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I love every one of you unconditionally. All is well. There are no mistakes. Everything is in the right place, except for Ed. That’s a mistake. Even though you realize, or some of you realize, that you are the absolute reality, that you are Brahman, that your real svarupa is pure awareness, yet you have dry days, or dry days, I mean days that you get up and you feel crummy. You go back to bed. You don’t feel like getting up. You have aches and pains in your body. Your mind can’t concentrate on anything. As far as meditation is concerned, forget it. As far as practicing as much as you shower self-inquiry, you’re in no mood for that. You don’t feel like doing that. You feel very human, in other words. You feel so much like a human being again. We all feel like this once in a while. How many of us feel like this today? Everybody. What to do? We sit down on the chair, we want to meditate, we cannot meditate. We cannot do anything, we just feel crummy. When this happens to you, do nothing. Do absolutely nothing. We become the witness to what’s going on. In other words, sit down on the chair and let whatever happens happen. Let all the worst feelings take a hold of you, allow the gloom to set in, but do absolutely nothing. You don’t have to respond to it. This is important to remember. You don’t have to respond to it at all. What you don’t have to respond to becomes weaker and weaker, and it will disappear. But if you respond to your anger, or your depression, or your negative situation that you feel, whatever it may be, it will make it stronger and stronger. The more you respond, the more strong it becomes. You know yourself when you get angry over something, and you allow the anger to take over completely, someone controls you.
You’re so shy to get people, you break some dishes, you feel angry all over for no reason. But you’re responding to it, you’re reacting to it. But you just sit down and become a witness to it. Become the observer. And watch, observe. Watch the anger. Watch the depression. Watch the gloomy feelings taking over, but do nothing. If you don’t try to practice self-inquiry this time, it will be useless.
If you don’t attempt to practice meditation, it will be useless. If you can only keep still in your mind, you’re not reacting to the situation. A wonderful feeling will come over you. And negative feelings will leave you all by themselves. Truly, it works this way. In other words, if you don’t think of an affirmation,
If you don’t consider to whom it is to come, forget about that for a while. If you don’t reply to it, just observe it as if it’s happening to somebody else. Watch yourself separate from the situation, lose you in the situation. As soon as you can feel that you’re not a situation, a condition, then you hit the game. If you feel that the condition is you, it will become progressively worse. Observe yourself, watch yourself. Even if you become very angry, whatever happens doesn’t matter, what matters is how you handle the situation. Since the real nature is Brahman, sat-chit-ananda, if you’re willing to be still enough, Brahman becomes strong inside of you. Overwhelming completely with kindness and peace and love and mercy and joy. These feelings will come through all by themselves. Why? Because it’s your true nature. This is what the universe consists of. Brahman. The whole universe is Brahman. Kindness. Love. Peace. Joy. And if you become silly, you’re tuning into the universe, aren’t you? You’re actually tuning into the universe of Brahman. Everything is Brahman. Brahman, so are you. So where’s the anger? Where’s the depression? You’re gone. Disappeared. You are Krishna. You are Shiva. You are Buddha. There’s never any suffering for Shiva, Buddha, Krishna. They can’t suffer. They’re all pervading. Innocence like a sky. So who suffers? The ego. You hear the ego. The ego gets hurt. The ego is in pain. The ego wants revenge. The ego wants to be boisterous, start trouble.
So what is the ego? If you can become still enough, quiet enough, there will be no place for the ego to have its problems, to have trouble. The ego will not be able to do anything for you, for when the silence and the silliness is only Brahman. And speaking of Krishna, today is Krishna’s birthday. Happy birthday Krishna. We wish him all the best, all the time. pure awareness to get the better of you. You will be unconditioning. You are in nature. You are only appears to be your body. You are like the ocean. It’s always the same. You appear and disappear in the ocean. You are like the ocean. And the bubbles and waves and these are like your problems, like life. They come and go. They change constantly, consistently. Everything changes on the surface of the ocean. Bubbles appear and disappear. But you never change. You are always the same. You are like bound to the space. There are planets in boundless space, suns, universes, bodies, everything hangs in space. They keep changing, changing, changing. Your body keeps changing, changing, changing. Your body becomes older and older and older. Some will fall away. Then new body takes its place. Dead body falls away, new body takes its place. All this happens in boundless space. But you’re not the body that keeps changing, you’re the boundless space. You’re the sub-stone of all existence. If you understand what I’m talking about, I can’t worry about anything.
I can’t have a problem. How can anything be wrong? You only find a problem with something wrong when you believe you’re not bound in space, you’re not the ocean, but you’re the images. When you believe you’re the images, you have a problem. Because the image is always fighting sticking up for its rights, trying to change itself and others. You’re bound in space. You’re like a tree. tree. The tree gives shelter to people. The leaves change. The leaves come, the leaves go. There’s a tree. I like the tree. They’re never changing. In the cinema, there’s always covered images of things happening. People are dying. People are born. People get married. All sorts of things happen in the images. You’re on the screen. You are Brahman. You are the ultimate reality. You are the ultimate wonders. You use six-year guns to remember you are all the time. You don’t have any problems. Uncle Brampton had a problem. And since your divine nature is all pervading, only present, there’s no place where Brampton is not. There’s no place where you are not. You’re everywhere. Everywhere. Open yourself up to reality. You’re becoming still, quiet. You’re not trying to use too many words to find yourself. Words come and words go. But the silence is forever. You have to catch yourself. Catch yourself worrying, thinking, being depressed angry upset catch yourself don’t go along with it but catch yourself be kind to yourself learn to love yourself and this way you love others love is only an image of yourself that self is you and everybody else three people are so we think we’re different from each other and we’re not look like there’s many of course we’re dreaming a mortal dream when you dream at night there are many people many situations many conditioning you’re dreaming so you’re the one that’s dreaming everything it’s all will come out of your mind. You’re a dreamer. What comes out of you? You create a dream.
And so this is this dream here. Problems with people. Because people don’t do what you want. You don’t come angry at them. You’ll be upset. You’ll be upset. But when you know the truth of oneness, there will be a problem to resolve. There will be a situation to change. In order There should be something happening that you have to fix. Remedy. Take care. If you understand, you’re the dreamer. Dreaming about this whole universe. And if I end it, you laugh at yourself. You become very happy. What can disturb you then? So the choice is yours. The choice is always yours. Everything is pure, ordained, and predestined. You still have the choice to make the decision. You can react to the world and after one. You want to go deep within yourself and become free and liberated? of the world and suffer. This is the truth you have. This is the only freedom you have. Everything else is pure than anything, predestined. So what are you doing with your freedom? Find the conditioning of this world, the clues you react to it a certain way? Or are you looking at everything and laughing and saying, neti neti, net this, net this, becoming still in the same way you are, knowing yourself as pure consciousness? Of course, you want want to, but you don’t have to get up again later. The same thing will happen, so you might as well get confronted. Confront yourself all the time. Sit down in a chair and just watch everything happening to you. Watch all the feelings caving in on you. Observe everything happening to you. And don’t react to it. Remember all the powers on your side, the the rest is on your side. Of course, you won’t look at it like that. You go back to bed, of course. But you have the choice, remember. Want to react and not to react to a condition.
Is there any choice you’ve got? Well, yes or no. You’re going to sleep in the now because of your inclination, as you say. But no because you have the choice whether you’re going to get into it or not. The very choice you make, action will follow the choice. And you go back to bed and go to sleep and you wake up. You have nothing to find those feelings that inside some place. They’re in abeyance, perhaps. They’re still inside of you. And you have to confront them again sometime. If you watch them, they confront them immediately. They get a chance to go into abeyance. They follow them up. And they get rid of them once and for all. If you go to sleep, they’ll come up again sometime. If you go to sleep, you’re not getting rid of them. You’re just putting them away for a while. You have to confront them. You are the power, not them. They fall asleep. They go to sleep. They have to get up sometime. The best best to confront them easily is the best thing they do. You look at them and realize that they have no powers all over you, and face them. I laugh at them. They go away. Do you always have a choice? Yeah. You do. I don’t know about you. You make a choice. You make everything. It’s It’s only a game, you don’t play the game with yourself. You make a choice to do what you need to do, to be and not to be.
Where else will the choice come from? There’s no God outside of you who makes a choice for you. There’s only you. You have the feeling to make a choice yourself. The idea of I should make this choice rather than that choice. The idea whatsoever, it’s just there. In other words, when the ability to not react to the circumstances is there, that’s the choice you make? That’s the choice you make, exactly. And what about when the ability isn’t there, when you do react? It’s always there and we just don’t notice it. There’ll be a time when the truth will be available again for you. The truth is always available. But we don’t see that all the time. Yes. So there is a choice always there, but a lot of times we don’t acknowledge it. Indeed, yes. So it appears that we don’t have the choice. Yes. It’s not necessary to react. Yes, it’s never necessary, but we continue to believe that it is. Of course, yes. Because we’re stuck inside the reaction. Indeed. How do you foster the awareness of having a choice? Because when you’re stuck in reaction, it’s not even much really consideration. You just end the reaction, and it’s not really a possibility to give up. Yes, of course. By watching yourself again and again. If you keep watching yourself, maybe this time didn’t work. You got caught up in it. But there’s an idea someplace in the back where you have a choice.
And the next time it happens, you’ll have a greater choice. The choice will become greater and greater. until you finally make the right choice, and all something will stop. It’s almost like hypnosis, when you’re in reaction, you’re hypnotized to the fact that there’s a choice. You can say that. The experience of it is like that, you know, because it’s just, there’s not, even if I say to myself, I’m going to not react to the circumstances, a lot of times that thought and effort is position, kind of like taking a position in response to the circumstances, and if I’m using effort in responding to the circumstances, I’m still being controlled by it, whether it’s a mind state or a body state or a world state. The church has to become still and quiet. That’s not, it’s almost like that’s, usually when that happens, it’s a spontaneous arising. It doesn’t even, I don’t even have the thought, I’m not going to react. It’s just like, I don’t react. In practice, this is true, when you practice it, that happens, it’s spontaneous. In the beginning, things will overwhelm you, negative feelings, negative conditions will overwhelm you. But as you keep taking charge of yourself, and you don’t have a choice, then it comes It doesn’t make the right choice. It’ll happen by itself. It’s not spending anything. You stayed caught on that one point where you couldn’t see if there was going to be somebody not reacting, then there’s still an ego there trying to manipulate the situation.
But it’s not about taking one side or the other. It’s just about not having any part in the whole thing. Indeed. And a friend. Yesterday, I was sitting in the car, and I started to talk to you, so to speak. I was actually shouting at you sometimes, so to speak. Then I came through the clear and the first thought, and I don’t know how good I can do it. And I saw that the so-called ultimate reality and what’s sometimes called pure awareness is no different from the ordinary, one of the middle awareness that’s every day. And I’m not talking about an awareness that I don’t know, but the one that I do know, like I’m aware that I’m talking, I’m aware that I’m seeing here, because awareness doesn’t have any grades, it doesn’t have any level. there’s only awareness, there’s nothing in it that’s, there’s no holy awareness or ordinary awareness, there’s only ordinary awareness, so the ordinary awareness every day, that’s exactly the same as the pure awareness. This is quite true, it’s quite true, very true. There’s nothing to do. Awareness is awareness. Yeah, but it’s nothing to do, it’s here all the time. Exactly. There’s only one awareness, that’s just what’s right. There’s no way to know your awareness, there’s no way to know your awareness. And there’s no way to get there and there’s nothing to achieve. Exactly. But you’ve got it. Now all I’ve got to get rid of is the ego that I think still exists.
Because that still exists to me as clear as anything. At least that’s how it seems to me. I still think of an ego in a bank of like 10-month meals or more. Observe yourself using the ego, use yourself as an ego, unless there’s no ego, there’s no ego. Ask yourself. Most things have got an ego, unless you have no ego. But you’re on the right track. That’s good.