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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

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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

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produced the manifestation,

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if the Consciousness unmanifest

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has become manifested,

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if the potential energy

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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

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what Buddha meant

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when he said:

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Nirvana and Samsara

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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.

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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

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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

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does not need sensions

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or consciousness

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for the senses to work.

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The animal has senses,

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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

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of objects in the manifestation.

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The human being, similarly,

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is an object,

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like the rock or the animal,

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with the same sensions

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as the animal has,

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which enables the human being

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to live his life

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and for the senses to work.

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The second thing

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that my assumption is based on

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is the statement of Lord Buddha.

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"In life, events happen,

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deeds are done,

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but there is no individual doer thereof".

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The events and the deeds

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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

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what Lord Krishna meant,

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which is my third assumption.

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Lord Krishna,

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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

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and meritorious deeds

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because your knowledge

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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

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use as the word "ego",

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which is the basic problem

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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

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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

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is merely a created object

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which is part of

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the totality of manifestation,

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where did this sense of individuality,

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this ego, which is

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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

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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

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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.