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Nothing. Yet nothing is very important. If I explain nothing to you correctly, you’ll go unhappy, enlightened, peaceful. If I just speak a bunch of words, it will be meaningless to you. So what do you want to hear? Nothing or words? I guess you want to hear nothing because you said nothing. Take a look at your body. Take a good look at your body. What do you see? A bunch of running flesh. That’s what your body really is. a bunch of resting flesh. I know you don’t like to hear me say that, but it’s true. We’re all dying slowly but surely. We’re running away. Happily. I don’t mean to be a prophet of doom. The Buddha awakens to the same thing. He awakens to the fact that we’re not going to be here very long. We’re born to die. And that’s the end of it. What is it? Most of a little wisdom, we get to think about these things, we get to punish these things. What am I really? We say to our souls. Am I this bunch of dying flesh that’s here today and gone tomorrow? Who am I? What am I really? And so the journey begins. As soon as we hear about enlightenment, self-realization, happiness, eternal happiness, peace, We begin to work towards those things.

And we find ourselves in a group like this. Searching, looking, seeking. You know, people call me every day and tell me, Robert, I’ve been practicing for two weeks and I’ve not enlightened yet.

I’ve been practicing for two years and I’ve not realized yet. When will it happen? When will I awaken in a dream called the world?

Usually only Westerns ask questions like this. We go out to everything on the weekends. We go out to the weekend cinema. and become a self-realizer in the cinema. And it’s taken as thousands of incarnations to be here, where we are right now. It’s that thing. But most of us don’t know this. We don’t realize this. We think we discover this by accident. On the contrary. This is why many times I say stupid things, insult you a little, so you won’t come back. Only those who are really prepared for this will be back, no matter what happens. But the average person wants something given to them that they can take home and use in their life to become more prosperous, buy more houses, businesses, and want a magic potion to make us well if we’re sick, and give us companionship.

And these are all the wrong reasons. The first thing you must understand is your experiences in the life have nothing to do with itself, with realization, with reality. An experience with the body goes through has absolutely nothing to do with absolute reality. Absolute reality is our real nature, the self, consciousness. It has absolutely nothing to do with the body. So those of you who are coming here to improve their health, their worlds, meet new people, will be disappointed. This is not what it’s all about. Due to the fact that you don’t even exist as you appear. This is all in appearance like in the cinema. When you see a movie on the screen, it looks so real, doesn’t it? You forget a little about the screen, look at the action taking place on the screen, it keeps changing, changing, changing, constantly, consistently, and you identify with that. You hit the reality of the picture as a screen, not the picture. Try showing the picture without the screen and see what you get, nothing. A blur, and so does results. we become so engrossed with the reality that we believe that the body is real, our experiences are real, we become disillusioned, we become sad, we become mixed up, we get involved in conditions, situations, and we try to rectify this condition, situation, which is the wrong move to make. If we will only turn within and inquire to whom these conditions come, we’ll experience of sickness, health, abundance, lack, companionship, loneliness. Who experiences these dualities?

Who go through all these things? You will soon realize that you don’t. Not you. You do not. But the I does. The I goes through all these experiences, but not you. First of all, you have to search for the I. You have to search for the source of the I. How How did I originate, you ask yourself.

Where did I come from? Whenever you speak to yourself, you refer to yourself as I. Are we really I? Is this I really you?

Where is this I? Where did it come from? How did it originate? Where is it sourced? To watch, person inquires about these things. Most of us want to go through like having fun, so to speak. We think we’re having fun.

We go here, we fly there. We play games, we go see movies, we watch television, we hear music, and we get deeply involved in these things. When these so-called toys are taken from us, some of us become violently upset, depressed. When we get involved in this kind of life, it seems like we’re stuck in something we can get out of. There is a way to freedom. Most of us are not using methods of the way to freedom. If you ask yourself, what is the most important thing in my life right now?

Ask yourself this question, be honest with yourself. What is most important in your life right at this moment, right now? Don’t fool yourself, be truthful.

It is your children, your boyfriend, your girlfriend, your husband, your wife, your house, your car, your job. I feel like these things are the most important thing in your life. It’s the nearest bound. You become bound by the very conditioning that you put yourself into. The idea is to become totally free from bondage to a person purchasing. Perfectly totally free. This doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t have any friends, you shouldn’t own property or houses or things. It has nothing to do with that. It means that you shouldn’t react to these things. For instance, if you have a beautiful home and it burns down, you let it burn down. No regrets, if you get married, your husband or your wife leave you, no regrets, and this is true of all situations in this life, whatever they may be. You become what you identify with, if you identify with this world you’re going to become worldly, very worldly, and you will suffer accordingly. It’s unfortunate that most of us learn through suffering. We have to suffer enough before we ask the question, who am I, what is this all about, What am I going through?

What’s the purpose of my life? It is the extremely wise people that do not do this. We are automatically attracted to a set sign, to a self.

We are able to go deep with them without trying. These people have learned it previously in a different life. And they are experiencing what they are supposed to experience.

This is why I tell you so often, do not be judgmental. Leave the world alone. Leave people alone. Do not judge anyone or anything. Look for yourself. As you begin to think this way, you’ll be attracted to a set sign, a stage. It will push you forward and you’ll become free sooner or later. Another aspect of realization is to become thankful for what you are and where you are. Become absolutely thankful for your luck in life. No matter what it is, you really must develop an attitude of gratitude. You think you’ve got troubles, you’ve got problems.

It can be worse. Think of something that’s disturbing you, that’s bothering you. That you’ve become depressed over. It makes you cry, it makes you upset.

It can be worse. You should never compare yourself with anyone. You are unique in your own way. What you’re going through is very important. Let’s put it down.

In other words, let’s not believe that you don’t need to go through this experience. Let’s not wonder why this experience came upon you. never say well I do you deserve this you deserve it you don’t have it enjoy it enjoy where you are enjoy what you’re going to if you learn to do this you will pass through with flying colors and be free of it if you complain and you nag and feel hurt and depressed and become self-pityful you’ll never get rid of this condition and go through it again and again and again it’s the only way to remove a condition that you don’t like of your life. Just by involving yourself totally in it, and peace and joy, and being thankful for it. This sounds awfully strange to some of you. I mean, you should be thankful for my cancer. I should be thankful for the leprosy I got. I should be thankful that I’m a homeless person. Yes, you should. It’s amazing what gratitude can do to you. In other words, when you’re thankful for your life, it means not expending any energy towards it. You’re not afraid of it any longer. It can’t frighten you. You don’t care. If you don’t care and you’re not frightened by it any longer, you can’t stay around. That’s a go. And you’ll evolve to a higher degree of spirituality in this world. But I’m letting go of all this stuff you’ve been fighting with, experiencing, looking for ways to get rid of. I’m not telling you this stuff, looking for ways to get rid of it. To enjoy it. To laugh at it. Enjoying Think of your conditioning. Think of a condition that you said was terrible after now.

So much of your spine. So much of your hate. Something you’ve been carrying around all these years. Crying out to God. Why did this happen to me? And that will change your attitude immediately. Say thank you for this condition. I love it. Give me more of it. Really. I mean it. This means you reconcile yourself with it. When you have reconciled yourself with a negative condition, whatever it may be, I can’t hear you any longer, I can’t.

It is virtually impossible to be hurt by a condition that you reconciled yourself with. When you do this thing, you can realize and remember who you are and come easy.

For as you very well know, when certain conditions confront you, you have no time to think of yourself in reality. When you get up in the morning, you do not think where did the eye come from, where is the sort of the eye, like you should. it’s going to be problems in his life your sickness your lack of work whatever and then he reconciled and said I mean you’re not going to think about it any longer you’re not going to ponder it you’re not going to think about it at all instead you’re going to ponder it as a self reality, the source of your life when you get up in the morning you ask yourself who’s getting up I am who am I where’s the source of I you’ll keep your mind empty we’re not allowed sources to come into the mind as sources come into the mind they’ll suffer measly through various methods by just thinking of emptiness by inquiring to when these sources come and we’ll find ourselves becoming happier and happier and happier and more peaceful we’ll realize a tremendous joy stop worrying about yourself stop treating the body as if it’s going to live forever take minimum care of your body and that’s all what’s the sense of going to the spa and pumping iron And in the end, you’ll be two weeks to pick up anything. If you’re in a burning building and you’re supposed to admire the pictures on the wall, you get out of the building as fast as possible.

So as you grow older and older, you keep playing the same old games, keep wanting the same old wants, doing the same old things you’ve done all your life. It’s like watching a burning building and you’re watching a picture and you burn up with a building. You’re ignoring the pictures on the wall, the building’s on fire. Instead of getting out as fast as you can, you wash the picture on the wall, and you burn up with a bullet. So it is with a worldly person. A worldly person who chases one experience after the other. I think it’s going to last forever. Spend your time finding yourself. Spend the remaining years you’ve got left in your body, so to speak. Trying to understand where you came from, where you are, what you are doing now. If you do this, you will find the sage. Riyani. Most of us take over your life. That’s an interesting subject. I heard you discuss this with devotees as well, discuss it with you anyway. It’s no accident when you find a sage. You’ve been with a sage before in many lifetimes. And then you’re back again. So the identity of a devoted relationship. This devoted finds a sage. They’ve been prepared for this for many lifetimes when they experience this. They surrender totally to the sage. And the sage becomes totally responsible for their lives. This can happen when you surrender to the sage totally. The sage always knows who you are, always remembers you, and begins to find little miracles happening in your life through the grace of the sage.

There is no separation between the sage and the devotee. A disciple is something else. A disciple just comes to such saying, and listens, and lives in two worlds. The material world and the spiritual world. When the first one lives in the spiritual world, Then there are the Seekers.

We don’t live in any world, but we don’t go around Seeking and Seeking and live in every world we find daily. We go from teacher to teacher, class to class, always find new teachers.

We become totally confused, mixed up. Anyway, we’re all very special. We’re all absolute reality, pure awareness, as we really are. I see this in you, I know this for you. I know it for yourself. become totally aware of another body, another experience you’ve been through, another mind, another phenomena of the sorts, which you have the imperishable self, all-pervading consciousness, the absolute reality of what you really are, sat-chit-ananda. Brahman, this is the way I see you, this is the way you are. All is well and everything is unfolding out of shape. Last question, yeah? We are from the soul, the purpose of being in this body form. When you realize you’re from the source, and you awaken to that fact, when you awaken to that fact you’ll know, there never was a plan that you had a body. You have no body. It’s like you’re hypnotized. It’s a hallucination. There’s no body. You see that now from where you’re coming from. What is the object of being in this body? There is no object because there’s no body. So when you wake up from the source, you see that there is only a source. In other words, there can’t be a source in the body. There is only one. And that is the source. So we can see that the object of being in this body is to realise there is no body. In other words, a body. So what’s the question?

Is that sort of clear? When you go to sleep at night, and you’re in deep sleep with your own body, where is your body then? it’s gone, disappearing. So when you wake up you say, I got a body, I am your body. When you dream, your body doesn’t dream, but when you dream there are many bodies. Even when you’re waking they’re all gone, and so is with this life. In this dream there appears to be many bodies. When you wake up in this life there’s no body at all, there will be no bodies. You’ll only be the one self, and you are that. You can read it down there. Because one wants to simply devote a realization, is thinking that we have to live in the world and make money, is that an illusion? It’s a whole thing an illusion, but if you have to make money, then make money. Whatever is supposed to happen will happen. The whole world is an illusion. The whole universe is an illusion, like a dream. When you wake up from a dream, it disappears, there’s a puddle post, and then all that. So there’s another bubble that you’re living in now. Who wants to make the money? The body. If we feel that the body doesn’t exist, we’ll make money. We know what to want to make money, to get it. We’ll be taken care of it properly. There’s a mysterious power that takes care of the whole universe.

It makes the oranges grow in orange trees. The grapefruit is growing grapefruit trees. The orange tree doesn’t have to say the wonderful morning to grow oranges. It’s very nature for just oranges. It’s all an illusion, so you have come here for a specific purpose, and it appears to be that way, and have been taken care of in the right way. Your job is to turn with them, to the source of all creation. Identify with the source and become fully free. Everything else in the world is to take care of itself, and everything is to worry about. For a Jnani who has realized the identity of his inner being with the infinite Brahman, There is no rebirth, no migration, not even liberation, for he is already liberated. He is firmly established in an experience of the absolute existence, knowledge, bliss, the sat-chit-ananda Atman. The continued existence of the world and of his own body appears to Dhyani only as an illusion. The appearance which he cannot remove but which cannot further deceive him till the time when after the decease of the body he wanders not forth but remains where he is and what he is and eternally was. The first principle of all beings and things, the original, eternal, pure, free Brahman. While living and even when the body falls dead, the Jnani rests in his own essential nature, his own Svarupa, that is all full, all pure, timeless consciousness and bliss. The following assertions, made by a Jnani, constitute his own deepest convictions and experience.

I am infinite, imperishable, self-luminous, self-existent. I am beginningless, endless, decayless, birthless, deathless. Never was I born. I am ever free, perfect, independent I alone am I pervade the entire universe I am all permeating and interpenetrating I am supreme peace and freedom, absolute a Jnani lives forever He has attained life everlasting Cravings torture him not Sins stain him not Birth and death touch him not He is free from all cravings and longings He ever rests in his own sat-chit-ananda Svarupa