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And it’s good to be with you again. I love every one of you unequivocally, unconditionally. All is well. There’s no past. There’s no future. There’s not even now. There just isn’t anything. Realize that you have nothing to hold on to. What comes of you? Usually fear arises. There’s nothing to take refuge in. You are the only existence in this universe. You are this universe. It sounds scary when you think of it, but it’s true. You and you alone are this universe. This entire universe is a projection of your mind, it comes out of you, like a dream. A dream appears to come out of you, and it appears very real, but yet it’s a projection of your own thoughts. Your own mind is creating a dream. When you awaken there’s no dream, it’s finished. There never was a dream, and you’ll never dream the same dream again. And so does this life seem so real, but is this world real? Is this universe real? Are you real? Throughout the years I have shared with you many methods of finding out, methods of awakening. If you have practiced these methods, you have gained much spiritual insight, but you must practice. It is also true to be a satsang. No practice is required. But here in the West, it’s a little different. We live in a secular country, we live in newspapers, radio, TV. It’s full of all kinds of propaganda, nonsense. We become absorbed in this. It pulls us down.

And when I see you twice a week, this is what you have to practice. In an ashram, if we were to get in an ashram, it would be different. We see each other every day, and we’d be doing things every day. But I only see you about four hours a week. Some of you only come on Thursdays, you don’t come on Sunday. Some people come on Sundays, you don’t come on Thursdays. Consequently, it’s necessary to practice. I’ve shared with you practice the self-inquiry, or past the meditation, focusing on the heart center, and seeing deity in the heart center, chanting the name and form, becoming the witness, any other methods. But you have to remember to practice these methods. It’s just like in the school. If you only do your assignment in school, and you don’t go home and practice, you don’t have to proficient in your subjects.

Say you want to be a doctor. You can’t just read textbooks and listen to the teacher and the professor. You have to go to the hospital and call up people,

Practice operating on people, perform brain surgery, do a couple of brain transplants, practice. This evening I’m going to share with you, and direct an easy message to awaken. And I want you to practice this continuously, constantly. If you will, if you do, you’ll see amazing results in your life. It is simply this. When you awaken in the morning, become cognitive, become aware, and realize that you are absorbed in the presence and the power of consciousness, that you are boundless space. I say that you have to recognize this, feel this, and just say words, but feel it from the bottom of your heart. This is the first thing you should feel when you awaken, before the source comes to you. Again, you must feel somewhere deep in your heart that you are absorbed in the power and the presence of consciousness, of absolute reality, of boundless space. And constantly remember this during the day, and you go about your business. This is a very potent awakening experience, technique. What does it mean to be boundless space in consciousness? I’ve explained to you before, your body is a map of space, it’s a scientific fact. You’re really space, as we truly are. And then we can sell it. And instead of flux, you have vast space and a couple of atoms dining around some place. A few atoms here and there, similar to the universe. When you look at the universe, you see space, bound to the space.

But you’ll see some planets, galaxies, your body, such as superimposed in this vast space. In other words, everything in space, bound to space, with atoms flying all over the place. And the only difference between the space that you are and the space of the universe is somewhere along the line you became cognizant of the I thought.

I am became a reality. I am the body. I am the mind. I am the experience that I go through. This was actually a downfall.

We made you separate from boundless space. In other words, the universal boundless space and the body boundless space are the same. There’s no difference. But because you have become cognizant of the I saw it,

You say, I am dead since you’re waking. You say, I am tired. I am happy. I am sad. I am hungry. I don’t know what to wear. I am angry. This causes separation between you and the vast boundless space. So now you seem separate, you seem to be an entity, but of course this is not the truth about you. It’s an appearance. In reality, you are the universal existence, you are the absolute reality, you are Brahman, such as Ananda. When you’re so caught up in your eyesight, then when they say it seems foreign to you, it seems far-fetched, unbelievable. Yet, it is the absolute truth and as the eyesight becomes stronger in you, you have every kind a problem with your fallen man, only because you think you’re the eyesight. In order to get rid of the eyesight, you may simply recognize the truth about yourself, that you are the presence and the power bound to the space of consciousness. The bound to the space, what we call bound to the space, is consciousness of the self. This is what we call consciousness. Consciousness is the absolute reality. You live in pure consciousness, and it can’t be diminished in any form, or either be subtracted. See the spaces around you right now. in this room. There are 30 or 40 people here. Furniture. Yet this makes the balanced space less. Not at all. The space is the same. It remains the same. No matter how many people come in here, no matter how much furniture comes in here, the space is really the same.

And it’s not diminished. What has happened to us? Nothing. You think you take up room, but you don’t. For one truth, you are the boundless space also. In other words, if you measure the boundless space in this room, and it’s full of people and furniture, and you measure the weather was empty, it would be the same. There’s no difference. The boundless space of consciousness is supposed to be called bliss. What most of us are experiencing is the result of the boundless space of consciousness. You see the air, but you have no idea of its power, which is really happening to you. You are immersed in energy, pure energy, the self-streatening of this energy is consciousness, Brahman. And the object of your existence is to transcend the body and become totally free in the brain. While still in the body, you transcend it. This has been done by masters all over the world. The beginning of time, great stage of being able to do this, and so can you. And again, the way to do it is to recognize who you are, Recognize the truth about you. Keep your mind off problems. The mind is part of the eye-thought. The eye-thought creates the body and the mind of itself and separates you from balance, space, from consciousness, from bliss. You are thinking you’re a human being and you’ve got problems. You have to make things happen for you to survive, to exist. You’re just going to be afraid for the truth. Consciousness is a part of this fulfilled totally and completely.

That you are consciousness and you are fulfilled also, totally completely. All your needs will be met from the same. Always. But first you have to demonstrate this boundless space, this consciousness. And you can’t do it when you’re absorbing problems of the world. It’s virtually impossible for you to recognize the truth about yourself. When you’re filled anger, regrets, intimacy,

All these conditionings that Muslims are involved in. I tell you so often to forget about the world and its tribulations. But if you feel, unless you do something about it, you’ll be stuck with problems or the world will keep it on you. In other words, you believe you’ve got to take care of this world of yourself. You’re responsible for the world, you’re responsible for your affairs. this is going to be afraid from the truth the responsibility is on your shoulders you are not born to cry when you go through this life in sorrow or being upset but you will as long as you identify with the same thing you identify with now if you live a so proper existence since fall and then it’s up to you to make a change you must make a change yourself and move into the higher life and again how do you do this? by remembering when you awaken who you are Just remembering who you are. That’s all you’ve got to do. I’m not speaking of reciting affirmations or using words. I’m talking about feelings. You have to feel in your heart this truth. I am consciousness. I am absorbed in the power and the presence of consciousness. Of course in reality there’s nothing to be absorbed in. Of course you really are consciousness. There’s nothing for you to do. But if you don’t believe that, you don’t know this. In other words, you believe you’re human. You’ve got problems, you’ve got things going on in your life.

This is the reason why you have to do this exercise over and over again. And constantly remember during the day, and you go about your business. Feel during the day. I’m absorbed in the presence and the power of consciousness. My real nature is bound to the space. I have not the body that disappears. I have not the mind that thinks. I have none of these things. I have total freedom. I have nothing about your problems during the day. Yet some of you believe if you do not think about your problems, you will take care of them. How will they be resolved? Remember, there is a power that knows the way. Trust this power. It does know the way. It is the same power that grows the mangoes in the mango trees, the grapefruits in the grapefruit trees, the rice in the rice fields. It causes the sun to shine just right so it maintains the same life in this earth. It knows what to do to carry on. Therefore, you will be taken care of completely and totally. If you surrender to the power that knows the way, but you must do this. In other words, wake up feeling depressed because something is wrong. Wake up believing this is the first day I wish of my life. This is a new beginning. This day is gone forever. It can never come back. Tomorrow is not yet come. I am that I am, right now. I am bliss consciousness.

I am totally absorbed in the presence and the power of consciousness. I am boundless space. And fear yourself becoming boundless space. Merging with the space of the universe. No more separation. If there’s no more separation, no one’s going to have a problem. Only when you’re separated, you have a problem. Remember this. Merge with the universe. As you do this, you’ll begin to feel that you are the substratum of all existence. and that your body and your relatives and your animals and everything else are simply superimpositions on this consciousness, on yourself. You are the immutable self. This is you. Just thinking about this makes you feel good, doesn’t it? Just thinking about this, what you really are, what you really are. That you’re not separate, you’re not a body. All these years people have made you believe you’re a body. And because your eyesight is so strong, you’ll accept it mentally, and you’ll suffer accordingly. But who suffers when there’s no body? There’s nobody who loves to suffer. Suffering only for the body, for the thought. I. When that’s gone, there’s nobody who loves to suffer. And again, if you practice this, you’ll see amazing results. It’s up to you. Remember, you’ve not come here to hear a lecture or a talk on philosophy or religion or metaphysics. You’ve come here to experience yourself. And I am that. When I say I am that, I’m speaking for you all. There’s one presence, there’s one power, there’s one Brahman, one absolute reality.

And is that what you accept is for yourself. Be free, be absorbed, be happy, be yourself. For in truth you’re already free and all is well. Feel free to ask questions. I got some.

What you say, just so long as I think I’m an individual and the world is real, I am bound. Indeed. So I think I’m separate from you. Yes. What are you going to do about the first thing? I’m separate. What are you going to do about the first thing? I’m not ponder on it. Good. Anyway, the other thing is that I know that there’s nothing I can do or refrain from doing which will have a bearing on whether or not something takes place which is called realization or enlightenment. But in my experience, there’s something that happened that I feel had enabled me to have an intellectual understanding of some of this spiritual stuff. And that is, in the AA program, we have a step that says we made a fearless and moral, a thorough and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. The next step is we admit it to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. Through the will of whatever our father is, I stayed sober for ten years before doing, taking those two steps on a real heavy duty basis. After I did, life became much simpler. I could see things a lot more clearly. And I think it was because a lot of clutter had been removed from my mind that when I read that in India there is a tradition, in the East, there is a tradition, at least in certain circles, that all masses are one.

They never contradict one another. And that rang a bell with me. I didn’t understand it the way I do now, but it was enough to awaken an interest in Eastern thought and spiritual matters generally. And that’s been really the center of my life ever since. And I feel really blessed to have had that happen, and I just, I can’t help feeling that my having done the fourth and fifth step had a great deal of benefit to me, and I wonder if, actually, though, if I go back to try to figure out what it was that made me take the fourth and fifth step, That was out of my hands too. So the whole shooting match was part of the lever. So would you like to comment on that scenario? Life appears to be a university to educate the soul. Life appears to be a university to educate the soul. And every step is a step forward. spiritual pattern that says you take three steps forward, one backward. Consequent, what’s been happening to you is you’ve been taking three steps forward, one backward. You may not have progress. Everything that’s happened to you has been important. Every fit of your life has been ordained, pre-ordained. Before your kingdom is theirs, everything was pre-ordained for you.

And you’re going through the steps that are necessary for your fulfillment. You’ve had many interesting experiences in your life. This is good. And you’re growing every day, going forward. Sometimes it may appear that you go backward. Others in appearance don’t pay attention to those times. Simply hold on and keep going forward, like you’re doing. So all is well, Fred. You’re doing fine. Keep up the good work. We spoke of consciousness as an energy, but it seems to be an energy without motion, which Consciousness is the absolute reality. It is beyond energy. It is beyond thoughts. It is beyond explanation. All you remember is defined. It can never come from an infinite. When I speak of consciousness, I’m speaking of a universal power. It’s not even a power. It’s beyond power. It’s something that can only be experienced and never explained. All these terms that are used are the same. The absolute reality of Brahman, the self-consciousness, they’re all synonymous. They’re beyond anything we can ever imagine. Our minds just kind of phantom what these words mean, what they are. But when you experience it, you will know that it’s all. It’s not of this world, it’s not of any world, it’s beyond worlds, it’s beyond the universe. It’s something so beautiful, so blissful, you can even think about it in your mind. It will blow your mind out, short-circuit your mind, but you can awaken to it. And when you awaken to it, all the necessary substance has to make you see what you really are.

What you really are. That you’re not Bob. That you are that. That which has always been will always be. That which never began and never ended. That which is. And there’s silence. Total silence.

So we can say consciousness in silence. And if you want to experience consciousness in silence, exactly. It is. What are you going to do about it? Yes, do it.

It’s a real home. It’s a real dwelling. It’s where you belong. That’s where you are. In spite of you, it’s not your home. It’s a false entity. The pure energy state is such that it transcends the so-called normal mind, the normal body when you experience it. Therefore, the pure mind, what you call pure energy state, will always be available to you when you see it, when you open up yourself to it.

It is something that is quiet, that is the most powerful force in the universe, that has no name, it just is. As you work on yourself, as you grow, you prepare yourself for one transition. You become prepared for the one understanding, the one consciousness, the one reality.

You will feel that you are never a body and the body never existed for you. You were never the physical body. There was never a physical body for you at all. It was a dream. Consciousness is the reality. So the dream just disappears when you wake up. Therefore, there is no explosion that has to take place inside of you. Since when you are dreaming and you awaken, the dream is gone. It’s the same as this. When you awaken from the mortal dream, you will see that you never wore a body. There is no physical explosion that takes place. nothing happens. Just become yourself. The soul that you always was, the soul that you are now.

So, awaken from the mortal dream, be free. Can you imagine this body as being a precisely dream? Yes, but when you’re dreaming, and I dream that you are the same person you are now, you dream that you get married, you have children, you’re eating, you’re going for a trip, and you start, it’s like, oh no. But if I come and tell you you’re dreaming, you’ll tell me, no Rob, I’m not dreaming. You’ll tell me the same thing you just told me now. It’s hard to imagine you’re dreaming. Then you wake up, the dream’s gone. Same thing.

It’s hard to imagine right now because you’re so bogged down by the self, the eyesight, but the small self, the ego, the mind, has such a stronghold in you right now. It’s very difficult to imagine it otherwise.

But just like when you lie down and go to sleep and you forget all about this world, and you’re in the dream world, again, you’re in the dream world doing things, just like doing things here. So again, imagine that you’re in the dream world, you go to a class like this, and you’re asking me the same question like this, and you dream. and I laugh and I say you’ll awaken and it’ll be over and you say no I’m not awakening I feel this world tremendously but I keep telling you it’s a dream and all of a sudden you wake up and you’re what you are now it’s morning the dream’s over and so does it this one thing you’ll awaken from this dream and you’ll be free and you’ll be breathing you have nothing to do with it what you call the I who’s waking up who’s been asleep see when you go to sleep the eyesight which has been active in your brain goes back into the heart where it belongs there’s no eye that doesn’t exist as soon as you begin to wake up the eyesight rushes a matter of seconds less than a second from the heart into the brain and you’re awakened and you say I’m awake who’s awake? the ego’s awake I’m going to be free now Thank you.