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Good afternoon. I welcome you with all my heart. It is good to be with you once again. I love every one of you equally, unconditionally. You have not come here to hear words. As strange as it may sound, you have come here to listen to the sounds. To be still, to be quiet. In quietness there is power. In stillness there is awakening. Not necessarily when I speak or make noise, but when you are quiet and the mind becomes quiet. In the quietness, we’re all one.

In the silence, there’s no differentiation between anyone. But when we begin to speak, the trouble begins. Therefore, in your own personal life, try to be still, try to be quiet.

You may say, I got problems when I’m not talking, in a wonderful way. More wonderful than you can ever understand. For when you do not talk, you do not react.

When you do not react, the power comes into you, awakens you. makes those things right in your life. Ponder this mystery. In power there is strength.

In silence there is power. All the power of the universe is with you when you’re quiet and still. So do try to be quiet and still in your daily life.

The next thing you have to talk to solve your problems or to make people happy, try it. Try to be still for a day. Without talking, see what happens. You’ll be amazed what will happen.

I have been traveling around the world for 40 years or so, sharing pussity, keeping low-key. When too many people surrounded me, I got up and left to sleep in the country.

But now, because of a physical dysfunction, I’m stuck in LA. There are people calling me now who want me to go on TV programs, go on radio.

I kind of refuse them. So please don’t try to make me famous. I’m not looking for name or fame at all. I am absolutely nothing. I really have nothing to say, nothing to teach. If you came here explaining to hear a sermon, you came here for the wrong reason. If you came here explaining to hear a profound talk, you came here for the wrong reason. Then why did you come here? It’s a mystery. You’re here and I’m here, and that’s the way it is. When I say I am, I’m referring to consciousness, to omnipresent. I’m not referring to Robert, who is absolutely nothing, I’m referring to absolute reality, the Brahmin. Soon as I confess to you that I am all prevailing consciousness, and that bodies, minds, experiences, lies, and fallen consciousness. I’m referring to the whole universe. I am all prevailing consciousness. Bodies, minds, and experiences appear and disappear in this consciousness. You watch the figures on the screen, and you forget the screen is there. You do not see the screen because the figures take up all the room. Everything happens on the screen. People are born, people get married, people die, people have experiences, people cry, people laugh. All the figures on the screen appear and disappear, like bubbles on the ocean. Bubbles on the ocean come and go. All bubbles fade away, no bubbles come. Figures on the screen come and go. You see one movie after another, all different figures all over the screen different projections but the screen remains the same the screen never changes you my friends are the screen you are the ocean of bliss you are such ananda brahman what appears to be your body and your mind is that really you

Yes for some mysterious reason you have identified with the body in the mind and you’re now living a mortal dream you have worries you have fears you have depressions you have emotions you have needs you have wants have you ever wondered who needs this where do I come from who am I who experiences all these emotions these things going on in my life good things bad things come and go but that something within me never changes no matter how old I get there’s a self which never changes I am that self there’s only one self there’s only a bunch of selves when you say I am that self you’re referring to the whole universe I am that self just to understand this even intellectually makes you feel good causes positive changes in your life the doctor may tell you you have cancer you may have marital problems at home you may be looking for work you may be unemployed who’s experiencing this? who goes through this?

You say me? who is this me you’re referring to? who are you referring when you say me? I have a problem I have something wrong with me who is this I where did it come from who gave it birth where did it source and again when you begin to inquire this way something wonderful happens to you something grand something beautiful it does you find it day by day becoming happier and happier for no reason whatsoever until you realize that you are an alloyed happiness happiness is your real nature this is what you are it has absolutely nothing to do with your body or your environment or the world or your mind it says when you go to sleep at night when you fall into a deep sleep you know that it appears to exist when you wake up in the morning you say to yourself i slept well i feel good i had a good night’s sleep this is how it is when you’re awakened like being asleep but in an awakened sleep you always feel good remember when you lie down and go to sleep you still have your problems don’t you know your depressions you have everything that’s going on in your life

When you fall asleep it’s all gone all disappears when you’re sleeping when you’re waking you say i slept well regardless of your problems you slept well you feel good but when you begin to think about it in the world awakens with you comes out of you and you begin to experience what you always experience during the daytime

Whatever you experience so it’s time to catch yourself in the morning when you awaken You have to do your most important work when you’re awake in the morning. Do not allow your mind to stop functioning. As soon as your mind wants to function, put a step to it. How do you put a step to it? By inquiring, who am I? What’s going on here? Why is my mind thinking about these things? What is the cause of my mind? What is the source of my mind? Where does it arise from? your mind goes into the brain and you become cognizant of the world and your body and you begin to say i am this and i am that when you put a step to it you remain naturally happy

It makes no difference what’s happening in your life do not accept or reject anything leave everything alone be yourself when people call me on the phone they always want to tell tell me their problems, and yet, they never liked the answer I gave them. Who have to tell me their problems for about an hour on the phone, they ask me, what should I do? What do you think of my problems? And I said, oh, it’s well, and everything’s unfolding out of shit. Most people don’t like to hear this. They wanted to give them a specific answer to their problems, and this is why we’re a great psychiatrist or psychologist. I only speak from the highest viewpoint. From the highest viewpoint, all this is well. There’s nothing wrong. I told you a story about all this well the other day. This is true. Everything is working to your benefit. If you leave it alone and stop fighting it, and you stop resisting life, things will work out in the right way for you. But if you believe you’ve got a problem, and you worry about it, you’re just perpetuating it. Before you’re using the mind that doesn’t exist, and the power to perpetuate your problems. And what you think you’ll become.

This is true at a certain level. Therefore, if you keep thinking about your problem, if something’s wrong someplace, you need some desire fulfilled, you’re creating this condition is only to think about it. So what I tell you is to turn away from it completely, absolutely. Turn away from your problem completely. Don’t even consider it. Instead, inquire, who am I who has this problem? Who is the eye that has this problem? I don’t have the problem, I does. See, you’re separating yourself from the eye. I am bright and shining, I am free and liberated. I am in bounds of space. But I have the problem, that’s me. I am all-pervading consciousness. The problem is only a superimposition on consciousness. Like words on the paper. Words printed on the paper are superimpositioned on the paper. Do we think about the paper when we read the newspaper? No. We think about the words. The words change every day. One day they’re good words, one day they’re bad words. That’s why people read newspapers every day, they get all confused. I know people read the newspaper from the back to the front every day. They resent everything in this newspaper, they take it for real. And so they become like the newspaper. They turn off and not like the newspaper. When they read something good, they become happy. When they read something bad, they become sad. How can the words make you sad? How can the words in the newspaper upset you?

It says a word, it’s you, it’s upset. Because you’re taking the words to be the reality, aren’t you? You’re watching the news on the TV. You’re taking what you see to be the reality. So you become sad, confused. What I’m saying to you is to become the screen on the TV. Identify with the screen on the TV that’s still, quiet, with no pictures on your screen. The screen remains the same for always. Same with the newspaper. You never read the words. Look at the paper. Identify with the paper itself. There was no paper that couldn’t be any words. The only reason there’s words is because they’re the paper. They’re the same with your life and experiences. The only reason you haven’t gotten bad experiences is because you are mistaking yourself with the truth. You think you have the small self instead of being the truth. You think you have the mind and the ego. Instead of understanding that you are the consciousness, boundless space, Brahman. Therefore, it’s your duty to know the truth, to become free and liberated. This is what you’re here on this planet for. This is the reason you seem to exist, to become totally, completely liberated. Therefore, not be like other people and look at the world of effects. Identify the world of effects. Find the cause. Again, you find the cause by turning what’s in, by bringing the eye back to the heart center, and then all is well. You now know what you have to do.

The choice is yours.