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Good evening. It is wonderful to be with you once again on this beautiful night. All is well. There are no mistakes. Everything is in its right place, unfolding out of its head. Never be fearful by a condition that comes to you. All conditions are for your growth, for your spiritual maturity. And there is no such thing as an evil condition or a negative condition. It is only your perception when you see it. In reality, all is well, exceedingly well.

As you unfold into your own reality, you will begin to feel that everything is exceedingly well. You never were any mistakes. You are in your right place right now, going through the experiences that you need,

For your fulfillment and attainment. Right now, you are free and liberated. Right this moment, you are the absolute reality. By accepting this in your heart, it becomes so. By listening to me intellectually, you will remain the same as you are.

Do not hear me intellectually. Hear me in your heart, which means there are no thoughts, no evaluations, no assessments. There are two questions that most people usually ask me, and on and on again,

And we will discuss them this evening. The first question I’m usually asked is this. Robert, if consciousness is all there is, and consciousness is absolute reality,

Pure awareness, all-pervading omnipresence, Where does evil come from? If the world is a projection of consciousness, like begets like, how can there be disease, lack, limitation, man to humanity to man? Where does this come from? How does it appear? This is a valid question, a more than question. The second question I’m usually asked is this. Is Seth Frank for beginners only, for people who are just starting out in the spiritual past? Who really has to come to Seth Frank? What does all about. That again is a relevant question. We shall discuss these questions right now. The first question. If consciousness is all there is, it’s all pervading, it’s anywhere present. In other words, there’s no place where consciousness is not. What we call consciousness is the essence of reality. It is the substratum of all existence. It is the all in all and the world and the universe is the manifestation of consciousness. Therefore, why can it be sickness, lack, limitation, man to man to the man, these deathly conditions that seem to exist. How did they get here? Where did they come from? Are there two powers? Not really. There’s only the one. When consciousness looks at itself, it only sees itself, doesn’t see the swirls we do. It sees itself as bliss. Somehow when a human being appears on this earth, its perception is completely different. Before consciousness sees everything in the here and now, what we call good and bad is not felt or seen by consciousness at all.

What we call good and bad, duality, is oneness in consciousness, one power, one presence, one consciousness. When we see it, we see it in time and space. In consciousness it couldn’t possibly be any time in space. We know where it’s for time and space to be. consciousness pervades the entire universe, it is the entire universe. There’s no time and space in it. There’s no room for time and space. There’s just the one consciousness. When we appear, we work in duality, we live in duality. So it appears as if there are two powers, good and bad, right and wrong, up and down. This is called duality. So if What we call evil, what we call bad and wrong, is really a process. It’s not really bad or wrong, or good or anything. It’s a process in time and space. In other words, to us, it’s spread out. It has to be good to have bad, and it has to be bad to have good. Everyone’s idea is impossible in a phenomenal world. It’s really impossible. As long as we live in a phenomenal world, we’ll always be good and bad, right and wrong, up and down. sickness and health, lack, limitation, plenty, the two sides of the same coin. But in confidence, they both come together and become one, which is to split apart and become two. What I’m trying to say, there really isn’t any bad, nothing is ever wrong. In order for a human being to fulfill its higher potential, it would appear that they have to go through a lot of suffering.

And then you can see why most of the sages really suffer and went through all kinds of hell. Well, from the pit, the more suffering you go through, the higher you become spiritually. Strange but true. What we call suffering is a misnomer. It really isn’t suffering. Who suffers? No one’s really suffering. You just feel that it’s wrong. You feel something’s wrong someplace because it’s not going the way that you think it should be. For instance, when this body begins to rot from disease, this old and old, old age comes in. It’s considered bad to most of you. It’s not bad at all. and so you can have eternal life. To have eternal life, the so-called physical form has to disappear. An example I always give you, if you plant a seed in the ground, and if you were the site of an atom, when the seed begins to germinate, it would be like a nuclear explosion to you, being the site of an atom. Everything would go to bits, the end of the universe, the end of the world. And then the rose comes out. The rose comes out of the big explosion when the seed germinates. This is the truth of everything in your life. This is the way of the world. The way of the phenomenon. Ponder this deeply. You can’t have one without the other. And a person who hurts a lot of money, that seems to be good. No problems come with the money.

Kidnappers try to kidnap you, hold you for ransom. The universe comes after you. You’ve got a chair. You also come knocking against your door. There’s all your bodyguards. You worry about your children going to school, being kidnapped, so forth and so on. In other words, riches bring their own problems. When they bite out of disease, cancer, what have you. This appears to be bad. But is it really bad? Who said he’s supposed to live forever in his body? Which is saying, I don’t mind dying, I don’t want to suffer while I’m dying. Who really suffers? The ego, not you. It’s virtually impossible for you to suffer. But the ego appears to suffer. The ego has the problems, that’s you. You’re totally free and liberated. Because you’re living in time and space. So everything is stretched out. Therefore you become totally liberated. Everything has to go. Everything has to be constant change, complete change inside of you. And the change may cause some friction when you come into your own. Consequently, it’s we who see bad.

We who see good. If you were thinking in terms of the absolute reality, there would be no good or bad at all. It wouldn’t exist. It would just be bliss. This is why a person on the path of the Veda refuses to acknowledge bad or good and not pay too much attention to the world and its manifestations. A person on this path usually sees everything as an expression of consciousness and all is well. There are no mistakes. There’s nothing to accept, nothing to reject. I’m not saying to become passive and do nothing. and just accept your faith I am saying to you turn within and know deep within your heart and contact your reality and you’ll be totally free from the brain and don’t keep your mind in the ways of the world and don’t keep thinking about the world and there’s good and there’s bad times and don’t waste your time wishing for a million dollars or live this way or that way or be the healthiest person on earth there’s another reason why you’re here you’re here to find yourself yet you never lost yourself or you can’t find yourself you never was you’re here to recognize this to understand these great truths but you’re not here to achieve great happiness or great sorrow these things are only for a time and they run out and turn into something else observe yourself you’re not the same person who was 20 years ago or 30 years ago or 10 years ago yet your eye is the same the same eye persists when you were young and when you’re old,

The same eye persists. The eye never changes. Once you’re able to say I was young, I was a little girl, a little boy, then you say I was a teenager,

Then you say now I am a man or a woman, but notice that the body changes, the eye never changes. The eye always remains the same.

You have to question yourself, therefore, who is this eye? Where did it come from? Who is the eye that never changes? Where does the eye come from who is always the same? who’s the observer of my sleeping stage my dreaming stage my working stage the universe is always valid always around, don’t leave you when you say I slept well I dreamt I’m awake I was a child, I’m an adult the universe has always been the same same eye, always the same eye find out who the eye is where did the eye come from who invented who gave it birth where does this eye come from Find out. If you discover your eye, you’ll be totally free. Look at those things you have to work on. Don’t spend your time using your thoughts, your thinking, your mind, your power for this world, worldly things. All worldly things have to change. They’re never the same. And by allowing yourself to think on worldly things, you’re missing the whole point of your birth, of being a human form. Every day you should be aware of I.

You should remember to remember. That I am this and I am that. This and that changes, but the I never changes. So you inquire, where did the I come from? Who am I?

Where is this thing called I? As you keep doing this day of today, you’ll notice you become more peaceful. The anger drops away from you.

The greed, the reactive ability that you used to have disappears. You’re no longer worried or troubled. no matter what happens you’re no longer worried or troubled whatever happens in this world or what happens in your life no longer gives you any problems you just observe it, you watch it follow it to the heart let it go takes care of itself and you become happy no longer become a self if somebody tells you something that you don’t like to hear no longer suspicious or doubtful about things when you begin to feel everything in this right place everything is the way it belongs no mistakes, everything is fine just the way it is you leave people alone, you leave conditions alone you leave things alone this takes care of the first question then the second question is that thing only for beginners or for everybody or for the Buddhist people to answer that question you have to ask yourself, what is that thing really that thing is being in the light seeing the light and that thing is only for certain people for beginners. It would be like the sun, shining on certain people and get a nice suntan. And they say, I don’t need any more sun. Wherever you go, there’s a sun. You can’t get away from the sun. You walk outside, you’ll see the sun, it’ll be shining on you no matter how much sun you’ve got. No matter how much sun you’ve got, you can’t escape from the sun. It’s always there, it’s always shining on you. And so does the satsang. Satsang is for everyone, except when you become self-realized. At that time, there’s nothing you have to do. But until that time comes, it says thanks for everyone. We in the West are always in a hurry. In a hurry to become enlightened, in a hurry to become self-realized. We in the West want to get on with our life. We think this way, I want to become self-realized so I can get on with my life. I have many other things to do. I want to get self-realized so I can get out of the way, continue my work, get a promotion in my office. That’s what we think. But it’s not like that. It’s not like that at all. Many people have to go through many inclinations, so to speak, many, many inclinations, many lifetimes, being here tonight, you’ve earned it, not because of me necessarily, but you’ve earned your right to come to Settang, to many lifetimes, after how many people can be interested in something like this, most people are too busy to get into something like this, too busy creating problems for people, doing unsensical things, there have been people in ashrams who have I’ve come very far in this past and been in the ashram for 25-30 years, I think Raman Ashram.

When I was there, people who have been living there for 25-30-40 years, they know every way to Ramanasramam is Gantzata, whatever he says they can say before him, to be aware of his answers to every question. They’ve heard thousands of times, you know, these beings who are at the stage, we no longer walk up and worry about being self-realized, being enlightened, because I knew people want to be enlightened. I want moksha, liberation. A spiritual being is not interested in these things at all. A truly spiritual person just does the work. You’re not thinking about realization, thinking about moksha, thinking about being liberated. You’re not considering these things.

You’re not interested in these things at all. Therefore, you’re not thinking about getting liberated at all. Forget about it. Just be yourself. Be the person you’re meant to be. loving, kind, peaceful. Liberation will come in its own time. Remember, everything is predestined. Everything. Therefore, what concern yourself with liberation? Everything is predestined. In the meantime, you’ll be liberated. You and Jones will become free from anger, free from temper tantrums, free from trying to twist the world and make it go your way, free from attachments. It’s just ain’t something like a brotherhood, it’s a sisterhood where we come together, those are like minds, when we have meetings like this, when we enjoy each other’s company.

As many of you have told me, as the weeks and months and years go by, you’re becoming more peaceful. The thing that you desired years ago, I’ve kind of lift you, you no longer desire them at all. Worry or fret, when it happens to you, you’re becoming freer and freer as the years go by, as the months go by, as the weeks go by. of course in reality you’re already free but this reality will reveal itself to you in due time in some inimitable way don’t worry about this, don’t concern yourself about this be peaceful be happy let’s go deep within right now close your eyes focus your attention on your right side of your heart the heart center on the right side of your chest freely feel the breathing on the right side of your chest feel your breath respiration image of light a sphere of round light a sphere of beautiful light bright and shining light in your heart it feels so warm and cold at the same time the light in your heart center any sphere of white brilliant light feel it expanding in your mind see yourself immersed in this light just the way you’re sitting right now feel yourself sitting in a sphere of round, a round sphere, white brilliant light. It feels so wonderful. And again, everyone in this room is immersed in a beautiful white sphere of light, a white sphere, a brilliant light, a sphere of white brilliant light. In your mind, see all of us in this room, and start saying, immersed in this light. It’s still growing, the light is expanding, expanding very fast now. The whole world is now immersed in this light. Everything, all the trees, nothing is excluded. Everything is immersed in this sphere of white brilliant light. The light growing, expanding again, expanding, until our moon and the sun are also in this light. See the moon and sun like two bubbles, floating in the light, expanding again. This sphere of white brilliant light is expanding, expanding, until the entire The entire galaxy is immersed in a stray of white light, and your mind is actually billions of bubbles representing planets, satellites, suns, flowing in this brilliant white light, still expanding.

And then the entire universe is in this light, nothing is left out, it’s all happening within you. Feel it. You are the light, and your mind has created the entire universe out of itself,

Filled the entire universe in your mind. As you inhale, everything is sucked in, the universe dissolves. As you exhale, all the galaxies are back again, the stars, the planets.

You have given them life. It is you who have given them life. Because of you they live. Because of your existence is here. You are the one. all of your moods, feelings, ideologies are all from your mind. You’re the creators of all the universe. It’s all out of your mind. And you become aware of this. You become totally free, happy. Nothing can ever hurt you again. You’ve created everything, yourself. All the games that people are playing. All the creation out of your mind all come from you. Believe that out of yourself. It’s your Leela, your game, your universe. You feel wonderful because of this. You are now totally free, totally liberated and happy. You are good friends. Watching the thoughts without watching, I wonder if that could be made clear. Is it in a sense similar to, I have, if I look at you, I can see things happening here without looking. I can’t see clearly, I can’t see how many fingers, but I can see motion. I’m walking straight. Is that something you watch without watching him? Who is watching? Who you find out? You cannot see yourself. You’re like a mirror. A mirror can never see itself. So when you’re watching, you’re seeing your reflection. That’s what you’re seeing with your reflection. When you look, you see yourself. So when you’re If you’re watching anything, you’re just seeing yourself, that’s what you’re doing, you’re seeing your reflection. You’re going to watch. If you don’t like what you see, change your reflection.

By going deeper within yourself, becoming calm and peaceful, then when you see the world, you’ll see a different reflection. But you are the world, you are the universe. It’s all coming out of you. Wherever you look, you see yourself. And you can’t escape from yourself. That’s what that saying means, that you can’t escape from yourself, because you’re always seeing yourself wherever you go. You still don’t know that I am God. You’ve been stopped trying to see things or watch things or anything. You just go within yourself. And I am. Find where the I am comes from. Who is this I am? And then you’ll know what God is. All the answers are within you. Would you like to read the Jnani? 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 his 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. Vianney confesses his experience thus. I am infinite, imperishable, self-luminous, self-existent. I am without beginning or end. I am birthless, deathless, without change or decay. I permeate and interpenetrate all things in all the myriad universes of thought and creation. I alone am.