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Welcome. I welcome you with all my heart. Remember you’ve not come here to listen to words. Words are pretty useful sometimes. You’ve heard words all of your life. And here you are. Nowhere. We’ve been listening to words ever since we were born. We’ve exchanged words continuously. Yet these words have an effect on us. We’ve been programmed to believe something is good, something is bad, something is right, something is wrong. But every word that’s said to us. We have to have a foundation. We have to have something to hold on to. So when words are thrown at us, we can’t just become puppets, or draw mats, get angry, upset. The words that are told to us are going to hurt us if we allow them to hurt us. It can make us happy if we allow them to make us happy. It’s supposed to be to be self-realized. We don’t know if we’re self-realized or not. It can give us something to awaken us. Of course, self-realization has only words also. The words are the ability to keep quiet and keep silent. Yet people ask me continuously, What’s the fastest way to become self-realized? I want to become peaceful. It’s nice to everybody. There are certain principles we have to practice. Certain truths we have to believe in. There are values we have to practice. There are three such values that we’ll discuss this evening, this afternoon. There are three principles we’ll discuss this afternoon. The first one is being happy and judgmental.
When I say being happy, what do I mean? It’s the fact that when you’re happy, vibration, so to speak, which causes good things to come into your life. Always want to make yourself happy all of the time. of all existence. Self-happy, you can contact the sub-stranding of the universe. Get yourself happy under all circumstances. Ask yourself, am I really happy? My life does make me happy. Any objects that make me happy? Any certain people in my life that make me happy? Happiness should come by itself. Any person in mind, their own business is always happy. What does it take to make me happy? I speak of pure awareness, absolute reality, Brahman. There’s happiness, There are also elements of happiness. Try to differentiate them. The next thing is self-realization. It’s different from consciousness. It’s different from absolute reality. It’s different from happiness. They’re all the same. They’re all happiness. Just make yourself happy. Try to make yourself happy every day. Think of happy times. And you can assure you if you make yourself happy, you’re also becoming a friend. Versus happiness, you identify yourself with universal happiness. So be happy at all times. Just be happy. You are not judgmental, but you are a peaceful universe, with God, with life. When you judge things, you always have to judge things from a human standpoint. I mean you pay a right for a while, but it brings all kinds of questions. Whenever you judge something else, you are judging yourself.
The reflections of what you see in the mirror, you see yourself. When you judge something, you are judging yourself. You are seeing yourself. Accept this to love yourself. That’s the most big one. You love yourself first. What we call God loves you also, if there is no judgment of nothing, in the ultimate sense. But in the interim, we want to act in this world, which ourselves up, higher. Good people, bad people, all kinds of people. All kinds of conditions. You’re not just love with the universe. You own yourself that you love. Everything is created by yourself. You love everybody. It can disturb you except your own thinking, your own mind. I want to speak to you so you have thoughts coming in. You have thoughts about this, thoughts about that. and you listen to your thoughts this is where the problem is, you listen to your thoughts and immediately as soon as your thoughts come in, change your mind then your thoughts become judgmental your thinking this is wrong, this is right, this is good, this is bad just being judgmental you just put a step to thinking immediately as it starts this is what we teach you by practicing self-inquiry simply your life is difficult forgive yourself for past mistakes the less these things will affect you by saying because you don’t know who you are, your body, your mind, and it goes deep deeper in yourself. Being happy without judging, this means you go deeper in yourself.
You’re not free to ask questions. Practice self-realization every day. Practices. Like self-inquiry, meditation of some kind. You’ll be strong inside. You don’t know exactly what to do in the situation. Any situation arises, you know what to do, because it’s the right thing. But if So if you don’t practice any kind of meditation, then you’ll be just like anybody else in this world. You’ll be angry, you’ll want to hurt somebody, and you’ll simply do the wrong action. But once things come up, if you’re practicing meditation of some kind, something will help you with what you have to do. You’ll be told what to do from within. You’ll know what to do in other words. You’ll know what you’re supposed to do and you’ll be right. If you’re not practicing any kind of meditation, what you’re doing will be right or wrong. It will cause more problems. In the future, just think what you’re doing now. Ask yourself, what am I doing now? I have to prepare myself for everything. Am I strong inside through meditation? If you’re strong inside, I don’t have to worry about anything. But maybe you ask that question because you feel doubtful or you’re feeling something wrong. You won’t be able to make the right decision. Forget about that. Know the truth, and the truth will make it free. Ask yourself, who feels this? Who’s the scum? Who feels like we don’t know what to do? Who feels like being a step-line?
And feel positive in yourself. Feel happy. Feel peaceful. Then you make the right decision and the right thing will happen. It sure depends on the person. There’s no one asking this question. Depending on what the person is doing, what kind of person we’re dealing with. Who are you? What are you doing to yourself? What are you doing with yourself? We practice every day. Again, if you’re not even practicing every day, some form of meditation or some form of self-inquiry, then you’re safe and secure. I always make my decision. Where are you coming from? So by being quiet, you become stronger inside. So being quiet is a high teaching. You will know when you need to be quiet. The quiet you become, the stronger you become. And then that comes when you feel all together free. So being quiet is the last thing you’re doing. Continue being quiet and you’ll see what happens. And also pray yourself in inquiry. Ask yourself when these things come. Or fearlessness. I do all my… If you’re being quiet and pray yourself in inquiry, you’ll be in good hands when it will happen to you. If you consider yourself in when or what, just be quiet. Sit in silence. Pray yourself in inquiry. Everything else is the way you’re supposed to.