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It is good to be with you again. Welcome. I welcome you with all my heart, and I love every one of you. I know many of you hate chanting. You don’t like to chant. You think you don’t have to. Yet, chanting is a very important part of spiritual life, believe it or not. Whatever denomination you belong to, whether you’re Catholic, Jewish, Mohammedan, Islamic, Christian, wherever you come from, it has been part of every tradition.

Why? Because it is known to make the nervous system calm, to make the mind one-pointed, and to improve your concentration. As a matter of fact, the bigger the ego is, the less you like chanting. This is true. for chanting and thinking bhajan is very beneficial.

I recall when I was in Bangalore in 1950, after Ramana gave up his body, and I went to Papa Ram Dassadashram in Bangalore. I observed what was going on, watched everybody doing everything, particular facilities.

I noticed one young person, and you call him young now, he was about two years older than I was at that time, used to sit under a tree, in the lotus posture. I meditated for three or four hours at a time. The next day I approached him and I asked if I could sit with him. He said yes. So I sat with him and I watched him. He became rigid. Eyes were closed. I waved my hand on his face. He was in total silence. I put my finger under his nose to see if he was breathing. I couldn’t feel any breath at all. He was in an Evrakapa Samadhi. I sat with him for about three hours three hours, and then he opened his eyes. And I asked him, how long have you been doing this? How long have you been able to be in the Akapa Samadhi? He said approximately seven years. He said that was the highest degree he could get, the highest stage of development.

I explained to him what’s the height of the Samadhi was. For the present time, when he comes out of the Akapa Samadhi, he becomes a human being again. And I asked him, this It was true. I said, when you come out of the Recapulismite, don’t you become human, so to speak, again? Do you have emotions, needs, judgmental? He said, yes, but while I’m in the Recapulismite, I can feel bliss. I explained to him that you merge with yourself in the Recapulismite, but you’re not really deep in the Self, where you stay there forever, you come out of it again and again. I asked him why did he partake in the activities of the ashram? He said, and sing bhajans and do kuddha. And he laughed and he said, that’s for beginners. I don’t need to do these things. So the answer was right there. I explained to him, perhaps this was keeping you back from going further, because you hate something, you don’t like something, you think it’s no good. Perhaps this was holding you back. For you see, you have to develop humility, and by chanting and singing bhajans, you develop a tremendous humility.

It’s the humility that causes you to surrender the body to the self. When you have surrendered the body to the self, you will be the self, and you will always be in samadhi while waking.

He sort of listened to me when he closed his eyes again. The next day I saw him sitting with the chanters and chanting. I was leaving at that time. I went up north to see Nandamai Amai. I forgot all about him. About three months later, I returned to Ramana Ashram, and I saw him over there. He told me he just smiled at me, and by a smile I realized that he was enlightened. He had overcome, and he became active. He told me he doesn’t need to meditate any longer. he was always in meditation and now he chanted, he sang bhajans and he did all these things happily, peacefully there was a tremendous change in him I knew his ego had disappeared his cry had disappeared this is true of us also it’s very difficult for westerners to develop humility and yet this is exactly what we have to do if we want to become free to become totally free and liberated we have to have a tremendous humility

We have to let go of all the hardness, the stuff that makes us think I’m better than you, I have more knowledge than you.

We have to develop a reverence for all of life. We shouldn’t think that our way alone, our path is the only path, and it’s only through our path we can become enlightened. We should realize there are hundreds of paths, and we’re all good.

Wherever a person is, that’s what it’s supposed to be. If we learn to respect one another, to worship all paths, then we become free. which is that time that the self becomes activated and it pulls the ego into the heart but if you walk around saying I’m a Jnani, I’m a Jnani it’s your ego telling you this forget about what you are do not look for enlightenment do not search for anything just be yourself everything that we do here is for your benefit everything every word that’s spoken every gesture that’s made every chant that chanted everything that’s said is for your benefit to awaken you to your real self it’s a heck of a way to get you to chant isn’t it?

Now you’re making progress now you’re ready for the ego to surrender to the self now you’re prepared to meet your maker who else? the one who resides within you yesterday a lady asked me Robert, I’ve been to India and I’ve seen various Jnanis and some of them roar with laughter but I never see you roaring with laughter why is that? I explained what is the source of the laughter I am that source. Laughter is the opposite as you very well know we live in a world of duality and it’s an opposite for everything so when you see a person who roars with laughter think about when something doesn’t go their way. They become very emotional, very mad, upset, angry, to the same extent that they became happy and rode with laughter. To a point is to go beyond that. Find the source of the laughter. Find the source of the sadness. Find the source of the depression, the happiness, the joy. What is the source of all these things? Every human emotion has a source. If you go to the source, you will always be in bliss. Always. Without putting on any show of any kind. You will be yourself. Your natural self. There’s no need to roll with laughter. You want to be totally depressed and angry. They’re both inside of the same coin. Point is it. When you are the self, you don’t think of these things. You don’t think about laughter or sadness or happiness or anger.

Those words are foreign to you. You just are. You are the one. You’ve always been that one, you’ll always be that one. There are no questions, there are no doubts, there are no apprehensions, there’s no judgment, there’s only total bliss. Bliss is incomprehensible. You can only experience bliss. It’s so very far beyond laughter, it makes laughter look like kindergarten compared to both. Remember, when you laugh, it’s because something inhuman has happened to you, it makes you feel good. There’s nothing wrong with this, it’s wonderful. Laughter is good medicine. But remember, it’s the same emotion as anger, they’re both the same. In other words, when things are going your way, when you feel good about something in your life, or something good has happened to you in this human existence, you will become radiantly happy, but when it’s taken away, you’ll have the opposite emotion. You’ll be doubtful, angry, upset, therefore there’s nothing as laughter as the goal. There is no goal. There’s no search for answers. There are no answers. Be what you eternally were and you are, be that self which is unalloyed, that self which is everlasting, who was never born and could never die. It is you, it is beyond all phenomena, all emotions, all religions, all paths. It is that something that you can experience only by yourself. And what you do with yourself all day determines what you’re going to experience. If you argue all day long, if you debate all day long, if you doubtful all day long, what do you expect to experience?

You’re creating your world every time you think. Every time you have an emotion, you’re creating your world. The world by itself doesn’t exist. There is no world. Except the world that you create by itself.

You create your world every time you think. The world doesn’t exist. It only exists because your mind exists. this is why in all the great teachings they say to the Lord, you solve the mind control the mind and the whole world is under your control when you control the mind, all of the gods and goddesses will come before you and dance the gods and goddesses will bow to you pay homage to you so after all, did you not create them?

Where did they come from? only yourself isn’t that true? is that you and the god? it’s only you, as the god everything that you behold as your creation.

Do not hate it. Do not love it. Leave it be. Leave it alone. Do not react to it. That is the only way to go beyond it. We’re not reacting to it.

Leave the world alone. Leave everything alone. Do not argue with people. Do not debate with people. Do not lift you up to say. Do not fear you go on the spiritual path.

Remember everything that’s done here is done for you to think. Everything. Everything that you see. Everything that you feel. Everything that you touch, everything that you smell, and such thing, is for your benefit. But you have to see it in the right way. You have to learn to surrender yourself. Always keep surrendering. Keep surrendering completely, totally all the time. Develop the humility we’re talking about. Very important. Everyone wants to be happy. Everyone. Human beings have many differences. But there’s one thing they all have in common. They all want to be happy. Without knowing it,

Everyone wants to experience eternal happiness, eternal right happiness. Everyone. And everything that you do is to experience this happiness, part of this. Everything that you’ve done in the past, everything that you do now, is only to experience happiness. If this is not true, of course.

It’s the so-called evil deeds that you may do. It’s the so-called sinful things that you may do. In order to experience happiness, if we believe you do this, you’ll be happy. If you believe you hold up the bank, it’ll make you happy because you’ve got money. Even the murderer kills because he or she feels he’ll be happy because they’ve disclosed this person. This will make them happier. Everything is done for happiness, but of course the mistake is they’re doing it in the external world. They think if they change the external world and their circumstances, they’ll be happy. This, of course, is not true. The fact that the external world is subject to change, it’s never the same. How can something that keeps changing make you happy? It may make you happy for a while. You may think you’re happy. But then change has to come. And it’s not. Everything will change. There goes your happiness out the window. For you are dependent on something external to yourself. the point i’m trying to make is depend on nothing in this world for your happiness nothing personal place or thing cannot make you happy eternally people are searching at the beginning of time for true happiness they travel the world they read all the books they were great doers yet they’ve been happy for a time then they go the way

The thing that you want to find the source of this where’s the source of this happiness comes and goes. Where is the source of my body, my mind, my thoughts? Where do they come from? Where is the source? If it’s the only true homework you’ve got, to find the source of everything that exists. But where do you look? Within yourself. Where else? There’s nowhere else to look. Say you’re feeling disappointed because somebody disappointed you, a person disappointed you. Instead of feeling angry at the person or feeling disappointed, go within. Look for Where did the surface of disappointment? Where did the source come from that made me unhappy? Because somebody outside of myself did something I don’t like. Where did the source come from? Who’s beyond all of this? As you continue to ask questions like this, you will find you go deeper and deeper within yourself.

And things stop bothering you. They actually do, they stop bothering you. They get to annoy you so much, people, places, things. You no longer have any power to disturb you, for you have risen into the light. We can disturb the light. The Lord is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life. For whom shall I be afraid? The Lord is the self. It means when you understand the self, what can you fear? For only the self exists. That’s all. The self exists as light, as salvation, strength. useful as itself. And you are that within you. We’re not speaking of the Lord somewhere up in the sky, the Lord somewhere external to yourself. We’re speaking of your very self. You are that self, free, unencumbered, happy, fulfilled. That is you. Do you not accept your true self? Why do you accept the things that you see here? Why do you listen to the world. Look at the shape of the world. I mean, that’s what the condition is in. How can you listen to a world that can’t even control itself? Learn to love yourself, to be at peace with yourself, to worship yourself, to bow to yourself. The only legitimate prayer is to pray to yourself when you are that God that created you. In reality, God never created anything because God doesn’t exist. In reality, as long as you believe there’s a God someplace and you don’t simply to create God yourself out of yourself, and you have to worship that God.

If you worshiped God correctly, the time will come when you will see God is within me. I am the God I’ve been worshiping all the time. But now, to some of you, it sounds blasphemous. Some of you have been brought up in Orthodox religions. It sounds blasphemous when you see this. We’ve been told you to cry up in the sky someplace just to pray to. And if God hears your prayers, But the truth is, you are the one. You are the only one that exists, and that’s all. Do not take this dream world seriously. Do not take the sleeping dream world seriously. Do not take yourself seriously. It’s very interesting when you begin to live this way, the force of the universe will take care of you. You will always be protected, taken care of. You are all into nature, choiceless, helpless, pure awareness. You never think of yourself as a human being. When you think of yourself as a human being, it means you have to go through human problems. of problems, human emotions, human experiences. Learn to catch yourself, while during the day catch yourself. Catch yourself thinking of a problem and immediately laugh and say, where’s the source of this problem? I am the source of this problem, but where am I? Surrender every moment. Keep surrendering every moment. That’s another way to do it. When you feel an emotion coming up, when you feel fear coming up, when you feel frustration coming up, catch yourself and give it to God do it to yourself say take this from me God it is yours not mine give God everything all your problems, all your frustrations everything that bothers you do not carry them with you do not look for psychiatrists and psychologists to help you don’t just put you in deeper problems all the answers are within you everything you need is within you you are a factory of intelligence that knows what to do in every situation turn it to yourself The reason some of you have some serious problems, so to speak, is because you don’t turn to yourself.

Turn to yourself. The answer is within you. Always turn to yourself. Do not carry the problem. Always turn to the self. You are that self. Turn to it. Do not be fearful. There’s nothing to fear. God loves you, and so do I. Wall is wall. I saw some of these things come. Who feels good who feels bad? The secrets go beyond them. Not allow them to fill your head up with junk. Go beyond everything. Need more questions? I know I find a way to stop you from asking questions. Go on your front door. Would you like to do the honors?