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Good afternoon. Happy Father’s Day. We give thanks to the One Divine Supreme Father, Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi, who is the Holy Father of the whole universe, all-pervading. Imagine, if you will, that you’re on a sinking ship. The ship is sinking pretty fast. And instead of trying to get off the ship, you’re running around examining all the rooms. you go into the kitchen and admire all the customary and the pots and pans you see what a beautiful kitchen this is and people are yelling at you get off the ship it’s sinking and you say I’m coming soon I’ll be there but then you admire the gymnasium on the ship look at all the exercise equipment the weights and people are yelling at you get off the ship you say I’m coming you admire the other bedrooms on the ship go from room to room admiring the ship finally the ship sinks and you’re done for it you’re finished so it is with our lives our ship is sinking and we’re playing around we’re looking for enjoyments pleasures places to go people to see things to see our ship is sinking all the time and we’ll take no heed to the message churn within get off the ship before it sinks the ship is samsara it is always sinking we sink with it all the time we refuse to acknowledge the truth that the ship is sinking instead we wish to play have good times around the world all the time our ship is sinking we don’t know it people tell us once in a while we find a teacher they’ll tell us the ship is sinking we say that’s okay later I’ll do it later or we’ll sit down for a while and try to meditate it goes in. Don’t look at our watch and say, I’ve got to go to the movie. It’s going to be great to see this movie. I’ve got to go see this movie. I’ve got to go see my boyfriend, my girlfriend, on an important date, not realizing our ship is sinking. You have come to this earth for one purpose, to drop the body whilst it’s alive. This is your real duty, your real mission for being here. But you do not listen. I tell you again and again, the world has nothing to offer you. It’s a world that doesn’t even exist. The world is a dream, but you’ll never take the wanting. You’re still trying to change bad for good. You think if you can achieve good things in your life, you’ll be happy and live happily ever after.
But you know from experience that’s not true. So everything changes constantly, consistently. Everything changes as it must. You go around reading all kinds of spiritual books, looking for the right teacher, But there is no right teacher. You are the right teacher. The right teacher is within you. You are the Self. When a being first understands what I am saying, they are the Self. Then the Self will create a teacher for them, just for them. A Satguru, a sage. It is yourself that created this. Therefore the teacher is yourself. There is no separation. There is not the Satguru and the student. There is a student that is a Satguru. There’s no difference. When you surrender to the Satguru, when you surrender to the fear of the Satguru, with humility, humbleness, love, peace and joy, something begins to happen. Sooner later you smile and realize, I am the Satguru. It has been the all of the sun. There’s only one. And I am that. How wonderful it is to know this, to understand this, to be this. But as long as you’re running around this world, looking for happiness from this world, you miss the entire point of your existence. You say an animal can’t do this, a plant can’t do this, a mineral can’t do this. Only a so-called human being can transcend the self, the small self, the I, and become free and liberated. Only a human being can do this. A dog can do this. A cat can do this.
An animal lives through instinct. A human being has lost its instinct. It lives through intuition. And intuition always tells you, give up this game.
Know yourself. You are the one. You are Krishna, Shiva, sat-chit-ananda. It is you. It’s been you all this time. Pure, choiceless awareness. You are that. but when you hang out in the world and you take this world seriously by having lust, anger, greed all these emotions that most people have you become earthbound it’s difficult for you to give up these things the more you taste the pleasures of the earth the more you pull into them how much time are you giving to your spiritual development and how much time are you giving to the world this will tell you where you’re coming from and it’s true if you surrender to spirit if you surrender to God completely surrender you no longer have to worry about your life at all and I mean this sincerely a mysterious power will arise within you and take care of all of your needs take care of you tell you what to do tell you where to go this mysterious power will move you in the right direction I am not saying that you will sit still and do nothing on the contrary you will know exactly what to do we would like to be happy, sublime peaceful but if you rely on worldly conditions your job somebody else’s thoughts a book you’re making a grave mistake we will find that these things will disappear sooner or later and things will change there’s only one who can love you give you peace and joy give you happiness and that is the self the absolute reality and will take care of you tenderly, lovingly.
But once your soul and once you acknowledge it this is what will lose most people. When they want this with them, they want this understanding. They want to be taken care of by the Divine Spirit.
But they’re not ready to give up anything. It’s a question of giving up, not gaining. How do you do this? You begin by denying your existence as a body. By denying anything that comes into your mind. any sort that comes to you by denying what your eyes see what your ears hear what your nose smells what your mouth tastes you’re not taking these things seriously at all just observing what’s happening becoming aware of your reactions of your conditioning and one thing you should never do is think about the past for by thinking about the past you worry about the future true and there’s only a person who thinks about the past who worries about the future never look back we won’t make many mistakes but this is why we’re here to learn from them and we get to the place where we realize there’s no looking back again we get to the place where we realize it’s not I who made a mistake because I does not exist it’s not that I’ve made a mistake there’s no I we’ll get to this point and we can see this clearly and we will laugh at ourselves the I does not exist your so-called sins of commission and mission perpetuated by I I did this I did that I hurt somebody’s feelings when the I disappears whose feelings can be hurt we need to hurt somebody’s feelings when the I disappears who’s there to do anything this is the reason I tell you so often to work on your I to follow the I to the source when you follow the I to the source you’ll see there never was an I and you are totally free and liberated only when you are attached to the I you have problems only when you think I is this, not is that and the house is this, not is that so your problems come to you you are not what you appear to be you never will be it appears to be a paradox and it is a paradox do you know what a paradox is?
To medical people so you don’t want to be a paradox get off the ship Reforge things Stop feeling sorry for yourself Realize it really has to be done And do it No one can do it for you You have all the power in the universe There’s nothing lacking in you Get rid of the sadness Remember people become upset for only one reason That the world is not turning their way That’s the only reason people ever get upset That the world is not turning the way that you want it to But yet everything is right The way it is Always remember this everything is right the way it is just the way it is there are no mistakes do not try to think about this or analyze it or anything else just be it be yourself know yourself you are not a mortal weakling when you are by accident and then you have to struggle for existence and survival this is not you at all you are the ultimate reality pure awareness bounds of space this is your true condition let yourself soar into eternity you are all prevailing omnipresent this body can never hold you for you’re not this body why do you weep when you are eternal goodness why do you become angry when you are divine intelligence why do you believe you can’t get out of the rut you’re in you have all the tools you need to get out of it when you’re in a rut and you can’t get out of it it’s not because somebody’s punishing you you have to go through some or deal on the contrary is because you will not give up certain things meaning the way you think where you’re programmed your conditioning keeps you back people call it being stubborn you want to hold on to certain conditioning you say to God, well I’ll give this up I’ll hold on to this I don’t want to give this up I’ll hold on to this you can’t do this surrender means total surrender of all your thoughts possessions, life everything, mentally give all of this up and then you’ll automatically be free.
It’s not hard. It’s not hard at all. What you really have to do is keep still. Quiet the mind. That’s all you have to do. Quiet the mind. Stop thinking. So now you’re still safe. It’s impossible to stop thinking. On the contrary. Before you have to just ask yourself, who thinks? You want to stop by the way. Try it. When you say, who thinks? I mean it. It’s been silly. All sorts will cease. When you say, I’ll try and see if it works. It’s not going to work. I’ve tried everything all my life. Nothing happens. You’ve really made it up your mind, haven’t you?
I’m standing to go deeper and say, who thinks? The realization will come to you. There’s nobody left who thinks. This thinking has been eliminated by the very quietness of your mind. There’s no longer a thinker. There’s a mysterious problem talking about against the work. It tells you what to do with the moves that animates you. Of course, the paradox is that you’re not the body, and yet the body appears to be here, and appears to do certain things in this world. But you have absolutely nothing to do with that. We’re not thinking about a thing at all. You’re thinking about anything. And that’s how everything takes scared of itself. So the principles are come to a set thing whenever you can. Make it first in your life.
Realize the world is an illusion. Don’t react to anything. For nothing can ever hurt you or wants to hurt you. Realize that you are the one. All power is within you. You’re in control of your life and you control everything.
Get rid of the guilt. But not thinking about the past. Let the past go. And not thinking about the future. if you’re living in the now and you sense that the future will take care of itself always remember that you’re not alone when you get on a path like this you have a lot of help you’re contacting grace to find grace that’s always here for you when it comes to your assistance all the time so you have to have a little faith in the Lord as well you have to trust in the self knowing that the self is Brahman and you are that self you’ll remember these things a little better than you’ve been remembering you wake up in the morning and you’ll think of these things and you go through the day you’ll think of these things and you go to bed you’ll think of these things you will find that you’re feeling better and better peaceful and more peaceful you’ll have joy in your heart peace love that you’ve never experienced before these are all your divine heritage you belong to this they belong to you You are that absolute reality that has always been all-pervading joy. You are that now. Be it. Accept it. Be free. Now.