the rock
and the animal

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are objects in the totality
of objects in the manifestation.

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The human being,
similarly,

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is an object, 
like the rock or the animal,

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with the same sensions
as the animal has,

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which enables 
the human being

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to live his life
and for the senses to work.

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The second thing 
that my assumption is based on

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is the statement of
Lord Buddha.

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"In life, events happen,
deeds are done,

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but there is no individual
doer thereof".

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The events and the deeds
are actions which happen

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through any body-mind
organisms

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or all body-mind
organisms

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together constitute
the functioning

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of that manifestation.

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There is no individual
doer thereof.

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That is precisely
what Lord Krishna meant,

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which is my third
assumption.

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Lord Krishna, 
in the Bhagavad Gita, says:

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"You cannot commit a sin,

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you cannot commit
a meritorious deed,

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you think in terms of sins
and meritorious deeds

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because your knowledge
of your true nature

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is clouded or enveloped
by ignorance."

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The word used is
"ignorance".

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And the ignorance
that is referred to

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in the Bhagavad Gita

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

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which is the basic problem
of the seeking.

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Most teachings
start with

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the basic that it is your ego

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which is the cause
of all your suffering.

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It is the ego which is
the cause of your suffering.

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Therefore, you must
kill the ego.

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And in order to kill
the ego,

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various prescriptions
are given.

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So my question
therefore is:

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if the human being
is merely a created object

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which is part of 
the totality of manifestation,

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where did this sense
of individuality,

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this ego, which is
supposed to be destroyed,

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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
which created the rock

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and the animal 
with sensions,

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and the human being

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with sensions and intellect

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which created the ego.

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In fact, my concept is

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that the thinking mind,

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the intellect, the "me",

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and the ego are names
for the same thing.

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The intellect which considers

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oneself as an individual

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with a sense of personal doership

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"I" do things, which is the ego.

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So the "me"

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to whom a prescription is given

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to kill the ego

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is the same thing.

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I repeat:

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you, to whom the prescriptions

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are given,

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to kill the ego

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are not two.

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So how can the ego

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kill itself?

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The ego cannot kill itself.

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Therefore, my basic concept is

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that only that power,

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the Source,

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which created the ego

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can remove the ego

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and that is precisely

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what the source is doing.