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Welcome. I love you all, no exceptions, because all is well. Extremely well. Except then. Life is a joke. Why some of us take it so seriously, I’ll never know. We become so serious about things. Like it’s the end of the world. And if this happens, or if that happens. So what? Let it happen. You will find if you let things happen and you don’t interfere too much, it will be in your favor in the end. You will get it in the end. Learn to love life the way it is. It is the way you want it to be. You will have your preconceived idea of how life should be, how people should act, how things should be everywhere. Learn to leave it alone. Learn to interfere with anybody or anything and you will be happy. It’s only when you interfere, you should become unhappy, when you interfere with your own experiences, your own experiences, your own life, you become unhappy, when you interfere with somebody else’s life, you become unhappy, the idea is to leave everybody alone, leave yourself alone, be sensitive, live in the moment, forget about the past, do not think about the future, and you’ll be the happiest person on earth, if you can do this, really, everyone wants to be self-realized, you’re looking for power up in the sky,

Where would the self-realization come from? If consciousness is all there is, there’s no special place which you become self-realized in. You’re already dead. You’re already pure and shining and bright.

There’s nothing else to do. Nothing else to become. Stop searching. Stop looking. Become still. Be yourself. And you’ll be free. But it all means quiet the mind. Keep from thinking so much. from wavering from subject to subject since we’re all self-realized already for those of you who don’t know or don’t believe it there are certain pointers we’ll talk about today which I call pointers to self-realization and when it comes to me I’ll say them I’m going to just keep still which is better okay the first point is this you should always be a satsang or in the company of a sage someplace this is the highest teaching in the world in all the scriptures and all the Upanishads everywhere tells you this. Find the company of a sage and be a satsang. It is this will awaken you. I’m not necessarily talking about myself. For those of you who know me realize I’m not looking for anything. I’m not looking for name or fame or anything at all. I’ve been running away from name or fame for 45 years, escaping people, and here I am, talking about these things. It is only when you’re in the company of a sage at satsang that things really begin to happen sooner or later. True. Yet, you will find that you become bored after a while. You go to satsang after a year or so, you’ve heard everything, you’ve seen everything, and you come to the board. This is showing of Westerners. Westerners want to be active all the time. You want to come to Satsang and hear new speeches, new stories. Always remember Satsang in a lecture, send a sermon, and I’d go looking for material that I’m going to talk about. When you go to a church, the The minister researches his material, looks for books to see what he’s going to say, talk about, and he has a lecture for Sunday.

Seth’s thing is not like that. Seth’s thing is sitting with a sage, being still, being quiet, coming from your heart, not looking for words or teachings or anything else.

Just opening your heart, coming in, keeping still. Everything will take care of itself. This is what Seth’s thing is. but here there are some of us all the time we’re looking for new thrills we want no experiences we say I’ve been with Robert for so long let’s go hear somebody else we’re about a new being coming to town we’re going to see this person hoping he’ll give us some new words but you always have to remember that traveling yogis do so because they’ve said enough where they’ve come from it’s a hometown, people have heard them again and again and again and they go to something by themselves without fresh material, they think they’re great.

But, if they don’t live with them, and be with them over and over again, like most of you here, you get bored. You hear it again and again. In other words, there’s nothing new under the sun.

Truth is truth. It may be presented differently by different teachers, but truth is truth. Those of you who are real wise, understand why you’re coming to Satsang never to listen to a lecture never to listen to a speech because you’re coming because you are you’re a pure being therefore when you come to Satsang you open your heart you become free and liberated try to understand what I’m saying there’s no place to go there’s nothing to do be easy on yourself, be gentle on yourself find a sage that you can trust when you find a sage Surrender to the self. Surrender to all of your longings, your problems, everything that has been bothering you, annoying you, things that have depressed you. Surrender all of these things to the sage, which is yourself, and you’ll be okay. You’ll feel wonderful. A man of Ma’ashi had approximately fifteen devotees who had been with him for thirty-five, forty years. They wanted that because he had no speech to give them, no words to share with them. He hardly said anything. Visitors would come, newcomers would come from all over the world, ask questions. The devotees who were with him knew exactly what he was going to say, word by word. they knew I was going to answer every question because I heard it for 10, 20, 30, 40 years and it’s the same thing again and again when they get bored never we’re in the presence of consciousness it’s themselves we in the West are used to going to a church and listening to the lectures and we expect the minister to be eloquent to take course an elocution to speak beautifully and we give them a new sermon every week this is entirely different completely different You’re not here to listen to the words.

You need to listen to the space between the words. That’s point number one. Point number two. The sage will give you a practice to do. The sage will tell you you don’t really have to do anything. You’re already free. There’s no practice or nothing. The rule is saying he or she will give you some practice too. Because it’s important the sage understands when you’re by yourself and you know it’s that thing to rule out the whole of you. To make you turn. in. Make you fret, make you worry, make you upset. So instead you can do certain things to do. In this teaching, what you’ve been told to do is practice self-inquiry and surrender. You practice self-inquiry every time you get up in the morning. You inquire, where am I? And you watch your mind, you watch your thoughts. And the thoughts come to you. You inquire, to whom do these thoughts come, where did they come from? They came to me. Who am I? What is their source?

As soon as they wake up, you do this. As soon as you open your eyes, what is the source of my source? You try to catch the mind when you open your eyes and the mind going from the heart to the brain, and you realize as soon as the heart, the mind goes from the heart to the brain, you remember I am, and that’s when I am begins to function.

I am thirsty, I am hungry, I am poor, I am sad, I am sick, I am well, I am happy, I am sad. This is called the I-Thought. But if you watch it and follow it to the brain and keep looking at it, something wonderful will happen. It will start regressing itself. It will go from the brain back to the heart. It will be completely free of thought. This is what happens. You want to understand that the I-Thought is a source of all your problems, not the world or people or places or things. The I-Thought. The reason why this is called isolate because it doesn’t really exist in the thought. So now you’ve picked up like a cold, and now it’s ruining your life. Once all you really have to do is follow the isolate back to the heart center, and you’ll be free. By remembering to do these things, you grow spiritually. Just by remembering. By remembering that you have absolutely nothing to do with your life, your so-called life has been preordained, predestined. Whatever you’re going through is necessary for your unfoldment, it’s all good, very good indeed, there’s nothing wrong, there’s nothing going on that shouldn’t go on, then you’ll be safe, just by realizing what I just said, that you’re not responsible for yourself. The power which makes the sun shine, makes the oranges grow in orange trees, makes the reds grow, makes the mangoes grow in mango trees. It takes care of you. It knows how to take care of your affairs and you.

And there’s nothing that you have to do, except let go, let go completely and entirely, let go. Stop fighting. Just by realizing what I said, it relieves you of any burdens of life, relieves you of all kinds of circumstances you’re involved in, makes you happy. The next thing you do is you surrender totally, completely to the self. You try to understand intellectually that there’s a self that is within you, as well pure spirit consciousness in the self that is all pervading and you are that you are that self it’s called pure awareness absolute reality you are that when you get up in the morning surrender all of your stuff to the self all of your hurts all of your past all of your fears all of your frustrations give it up to the self let the self do it you can speak to it you can say take it self take it from me take my burdens take my problems take all this stuff that’s been handling me for so many years I give it all to you and I’m free of it and then you go through the day you practice self-inquiry wherever you are whatever you’re doing and practice surrender at the same time if you practice these things you’ll be happy you’ll be free you’ll have no problems the third point though is having aversion to the world if you love the world as the world you’ll become attached to it and you’ll never be free You can’t be free.

If you love the world as reality, but if you love the world as Brahman, that’s a different story. If you love the world as God, and if it’s reality, that’s a different story. But then you’re living in the Self. For Brahman, in reality, the Self is one. And if you love the world as that, then you’re safe. But if you love the world as the world, then you’re separate from it and bring you problems and troubles. Therefore, you have to have a sort of aversion for the world. I mean, don’t hate the world, just leave it alone, don’t take it seriously, have nothing to do with it. What you have to do in this world will be done by you, no one or another, there’s nothing for you to worry about, nothing for you to be upset about, look at the world, don’t react to it, don’t have anything to do with it, let go of it, that’s all you have to do. There’s nothing hard about this, you just have to remember certain things, I am not a body or a mind, I am not my experiences, I am not my past or my future, I am that I am. I am the ultimate reality, the self, perfect wisdom, pure joy. I am that. I’ve always been that. No longer will I be frightened by this world and its manifestations. Do all these things in the morning when you first get up, when you first wake up. As soon as you open your eyes, become aware of yourself. As soon as you waken, do not think of worldly things, for they change. They’re always changing. So this means if you’re holding on to something worldly, you’ll always be disappointed. You’ll always be disappointed, always. Because it changes, changes, changes. You say to yourself, is there anything going for me in the right way? I have money in the bank, I’m healthy. I have a nice boyfriend, a nice girlfriend, of a car, a house. That’s the day. What will happen tomorrow? You don’t know. You have You have no idea what will happen tomorrow.

But you have no experience in your life to notice that things change all the time. You are going through this institute of life and realize that things are changing completely constantly, all the time, always changing. Therefore, you have to identify with something that does not change, which is reality, yourself. You are the one. The answer that is within you. Everything you are looking for is within you. How it exists within you. There is nothing missing. You got it all. But you refuse to acknowledge it. you look at the situation and you say, this is wrong, this is not right, I’m not happy because it’s not going this way, it’s not going that way. This is the only mistake you make by saying these things, by feeling these things. For if you accept every condition that came to you peacefully, joyously, happily, without trying to change here to get rid of it, then you find yourself in the right place where you’re supposed to be. Find freedom, freedom, happiness, joy. Stop finding life. Stop finding people. Stop finding yourself. There’s absolutely nothing wrong anywhere. The only thing that’s ever wrong is that they’re not going the way that you want them to. Everything else is right. There’s nothing wrong. Nothing. Beautiful everything is right. Just the way the planets, galaxies are always in you. You are the world, actually. You are the world. The whole world. It’s always in you. You have created out of yourself. Where else would it come from? If you don’t go up in the sky, up in the sky that creates a world. You are that God yourself. You are that. Know yourself.

Feel the peace within yourself right now. Feel your own inner happiness. Feel the joy which you are. What is the best use of sasang? When the sage is sitting in his samadhi, should we contemplate his form or his state or try to intuit his state or should we just keep our eyes closed? And there are two things you can do. One is to keep your eyes closed and try to make your mind as empty as possible. And the power of the sage will go into you. It’s called grace. You already have it. You already have it. You’re going to work into it. The next thing you can do is see the form of the sage in your heart. Follow this form of the heart. light, bright light, beautiful light. I see self merging in the light and in the sage both. There’s one sage, there’s one light, there’s one entity, there’s one. It feels all the time. As far as leaving the world alone, sometimes I find that comes too easy. I’ll just be in my apartment and I can just spend the day in silence and meditating or just quiet. I’m there’s like something missing from me because then when I come out of that there’s all these responsibilities that I haven’t taken care of and it seems like financially things are falling apart. If you’re doing it correctly, what will happen to you? You’ll be given the insight of what to do. You will know what to do. Anyone who surrenders to the self, self-revisit So you’ll find that you’re doing the right thing that you’re supposed to do, and go to the right places, get the right job.

But if you’re doing it in a way where you’re worried about it, and you’re doing it but you’re hoping something’s going to happen, then it’s no good. If you’re really feeling lack of limitation, let go of all feelings, open your heart up, and then things will begin to happen. But intuition, if you’re told this is your way to go, take care of yourself and you’ll The difference between the Buddhist teachings and Advaita? Because I think the Buddhist teachings came out of Advaita, from like a degeneration at one point of Advaita, and then they came out of teaching that there’s no self. In the ultimate they’re both the same. But if they’ll begin and they begin, there seems to be a difference. Because Buddhism has all kinds of rules and regulations, frustrations, things you have to do, and there’s nothing like that at all. So in the beginning they’re But when you get deeply involved in both, they’ve reached the same goal. You finally turn into the same thing. There’s no self, no mind, no false imagination. And the one self is you. So you both turn into the same thing eventually. You’re in the beginning of the difference. There’s only one truth. Whether I’m hearing it, or reading it, or meditating, or being still, still it’s easy to believe that it’s true but i’m wondering why it’s hard to maintain that because you’re going through the world and the world is upon you the world is maya mind false imagination and it’s when it’s pulling people so you feel good like being here setting you up in the street and all of a sudden the world gets a hold of you and pulls in and makes you see all kinds of weird things, makes you feel depressed, upset, but at that time you just keep still and watch, don’t react to it, that’s the point, don’t react to it, just watch your mind thinking, watch your mind being upset, laugh at yourself, and it’ll dissipate, it’ll go away. But if you take it seriously, you think something’s wrong, you get mad at yourself, you get angry, this gives the ego more power, do it again and When anything happens like that, just watch it, look at it, don’t take it seriously, and it’ll disappear.

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