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It is a pleasure to be with you once again. Welcome. I welcome you with all my heart. It’s a pleasure to be with you. When we sit in the silence, we are not trying to be quiet. We go beyond that. We’re sitting in consciousness, in a place where there’s no universe, no world, nobody, no existence. this is the real silence eternity so when you keep still as we always do for a while here you don’t pay attention to your thoughts to your feelings, to your emotions but you are to observe them to watch them to be the witness to them and let whatever happens happen when you sit in the silence and not try to change anything or get mad at yourself because thoughts are coming to you.

Just sit, watch, and let whatever happens happen. Many of you ask me many questions, so tonight I will pose a question to you. What is your greatest happiness?

Who can tell me? True, but there’s nothing else I’m looking for. No problems to solve. Well, that’s easy to say. Occasionally I have no problems to solve.

Well, what you want is this happiness to come to you, but I’m saying, what is your greatest happiness now? When there are no desires. This is only temporary, what you’re saying.

Sure, all these words are great, but you really feel this. You may feel it momentarily, it goes away, but we all have a happiness that we keep for quite a while, right? That’s it. But when you are in deep sleep, when you are in deep sleep, you are devoid of possessions and of the body.

Yet when you awaken from deep sleep, don’t you say, I feel wonderful, I had a great sleep. You’ve never pondered this before, have you?

Yet as you think about it, you’ll see it’s true. Not when you’re dreaming. when you are in deep sleep deep sleep beautiful deep sleep you are totally devoid of all of your possessions as far as you’re concerned you own nothing you’re not aware of your body at all or of the universe or of the world of anything and you take it for granted you awaken you stretch in bed and you feel great, don’t you? you say, oh I slept so soundly I feel so good this confirms the fact that happiness comes from within and has absolutely nothing to do with external affairs I’m speaking of real happiness, true happiness so what we wish to accomplish is to be in that state while we’re awake we wish to be awake like we are now yet at the same time be sort of dead to this world and be in a state of total happiness like we are when we’re in deep sleep this is called pure awareness this is called absolute reality this is your real nature your swarupa your reality the only reason of course that you do not feel the permanent happiness like you should is because you are attached to person, place and thing and you react to person, place and thing that’s all if you can stop doing that you will be permanently happy true? when you are in deep sleep and you do not awaken. There can be an earthquake.

The world may come to an end. We can have a world war with dropping atomic bombs on everybody. You’re in deep sleep. It has absolutely nothing to do with you.

When you awaken, the world may be gone. It may not be the same world that you went to sleep. Yet, it didn’t affect you whatsoever.

You wake up. there may be thousands of people dead outside in the streets but you wake up in a deep sleep and you stretch and say ah what a wonderful sleep I had I feel great now you have an inkling how a sage feels how a Jnana always feels to one who is practicing Jnana and is making progress that one becomes oblivious to this world not because you don’t care about it mind you there’s a difference you’re not trying to be obnoxious and say what do I care about this world that’s not what I’m referring to I’m referring to the fact that you have transcended the world the world no longer affects you and again it’s not that you get up and you see thousands of bodies in the street and you don’t see them or you imagine that there you will see the bodies you will see the havoc you will see the destruction but to you it would be like images on a screen

The images cover the entire screen. You cannot think about the screen when you watch a movie. You are engrossed in the images. You watch a movie, there’s a beginning, a middle, and an end.

And you feel the movie, you feel the objects on the screen. But you never consider there’s a screen, and without the screen there can be no objects.

And there are objects because there’s a screen. And you realize being is like the screen. When you get close to being, you realize being. You are somewhat like the screen.

The images no longer affect you. It’s like watching a movie and saying to yourself, this is not real. It’s only a movie. Yet you’re watching with interest. You see what’s going on.

You have an opinion about it. Yet you understand all the time when you’re watching a movie, deep within you there’s a sense of the movie being false. It’s not real. those are all actors and actresses playing their parts why can’t you do the same thing with this life why can’t you look at yourself as an actor and an actress playing a part there’s no reality to the part that you’re playing the reality is you not your body your body is also a part in the play what you’re going through in this life the letters are going through in this life what the world is going through are simply acts on the stage on the stage of life called Maya. We refuse to understand this and we keep reacting to the parts, to the images.

It’s as if we decide to play a part and we get lost in the part and we believe we’re the person we’re playing. Not realizing that the part will soon be over and you’ll be back to your own self.

But we start feeling that we are that part. So we feel sorry for ourselves. We look at the world and we say, What a starry lot.

We get depressed. We have desires, wants, and needs. Believing erroneously that when we achieve our goals, we’ll be wonderfully happy. It never works out this way, does it? We may be wonderfully happy for a while, but as all things in this world will change,

And you’ll be playing a sad part, an unhappy part, then you will resolve that, and you’ll be playing a happy part, You’ll be playing a person who’s involved in a big business, making millions of dollars a year.

Then you’ll be involved in the part where the person becomes bankrupt and loses every penny with his house, business, his wife leaves him. He becomes a homeless person.

It’s all that part that you’re playing. It’s so wonderful when you can realize this. When you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that this is not real.

Nothing in the senses tells you are real. Look at all of the things you’ve been through in this life. All the situations you’ve been involved in.

You’ve had good times, sad times, bad times. And you have reacted to all of these times. Believing them to feel real. So you have reacted accordingly and you have felt accordingly. You have felt miserable at times. You have felt happy at times. You have felt sick at times. You have felt healthy at times.

These things come and go. and if you continue the game you will get older and older and older then kinder in nature of course does not allow you to suffer so much with good and bad, sad and happy sick and healthy rich and poor so you drop the body and you take a rest then there comes a time when you can observe all these things you’ve been doing in your life and realize that you have unfinished business and you take up another body and if you do not find yourself you will go on again with other bodies and more bodies and more bodies.

This seems to be the way of the universe. Karma is involved, the mascaras, all part of the yoga teachings, part of most spiritual heritage.

Yet the highest reality that exists is that nothing exists. No thing exists as you know it. It’s all a lie. The whole world is a lie.

Your body is a lie. Your thoughts are lies. And you’re playing a game that you can’t possibly win. when you try to improve your humanhood when you try to improve the worldly conditions when you try to bring peace to this earth you are fighting a losing battle you therefore have to come to the conclusion that everything that is happening is in its right place there are no mistakes no matter how things look it seems sort of strange when I tell you that everything is in its right place and then again I tell you everything is a lie and nothing exists when I say everything is in its right place I’m referring to that the Maya that never existed and did not exist seems to have sort of hypnotized you into believing you are a human being and you’re going through experiences these experiences that you’re going through have been preordained predetermined and therefore at that plane of existence everything is in its right place there are no mistakes therefore never feel sorry for yourself never say to yourself oh woe is me why did this happen to me poor me why can’t I be like the guy next door he drives a Jaguar he’s got a good position he’s the secretary of a big firm why can’t I be like that only a foolish person does this never compare yourself with anyone of anything. You are uniquely you. The work you have to do is to transcend the body and the world totally and completely, becoming the absolute reality, becoming consciousness,

Which you really are. Only at that time will you have unalloyed happiness, everlasting happiness, bountyful peace. But when you get yourself involved in this world, only suffering can assume. The only way to get out of it is to stop believing you are a body and that you’re going through experiences. And stop believing the world is real and it can affect you. How do you do this? Just by listening to the words can do this for you. Just by sitting in the silence can do this for you. Just by listening to the silence between the words can do this for you.

Just by waking up can do this for you. Just by dropping your lifestyle out the window. When I say dropping your lifestyle, I’m referring to everything you’ve ever believed, everything you’ve always been attached to, everything which is important for you. Drop it. When you drop it, you become totally free. The only reason you feel that you’re not free is because you are filled with stuff, filled with garbage, filled with preconceived ideas, concepts, dogmas. And no matter how I speak to you this way. Many of you refuse to let go.

And some of you believe you’re letting go, but when something comes along, you begin to react to it, you become upset, or you become hilariously happy over something that happened to you in this world. Forgetting that all things must change, and all things will change, whether you like it or not.

Some people come here, and they’ve learned how to overcome sorrow to an extent. They’ve learned how They handle their feelings and their emotions, and they go home and never come back, and they think, that’s it.

This is not a psychology class. This is not even a class. This is not even a teaching. What is this? I don’t know. I never asked to do this. I never planned to sit here and have people sit there and talking and talking and talking. It happened by itself.

I’m not looking for anything. I have no idea why I’m here. But I’m here, and when I finish being here, I’ll be there. and we finish being there I’ll be somewhere else but the real I has absolutely nothing to do with this the I am that I am has absolutely nothing to do with this teaching yet the I am that I am is the I am that you are there’s only one I am and you are that what I’m trying to say there’s really not a person called Robert sitting here talking to you and you’re a listener there’s only the one the one which is consciousness the pure awareness there always was only one and there will always be only one this means what I am saying to you is you are yourself saying it also you are that one which is the speaker and the listener you have to come to this conclusion yourself but again as long as you are involved in this world believing the world to be real you can never come to this conclusion and again when I speak of getting involved in this world I mean mentally physically you have no say in the matter physically your calmness have brought you where you are but you have the power to mentally reject the situation by turning within and going deep within the self until you, what is called you disappear totally when you disappear totally your world will also disappear totally your problems The so-called will disappear totally.

The universe will disappear totally. And you will feel that you’re all pervading absolute reality. It’s wonderful. It’s marvelous to feel free and to be free.

It’s wonderful to know that there are no fears that are real. There’s no world that can hurt you. There’s no universe that judges you. There’s no God who gives you favors or gives you judgment.

Just saying these things and not doing it again. It’s not explaining these things. It’s becoming this. You become this when you have the right attitude. As I sit here spitting this nonsense out to you,

You should be emptying yourself by dropping all of your feelings, your thoughts, your emotions, your fears, your frustrations. Let them go. Drop them. Drop them right now.

Feel the emptiness. Feel the freedom. Feel the love. Now get rid of the feeling. Go beyond feeling. Do not ask yourself what is beyond feeling.

You don’t have to know. Just do it. There is no one left to feel anything. You have become boundless space. You are free from the confines of your body and your mind.

You have become the imperishable self. Everything is the self. Everything. And you are that. This means that you are the flowers and the birds. You are the earth. You are the world. You are everything. You are the God, you have become all things, and there’s no name to describe it. Go beyond words and thoughts. There’s actually no name to give it, no word to call it. For if you describe it or you call it by a name, then it’s not that. I’m speaking of the formless essence of love, the ultimate reality, the sat-chit-ananda, Nirvana. it is beyond the void beyond emptiness beyond nothing the human mind cannot grasp this therefore not to use your mind to try to understand what I’m saying allow your spiritual heart to open not your physical heart but your spiritual heart your spiritual heart has always been this this absolute reality you are that allow your thoughts and your body and your mind to sink into the spiritual heart until the you disappears entirely and you’re absolutely free. Feel free to ask any questions you like or questions you don’t like. It would be nice to see everything as an illusionist to say that it seems to me it’s like I seem to live a lot of my life by avoiding pain. It’s almost like kind of like a rat in a maze because it seems to you know, sometimes, like now, you know, I’m not at work, things are taken care of, then I can relax and think about life as an illusion, but then come tomorrow, you know, I have to think about practical matters, and a lot of life seems to be an avoidance of pain, and It might be illusion, but the pain, to me, feels real, and that keeps me going, you know, in my life and, you know, seems to hold things together.

There doesn’t seem too much leeway in that. Yes. This is all the work of the mind. You therefore have to inquire within yourself, to whom does this mind come that’s going through all this? Where is the source of the mind? Inquire. Where does this mind come from? Where is its source? The mind thinks all these thoughts and keeps me confused this way. And then follow the I thought. Of course, the answer will be, I think this. The mind comes to me. I am that mind, I think this. So you freely inquire, where is the source of the I? Who am I?

Where does this I come from? And you will soon come to realize that all the aforementioned problems are really attached to the I. After all, don’t you say, I feel this, I feel that, I’m doing this. So they’re all attached to the I. When you follow the I through the heart,

The I will disappear and dissipate. And so all of the problems in the mind and everything else will go with it. But if you only remember, it’s all attached to the I. Because every time you have a problem, you say, I feel this. I’m involved in this situation. I feel disillusioned. I feel uncomfortable. Who is this I that feels this? It’s not you. You’re saying, I feel this. The I is not you. As you follow the eye thought, the eye is a thought, an idea. It’s not real. The eye will enter the heart center and will disappear totally and completely and will be free. Does that make any sense? Your finger will still feel the pain. Who has the pain? The eye. When the eye dissipates, when the eye goes away, there will be nobody around to think about chopping off fingers. There will be emptiness, which is happiness and joy and peace. It is only the I that thinks about chopping off the fingers, that thinks about pain.

It is the I-thought that feels all of these things. So again, when there’s no I-thought, there’s nobody that has these experiences. Just remember that you are not the I, and you have to inquire, then, who am I?

Or where did this I come from from, not the I? What you’re really doing is you’re looking for the source of the I. How did this I arise?

Where did it come from to begin with? and you follow it back from once it came. If you can do that, it’ll be a whole new ballgame. We were talking a little on Sunday about what a mistake it is, feel superior to a person-based thing, or feel scornful towards any of those things. Would it, it would also be on the same line? There’s no point in feeling admiration for the person’s place to think that they are. When you feel admiration, you’re feeling yourself. This is the self you’re talking about. So you are that self. If you feel admiration towards someone, you’re feeling it yourself. You are that. If you’re feeling something else, then that’s what you are also. It’s only you. You’re always the one who feels these things. It comes out of you. You create the universe in which you live. You create the people in your life.

You create everything that’s going on in your environment, in your experience. It all emanates out of your mind. So when you feel admiration or you feel disgust, you’re feeling this. It’s all coming out of you. There’s only one self, and you are that. It seems like it involves judging, wants to be avoided and wants to be sought. Admirations should be sought and scorned. For whom? For the mind. So again, do not look at the effects. The world is only in the effects. Look at the cause. It causes Brahman. It causes consciousness. Go for that. Exactly. Do not try to change conditions. Exactly. Of course, you’ll always have reactions and always have conditions. Just be changing one reaction to another reaction, one condition to another condition. It’ll never end.

Of course. You’ve got to transcend the I completely. Exactly. Exactly. You can’t give up reactions if you try, because you’ll always be reacting. Well, if you give up the I that reacts, the reaction is by the I. Get rid of the I and you won’t react. Because who reacts? I react, exactly. Follow us, Phil. I can put myself into that place. Why can’t I do that during the day? You don’t really put yourself in another place. You do not put yourself into any place. It’s not you that does it. It happens by itself.

When you lie down, you go to sleep. And yet, you say, I slept when you wake up. When you dream, you say, I dreamt. And when you’re in the so-called waking world, you say, I am awake.

The I disappears, and the three states disappear also. You transcend all three states. You become absolutely free. Sometimes when I wake up, I don’t invariably say I slept well and had a good sleep. That’s because you didn’t. Yeah, but the way you originally described it is that it still is inevitable that you feel good about it. If you sleep through, you have to feel good. Sleep through. And it’s only when you dream that’s possible. But if you sleep through, you’ll get up and you’ll feel great. I might have had a dream of which I had no remembrance when I woke up, but that would spoil my feeling. Yes, yes. Sometimes I remember dreams and sometimes… Exactly. We’re all like that. It is only when you’re in deep sleep, no dream, dreamless. Everybody has the same experience. You’ll wake up from dreamless sleep and you’ll feel great, refreshed, or a good dream. You’re not, are you implying that people may become indifferent to their condition, uh, their conditions?

No. I mean, like, if the person were homeless, that wouldn’t be, an intelligent person wouldn’t want to be homeless. You can’t talk about somebody that’s not known. Well, me, I wouldn’t want to be a woman. I would avoid trying to be homeless, so I’d have to react to the condition. The truth is, you have no choice in the matter. if you were meant to be homeless you would be homeless nothing in the world can stop it no matter what you say or think it wouldn’t change remember everything is preordained the only freedom you’ve got is to return to a son and not react to the condition besides that everything has been preordained before you came to this earth what you are now is preordained that you should be what you are so forget about thinking that I’ve got control So spend your time transcending by diving deep, deep within yourself, the self, the personal self, the personal life,

And everything else will take care of itself. So you have a non-pengency to transcend. It’s pre-ordained. It’s pre-ordained, exactly. Everything is pre-ordained, but you should act like it’s not.

Act as if you have the freedom, the choice to go within. It becomes paradoxical. act as if nothing is pre-ordained you’re deep inside realize everything is pre-ordained and you’ll do the right thing don’t do what you’re supposed to do yes everything in all the realms of existence is pre-ordained yes exactly that’s it and as you keep this up your feelings begin to change tremendously the things that used to make you upset stop making you upset The things that you used to fear, the fear disappears. And you keep working on yourself this way, going deeper and deeper and deeper, until the day comes when your body is totally transcended, and you’re completely liberated. But if it’s truly all preordained, why fight it? Why not just say, okay, it’s all preordained and go with that? Because you can’t, because that’s preordained too. If you’re a person who’s supposed to be passive and not do anything, it’ll happen by itself. And no matter how you try to be non-passive, you won’t be able to do it. So that’s why you flow with things. You flow with your resistance and you flow with your passivity. Whatever happens, you flow with it.

It’s not up to you. If you go within yourself, you will know what to do. It will come to you. Being in this class tonight is all preordained.

Therefore, you have to ask yourself, what am I doing here? Do I belong here? And you will know what to do. Everything you do is right.

Bhakti is correct. Karma yoga is correct. Jnana is correct. They’re all right. There are no mistakes. They all lead to the same goal. The path that you should follow is within your heart. If you really feel the truth within your heart, you will be led to the right teacher and the right movement, and the right ideas, and everything will take care of itself. He did only on mature people, and certain people have been through this before. By through this before, men have incarnated before, and they’ve been in this path before. and their mature souls were able to handle vichara so their path is up to vichara but he told others to practice pranayama to practice mantra to practice bhaktra every person is different but there’s something within you that knows what to do learn to listen and will tell you what to do all the answers are within you after all are you not the atman you are that be yourself yes the freedom you have in this world is not to react to conditions but to turn deep within the self and realize you’re divine nature but imagine it’s not and do it self inquiry Jnana means wisdom supreme wisdom vichara is inquiring atma vichara is self inquiring to the self inquiring it’s desirable not to do too much physical work maybe this is the old world that you live in I don’t know actually do not concern yourself with that if you practice self inquiry correctly to work will take care of itself you will find that if you’re not supposed to do any work you are not doing your work my karma is not that good I guess up to this point perhaps that’s how it was but now it’s different forget about the past there is no past there is no future there is only the eternal now well I guess what I’m alluding to is I’m in a kind of a grueling job and I notice the deeper I go into self My body gets real sensitive.

I feel like the things I do, I have to do with my body, it takes a lot of my energy, and it’s quite painful sometimes. And I want to change this condition. I mean, I want to find a different work where I’m not getting so, you know, physically tired. Again, if you’re doing the right thing, everything will take care of itself. Well, I feel that way. But in the meantime, you know, I still have to deal with this. I guess everybody has to deal with their crummy job and what it takes out of them to go through this every day. Look at it in a different way. Inquire within who feels this. To whom do these feelings come?

What are the source of the feelings? Where do the feelings come from? Keep asking yourself these questions. Who feels as if they don’t like this job? Who feels as if they should be somewhere else? keep inquiring continuously, continuously as you’re working who feels this, who does this come and you’ll see what happens we can tell Tony is back, we got Prasad it’s interesting, people inquired to me where’s Tony’s Prasad, I didn’t care about Tony at all where’s Tony’s Prasad I found that you should bring Prasad also sometimes we’ve been very negligent with this to bring Prasad is a blessing So Sundays or Thursdays, whenever you come, Saturdays, stop at your local bakery and get Prasad. It’s a good kind. Mary has a couple of announcements and like, explain about the transcripts. I have a little note on all of them every time I hand them off. Xerox 10 or more copies, please. Thank you. Five people. I’ve been looking quite a bit ahead and I’m so glad. I need an audit. We do have transcripts for all the lessons. They’re free at charge. Feel free to take them.

So is Prasad time.