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Good afternoon. I welcome you with all my heart. A virtue that we should acquire on this path, and stick with it, is patience. We have to have a lot of patience. Remember, it took you millions of incarnations to be where you are. It is no accident that you’re here. There are no accidents in the universe. No mistakes. Everything is unfolding as it should. So you being here this afternoon is no accident. You think that you chose to come here, that’s not true. You have no choice whatsoever. It was predestined for you to be here. If you brought the Irish person from the outside, walking in the street right now, they would become mad by sitting here listening to me. They would go insane. The heat would be too much for them. They would say, what is he talking about? I have no idea what he’s saying. What am I doing here? This place is not for everyone. I’ll remember that. you’ve earned it to be here. You’ve earned it. You have to have patience. Always remember that it took you many, many inclinations to be here. Be grateful for who you are. Be very grateful. That’s very important. In other words, don’t come here saying, I’ve been here for a year now and I haven’t received enlightenment yet. I’ve been here for two years and I haven’t become self-realized. How come? When people ask me that, I laugh. You have no idea of your spiritual worth. You have no idea where you are in consciousness right now. When you become grateful for being where you are, wanting nothing, needing nothing, then things begin to happen. You are where you’re supposed to be, or you wouldn’t be here at all. Always remember this.

And you have nothing to do with it whatsoever. How impatient, fake life as it comes. In a slight life, you are being guarded and guided and protected by the power which knows the way, which is beyond words and thoughts. Something wonderful is happening to you, whether you know it or not, or believe it or not, it is. Again, to understand patience, we have to sort of understand the hierarchy of the universe. There is consciousness, which is self-contained absolute reality. The first manifestation of consciousness is God. We call God. And people give different names to God. In Islam, God is Allah. To the Jewish people, God is Jehovah. To the Christians, God is Christ. The Hindu’s god is Shiva, Krishna, and the other gods.

God is the cause of duality. It is God who runs the universe, so to speak. It is God who maintains the things of the universe with his own energy.

But God is the cause of duality. Right and wrong, good and bad, up and down, backward and forward, health and sickness, loss and poverty.

These are all concepts of duality. So in the beginning we pray to God for relief from these things. When we’re in the path of the Vedic Vedanta, a path like this, we begin to reason out why we’re here and what’s going on. We begin to go backwards into reality. And when you go backwards, you get rid of the notion of duality. You get beyond duality. You have duality to rule you, and you cause your problems. You begin to observe duality in action. Prior to this, you didn’t care. You just accepted what came to you. You’re not saying goodbye. When good happened to you, you were happy, or something so-called bad happened to you, you became upset. But now the student begins to see that duality is a problem itself. So the student no longer tries to change bads for good, sickness for health, lack for abundance. We stop playing that game because it pushes us deeper into duality, as though we search for nothing. We stop looking altogether to change things. We have a feeling deep inside that what we call God wants this universe, not us. It’s God who takes care of this universe. We have absolutely nothing to do with the universe. We realize there’s cataclysms, there’s harmony, there’s war, there’s men, there’s peace. The reality is both collective and individual. There’s floods in the Midwest, there’s earthquakes in California, there’s cataclysms all over the world. They come, and there’s peace. There’s more cataclysms, and there’s more peace.

There’s war, there’s a man, there’s a demand, there’s a man, there’s a time when there’s no more war. There’s no duality, individually and collectively. We begin to see this and feel this, and we no longer become involved in this. We ignore it. We watch it and ignore it. We take a step backwards. We stop judging, stop trying to make problems for us and for everybody else. We leave things alone and we watch, we observe. And we do this, we grow spiritually, we mature spiritually, and soon we stop searching for for god because we realize god’s within us as us we come to the next step we become god the god we’ve been searching for within us we are that we’re in peace with ourselves peace with the world so we have patience to grow to mature spiritually we’re not going to try to make things happen become disappointed because it doesn’t happen right we’re friends with that kind of life we’re worried about ourselves we’re collectively about the world not because we don’t care. We develop great compassion, great understanding, great wisdom, great Jnana. There’s no need to worry about anything. We ignore people who are sick or have problems. We help without getting involved. We do what we have to do without getting involved. We don’t want any fame or name or anything else. We have patience. We go forward. We act like God does. No concern, no desires, no wants. Everything You see how it flows the way it’s supposed to in your life, and you find something very interesting happening to you.

You find that you become very, very happy. For no reason at all, you become happy. You’re afraid to have improved much, you become happy. As long as you don’t care, there’s just a change going on inside of you. You’re at peace. There’s no outside reason. You’re at peace. You’re happy. You don’t think about your problems. This is wrong, this is right, this is good, this is bad. How to change this to make it better? You stop thinking of these things, you’re growing, you’re churning, and you keep growing this way, as soon as you let go of the concept of God altogether, you become consciousness. When you become consciousness, you’re an entirely different ball game. You know this and that, you’re God, you’re just a name, you’re behind the description. When the question still arises, who created consciousness? Where did consciousness come from? And he’s wronged this question, he pondered this question, to know whether something very interesting happens to you. You get to feel and see from the heart, I am that. I am that I am. I am that consciousness. I am that. I am has nothing to do with your body or your affairs. It’s nothing to restrict it. I am is all pervading.

You realize that you are boundless space, pure awareness. You realize that there’s no name for it. You don’t give any name like I’m giving. I’m just giving lectures and giving the names.

This is the reason when I had my experiences when I was 14 years old, I didn’t know any names about boundless space, pure awareness. I knew nothing about these things. I just felt it. I felt there was the essence in the trees and the stars and the insects and the birds and the universe and everything with me. I didn’t know where it was. The reason I went with India is to confirm my feelings, to find out what they were, what was I, what did I become. I had no idea. You know you’re accepting with me and I’m sharing all these things with you. No name for what you’ve become, no name whatsoever. But you knew you were dead. And the interesting thing about it is when you go past consciousness, the paradox is you become sort of normal again, so to speak. Normal is only the word I can think of. It means you’re functioning as a body, living with the body does, that you leverage yourself because you’re already not that at all.

It’s not you. But if you’ve taken off a body and you’re working with the body, it appears this way for you. But you have nothing to do with the body. In other words, beyond words and no words to describe them. You are simultaneously the body and the body, but you have patience again. This is why the virtue of patience is so important,

That nothing has to do, nothing has to become. You have patience. You have peace with yourself, peace with the world. You are past being disturbed by things, so you pass the human state, you pass the God state, and you pass the consciousness state. You become nothing,

No thing whatsoever. You feel and you know deep inside, there is no rush to do anything, for what time is eternal. If you know time and space does not exist, there is no time. There never was any time. Consequently, you’re without time, without space. You’ll never be born again, you’ll never die. You’re aware of this like you know 2004. Life is a continuum. You’re going forever. The spirit of the body is only here for a couple of seconds and it’s gone. Just here for a split second of eternity and it’s all gone. You’ve come beyond that. You’ve come a long, long way. Patience. You need to have patience. The world’s running with blind teachers, trying to find new books to read, trying to find new experiences. I do this because you have no patience, so you’re not going to be doing these things. If you always stay still and stop thinking that you’re bored to experience new things, you make faster progress. You don’t forget keeping yourself away from making progress. You’re going to do it yourself when you’re searching the world for new experiences. And when we discuss the world of duality, when you search for things in this world, you’re wasting your time and your energy. When you talk too much, you’re wasting your energy and your time. Just be. There’s a story about the Buddha that explains this. One day the Buddha and his devotees were walking through the forest. They came to the edge of the forest and they came to a little town.

First of all, there’s a devotee, let’s rest here for the night. We’ll camp over here. And he worked out around the town when the Buddha was here. There’s this beautiful palace in a similar town, where there was a courtesan, and she knew a bird was coming. She had a man’s story about a bird she’d never seen before, how handsome he was, what a good bite of your head, and the courtesan said to herself, I want this man for myself. Maidens, go out and fetch birders of me. He prostrated before me and said, Master, our mistress bid that you come with us to see her. Please come. And both of these look at the handmaidens, they become angry, because they were prostitutes. He exclaimed, How dare you come to him, Mr. Vest, and ask for Buddha to come with you? Be gone with you. Get out of here. Leave. You can take our master to your mistress. Then he said, I will go. Muthies were shocked. He started gasping about one another to each other. What is he doing? Why is he going? Muthies left the gossip. When she saw him, she was very pleased. She said to herself, This is the man I’ve always wanted to share the palace with. I will keep him here. And she approached him and she said, Master, you stay with me, live with me, and I give you love that you’ve never experienced before. Thank you, but not now.

And she continued, she said, I have diamonds and pearls, gold. It’s all yours. Serve me and share this kingdom of mine. Ambrose said, thank you but not now. She continued to beseech him, this palace is yours, I’m giving you this palace, I’m giving you my diamonds, my jewels, my money, my body, everything is yours, stay with me. She smiled at her gracefully and said, thank you but not now. She couldn’t talk or beseech him any longer. Ambrose said goodbye now, I have to go. He went back to his devotees, he slept at McDonald’s for a milkshake, and went forward back into the jungle. It’s 30 years past. I got Buddha and his devotees were passing by the same jungle, became the same town, and Buddha remembered something. He told his devotees, once you go over to McDonald’s, get yourself a Big Mac, some french fries, milkshake, and wait for me, I’ll be right back. This mansion used to be broken to pieces. There used to be a mansion without a pile of dirt, wood, iron. I passed her by. Whatever happened to a lady who used to live here? I passed her by smiling and saying she’s over there in the street. I’m knocked down. This once beautiful lady, she was now a monster. Had leprosy. Fingers were falling off. She had tumors all over her face. She was all decrepit. Bent all over. lying in the wrong filth and i have returned when i met you three years ago if i gave you a teaching you would not listen to me so i said nothing i can’t explain to you that it was duality here for a time only and this appears say for the truth that you should have danced and look within yourself for reality but at that time three years ago you were very egotistical you think your own money and you had houses and jewelry were beautiful you didn’t care about anything else Now it’s all passed. It’s finished.

I can tell you something. I can talk to you. Oh, have no fear. I went down and kissed her on the forehead. She became healed. She returned with him to his devotees in the forest. His devotees, there’s patience. Patience for 30 years. She wasn’t trying to confer anyone.

She knew that she wasn’t ready right now for his teaching. But in 30 years she was ready. It took a 30 years to become ready. Now let’s talk about you. Each one of you here thinks you’ve got problems. Some kind of rather. or you need something, or you want something, or you know something. This is what’s keeping you back from the spiritual enlightenment. I think that you need something, or you want something, or something has to happen. There’s going to be some change in your life where you’re going to kill yourself. This is all wrong. And you have to stop feeling this, but you have to stop thinking this way. What keeps you back from the highest get? You don’t get attached to a person, a place, and a thing. You’ll never find freedom. You’ll find out a truth about yourself. You’ll go over everything mentally. When I speak of letting go, I’ve been speaking of getting rid of your furniture, and your girlfriend, and your boyfriend, or your house, or your car.

I’ve been talking about this at all. I’ve been speaking of getting rid of mental thoughts that tell you that you’re attached to these things.

Change your mind. The need is what’s yours, and we can never take away. Every long sea will come to you. What you have to have, you’ll have. You’re out working for it. Only effort.

It’s all pre-ordained, all predestined. You have to find yourself for yourself. When I shoot with you today, you have to find out for yourself. It’s fine, I can sit there and tell you about it. You’re not going to have to make it happen in your own life. What are you going to do when you leave? It’s so beautiful to go home and sit by yourself, not being disturbed and going through yourself because you’ve been sitting down deeper than you’ve ever died before. Find your own reality. It’s such a big greatest pleasure to do this. You don’t have to say there were women, listen to a TV program, a newspaper, you don’t have to go to a baseball game. Be by yourself a lot. you are. People are going to show you who you are by diving deep within yourself. So upon your own existence, let me get yourself a little bit of respect for what we’ve discussed today. Consider these things we’ve discussed that I’ve been talking about. Consider them soon to get out of bed. See what state of consciousness you’re in. In a human state of consciousness, ask yourself. Am I in a godly state of consciousness? Conscious yourself? Ask these questions. In other words, not get out of bed thinking about your problems, thinking about what you have to do today. Oh boy, you’re going to do today. I have nothing to do. Where am I going to What am I going to go? What am I going to do? What am I going to meet?

Forget about these things. Part of these things we discuss today, all the time. Consider this truth that we’ve discussed. When you put your energy just where your mind is. When you put your mind just where your heart is. The heart is what you become. So if you’re a material person, you’re constantly in humanity. The reality will never leave you. You’ll experience happiness if you’re doing something you like. You’ll never stop. You’ll never end. You’ll go on and on. And when you drop your bike, it will continue. And another body. another. I never stopped. Honestly, I stopped playing the game. Remember, it’s God who was giving you the game of Maya to fight with. It’s God’s Lila. Are you saved from God? You’re lost in the Lila and the Maya. Who are you? Where did you come from? Get the answer you need.