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Om shanti shanti shanti om. Peace, peace. Good evening. I hope you folks in the back can hear me. Of course, you better hope you don’t hear me at all. I welcome you with all my heart. I love every one of you unconditionally. All is well. Whatever is going on in your life right now, good or bad, in between, we’ll come to an end shortly. It has to. Everything must change.

Just that your life must change sooner or later. Your body will change. You will die. And everything you’ve been working for, everything you’ve been striving for, will no longer matter to you.

All the things you’ve saved, the people you’ve been attached to, items you’ve been attached to, will all be gone. They’ll be here. You’ll be gone.

And someone else will enjoy them. Where will you be? What has happened to you? Unless you understand in your heart that you are the essence of all existence, you will come back again and again and again until you give up all of your attachments to a person in place of sin. Only then will you become free. Totally free. Absolutely free. The choice is always yours, of course. We all think our lives are very important, our material lives. We try to make a name for ourselves, make a lot of money, and want people to appreciate for what? Why? It’s all going down the tubes. A hundred years from now, you’ll all be forgotten totally completely. And life goes on as it appears. The question is, what are you doing with your life right now? What are you involved in? What are you trying to achieve? Glory, fame, name. As I said, it’ll go away. It’ll disappear sooner or later. So the wise person He ponders these things and begins to realize it’s not what I do, it’s what I don’t do to determine what I’ve become. In other words, it’s not the accumulation you make of possessions and things.

It’s what you don’t own. It’s that you’re free. The person who owns nothing is the happiest, freest person on earth. I know some of you are saying, well, let him give me his things. I’ll keep them.

I’ll make it I don’t enjoy them. But you see we’re so deluded, we think owning something is going to make us happy. Most of us have experienced these things. Most of us have experienced these things before. We’ve had things that didn’t make us happy. It made us happy for a while. For instance, you buy a new car. It’s so beautiful, you love it, enjoy it. But as the days pass, it becomes older and older. And soon you become used to it. And now you want a better car, a bigger car. So there’s everything else you do and possess.

Now I’m not saying you shouldn’t possess anything. I’m saying it has to be possessed by your possessions. It all happens in your mind. Everything begins and ends in your mind.

Your mind tells you you need this thing. You need this person in your life. You need this new job. Even when you acquire these things, how long does it take before you become miserable?

I no longer enjoy it. There is nothing in this world that will last. For most people, unfortunately, they have to have the rug pulled to mind that many times before they realize there’s nothing in this world that will give you satisfaction. It’s permanent. And then they start turning this in. Most people will not turn this in until they’ve been kicked around a lot. Then they will turn this in. Plus, if the person doesn’t have to be kicked around a lot, they’ll just turn this in by experience, by observing the world, and realizing there’s nothing at all for you, for you, you will be one out of a thousand who will begin to look for your happiness with sin. And the Bhagavad Gita tells you, out of a thousand, one searches for God. Out of a thousand, that search, one finds him. It’s like winning the lottery.

Yet you may be the one. You’re not saying the odds are too great against me. But begin the search. How do you begin the search? By turning with sin.

In other words, up to this point, you’ve been turning with that. Looking to this world for happiness. letting the world hurt you in many ways, becoming frustrated, disappointed, happy at times, then disappointed again. The world who turns for sin ignores the world, come with me. They become even-minded, no longer hurtable, no longer frighten them, no matter what it shows them. And being with children with sin for a couple of years, has focused their attention in the heart center, becomes vaguely happy under all circumstances. It makes no difference if there’s a war going on, or there’s peace in the world. It makes no difference if the doctor told you you’ve got cancer and you have three days to live, or that you’re going to be in your bed in another 50 years. You drop all that kind of thinking. The person’s turn was in, no longer thinks this way. It becomes stabilized in the self and consciousness. Every day all is as well. Every moment, everything is beautiful. You have to become this way. You have to have a sincere burning inside of you for reality, for truth. A real burning for the truth inside. You have to want this more than anything else in this world. You have to make out what you really want it. There’s a little story I tell you once in a while. Other foes go out to the teacher and the teacher tells them what we’re talking about right now. You have to an intense desire for truth and you’ll have it. The student says, Teacher, how do you get his desire? What does it feel like? What is it like? And he kept nodding the teacher all evening. Finally, at the end of the class, the teacher tells the student, follow me.

He takes him over to the lake. He tells him to look into the lake and he kicks him in the water. He holds his head under the water until he’s nearly drowned. Then he pulls him out by the air. And he asked him, what is it that he wanted more than anything else while he wanted me to support the drowning? And of course the student could only grasp for air. And he said, air, air. The wise teacher said, when you want truth as much as you wanted air, you don’t have it. Pun to this. When you want truth, when you want reality, as much As much as you want air, when you’re drowning, then you’ll have it immediately. In other words, you’ll become self-realized immediately. You’ll awaken immediately. That’s it. So you’re asking me, Robert, do you want to awaken? I’m telling you right now. When you want to awaken as much as you want air, that much, then you’ll awaken. When you’ll awaken, you’ll realize you never were asleep. You’ve always been awakened. At that time, death will no longer be a bother to you. Your body will never again hinder you anywhere whatsoever. People will never again frighten you. The lust and greed will no longer be part of your life. You will be absolutely free. Totally free. You will become the absolute reality. The pure awareness. Brahman, you will become sat-chit-ananda and your essence is everywhere. You will become all-pervading. You will become everything everywhere.

You will become the birds, the bugs, the planets. The planets will virtually become everything in this universe. At that time you will know that you are the universe. If you will not affirm it or talk about it, you will become it. You will become the ultimate reality. But now you see what you have to do to become it. Simple. You must have this tremendous desire. This tremendous burning inside of you for reality, for freedom, for truth. You will have this tremendous desire. These things happen. To push your freedom in the past. You will be attracted to the right things that will make the desire easier for you.

You will notice that you drop your old friends, you drop your old habits, your wants change. It all happens by itself. In other words, all you have to do is have the desire of the person grasping for air.

It has to be that much. I’m not speaking of a fleeting desire like you have if you want to see a movie. And you say, I’m going to see this movie today.

And you don’t have time, you forget it. It doesn’t mean anything to you. It comes and goes. I’m speaking of having a tremendous desire inside of your heart to be free totally absolutely free and this desire circumvents everything else in your life if you become stronger then you worry say you’re worrying over your married life, you’re worrying over your sickness you’re worrying over the world there’s wars in the world when you have a tremendous desire to know the truth all these things go away it’s not that you don’t care you develop a tremendous compassion a tremendous love for everything it comes by itself so if you want to know if you’re on the path correctly look at your life now look at your life a year ago think back in retrospect do I still want the things I wanted a year ago do I still have the same feelings about persons, places and things that I had a year ago am I still worried about my body somebody else’s body about anything do things still annoy me bother me upset me am I still oversensitive I think people are talking about me all the time. I’m a little judgmental. Ask yourself what you think. Investigate yourself. See where you’re coming from. What’s really happening with anyone inside of you?

If these things I just mentioned are really active inside of you, it means you’re not doing your homework. You’re not doing your homework, I mean. You do not have this tremendous desire to be free.

You’re not inquiring within. Who wants these things? You’re not questioning within. To whom these things come? Who experienced these hurts? Where did they come from? How did I get them? Instead, you’re doing absolutely nothing. You’re taking life as it comes. And you worry when something bad happens, you feel good when something good happens. But I’m telling you this evening to take complete control of your life.

It’s up to you to take complete control of your life. You are the one if you do not take complete control of your life. You’ll never realize that you are the one, the mighty one,

The joyous one. the free one, the loving one. Remember when you awaken, you no longer have an identity of I or mine or my.

Instead, you’ve expanded. You permeate the whole universe. You are the whole universe. It comes out of you. You give birth to the whole universe. You alone are doing this.

And you become radiantly happy. Radiantly happy. And this world has absolutely nothing to do with your happiness. But you become happy in this world.

This is what the Master of Jesus says when he says, I am in this world, not of this world. You will be able to make the same statements.

You realize what Moses said when he said, I am that I am. And that’s what I am. On the property of the sale of man. If you want to stay the way you are,

You might guess. It’s your choice. What does the future hold for you? If you look at this world, if you look at the economic situation,

The whole world is going downwards. It will go up again. As always then, This is the way of the world. Things go down, they go up, and go down, they go up. Like a yo-yo. If you want your life to be a yo-yo, then don’t go along with this world. Turn within, right now. Turn towards the heart center. On the right side of the chest, there’s a vision of bright light in the heart center. Focus your attention on the heart center. See the sphere of white light. White light makes you feel relaxed and cool and peaceful. Sure of white light, think of your favorite deity.

Think of Buddha, Jesus, Moses, Ramakrishna, Ramana Maharshi. Feel the presence. The question, who feels the presence? Who is the observer of the heart? Who is the observer of Buddha, of Ramakrishna, of all his great saints and masters?

Who observes him in the heart center? Who is the observer? See to yourself. I am. Now with your breathing, with your respiration, meditate on I am. As you inhale, say I. As you exhale, say I am. Do this with your respiration.