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Good to be with you once again. I welcome you with all my heart. I love every one of you unequivocally, unconditionally, always, just the way you are. I will repeat what I said on Sunday because it’s very important. This is a set sign. It is not a lecture or a talk or entertainment of any kind. It is for you to become free and liberated, to become emancipated, to become happy.

Becoming yourself. Therefore, everything that’s in a satsang is important. Everything. There is not one thing that’s in a satsang that’s not important. Everything is very important. Everything. If I raise my finger like this, it’s important. Every word that’s said,

Every breath that’s taken, every pose, everything is important. In other words, do not take this for granted by thinking or believing it’s just done a lecture that you’re going through. You are here because this is where you belong right now. You never really asked to come here, and I never asked to come here either, but you’re here. Why are you here? Don’t answer that. Just think about it. What is the real purpose of your being here? Again, you did not come here to listen to the speaker, or compare the speaker to other speakers, or listen to words really. everything is preordained everything always remember this if you understand what this means you will never be unhappy again about anything if everything is preordained it is what do you get to worry about the battle is not yours as in the Old Testament the battle is not yours with God set yourself be still and see the salvation of the Lord this is a very important quotation This is Advaita. Non-duality. It means that you have nothing to do with yourself or with your life. Nothing whatsoever. This may sound a little strange to some of you. Because you have big egos, that’s why it sounds strange. But everything that you’ve done in your life, you have nothing to do with it. Everything. It makes a difference the way it is. Everything that had happened was supposed to happen. What you call good, what you call bad, or between. It is all very necessary for your own form and your fulfillment. Everything is predestined. Always remember this, never forget this. Ponder this every day. How many years you’re going to live? What happens to your body while you’re here? It’s all predestined.

Consequently, it makes no sense to be upset over anything. It doesn’t. It’s all predestined. Why be upset? Look at it this way. A really boundless space. Effortless, choiceless, pure This is your real nature. But because you don’t know this, except intellectually, you appear to be going through all kinds of physical experiences, mental conditioning, and you think you have to control things. But it’s just like going to the movies where you see a screen. The screen is your reality. This is what you really are, the screen. But on the screen, you see various images. People becoming sick, dying of cancer, people being born, becoming very happy, enjoying their life, earthquakes, cataclysms, all sorts of things are shown on the screen. What is happening to the screen? Nothing. There may be images big explosions taking place, wars, thousands of people being killed. This is a picture shown on the screen. What happens to the screen? Nothing. Nothing at all. And Emerson said, I forget what Emerson said. He said something. Who cares what he said? Oh, I know what he said.

He said the innocence lies smiling in sweet repose. That’s what he said. The infinite lies smiling in a sweeping pose, meaning that if the reality smiles continuously, smiles back, is never upset about the condition of what’s happening. Good old Emerson, the heck where Emerson, forget about him. In any event, your life is not your life. What appears to be your life is not really your life. Your life is a screen, or the reality, but you refuse to concentrate on the reality the reality and instead you’re concentrating on your everyday experiences. This is a cause of suffering in your life. You identify with your everyday experiences instead of identifying with a screen. So what do you have in reality? Think about these. Very important. If you knew who you really were, would you be concerned with your problems, physical problems, mental problems, financial problems, relationship problems, any kind of problems? You’re only concerned with these things because you think they’re real. You believe they’re the reality. But if you’re explaining you’re week after week. This is not the reality. This is a passing fantasy. Experiences are here for a short time and they’re finished. And you go into no experiences. Yet you insist that you want certain things to happen in your experience. You insist that you want to live a certain kind of life. And you have a list of the things you want that you need to make you happy.

If you knew you were the absolute reality and you were the nature of happiness, but you’re always happy. This is your real nature. There’s nothing to worry about. Absolutely nothing to worry about. Nothing. You would never worry again about anything. Never. You would become spontaneous, live in the moment, forget about yesterday, and not worry about tomorrow. So there are two things you have to remember. You’re not your body. You’re not your conditioning. You know who you appear to be. Because everything is preordained. This is the first thing you should remember always. Everything is preordained. And it’s your nature’s pure awareness, pure reality. If you’re willing to remember these things when you’re awake in the morning, you will become very happy. You may ask who’s responsible for all this, for the reality, for everything being preordained. Well, in truth, there is no reality. In the absolute sense, there’s no preordination. There’s no such thing. just said in the absolute sense you don’t even exist. But you don’t believe me. You think you do exist. Does a dream exist? You believe a dream exists until you awaken. Yet before you awaken you’ll fight me and tell me it’s not a dream. You’ll say I’m alive. I’m a person. I’m flesh and blood. The world is real. I can feel it. I can touch it. I can taste it. I can smell it. I can hear it. Yet where do your senses come from? Your senses are the part of the I-thought, the mind, the ego. That’s where your senses come from. And there’s no ego, there’s no mind, there’s no I-thought, because it’s clearly there’s no senses. As you ponder these things, you will start to laughter yourself, and you’ll become raisedly happy and peaceful.

So we begin to understand that you have nothing to do with this world or your body or experience. It’s a dream. If you can really understand what I’m talking about to you, you will awaken right now. You will become liberated and measly. But as I speak to you this way, many of you are thinking about your body, you’re thinking about your affairs, you’re thinking about your experiences, and this is exactly what you shouldn’t do. Well, the more you think of yourself, the more deeper you pull yourself into ego, into mind. Think how many times you said I today. I this, I that.

I feel hungry, I feel sad, I feel upset. I feel happy, I feel depressed. I feel this and I feel that. How many times have you really just you were the I?

But I tell you, you’re not limited to your body. You’re not limited to the circumference of your body. You are all pervading absolute reality.

This is your real self, which you really are. Absolute reality. This is the real nature, not a little self which will claim that their body, a sinking organism, that’s always frightened and upset, has likes and dislikes, do not identify with this person. The only freedom you have is to turn within and not react to any condition. This is your freedom, you have this freedom to observe yourself for a condition and not to react to it at all, to observe your feelings, and then to react to your feelings or your emotions. This is where freedom comes in. But besides that, everything else is all preordained. In other words, as long as you believe that your body is real, that the world is real, then everything is preordained for you. So it’s more than being intellectual about this. It’s just something that you remember like you remember something else superficially. That’s something you really have to work on yourself. You have to go deep, deep into your feelings, into your emotional state. You have to dive deep inside, deep than you’ve ever dove before, in order to find your freedom and liberation. But if you’re superficial like most people, you’re always looking at the body and the world and thinking it’s real and talking about this and talking about that. The world and its manifestations are like bubbles in the ocean. The bubbles come, the bubbles burst, but the ocean always remains the same. There are billions of bubbles, they always burst, they come, they’re born, they die, but the ocean never changes.

So does a few. You were born, so to speak, a little baby, you grew into a teenager, and now into an adult. I’m pretty sure you turn into an old person, and you become like a little baby again, and you’ll be gone. So my question to you is, what are you really? Which are you? The baby? The teenager? The adult? The old person? We’re going to say, well, I’m middle-aged. I’m a middle-aged person. But if you were really a middle-aged person, you’d have made that way, wouldn’t you? You wouldn’t change. So you’re not a middle-aged person at all, for now you appear to be middle-aged. How long will that last? And for your old age? What I’m trying to bring to your attention is you’re none of these things. you’re absolutely nothing. You’re not identified with the body or your age or anything else. But it’s up to you. And then you see what I mean when I play this in my lecture, or talk or philosophical discussion? This is something that goes deep, deep, deep inside of you. Deep inside. It awakens you to your true reality, your true nature. You’ve gone so far in the spiritual path, and then you’ve come home, and you’re here. When you come to a teaching like this, it’s very wide if you’re not persuaded teaching.

For if you’re persuaded teaching, you’re getting confused, totally confused. For every teaching, it’s relatively different. If you find where you’re belonging, you stay there until you awaken.

But reading of books, continuously reading of books, does not do it for you. Going to various talks, various lectures, does not do it for you.

The time has to come when you give up all these things. And you’re going to make up your mind that you’re going to find reality. It’s always been with you. It’s always been you. And you have to awaken to it by letting go of everything else. In other words, as I tell you so often, you cannot add on to you. You have to subtract. You cannot be adding new teachings on to you all the time. Adding new teachings, new experiences. You have to empty the garbage pile. All of your preconceived ideas, all of your dogmas. It has to go. But if you keep reading new books, listening to new teachers all the time, You’re adding on, you’re filling yourself up with garbage, more garbage all the time, you have to empty yourself of the garbage. Don’t fill it up. This again is something you should remember all the time. Now if it were true that the self or consciousness were hidden from you someplace far away, then it would be wise to read books and look at maps how to get there and find it. It would be wise to go to teachers who have the answer when the self was hidden. But since you’re already the Self, how can you add things on to it, new teachings, new advice? Can’t you see what you’re doing now? Can’t you see the fire of your way? Why is it taking you so long to awaken? You’ve been adding when you have to subtract.

As you keep emptying, emptying, emptying, the light begins to shine brighter and brighter and brighter until finally the last layer of bitterness is removed and you become free and liberated. Having a light bulb and put layers of cloth over it so you can’t see the light any longer. Now if you want to find the light, what do you need to add new cloth to it? Can you put more cloth in it? The cloth means reading instructions on how to change the light bulb, instructions on what the light bulb does for you, how the light is good for you, going to classes about the light, reading books about the light. Can you find a light bulb that way? Of course not. But if you walk over to the light bulb and start taking a piece of cloth off it, you’re subtracting, don’t you see? You’re taking away. You’re not adding on. As you take a piece of cloth over the light bulb one day, the next day another piece, the next day another piece, the next day another piece, the light becomes brighter and brighter and brighter until finally you’ve seen the light, and so does with you. You are the light. The light is within you right now. We need to shine all’s glory and all’s joy. Do not keep us from shining any longer. Remove your ignorance. Remove your preconceived ideas and become free. Right now. No one has ponder these things for a while.

Feel free to ask any questions. I’ve got a couple of things. Sure, I’ll give you. If I understand what you’re saying, you are not real. True. I’m engaged in myself, an independent conscience. Another thing in this sense, anything in duality, in one way of looking at it, is unreal. For instance, if a man has delirium tremens and he’s seeing pink elephants, those elephants are just as real as the gray ones he saw in the zoo the previous weekend. Yes. Everything in duality is short of the goal, and also subject to karma. It happens because it’s supposed to happen, just as you’ve been saying. It’s part of the Leela. Yes. I thought of another thing. A long time ago I saw what Dr. Carl Jung said about Bhagwan Sri Ramana. He said, what we find in the life and teaching of Sri Ramana Maharshi is the purest of India with its breadth of liberating and liberating humanity is the chance of millennia. And I’ve always thought that was very beautiful. That is very beautiful. Thank you for sharing. I spoke to him about three days ago, and I explained to him, where can he possibly go? It will simply be absorbed in consciousness as it really is. I never be concerned about this. What is death? An illusion. It’s not real. It just turns you back into another incarnation. Yes and no. What happens when most of us die, then we become absorbed in consciousness, in the absolute reality.

But then what appears to happen, because we’ve not fulfilled ourselves in this life, we begin to create an image for ourselves of the world and another body, and we appear to be on another body and another image. But hold on to the truth. Keep holding on to it continuously, especially when you’re dying, so to speak, you’ll be totally absorbed in consciousness and never come back again. You’re totally free, in other words, liberating, and never return again. So it’s you who are responsible for all these things. What happens to you? It’s you who are responsible. That’s what you’re doing with your life right now. This is why I tell you so often, your life in this body appears to be very, very short. How can you be concerned with all the nonsense in this world? you know when you’re only going to be here a short time the smart person begins to find reality now he begins to search now and he leaves the world alone remember when you leave the world alone you will function anyway where the power which knows the way will put you where you belong according to your karma so you see you have nothing to worry about in either case you’re well taken care of physically, mentally and spiritually you’ll learn how to leave the world alone learn how to react to your mind I’ll know that you’re not a body or a mind it’s your consciousness the self even when you’re in your dying bed so to speak you’ll be able to smile peacefully realize that you’re not going anywhere you’re just going to be where you’ve always been and be happy but you’ll not be able to do this if you’ve been deeply engrossed in the world and worldly things or the world will put you even when you’re dying if you’re thinking of the money you left behind if you’re thinking of your girlfriends You’re going to be seeing your car, get my car, get my car, your house, your clothes.

You’re seeing all these things. And you’re going to die screaming, mad, disillusioned, worried. As soon as that happens, you have to keep continuing the process until you awaken. But it was very slow. You created a new body for yourself, a new image. And you come back to one of these worlds, not necessarily the Earth, but one of the one of the planets in the universe, where you need to be at the present time, with one kind of body or another, and you continue to journey, you continue to sojourn. And then you give up all this stuff and let’s go of it, surrender totally and completely to yourself, and become free. So Mark is okay. Yes, he did. It was a very interesting conversation with him, in the last fall. He was ready for everything. Yes. It’s interesting how sad we become about somebody leaving their body, and it should be a happy experience, a truthful experience. Look at what you’re stuck in, in the body. It gives you grief, full of desires, needs, wants, fighting for survival, scheming, planning, competing. Who needs it? Give it up. What’s the point of what? Living. Oh, yes. How do you realize you’re not living anywhere? You’re not living at all. Nobody lives. There’s no point. No. What we call living in this body or in this world. You can always be living, but not like this. Nothing ever dies. So let’s stop being so concerned about this bundle of flesh, with some bones.

And instead of when you die, the last thing you think about it will become, you have a choice if you’re free. If you’re not free, you have no choice. And then the choice is made before you die. When you’re dying, you can’t make a choice. Karma. Everything is predetermined. There is a choice. The choice is not to look at karma, but to die within yourself, and not to react to anything. That’s why you become free.

That’s the only feeling you have. But you can’t do this when you’re dying, if you’re not training yourself. In other words, if you’re the average person when you’re dying, you’ll be full of fear, uncertainty, fear of depression, just when you have no choice. But if you’ve been working on yourself Continuously, spiritually When you come down and leave the body You’ll be full of happiness Full of joy, full of peace Then you’re totally free That’s a good question If you’re practicing spiritual practices Then something within you will tell you There’s something within you that knows the way It will tell you what’s going on How the world functions Otherwise you come to a class like this And from my own experience I can share this with you because this has been my experience and I can share it with you but again I always tell you why should you believe me you really shouldn’t believe a word I say to you you should find it for yourself you should do the same as we explain in this teaching and find it for yourself whether it’s true, whether it’s not true whether it’s real, whether it’s false you have to do the find it for yourself you shouldn’t just believe what I tell you you should discover it by yourself By diving people in, and inquiring, who am I? Where did I come from? Where did I serve it myself? As you practice self-inquiry, things will open up inside of you. And you will understand, you will know, you will feel it yourself. It’s all up to you. Literally. He made the funeral arrangements, was whistling and singing, happily making the funeral arrangements.

Went to the funeral. Everybody was crying and screaming. He was just calm, looked at everybody, smiling in his face. After the funeral, his relatives came over to him and he said, you bastard. You love your children and you don’t even care about them anymore. You’re happy. You don’t even cry about them. You have to sit over them. What are you saying? How can you be like this? And he said, I’ll explain. Last night I had a dream. And in And in the dream I had eight children. I was the king of a country. I loved my children dearly. When there was a war and my eight children was a battle and they all got killed.

So my question to you is, for whom shall I grieve? The children I lost in the dream or the children I lost in this dream? Not really to you it is, but it’s not. If you are dreaming that we’re sitting here like we are now, and we’re talking this way in the dream. He was telling me the same thing that you just said in the dream. You say, Robert, this dream is more real than the other dream. Then you wake up and there you are. See, we think that this dream is longer because we’re here right now talking about it. When you’re dreaming, sometimes you dream you’re a little boy. You grow up to be a man, an old man, and years pass, 70, 80 years pass. And in that dream, 70 or 80 years actually pass in the dream. But you wake up and the dream lasts a couple of seconds.

But while you were dreaming, it lasted 70 or 80 years. So it is with this dream. It seems to last long, but when you wake up, you’ll see it never was at all. There was no dream. It was real. It never existed. This is why I keep telling you to wake up continuously. Wake up, wake up, wake up. Stop sleeping. But most of you refuse to wake up. When you walk out of this door tonight, You’re going to revert to your problems, aren’t you? You’re going to revert to your life, what you’re going to eat for dinner, what you’re going to have for breakfast, the clothes you’re going to wear tomorrow, who loves you, who hates you, your bills, all kinds of stuff will come to you. You’re living a mortal dream, and you’ll continue until you give it up. So giving it up is up to you. It’s your choice. For the Jnani who has realized the identity of his inner being with the infinite Brahman, There is no rebirth, no migration, and no liberation. He is beyond all this. He is firmly established in his own absolute existence, knowledge, bliss, true nature. The further existence of his body and the world appears to the Jnani as an illusion which he cannot remove, but which no longer deceives him. After the death of this body, as in life, he remains where and what he eternally is, the first principle of all beings and things, formless, nameless, unsoiled, timeless, dimensionless, and utterly free.

Untouched by objects, experience, or thought. Death cannot touch him. Cravings cannot torture him. Sins do not stain him. He is free from all desire and suffering. He sees the infinite self in all, and all in the infinite self, which is his being. The Jnani confesses his experience thus. I am infinite, imperishable, self-luminous, self-existent. I am without beginning or end. I am worthless, deathless, without change or decay. I permeate and interpenetrate all things. In all the myriad universes of thought and creation, I alone. Thank you, Annie. Announcements? Anyone brought back the transcripts I had? Thank you so much. Good. Great. Thank you. And then, of course, I will mention the book here, that these are the 1990 talks that Robert has given. I mentioned this for the new people here. And the copy is on the table, and you can see Andy, if you wish to purchase it. These are beautiful houses, but they’re all beautiful. Oh, and I think if we do have a guest book in the back there, new people, would you please put your name and address down on the book? We have a Bandara the first Saturday in June, 5th or 6th, I don’t know what it is, at Bart’s house. see him for directions and if plan with me what you want to bring we always need could use a hot item or another hot food but if you want to sing or dance or yes of course that remains unsaid that’s it finish talking remember to bow to yourself to pray to yourself to talk to yourself. You’re really crazy. You really go crazy now. All is well. Peace. Now we have to leave.