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Good evening. I welcome you with all my heart. It is good to be with you once again on this lovely Thursday evening. Most of you usually ask me questions, so now I’m going to ask you a question. How many Pollocks does it take to screw on a light bulb? Oh, wrong question. Actually, the question is, what’s the question? Maybe that’s the question. That’s the question. Yes.
What is the first thing you do when you get up in the morning? When you open your eyes, what do you usually do? Or what should a spiritual being do? When you first open your eyes in the morning, when you wake up, what do you do? Look and tell me.
And you can do all that if you like. That’s an honest answer. Actually, what you should really do when you wake up in the morning, the first thing is to adore yourself.
True actually adore yourself love yourself really really love yourself think about this fall in love with yourself when you first get up in the morning truly adore yourself
This may sound sort of narcissistic to many people but actually narcissists fall in love with his ego and we’re not talking about your ego we’re talking about the self you think of your divine self your divine nature this is what you adore your divine nature is pure awareness absolute reality God this is what you’re loving do not believe that you are the body especially when you first wake up in the morning do not think of yourself as a body think of yourself as all pervading consciousness feel that you are the essence of the trees, the mountains the clouds that you are boundless space and love it
Adore it. The more you can adore the self, especially when you first wake up, the more the self will adore you. And you will find yourself in a new position,
In a new state of consciousness. Your whole day will shine if you truly do this correctly. Learn to always love yourself, always adore yourself. Forget about your sins of commission and omission.
Forget about your past. do not concern yourself with the problems you may have or what’s going on in the world transcend that really adore yourself really love yourself a cake of ice does not hold on to the dirt put on it through a process of self-washing the ice will rub off the dirt the dirt will eventually disappear and the pure ice will shine once again so it is with you
Your Swarupa, your reality, what you really are, cannot attract negative conditions to it. It will not hold on to any negative conditions for a long time.
Your karma, your samskaras, cannot hold on to you. You are above and beyond that. What you are is so pure that nothing can attach itself to you.
Ponder this. You are purity itself. Your true nature is absolute reality. This is you. What you are. And nothing can defame that. Nothing can obscure your reality.
You are total power. Total goodness. Total joy. Bliss. Do not look at conditions. If you hold on to conditions, mentally it will get worse.
A mirror cannot see itself. But you can see the world. Therefore, the world is your reflection. if you do not like what you see change the reflection by going deeper within yourself and understanding your true reality then the reflection will change then when you look at this world you will see yourself again but you will see a new self a self of harmony, peace, love purity joy, happiness you will be able to look through conditions and see the subtraction behind all conditions the pure love which is your reality, which you really are. What do you have to do to achieve this? Absolutely nothing.
To know your true self, you really do not have to do any chanting, any pledges, any meditation. For you already that. Simply by listening to this discourse,
By pondering what I say deeply, by reading between the words, this will do it for you. This is all you have to do. It’s not hard.
It’s not hard at all. everything else is an optical illusion nothing else exists but the reality there’s only one reality there’s not your reality or my reality there’s the reality like there’s the self everything is taking place in the reality in the self there’s nothing else therefore why do you have to do all these meditations when you have to work so hard to be spiritual you are already spiritual you are already God the absolute reality always start your morning off this way total adoration for the self never judge appearances appearances come from ignorance from false imagination you are beyond that you are bright and shining say to yourself wonderful wonderful wonderful me but remember you’re not talking about your ego you’re not referring to your mental process you’re referring to your divinity to one unchanging self to one presence to one power that nothing can extinguish for the immutable self takes up all space and all time and there’s nowhere for another power to be. There’s only one power and not two or three. There’s not one power trying to overcome another power or one self trying to overcome another self.
It’s unnecessary to try to find yourself for you never lost yourself. People are walking around trying to find themselves Where am I? As if you’ve disappeared.
It’s so simple. There’s really no process. There’s nothing you have to remember. You just have to be. There’s really nobody to be either. You see you are beyond anything you can think about.
Whatever words you utter are insufficient. Whatever words the mouth speaks are limited. Always realize you are beyond all words. You are beyond all thoughts.
Beyond all expressions. Beyond all knowing. beyond all existence, beyond all bliss. Yes, you are beyond sat-chit-ananda. Your nature is power Brahman. That is your real Swarupa.
Power Brahman, beyond Brahman. It is so beautiful, so lovely, so joyous, that you can never really imagine what this love and joy and peace is.
And that’s what your finite mind. It is only when you become still, when the thinking process stops, When you stop feeling this and feeling that,
Feeling somebody is right and somebody is wrong, when you leave it all alone, that’s when things begin to happen. Yet you have to leave it all alone.
This appears to be the hardest part for most people. For we’ve been brought up, we’ve been trained, since we were little people, that we have to express our emotions, we have to express our feelings, we have to stick up for our rights,
We have to fight for what is righteous. This is all kindergarten. Who has to do all of these things? Your ego, who else? But say for a moment that your ego disappeared.
Who would be left to think of things like this? Who would be left to want to get even? Who would be left to want to do something to somebody else? Who would be left to want revenge?
Who would be left to think that something is wrong someplace? Can’t you see that person called the ego and it will be gone? And that ego has been causing you the trouble, the small self. the personal eye, the individuality. This is the only problem you have. You have no other problems. This is a delusion. Even maya ain’t so bad. If you only take the good out of it, enjoy the good things of maya. It is only when you react to it that it becomes terrible. But while you’re engrossed in maya, enjoy it. Identify with the good things. Do not fight. You can’t win. Even when you’re trying to overcome maya, things get relatively worse for you.
Because in truth, there’s no maya to overcome. We have been given names for all these things in books, scripture, so we can have something to work with.
Yet, when you work with these names and forms, and you make progress, you don’t have to get rid of the words that you use. You have to transcend the words like maya, self-awareness, nirvana. Satora, self-realization. All these words have to be disguised in the end also until there’s no differentiation between anything. The thorn in your leg hurts. When the thorn is pulled out, you no longer think of the thorn hurting you. Mya is like a thorn in your leg. When you recognize it for what it is, it cannot possibly hurt you. You don’t walk around saying the world is an illusion. Nothing really exists. If you really was experiencing this state of consciousness,
He would have absolutely nothing to say. One who has no ego knows nothing about Maya or ignorance or Brahman or self-realization. Can God say he is God?
Where would the word come from? It is the people who say the word God. When you become that, there’s absolutely nothing to say. When you become the universal self, which you really are, there’s no ego left to say anything we’re absolutely free right now there’s nothing holding you back there’s no one who can put you in bondage you are total freedom never think of yourself as being bound or being in a position that you don’t like learn to always be free I’m talking of inner freedom if you want to be free you have to be free inwardly first when you can feel free inside yourself then you’ll see freedom everywhere you look but if you feel bound either by lack or limitation or by sickness by anything you will see the same thing in everybody and you’ll always gossip about them seeing something wrong with them when you’re feeling bound within yourself you always have to start with yourself Beta Vedanta we start at the top we do not start with yoga practices or meditation practices the difference between a yogi and a Jnani is simply this a yogi does certain work to find God to find the absolute reality a Jnani rests in the absolute reality a Jnani is already the absolute reality a Jnani rests in his own swarupa where the yogi does certain practices whether it’s kundalini or hatha yoga or raja yoga they’re doing all of these things to find God to find reality.
Yet no one’s ever told them they’re already reality. The reality is the very nature. So we start from the top. Know who you are and everything will take care of itself.
In other words, do not try to get rid of your problems first, to change your life first. Go right to the top. Understand that you are not the life you’ve been living.
You are not the world as it appears. You are not your body or mind. You are beyond everything that you can imagine and think about. Become quiet. Stop arguing with people. Stop trying to run points for yourself. Wonder of wonders. Listen to the silence. Try that silence. Nothing can ever disturb the silence. When you sit in the silence, all of the noise that you hear, airplanes, cars, talking, are all a part of the silence. They have to never disturb you.
For it’s all taking place in the silence. The silence is the self. Pure awareness. When you can be in a marketplace with all kinds of sounds, noises, yelling, screaming,
And be in the silence, then you’ll come a long way. Anyone can climb a mountain and be in the quietness or go to an ashram or a monastery and spend time in solitude.
But how many can be in the marketplace and feel the love and the warmth and the joy and the absolute reality and the silence.
Do not believe that you have to change occupations or be somewhere else to become spiritual. Spirituality is your divine nature. You are that. Wherever you are, there is spirituality.
Wherever you are, there is God. Leave the condition alone. remain in the truth, in the sounds. Nothing can disturb you. You are already free and liberated. What came through my mind was that finiteness cannot go into infiniteness from the so-called infinite point of view because where would it come from? If there was a single infinite being that would stretch all over, there wouldn’t be any space left for anything else. If anything differently appeared, It could be infinite, but it would have to be the same. Because if something differently appeared and it really was different, then the infinite wouldn’t be infinite anymore. But if the infinite is infinite, then there isn’t anything else. Exactly.
Everything else is an hallucination. What we see with our eyes and our senses, we’re hallucinating. God is what He is. Oh, yes, sure. God wasn’t referring to Himself. he was referring to Moses because even when you are in absolute reality you cannot say I am because there’s no I and there’s no am but he was telling Moses Moses inquired whom shall I say sent me when he was going to go to Egypt whom shall I say sent me and God said say I am that I am meaning him himself he was that himself there was no separation between God and Moses. In society, if they consider that blasphemy, they’re God, of course, we brought up to not believe that or to feel that. Well, of course, you can never be God. As long as there’s a you, then you can never be God. But when there’s God, there will be no one to say, I am God, because the I am God idea is destroyed with the ego. In other words, God doesn’t know he’s God. How can God know he’s God? Where did that word come from? It’s a word made up by people who are worshipping something outside of themselves. When you are that, you just are. Words such as God that doesn’t even exist. You become bound to the space, pure awareness. True. There’s a word still. You go beyond words. This is why everything we say, we put our foot in our mouth.
There’s also an experience of the body, the physical body. If you are the self, there’s no physical body. The experience of the self is happening. The body is moving around, but there’s no feeling of the body. Just moving without… there’s no one feeling it. This is a paradox. You are not a body any longer. Yet you seem to be a body to other people, but you realize that you’re not a body. You never were a body, there’s no body. And there’s no sense of feeling of the body. No. Yet you appear to be a body to others. I guess there’s no sense of feeling pain if something like this is happening. There’s no feeling of pain. Well, not necessarily. We go back to the dream again.
In the dream you’ll feel pain. You dream you were shot and you feel the pain. But yet it’s the dream pain. When you awaken, it’s all gone. There’s no sense of that. It’s just moving.
In a way, that’s true. You become like a puppet, manipulated by the self, which is you. I am moving the body, just moving. It’s just moving, but it moves like a dream. You’re going on in life doing things. Things may happen here and there. Did we say that the body is kind of like surrender? There’s no body to surrender. This body more than any other body, right? There’s only one body to a realized person in the universe. Well, I mean, there’s no sense of an indication with this physical body more than another physical body. It’s all the same body. The spiritual body and the physical body is all the same? There’s only one body, and it’s not your body or anybody else’s body. Only a body appears to be. It seems like there are multiple bodies, but there’s only one body, and you are that. When you transcend that, there’s zero, there’s nothing. Yes. Amen. Yes. If you mind goes, you’re free. You’re not going to say anybody’s any longer. Quotation isn’t any. Amen. You said that starting at the top in the light of the darkness is a non-duality concept. So, understanding that, it’s just sort of, the brain, the mind, has no chance against that. And eventually, all the ego attachments, detachments, and all that stuff is sort of meaningless. It disappears on its own. Yes. When you get involved in different yoga practices, you sort of get stuck in it for years and years, maybe many incarnations, like occult things, astrology, whatever. You become involved in those things, you get stuck in that space. That transcends everything. Yes.
I got another one. This was Buddhist, and it covers the matter of words. Then the Lord himself has put you, said this, Do not expect to potham the unposmable, nor measure the immeasurable. For he who asks for it, and he who answers for it, there remains only some. Reminds only one? Simon. So, good friend. Sir? Good. Thank you. I didn’t make it up. One supposed person, when one awakens and the self realizes itself, who’s still asleep? No one is still asleep. If you’re awake, how can you be asleep? What I mean is, if you are awake, all of us here, who are we that aren’t those who? No one. Why did you say you’re asleep? No one here is asleep. Well, I don’t think I mean the condition you describe as awake. Well, why don’t you get into that condition? Yes, but now, I’m not. Why not? Who says so? Exactly. Sometimes you refuse to see yourself as free. You want to see yourself as limited. That’s an hallucination. You can drop everything, become totally free right now if you want to. You’re not bound by anything. Nothing binds you. Another one, because it’s a matter of words. In Daoism it says that the Dao that can be described as not the Dao. I don’t get it. Jesus himself said, if I throw it alone, not one cubit is added to your stature. It’s good for him. I didn’t think I might. I came across it somewhere.
You’re a living Bible. That word brings up the Christian Bible, or the Judeo-Christian. My favorite is the Well, there are lots of truth to it. For a Jnani who has realized the identity of his inner being with the infinite Brahman, there is no rebirth, no migration, not even liberation, for he is already liberated. He has firmly established in an experience of the absolute existence, knowledge, bliss, the sat-chit-ananda Atman, the continued existence of the world and of his own body appears to the Jnani only as an illusion, the appearance of which he cannot remove, but which cannot further deceive him, till the time when after the decease of the body, he wanders not forth, but remains where he is and what he is and eternally was the first principle of all beings and things the original eternal pure free brahman while living and even when the body falls dead the Jnani rests in his own essential nature his own varupa that is all full all pure timeless consciousness and bliss The following assertions made by Ilyani constitute his own deepest convictions and experience. I am infinite, imperishable, self-luminous, self-existent. I am beginningless, endless, decayless, birthless, deathless. Never was I born. I am ever free, perfect, independent. I alone am. I pervade the entire universe. I am all permeating and interpenetrating. I am supreme peace and freedom absolute. a Jnani lives forever. He has attained life everlasting. Cravings torture him not. Sins stain him not. Birth and death touch him not. He is free from all cravings and longings. He ever rests in his own sat-chit-ananda Svarupa.
He sees the one Infinite Self in all, and all in the Infinite Self, which is His Being. He remains forever as the Infinite Self of Consciousness and Delight. Thank you, Mary. Do you have anything else, Mary? Yes, I do. Excuse me. For the new people that have just come in, we do have transcripts. Oh, for the new people who have come in, we have transcripts on the table, they’re free for the taping. And it’s time for Prasad, the reason you’re all here, the true reason that you’re here today. I know why you come. Come for me. That’s why he saves it to the end. Right. This looks delicious. The black box.
We have delicious chocolate caramel. You put your arm out first. Well, you’re holding it, so I have one. Thank you, Henry. I hope all night you’re cooking.
We have deluxe chips. The cookie with Dick’s soft chocolate chips. And last but not least, apricots. Imported from Turkey. I just want to ask you one question. I think I believe that it’s true, but it’s hard to believe that it’s true. And that is, I mean, to really get beyond desire, no desire. What about? Is it possible? Of course.
I mean, as a reality, as an experience. Of course. You know that as an experience. Of course. No question about that. Okay. It doesn’t seem possible. What?
You’re supposed to wave your hand over. Okay everybody, one, two, three. Out in the W. Happy birthday to you, birthday dear Henry That’s great. I won’t be here on Sunday, I’m going to hear a big band jazz concert. Which one? Your name is a band and you’re juggling it. Isn’t that a wonderful name? Where to find it? At the County Art Museum. Well, um, that’s enough. Sir? I like jazz some. I enjoy jazz. Yeah, sure. I have a book called Jazz Giants. Photographs. Mostly taken in the 1940s and 1950s. I showed the book reviews, and I thought, I’m going to go see that, and I thought, $60, I thought, $60, I got it anyway, would you like me to bring it to you? You enjoy jazz? Yes, I’ve ever been. Mid-teens. I like Miles Davis. A little on the modern side. Oh, come on. I’ll bring you the hook. Okay. Thank you, sir.
Fred. Fred. Yes, sir. Do you have a CD player? I’m not yet, no. But, I mean, they seem so expensive to play it. I mean, there’s a record. I’m thinking about getting one anyway, because the sound quality is wonderful. Well, I’ve got a lot of, I’ve got a lot of jack things on TV. What? I can enjoy it. I thought maybe I’d come out and get a thing with some thirsty, happy presence. I don’t know where she does. It’s really helping us. Hi there, how are you? You’re still around, right? How are you? Tell me how those people say, huh? You think I’m boring, huh? So cool how I’m going to feed you there. Where is the black man? Good, how are you? You see, Henry, you thought nobody loved you. What? You thought nobody loved you. I never thought that. What’s wrong with you? You thought everybody forgot your birthday. Yeah, it’s the biggest thing. You, you, uh, you convinced me I was never born.
I’ll never die. So what’s always about? Do you have a box of dogs? A dog? A what? A box of dogs? Yeah, a box of dogs. Where?
Well, I’ve never seen it. I don’t think it’s a young dog. I think you’re a young dog, you should have everything in it. I don’t know if you grab it in your dog. We’ve got to go sit with you. Hmm. I imagine you might, but I don’t know. Good. Good night, Robert. Thank you. Good night, Steve. How are you? I’m fine. It’s good to be with you. No, I’d like to… Life is okay. They just sold the house and I’m living it, so I’m going to have to be moving. Really? I don’t know where. I’m going to let the infinite spirit determine. I understand, yeah. 45 days. Something’s going to come up. Yeah. Even if it’s nothing.
Happy birthday. I was never born and you know I guess a lot of good stuff happens to me now. Robert Diggie is great. Yeah, like I’m loosening up a lot of repressed emotions. Good. Now you’ve got it. Getting resolved. That’s it. You’re good. I mean, I don’t know if things don’t go my way. I can see that, you know, in its perspective. It’s great. Keep it up.
Also, I sometimes feel like if the person who were doing this kind of thing is self-inquiring, you’d probably do it whether you read books about it. Just there’s something in the human being that wants to do it. Yes, true. But I think that if a person didn’t have the books or a teacher, they might go crazy to doing this, don’t you think? Not really. You can go crazy anyway. Well, I mean, it seems like when I was a kid, I used to think the world was crazy. You were right. Now I really, now I don’t think, I know.
We’re all crazy. Yes, I did a campaign. What was it, sir? Oh, no. Well, no, sir. We have a couple of questions. You can eat quite a bit tonight. I’m lost by the shirt line. Give me enough of some of them. Well, is this why, oh, sir? I was just wondering. And you’re totally sure to succeed. Well, let me get… Let me get… So another year drawn by, another year drawn by, let him go, bye, bye, bye. It’s all due to marriage. I look at marriage.