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Your Own Heart is Becoming the Beloved
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26 January 2025
(with subtitles)
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Q: I feel you sometimes you say,
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'We don't know how honest
or how open we are'.
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And I feel it.
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M: Okay, you say,
'Sometimes, we don't know how open we are'.
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I'm a little bit with this.
But you're open enough to come here.
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M: Do you know what shop this is?
Q: Yes.
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M: What shop is it?
[laughter]
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Q: The shop ... Empty shop.
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M: Empty shop?
[laughter]
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M: It's very smart. Very good, okay.
Q: Maybe.
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M: Okay, so you come for some emptiness.
[laughs]
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[laughter]
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M: Okay.
Q: I just feel it's easy to miss this one.
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M: In an empty shop you cannot buy.
You can only Be.
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There's nothing to purchase.
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It's a good title, 'Come to the empty shop'.
[laughter]
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Thieves in an empty house.
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I want to use it.
I want you to use this.
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Why do you use this example?
'Empty. Empty shop.'
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Q: What I feel is I cannot be,
I cannot be 100 percent sure
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if there is anything I'm not seeing.
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M: Yes.
I don't know if I've ever met anybody
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who is a 100 percent sure of anything.
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Except that you are.
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Maybe this you can say.
You're sure that you exist,
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and that you are experiencing or perceiving.
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M: Do you agree or not? You know that you are?
Q: Yes.
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M: And that you are experiencing?
Q: Yes.
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M: So let's work only with this then,
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as everything else is traffic to this.
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So everything comes
and it's being perceived.
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It comes and goes, it's being perceived.
Why is perceiving here?
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Because you are here, you exist.
Now we must look.
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Leave everything that can come and go.
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Leave all of that now.
Only you and perceiving.
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And, of you and perceiving,
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which is most true, if one has to go?
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Hmm?
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You say, 'I perceive'. 'I perceive.'
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So, 'I perceive', means every experiencing,
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whatever is happening is perceived
by this sense of 'I'.
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M: Yes?
Q: Yes.
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M: So you could even say,
'I am not perceiving'.
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Which means,
I'm perceiving that I'm not perceiving.
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I'm going to keep it clean and simple.
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So ...
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Speaker 1: Guruji, how about
you're perceiving emptiness?
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Q: Just when you say, 'What is more true?'
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I don't remember exactly what you said,
like, 'You're perceiving?'
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M: You know that you exist.
Q: Yes.
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M: And that you are perceiving
or experiencing your perceiving
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through the senses or the mind?
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If some inner state or outer states [come],
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that's being perceived by you.
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So everything that comes, can go.
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Mental states, emotional states,
friends can come,
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people live, people stay, people die,
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you feel sickness, you feel health,
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you feel excitement, feel boredom,
feel tired, feel energy.
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M: All this you perceive,
and they come and go.
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M: You who perceives them,
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does that come and go?
Is it personal?
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M: Also, personal states come.
Q: Yes.
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M: So, that's also amongst
the field of perceivable, isn't it?
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So even those things,
and the feeling of 'I',
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and an autobiography, your ideas about life,
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all of those personal things,
they are also perceived. Okay?
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M: And they can change shape,
and their change is also perceived.
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So they cannot be that which perceives them.
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M: That's true?
Q: Yes.
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M: That which is perceiving, is it
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material or immaterial? It's immaterial?
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Q: It's not material.
M: It's not material.
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Q: I cannot say what it is.
But I experience that ...
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M: Who is speaking now?
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M: It's not a trick question.
Q: I'm looking.
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M: Obviously, the response is coming
so fluidly and so comfortably,
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there's no strain to comment that
all these things are being perceived.
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And that whatever is perceiving,
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itself cannot be perceived by a quality.
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Is it male or female?
Is it any of these things? No.
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So, answers, responses are coming from there.
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So even the responses are coming
and they are also perceived,
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pouring out of some, whatever,
something, or no thing.
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Q: I don't know if it's pouring out
of something. It's perceived.
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M: Okay, they are appearing also,
they appear.
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So that which is perceiving them,
what is to be said of that?
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Is it a structure or no structure?
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Q: It's no structure.
M: Okay.
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M: Is that significant for you?
Q: It is significant. It is.
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M: Okay. Where does the problem start,
if one starts?
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M: Is it a new skill that you developed?
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And anyone can apply [this].
It's not particular to you.
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It's for anyone.
For everyone there's a sense of 'I', 'I Am',
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but it's quickly given to the body,
'I am this person',
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'I'm from Germany', 'I'm from this place',
'I'm a doctor',
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'I'm this and that and that', is acquired.
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So it takes on the sense
of being something identifiable.
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But from your place,
that is also a construct that is seen.
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The 'I' that is seeing them
is not those things.
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You cannot say it is a doctor or a nurse,
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or it's 1.7 cm,
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170 cm, you know,
it doesn't have any of those things.
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What is it like unto itself?
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If it doesn't connect with points of perception
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or things to perceive; by itself?
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Q: It's not bothered by anything.
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M: Yes. Okay, bring the things back.
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M: Is it bothered by them?
Q: No.
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Q: It is, if identity is missed.
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M: If identity?
Q: Is not seen.
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M: So, identity brings all the trouble then?
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Q: Identifying brings all the trouble.
But for who?
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M: Ah. Are you asking me about who?
[laughter]
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M: You have to find out.
Right here is good.
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Q: The trouble cannot be for
that which is not touched by it.
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M: Yes.
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M: Is, 'That which is not touched by it'
an object of perception?
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Q: No.
M: Where is it?
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Q: It has no location.
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M: It has no problem?
Q: It has no problem.
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M: Okay, let's go to where the problems are.
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M: Why are you trying to solve a thing
that has no problem?
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Q: 'Why try to solve a thing
that has no problem?'
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M: Yes. It has no problem!
[laughter]
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So where will we go now to find a problem?
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It is good. It's fine!
We're looking and it's good.
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I don't want to feel,
'Ah! Yes. The end of the thing. Okay, I go now.'
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Because problems begin somewhere
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and everyone is troubled by it.
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Who is the everyone? You must also find.
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It appears that you are no one,
and you are someone.
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In this receding you come to,
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'Ah, actually, I am here.
'I', but 'I' as what is here?'
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Well, it's certainly not the person.
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It's not male or female.
It's not Muslim or Christian.
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It's something ...
Something, nothing about it.
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M: Is it a valuable discovery?
Q: Yes.
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M: Yes. So that's not where problems are.
Q: No.
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M: Okay. So where the problems come
is in the place of identity,
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M: where, 'I am someone'.
Q: Yes.
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M: Is there a way
that this sense of being someone ...
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How does that look now
from the place of your discovery?
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'Actually, fundamentally,
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I am not any of these things
that have been spoken of.'
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How do the things ...
The world of things, what is their value?
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They don't impact upon this,
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but, somehow,
this must be the cause of them playing,
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and here the sense 'I' is also there,
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and a very familiar feeling of 'I'.
But is it stable?
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Is it always constant, this 'I',
now, the second 'I'?
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Q: The moving 'I' is not constant.
M: Yes. Yes.
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M: So is it not the moving 'I'
who came to satsang?
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Q: Yes.
M: Yes.
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M: Because what?
It cannot control its world.
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Q: And it's good it cannot,
because I wouldn't, it wouldn't ...
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Q: It wouldn't find out what it really is
if it could control anything.
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Like if there wouldn't be this trouble
and this pain in this identifying,
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there would be no urge to ...
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M: So it must have an urge.
It must have a drive.
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What is the drive of this 'I',
which is the 'I'-person?
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Because all the human beings,
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we have this mask or sickness of 'I' -me.
'I'-me.
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What is the 'I'-me really in search of?
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Everybody can take this.
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The 'I'-me,
is it quiet and content and happily 'I'-me?
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No. So what does it want?
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Speaker 2: To be free of suffering.
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M: It's to be free of suffering.
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Only you? Only you?
[murmurs in sangha]
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Oh, okay, okay.
To be free of suffering.
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M: What is it suffering from?
Group: Its projection.
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M: Its projection. Its projection.
Da da da ...
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We're on common ground now.
It's having some suffering.
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Q: But I'm not sure that this 'I',
this identified one,
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wants to be at peace.
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M: Wants to be?
Q: At peace.
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M: It doesn't want to be at peace?
Q: I'm not sure.
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M: You speaking, now, are not that.
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M: Is that what you're saying?
Q: Not being ...?
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M: Not the person;
you're not sure if that person-self is really ...
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Who is speaking now?
Just to be clear. And look.
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You're looking from where?
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From an identified place
or a not identified place?
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There is a feeling, 'I Am',
I call it consciousness,
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that 'I Am'-ness, without strong identification
with the personal sense,
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that is,
I'm going to call it the Brahman, for the moment.
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Only because I can I have
another word called Parabrahman.
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Would you understand? All right.
So it is the consciousness.
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It is the guru state of being,
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which is all, for everybody, it is there.
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It is that in which the world of person
and its world, and all of this,
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is seen from here,
but is not disturbed by that.
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And from this place, 'I Am' has the power,
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by looking into the realm
of the 'I'-me and the 'I'-person,
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it imparts some grace to it,
because in the form of the 'I'-person ...
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Are we following? It's good?
In the form of the 'I'-person
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it is still consciousness,
it's a mode of consciousness.
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And that sense of being,
if you want to call it a soul ...
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Are we all right for the moment?
Just working words.
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The soul, it has different characteristics.
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In India, they speak of the different gunas,
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which are kind of energetic qualities
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that affect the soul, some soul tendency.
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Q: Sorry, but the soul
you call the person now? Or what?
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M: Yes. Let me just continue
and then you'll see.
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M: So then, the sense of being somebody,
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an entity with characteristics, with a history,
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with association, with parents, with family,
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with all of these things, self-description,
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that makes you uniquely you.
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At least, for the time being,
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because also you keep changing
what you say about yourself.
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If you keep on writing an autobiography
over a period of 20 years,
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it's going to keep changing;
so the person is not stable.
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Whereas, the 'I Am',
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which generates
the projection of the mind and person ...
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I'm going to call person and mind similar,
for the moment.
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If you want me to cover because
it's good if you understand this thing,
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then it becomes more clear, no?
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So the ...
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M: The personal state of consciousness
is where all the conflicts can come.
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Desire can come.
Pain, life, death, you and me.
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This, that, up, down, heaven, hell;
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all these things are in there,
for the person.
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It's never a stable environment!
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And even unto itself,
with nothing to interfere,
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it interferes with itself.
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It also suffers from its own,
'I'm lonely,
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I don't know what I'm going to do'.
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So it's never without trouble.
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But as it's also on a journey
of this world, as we know it,
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each one is on a journey of self-discovery.
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It may not be conscious of it like that.
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For a while, our urge for discovering things
can be merely phenomenal.
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Like, 'I want to be a lawyer', 'A doctor',
'To be famous',
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'I want to be a singer',
'I want to be something'.
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And all this produces fruit.
It's a power! It produces fruit.
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You may indeed become famous or rich,
and all these kinds of things.
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But we are discovering,
even those who became very rich,
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at some point they're not satisfied
with being rich,
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as the whole system is built like that.
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You can never be really satisfied,
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really genuinely satisfied, until you're home.
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And 'home' means to be awake
to your true nature,
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which is not somewhere else,
not over there.
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It's like peeling away.
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So ...
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So my way of looking at it
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is that the person is the one
who takes the journey,
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of life.
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And I would not say...
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In Advaita thought,
'The person doesn't exist', 'The mind doesn't exist',
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'The world doesn't exist' ...
And ultimately it's true,
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but you must understand
in what light it is true.
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Because when you say to beings
who have a strong idea of self
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and who have a philosophy,
have relief, have belief, all these things,
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'It's not true, it doesn't exist',
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it's very hurtful, you don't know ...
'What you're saying!'
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Some can adopt that thing
and indeed learn and take that attitude,
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but inside it's not true!
Something has to be clear.
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So the sense of being someone,
it is consciousness!
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When you say 'I', when you feel 'I' ...
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Because nobody gave you 'I'.
Everything else you receive.
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Nobody ... Your parents didn't say,
'I'm going to name you 'I''.
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And yet all the beings
have this intuitive self-reference of 'I'.
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Not the English version.
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So even mosquitoes have a feeling of 'I'.
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'I' points to existence, 'I exist'.
That's what it really means.
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But the 'I'-person
very rarely touches on this root,
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that it means existence
and that it is conscious.
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It doesn't even know that it cannot die,
as consciousness.
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Consciousness cannot die!
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But its belief, 'I am the body', can die.
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But it doesn't mean It dies.
The body will die.
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But what you are cannot die.
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It will just transfer for more experiencing,
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if there are more things to experience.
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So this urge inside,
with different beings in different bodies ...
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I put it like that,
identities in different bodies,
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are on a journey,
depending upon your maturity.
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Some people only want to be famous!
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Or, 'I want 5 children.'
'To live in a beautiful house.'
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'I want enough money to do what I want.'
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Those desires are permitted
by Parabrahman, by Paramatman,
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that life gives the life in this.
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All desires can be had. Good and bad.
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And it will help you to fulfil your desires.
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Even a thief,
He wants you to be a better thief.
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It gives the power
to learn to be a better thief!
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As God has a use for you, as a great thief!
[laughter]
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Because He is going to perfect the other ones,
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who may be somewhere more evolved,
through your thievery.
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They need this thievery
to move on even more.
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The whole thing is beautifully managed
[laughter]
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by Paramatman taking care of all things.
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Not one thing goes missing.
Not only for human beings,
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the ant kingdom, the bee kingdom,
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the horse and every kingdom.
He is the God of all of them.
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They have their rules.
They have their philosophies.
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They have their ways.
They have their likes and dislikes.
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They have their urges and their suffering.
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Everything is evolving, somehow.
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Let's stick to our world for a little bit. Okay?
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So in our world, this urge is there,
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and for a while, depending upon ...
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Because not all the beings
are at the same level of maturity.
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He made it like that. He didn't say,
'All who are mature like that go here,
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and all of you mature ...'
No, He mixes it up. And we fight.
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But we need it, also.
Do you see?
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I'm saying this
so you don't complain about your life.
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Everything that's sent to you,
if you take it only as,
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'This thing happened to me,
I didn't do anything [to get] it'.
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Actually, you earned it!
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And you have to make use of the experience of it
to transcend in yourself.
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As you transcend in yourself
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your light becomes light for others also.
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But don't think like that, 'I am my light ...'
[laughter]
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Do you understand?
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So, if you have this attitude, okay.
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But somehow this is needed,
it's pointing out something.
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Rather than, 'Oh, they are attacking me ...'
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The self, as a person, is also very myopic
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and very self-protecting.
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That's why he doesn't grow so quick,
because it feels vulnerable.
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And when you're vulnerable it locks in
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and [mimics sniper shooting].
It locks in.
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When you see these things, you realise,
'... But a deeper consciousness ...'
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She's just been speaking
from this deeper consciousness,
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in which the sense of the person and its world
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are seen with more detachment.
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You say, 'But I speak with you ...
But from here, I'm actually just fine.'
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What do you want?
What do you need?
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What is your problem?
'Actually, here, nothing actually.'
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For a problem, I have to go back over there.
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And over there is in the state of the person.
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'My neighbours', and, 'My relationship'.
'And things ...'
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And, 'Will I get enough money and ...'
These are the woes of the person.
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They are here to make you grow.
To help you.
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When you see
and understand this a little bit,
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you don't get angry,
'Oh, it's them'. 'They are the cause.'
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But you use it.
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But when you come here,
I want to fast forward! Which you can.
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You can go tick tock, tick tock ...
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Or you can somehow come into big seeing.
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You can travel in footsteps.
Or you can travel by galaxies.
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So here, I feel, and I assume,
you may correct me,
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that when you come here,
there is, within you, the capacity
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to [exhales],
to flower into higher states.
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When you realise, 'Wait a second,
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I'm kind of wasting my time in the person,
quite a lot.
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Because now I'm aware of myself
in consciousness, as consciousness.'
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And what happens by that?
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Well, as you learn to observe,
as I've shown,
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learn to observe things more,
as we're too identified.
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If you're identified you slow down.
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And what happens?
You start to accumulate concepts.
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And the more concepts you accumulate,
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the more opaque you become,
the more solid, the more rigid.
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If you know people
who have a pile of concepts,
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their concepts and your concepts can't dance.
'No, no, whoa, whoa.'
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Even family can be like this.
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So, what you will earn is,
by observing with detachment,
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learning to look and see
if you can catch this seeing,
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where even your person,
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your person, the subject of all your world,
is itself seen!
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When you can see, you can say, 'Whoa!'
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It's not just a world, but the personal self
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that has the reflection of that world.
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They are, I say, two sides of one coin.
They go together.
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Your mistake has been
your identifying yourself and feeling,
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'But it's the world,
everything is wrong there. It's not me.'
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What makes you do that?
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It's because your person
also goes by the title of 'I'.
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And 'I' means God!
Do you understand?
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Your 'I' is consciousness,
which is the godly principle.
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Then you understand this 'I', the 'I'-me,
and the 'I'-'I', or the 'I am'.
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You see the difference.
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When we go into 'I'-me,
all your life struggles, 'This, I can't get ...',
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'This one is sick and ...'
It is strong! It is strong.
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It didn't have its origin in one body life-form.
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It's been going on for a long time.
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But gradually, it's growing through,
what I call, the 'guna field'.
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'Gunas' mean some energy which is ...
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Tamasic guna means
when the entity of self is more resistant
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and more easily troubled
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and full of identity and resistance,
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that's called tamasic guna, tama guna.
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Then the energy, the entity's energy,
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can also have
something you can call raja guna,
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which means the soul is more energetic,
it's full of desire.
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It wants to do things, it's adventurous.
It has many ideas ...
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And then, also,
another guna, called sattva guna.
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Sattva guna is more pure,
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meaning the energy field
is more attracted to spirit.
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It wants to evolve in consciousness.
It wants to realise.
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These gunas are playing
within the beingness.
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Some gunas have more ascendance,
more strong in one.
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Another is stronger in another one.
It's like this.
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So all of you, I say,
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you must be exhibiting
some stronger sattva guna.
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But you have raja guna in there,
pulling at your tail. [laughter]
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And sometimes tamas guna,
'Uhh' [tuts]. [mimics despair]
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It's all part of it.
[laughter]
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It's a kind of fun way of looking, no?
[laughter]
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It's not that funny, actually.
[more laughter]
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But we understand a little bit.
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So, somehow to come to satsang,
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without anyone pressuring you to do that,
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means your soul is attracted, a bit, towards it.
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And the more you find out,
and not just intellectually,
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but begin to experience your understanding,
experiential understanding,
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you're encouraged within yourself.
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You're falling in love.
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If you fall in love with someone
and you're really falling in love deeply,
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you will require nobody to remind you
to remember your beloved.
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The urge comes from inside, it's pulling,
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always, whatever you're doing you're thinking ...
[laughter]
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So your own Self,
your own heart is becoming the beloved
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of the sense of your person.
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It's in the sattva guna.
It's drawing more and more.
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After sattva guna what happens?
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They call one state 'turiya',
which means becoming clean,
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functioning more from consciousness.
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The lower states don't trouble you,
they don't trouble.
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Identity doesn't trouble you.
At some point it won't trouble you.
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People call you, 'So you are Paulette?'
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'Yes, it's my name.' You still use the name.
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When you wake up fully into yourself,
you will not have to change name.
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You don't have to call yourself Parabrahman,
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or some wonderful name.
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You can still use your name.
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But you are not this name.
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You see, it's like, somehow,
something's unfolding.
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Concepts don't stick with you.
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The more they don't stick with you,
they're not so important.
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Then all is available for you!
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You can listen without having to decide,
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'No, I believe in this. What do you believe?
What is your standpoint?'
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It doesn't matter, actually,
because you're in the all-ness of your being.
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Is it okay that we're talking like this?
Let's clear the field. Okay?
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M: We're sweeping the house,
so you understand.
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M: When you say, '... I don't know why
I keep getting these things' ...
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That relationship-building is sticky.
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So I don't say, I'll show you how
to solve that problem, that problem ...
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I say, No. Learn something!
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Learn to observe your sense of identity,
and its likes and dislikes,
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but with some distance.
Learn. You can see!
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And learn to detach.
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And what did I say?
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Should I say 99.9 percent
of the things in the world do not trouble you?
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Which means you can walk anywhere in the world;
things don't [attach].
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No, you can move.
It's natural detachment!
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But the 0.1 percent [laughter]
of the things that matter,
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'Oh, yeah. But no, no, whoa, I don't like pink!'
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[imitates repulsion] 'Not me!'
'I don't like this!'
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'Peacock feathers!'
'Oh, keep that away from me!'
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All this kind of stuff keeps you tied up
in the shape of the person.
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You may feel proud, 'I'm this kind of person,
not that kind of person'.
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We don't realise how we cheat
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and shrink from our beauty.
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All of this is you!
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You will never learn and really ...
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Love everyone!
Even those not yet born, you love.
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'Oh, no, but I've never seen them.
Oh, I didn't know.' No, no!
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Do you understand?
Because it's your nature.
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It's not just your choice.
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And so I say, What is the simple thing?
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Learn to observe, more and more, with detachment.
Learn to see.
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The mind, the maya-mind says,
'No, that's wasting time.
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I don't get anything from doing that.
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I fall asleep. Whenever I try
to look without attachment, I fall asleep.
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Even here when we did
the 'Just Be' exercise ...'
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Ding dong! I say like this ...
[mimics falling asleep] [laughter]
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You just woke up!
[laughter]
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What is this?
It is a kind of psychic resistance. It's in us.
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It's something that is trying to resist
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the coming into the fullness of yourself.
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It's a force, this maya force,
it's a little resistance.
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But don't be worried. It will soon change.
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The minute you begin to feel
the darshan of your own heart
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[deep inhale and exhale]
there's so much encouragement.
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But you must earn it!
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And what the teacher will do is
teach this thing,
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but you have to be on board!
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You have to be on board.
You have to be there.
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Because even greatest guru cannot help you
if your heart's not on board.
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You must work for it.
And look what it is, also!
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It's very mystical. But it's not difficult.
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The path has been made so clean.
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The higher you go, the purer the climate,
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the simpler the advice, if you can take it.
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But the stronger the resistance!
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Because your earth self [mimics resistance]
is fighting.
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It's lazy. 'Argh.' It's like this.
You have to watch him.
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You have to learn to observe this, okay?
And press on.
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And what you have,
you may say at some point,
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'I have nothing to encourage me
because my mind is just killing me ...'.
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And some people say,
'But Guruji told you to do it'.
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'Yes, yes.
Yeah, yeah, I'll do it.'
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Why? Because you have faith.
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And enough faith to give you
some strength, some courage.
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Then also life, the source, empowers you,
because you chose.
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When you choose ...
You've chosen many things,
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you can keep on choosing
many things in life,
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but you're choosing the Supreme!
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You're choosing God-consciousness,
you're choosing the Self.
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When I speak like this,
I get touched, you see?
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If you choose This,
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then you are really making use
of this life-form.
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Because you can choose many things,
and they will delay you.
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And it's okay!
You like this thing. You like that.
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It's freedom. It's okay, it's okay.
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But if you have, in your heart, this choice,
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then you have taken the highest choice!
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And you will be tested!
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And you must pass this test.
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And then all the grace of Parabrahman
comes for you.
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If you say, 'I went around the corner,
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somebody went, 'Boo!'
I don't want to go there.'
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Then you come, 'Guruji what is the highest?'
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I'd say, You didn't even pass the lowest!
[laughter]
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M: You want the highest.
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I say, a little person comes,
says, 'Look at you. Oh, no, no.'
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And you're [imitates despair].
I say, but it's small things.
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How are you going to overcome?
By looking and learning to let the fear ...
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Don't try to stop the feelings.
Let them come. Don't try to stop them.
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What you need is not to stop them,
but to have clear seeing of them!
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See that it's just the life force!
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The force of habit is playing
and this is its domain, [indicates the body]
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these are its sensors.
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It's playing in here.
And the mind is playing.
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And you say, 'But how is it I can see this?
How come I'm seeing this?'
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Gradually, you stay in your satsang,
you listen, you start to find,
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'Whoa! Where there didn't seem to be a way,
there is a way!'
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'Which way is it?'
'It's here, it's here, it's here.' [taps heart]
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So, you just continue.
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Don't try ... If something gets a bit hurt,
you go try something else,
-
you try something else and enjoy.
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No, no. You must have some faith!
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If you don't have faith,
you can pray, ask Baba,
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'Babaji, please,
I want to believe, I trust,
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but I'm weak, please help me.'
God's help comes.
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Help comes. Be humble.
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As you're growing, kindness is coming.
Kindness is coming.
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Maybe we didn't realise
how unkind our behaviour is.
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Selfishness is going.
Empathy is coming.
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Spaciousness is coming.
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Heaviness is leaving.
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An unexpected boon and grace is flowing,
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seemingly undeserved; it's coming.
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Then, things that you feel,
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'But how did this come?', are coming.
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When you start to feel great,
something goes [sharp prod]. 'Ooh.'
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That is coming also.
Everything is coming. [laughter]
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Are you going to give up?
Like this it comes.
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I have a tremendous...
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I have in my heart, I found,
the love for all the beings is there.
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I didn't work at it.
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You just stay open,
you come to your natural love,
-
your natural state is there.
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But the service to sangha,
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who, if I am right about it,
-
are those I perceive to be
on a higher journey of awakening,
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then this body, this life force,
is dedicated to that.
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It's dedicated to that.
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You will have troubles,
-
but you will overcome them.
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And the highest, clearest power in the universe
-
has called you.
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[silence]
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And it supports your seeing.
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Stop thinking of yourself
as some petty little thing.
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But don't think of yourself as
a great thing, also.
-
[laughter]
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Yeah.
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And the one thing that will be repeated:
Don't give up.
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Keep looking
and clarify your misunderstanding of you.
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Someone says, 'But I'm doing like this'.
I say, No, no, no.
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Is that what I show?
Come now, you do. Look ...
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Come.
[indicates receding to detached seeing]
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Don't put this in your pocket!
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Put it in your heart. And stay with it.
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And increase in it.
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And so your autobiography
that you write in your person,
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that will disappear.
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Group: Thank you.
M: Thank you.
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M: What is happening also, is that,
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I'm finding more the ones ...
I just find them.
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We stay together. We look.
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And quickly, from here,
[indicates busy mind noise]
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just go down.
[indicates moving from head to heart]
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Do you want to come in with me?
We go down. Stay.
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And all this mind stuff
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starts to just dry up, very naturally.
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Just simple.
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I told you from the beginning, It is simple,
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because you don't have to create your Self.
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You can create a false self.
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But your true Self, you can only discover.
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When you discover it,
the discoverer merges in it, also.
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