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Good afternoon. I welcome you with all my heart. It is wonderful to be with you again. I love each one of you unéquivocally, unconditionally, just the way you are. Many of you have come here to listen to a talk. You’ve come for the wrong reason. Many of you are used to words. You want to hear words. I don’t know if words are going to change your life. But some of you have come here to listen to me sit in the fountains, and this is the real reason to come here. Always remember I do not give lectures or talks, just a satsang. In the lecture hall or church or philosophy, a satsang is usually nothing said. But here in the West, we want to hear talks. We want to hear a lot of words. We take notes. We make tapes. We write books. And if that’s going to enlighten us, you always forget that you are very enlightened. You always forget this, don’t you? You always tend to forget that you are self-realized already, that you are Brahman right now, this minute. Not when you think about it. When you think about it, you spoil it. If you think to yourself, I am Brahman, you spoil it. Of course, you’re not living in a moment, in a second, when you are Brahman. For when you say, I am Brahman, the past and the future comes into it in those three words. Even when you say I am, the past and the future creeps in.

Even when you say I, the past and the future creeps in. So you say nothing, just be, just be. Be what? Be nothing. If you just are, all is well. From that split second, all of life’s existences come to you. Even that you are the output of life, On the mind comes all of life.

Nothing exists but you. You recognize this in the moment, in the minute, in the second, without thought, without words, without explanations. You must learn to live in the moment,

Not in the past or the future. For in the moment, all is well. In this moment, there are no mistakes. Nothing is wrong. You’re happy in this moment.

If you say, no, I’m not, I’m not happy. only because you’re thinking of the past and the future. Think about that. That’s the only reason you would say you’re not happy. Anyone who’s not happy is living in the past and the future.

It’s virtually impossible to be unhappy if you’re living in the now and present moment. Feel this. Now is the appointed time. Now you are free. Now you are Krishna, Vishnu, all the deities. You are that now. Of course, if you think about it, you say, no, I’m not. I can’t be a god. I’m not a god. I’m a human being. Who tells you this? Your mind, of course. Your mind says it’s impossible for you to achieve. It’s difficult for you to become self-realized.

That you’re a mortal being going through experiences. Only because you think you feel this. Believe me, if you stop thinking for a moment of being bliss, the moment is always bliss. Not next week, next year, yesterday, but in this moment. This moment has no memory bank. Remember anything. In the moment everything is wiped out. Everything, nothing. All of the saints, all of the saints, all of the saints, all of the gods are all within yourself in this moment. To all you. To all the universe of you. Nothing is exempt.

You are without every second, every moment. Therefore, what is there to worry about? What is there to fret over? What is there to think about?

Nothing. Feel the freedom of nothing. Nothing to attain. Nothing to become. Nothing to feel guilty about. Always remember that you are not a doer.

The mistakes you made in the past have no hold on you unless you think about them and believe them. As human beings, everybody makes mistakes.

As human beings, you have a lot to feel sorry for yourself. And even being worried about the future. What’s going to happen tomorrow, next week? We’ll have enough money. We’ll have enough people in my life. We’ll make enough friends. We’ll get married. We’ll get divorced. Always worrying about the future. When the self which you are is very fulfilled, you are very fulfilled right now. There’s nothing else you need. There’s nothing else you have to do. There’s nothing else you have to go. Feel this. Feel it inside. When do you have to go? What do you have to do? Nothing. When you know this, you go about your work, whatever you’re doing. Whistling, happy. I care in the world. You never think I’ll be happier here, I’ll be happier there. If I go to New York, I’ll feel happier. If I go to San Francisco, I’ll meet better people. We’re here to find the right teacher. We’re here to find the right book. The right teacher, the right books, the right experiences within yourself right now. You are that. You’ve only been that. No one can do anything for you. No one. Sometimes it appears that they can, but they really can’t.

For you are the very God that you’ve been worshipping all over your life, the very God that you’ve been praying to, crying to. You are that, yourself.

Feel this. Never say to yourself, I am God. It’s a mistake. You’d rather be as God, but be as yourself. It’s a self and God’s unanimous. What we call God is the absolute reality, the pure awareness of what we call God.

Think back all these years you’ve been praying through a deity, in worshiping a God. It’s like going to kindergarten. Some of us never get promoted. We stay in kindergarten all of our lives. And we remain the same. Because we’re afraid to step forward.

We’re afraid to become totally empty of all of our convictions, our dogmas, our preconceived ideas, our concepts. We’re afraid to drop them, to let go of them.

Something may happen. But you have to remember you live in a universe of love. Universal is pure love. You hear bells in your mind, and you hear bells of hallucination. Just like you believe you’re a body or a mind. It’s a hallucination. You’ve never been a body nor a mind. It means you appear to be a body. You appear to be a mind. Whole experience is this. Two years to come. Find out. You don’t be afraid to find out. You don’t be afraid to investigate. Some people believe they find out too much, God will punish them.

But where does God love? Who does it punish them? Who does God punish them? No one sin for all, you’re absolutely free from everything.

You have no needs, no desires, no wants of any kind, no attachments. You are free. Feel free. How does it feel to feel free?

Feeling free means the mind doesn’t bombard you with its thoughts, no paying attention to the mind. I don’t have any control over you. This is being free.

I’m going to transcend the mind by being still. Just being still. And the mind will go away. Recognize you’re sitting still. You’re living in the moment.

No mind’s going to interfere. There’s no past or future to worry about. You are free right now. Enjoy your freedom. Enjoy it. If you’re not a person, enjoy your freedom.

What are you thinking about? What is it possible for you to think about? Drop your thoughts. Stop thinking. You have come here to sit in silence, and let’s just think, thoughts are not your friend. They always lead you astray. When you have good thoughts or bad thoughts, it makes a difference. Some of you still believe you want to change bad thoughts for good thoughts. They’ll make you happy. It’s impossible. It can never make you happy. Changing thoughts. So good thoughts and bad thoughts are two sides of the same coin. They both lead you astray. If you have no thoughts, then insanity comes into the picture. Bliss, allowing the sources of fear are feeling a great peace, great bliss, joy and happiness. See, your real nature is bliss, so you have to feel blissful, but you’ve allowed your source of ignorance to overtake you, recover you, and then you think you’re a person, and you try to exchange bats for good, things that will just make you happy, but it doesn’t work that way. You don’t forget that there’s a whole ball of wax. You have to empty yourself out of all thoughts, good thoughts, bad thoughts, any kind of thoughts, and be silent and quiet and peaceful. This will take care of every single four of you. Nothing else you have to do. When you are free of all thoughts, you will realize that the whole universe is in yourself. Therefore, there’s no one to help in this world, because you are this world.

Yet you help people just without knowing it, by being yourself. So if you want to be of service to humanity, become the Self. If you want to help others, become liberated. By very, very present, by very nature, people will be helped. Until then, work on yourself continuously, sit in the silence, for the world to get to you, when they tell you things that make you happy or unhappy. I have no opinions for or against. Any questions? Any jokes? Anything? Is the so-called human being first? Fear or anger? Since they’re both in arms, they’re both in the spirit at the same time. Anger comes because of fear. The first thing that happens is you become angry. Therefore, the fear disappears, the anger disappears, the anger disappears, the fear disappears. It’s about false impressions to begin with. Therefore, when one goes, the other one goes.

I should write your guitar. You should know it by heart now. It’s enough to look in the book. Let’s break out in a song now.