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You are going to start talking. You are afraid to become still and be by yourself. You have to practice this. At home, shut off the radio, shut off the TV, pull the phone out of the socket, and just sit still. See how long you can do this. This is very important for your spiritual progress. You have to learn to sit still, confront yourself, confront your thoughts, your emotions, your mind, but do not become frightened of these things, for in the end, you are the power of everything. but unless you really learn to sit still you cannot possibly make any progress in this past you did not come here to hear me talk you came here to be still with me when you are still, everything happens by itself everything that’s supposed to happen won’t happen by itself when you’re still, perfectly still, calm, relaxed no hurry, no worry no appointment not having to look at your watch or anything not expecting any phone calls just be still with yourself perfectly still let the world go by when things happen all around you but you just keep still you’ll be amazed what happens if you can do this just to keep still all the teachings all the lessons all the yogas are the teachers to keep still the culmination of your teachings is to keep still it’s not as easy as it sounds if you haven’t done it before movement leads to action action leads to karma so whenever your emotions are running away with you whenever your mind is full of thoughts and ideas you’re creating karma. Of course you understand the ultimate is no karma.

The only thing you are about your mind is karma. You’ve created yourself by movement. In other words, movement causes karma. When you keep slowly transcend everything, you become free. Someone asked me to say a few words about sages, saints, and yogis. So we’ll talk about these things for a while. When a person begins in the spiritual path, I say wild, I begin to see, they can only go so far by themselves. They can only go any further than that. So if you’re just going to stay within yourself, if you want to make progress in the spiritual path, only your heart knows this. When you put that first in your life, then something will happen. You’ll be led to a rock, a tree, a brook, a mountain, a person, as the next step in your unfoldment. Usually you’ll find a guru, a yogi, you can have a spiritual teacher, and yogi things. You’ll become interested in hatha yoga, krama yoga, raja yoga, our stringy yoga, the Eightfold Path of Yoga, kriya yoga, so forth and so on. And this is good for you. It gives you out of mischief. It’s good to practice these things. And you continue practicing these things, you’ll become attracted to a saint. a saint and a kind being a saint needs to be practicing karma yoga a saint needs to be kind of a young gentleman or a woman who wants to save the world who brings peace to the world a saint needs to be kind to one another some of us are attracted to a sage a sage is a completely different category a sage has nothing to do with yoga or saintliness a sage completes freedom through liberation this is what a sage is when a question is asked what’s the difference between myself and a sage There is no difference.

When you see, you have created a sage yourself, and your image, and your likeness. Therefore, as long as you’re seeing a sage with your thoughts, and your ideas, or what a sage is supposed to be, making a big mistake. The real difference between a sage and yourself is simply this. The world will be real, and the sage knows the world is raman. The sage knows the world is absolute reality. If you may intellectually say, I know the world is pure awareness. I know the world is Brahman.

I know the world is absolute reality. When you say I know, you’re not going deep enough. You’re not going far enough. When the state says the world is Brahman, I know this,

The state is not speaking from a superficial experience. But from a deep, deep conviction, I know. When you say you know, you’re speaking like you’re speaking about everything else.

When you say I’m hungry, thirsty, I need happiness in my life. I don’t want this, I need that. They have the same power to say that I know that the world is Brahman. You know it intellectually, and then you get to know it intellectually. If you know it intellectually, nothing will happen. You have to know it with passion. You have to know deep, deep inside. Deep, deep inside. Very deep inside. The world is Brahman. Once you’ve been practicing, you can’t know this. You’re speaking words. You go around telling everybody the world is Brahman, but at the same time, looking out the window to see if somebody sold your car. If you want your job, you worry about your job, so you can see in yourself all of the details of this world, and you’re saying the world is Brahman. If you really believe the world is Brahman, how can you worry about these things? If you really knew the world is Brahman, you’d be one of the happiest people on this earth. It’s really happy. It’s when you feel there’s nothing to hurt you, because Brahman is love, bliss, joy. It’s like seeing a picture in 3D. How many of you have seen movies in 3D? You see 3D movies with your glasses and your watch, and a train is coming toward you, tough speed looks like a train comes out of the screen, comes into the audience and goes into you. But you laugh.

This isn’t real, this isn’t the truth. It’s not happening. It’s not a collusion. This is the way a sage sees the world. Like a 3D movie. A sage gives nothing about births or deaths. Gone in between, but a sage is very free and liberated. But now you see the sage in your own image. This is where it becomes interesting. When we search for a sage, when we go to Australia, India, some place, to find a real sage. And then in the beginning we’re very enamored with the sage. We tell our friends, he gave me that look, and it just melted, gave me a touch, I’m going to leave this world, and we read about the sage. But if you save the sage for a while, a very interesting happens. You realize that the sage is just like you. The sage eats, the sage drinks, watch the TV, he goes to the bathroom, eats ice cream, and there’s all the things that you do. You become disillusioned. You start whispering. I wonder if he’s really in light. I remember what you’re doing. You’re seeing the sage through your eyes, and you can only see so far. In the United States, you recognize the sage. They’ll see themselves in you. What has to do with you, everything. You’re here for one reason, to awaken. You’re here to awaken, that’s all you’re here for. It’s the only business the sage has with you, is to make you awaken.

But the way of making you awaken is different than you think. Your relationship to the stage is very important. You must be non-judgmental. Whatever you see is your own image. It’s the same as looking at the world. When you look at the world, you see troubles, problems. Man to humanity to man. You’re seeing yourself. You’re that way. You only see yourself, nothing else. In the world, you see love, peace, happiness. Again, you’re seeing yourself. This world is like a piece of clay. It bolts into the shape that you would give it. Everybody sees something else. And they argue with each other. This is the way, this is the way, this is right, this is wrong, this is good, this is bad. And your arguments never get you anywhere. Remember, you’re only seeing yourself. Just by knowing this, you begin to keep quiet. Just by understanding this, you stop judging. You leave the world alone, you leave people alone. What difference does it make to you who’s right and who’s wrong? What’s good, what’s bad? I’m trying to make things right all over this world. I have a hard time. That’s why it says, if you want to find out about this world to know yourself first about this world.

Whenever you feel an emotion, whenever you feel hurt, aren’t you saying indirectly the world is real? So if really the world is unreal, the world is dream, mirage.

How do you react to life? How do you allow things about you to annoy you, to upset you? The world has to rectify things, change things, make things right. What you’re really doing is trying to make things go your way, the way that you think you’re right. in life. You’re trying to change things to know the way that you want it to go. So when we get on a path like this, we drop everything. We drop it all. Everything that happened before we forget it totally, completely. This is a new beginning right this moment. Brand new beginning. The path is dead. The head don’t hold on you. Don’t talk about it. Don’t look about it. Discuss it with no one. As far as all your so-called sins, things that you in the path that you’re sorry for. In a new state of consciousness, you did absolutely nothing.

You’re totally free and forgiven. This doesn’t mean that you have a license to go and hurt people and do things that you did before. It doesn’t matter. On the contrary, it doesn’t matter. So for the consequences of your deeds and actions, if you want to live in the consciousness of oneness, this is absolutely reality, then you’re safe and secure. And no harm can ever come to you from anything. You’re violently protected. This of course happens only when you surrender totally to the Godhead.

When you surrender totally to consciousness, it requires total surrender to yourself in every aspect of your life. I know I have a life of my own.

It is all consciousness. Therefore, if it’s consciousness, I’m the only responsible for anything I’ve ever done. There’s been a new freedom, a new happiness, a new peace. We’re now forgiven for anything I’ve ever done in the past. It always starts in the morning when you get out of bed.

Remember these things and work on yourself. When you first awaken, you try to make the mind go back into the heart, but when you first awaken, you say I. As soon as you say I, the mind goes into the brain, and you isolate. As soon as the ego goes back into the brain, the fun begins. Well, thinking about the day, you remember that you’ve created this world when you wake up. You want to remember these things. See, so this is my world creation, I created it. Where did it come from? Where was it when I was asleep? In deep sleep, there was no world for me. I awakened the world that was here. I was in a different world, and my dream was somewhere else. This particular world didn’t exist for me at all. But the dream world did, and I was sure that I was in the dream as a real person. But now the dream world is gone, and I’m here in this world. I don’t allow this world to bother me any longer, to annoy me, to make me sick, make me see things and complain about them, make me guess about everything, make me become a real negative person when I see something wrong, complaining. I’m in I’m in the dream world. The only reality I get is the dream world is stronger it becomes for me.

You’re saying all these things when you get out of bed in the morning. Then you can ask yourself, well, who am I? Wish me so this way.

What am I doing in this world? What is my purpose? Hang up on your activities. Do not take care of themselves. Again, separately, if you don’t think about your problems, they will go away. You’ll never solve them. It’s not true.

And because you think about your problems, that you have problems. If you didn’t think about your problems, where are the problems that come from? Where are they going to be? You arrive because you allow the eye thought to go back into the brain and think about your problems. So you go back into another thought. Watch yourself, observe yourself, but not think about it. See the objects and inquire who is the fear. Who is the fear of the objects? You are behind the scene and the fear and the object. The mortal self, such as Ananda, the Atman, and the nature is all-pervading, all-pervading consciousness. I understand what I’m saying to you. You’re not this feeble person that’s separated from life, worried about problems. It’s not you at all. Get rid of that person forever. You are beyond that. The perfect reality is that it regrets us in the beginning of time. Sometimes the world seems to care about all of you and you can’t let go. Sometimes the world gets you and it makes you miserable, it makes you fear. It makes you believe something is wrong someplace. You can’t get out of it. At this time you practice a certain mantra technique. Some shady things with you because I want you to do something. Never allow your thoughts to get a hold of you, the world to get a hold of you. When you feel helpless and you feel… do nothing, practice this mantra. Anyhow to say, who am I?

Hold your breath and say, I am consciousness. Excellency I am not the body. Still keep your mind busy. Keep your mind real busy. Keep on thinking. Anyhow to say, who am I? Before you exhale, say, I am Consciousness, and when you exhale, say, I am Mother Body. Let’s try doing this for a while. Close your eyes. Inhale, say, Who am I? Hold your breath, say, I am Consciousness. Exhale, say, I am Mother Body. Say, I am Mother Body. With your breathing, feel it deep in your heart. Feel yourself becoming purified. Allow peace and relax you if you come to do this. Shantay, shantay, shantay, peace, peace. Feel free to ask some questions. What gives experience its validity? What makes experience valid? Your mind. If you have an experience, your mind makes it valid because the experience is always in the mind. Without the mind, there’s no experience. What is the experience? What comes from the mind? It’s just another belief system. Of course, indeed. If you don’t mind, I can have an experience. Everything that you think happens to you is in the mind. Even though the progress you’re making, everything that you’re doing is all in the mind. Because after all, who has to make progress? If you’re a little boy and you don’t exist, who stays to make progress? It all goes back to the mind. The mind creates a game and the mind plays a game. When they’re looking at it, they’re thinking it.

Break up the mind. Break up any value. Or credit. See nothing. Break everything up. You’re responsible for your self-conditioning right now. Without conditioning, there’s nothing. And you’re in your true state. When you’re trying to do something, you’re using your mind. What you’re trying to do, what you’re trying to do. I don’t know how good you feel, it’s always the mind. Without trying to do something. By keeping still. Just keep still, that’s what you gotta do. In stillness, there’s power. All the power in the quietness.

Well, can I keep still? All these methods and things you need to do and practices. Because the mind can’t keep still. All the practices, at least it was still mind. I’ve been keeping my soul first while you need to practice. Be still and know that I am God. Even when you’re still, you know that you’re God. No experience whatsoever. The sense of awareness seems totally separate from anything in the experiential. Any experience is kind of mutually exclusive from that. Yes. It has to be a person who has the experience. The person must go, and the experience will go with it. Get rid of everything. Okay, we’re not reading by Mr. Ed. What year was the Ashtavakal Gita written? I don’t know. 1958. Do you know that? About the 400 AD. Thank you, college. It’s a prasad, self. But you see yourself in others. When you look at your world, you’re seeing yourself. It’s simply a reflection of you, nothing more, nothing less. Therefore, if you’re feeling love, if you’re seeing peace, if you’re seeing and feeling harmony, you’re seeing yourself, the world that you are, nothing else. So think for a moment, what kind of world do you see involved in? The people, I see all kinds of animals, everything. How can I be the only one? When you go back to the dream state, there’s only one person dreaming, isn’t there? isn’t it? You see thousands of people. You’re involved with millions of people, perhaps.

You’re involved with places, persons, and things. But you’re having a dream, aren’t you? Wake up, they’re gone, and you are yourself. Liberation is like that. Right now you believe there are many people, there are others, all kinds of things going on in this world, good and bad, right and wrong, happy and sad, rich and poor, healthy or sick. And you become attached to these things. You might identify with the wrong, with the external dream, instead of identifying with the self. With the self is like waking up from the dream. Having a dream, or getting killed in your dream. Perhaps you’re a soldier, or a nurse, or a doctor, or a maid. You have all kinds of experiences. You’re awakened, you live a dream. Such is this kind of life, which you’re living now. You believe this is your life, your external life, involved in all sorts of things. You react to these things, as if they were real. The greater you react to things, the greater you pull into Maya, the inner of this universe, you’re deeper involved, deeper involved, deeper involved. The time comes when you become tired of this whole game. You start to search, you start to look, you search within yourself, You begin to inquire experiences who’s going through all these things. Inquire further, well, who am I? Where do I come from? I am deeper and deeper.

One day feel something deep within you. An ineffable light that will be gone. Hopefully, I mean, you will appear to be the way you are now, today.

But your entire reasoning system has changed. Feel yourself as being the person you are. Even though people see you as the same person. You might become the mirror instead of the reflection. Identify with the mirror, or with the self. Beyond the shell of the doubt, of everything in this world, everything in this universe, is a superimposition upon the self. The paper and the print on the paper. In the newspaper you look at the print, you may not think of the paper which the print is on. And the print only the words. Which without the paper there would not be any print. This is with the self. Reality is like the paper. The print is like the people, places and things, on the paper. The paper, you identify with the paper, you know you’re the paper, and the print has nothing to do with you. It can influence you or do anything to you. You know without you there’s no universe, there’s no ink, words, there’s no alphabet, alphabetical letters. Look at the experiences you’ve had in this world, good and bad, happy and sad. You’re growing older all the time. There’ll come a time in your life when you the body, you have no idea what’s going on. If it’s truth, awareness is nice to speak. Understand that you are pure awareness, after this choice was pure awareness, through our consciousness, through absolute reality, through Brahman, through the ultimate reality. If it goes worse, beyond description, right happiness, that you can’t even imagine exists, words that I’m using will not really come into your mind because you’ll have no mind.

There will be no words. You will just be these things that I’m talking about. And it will be like forever. You drop your body, as far as you’re concerned. There never was a body to drop. And your body never existed for you. But to others, they will see a body dropping. Others will see all kinds of things. Human things. Physical things. Mental things. But you have overcome. You don’t have anything that you have to experience. You are free, totally, absolutely free, free in beauty, free in love, free in joy, free in happiness, total freedom. Yet you will not use these words, because I have to explain to you what happens. These words are inadequate, omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent.

I’m not referring to you that you feel you are in right now, to human being. Think of yourself as a human being, being God. never be God, it’s impossible but the truth about this is you’re not human and you take the mind off yourself your body and its manifestations and you start to identify with consciousness talking is to make you see that I’m saying to you, there’s nothing you have to do but you have to practice self-inquiry you have to practice going within you have to do things effortless, choiceless feel this right now feel the nothingness which you are no thing going on within you Nothing happening. The thought is one thing to become enlightened. There’s nobody wanting anything. It’s kind of among the mind in duality. It’s the creation of the mind. Since the mind is unreal, it’s of no great value. This is so, and my observation also is in duality. It’s the creation of the mind. It’s unreal, it has no value, and so, that puts me right back on square one.

On the contrary, you begin to observe and watch yourself thinking about these things. Observe yourself doing what you just said, doing what you’re doing. Watching you react in this way to the things you’re talking about. There’s something beyond that, in other words. It allows you to do what you do.

That’s something that’s consciousness. it observes you in this way through the things you’re talking about the consciousness of the objects to be the witness the objects of your reaction so when you get the mind about consciousness by not thinking at all by just being totally, absolutely free the experience that comes to you is of the mind that comes into yourself is the mind absolutely transmuted and destroyed you do this by doing nothing by just being yourself spiritual discernment by discrimination and doing the things I’m talking about. And if that’s too easy for you, then practice self-inquiry. Who thinks this way? When do these thoughts come? Who wants to know these things? The I do? What you really think is what is the source of the I? What is the source of the I? Who has these experiences? As you inquire this way, the I will disappear, dissolve.