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Good afternoon. Spiritual life does not consist in listening to words, or listening to speeches, or even doing sadhana. Spiritual life is a matter of letting go. Removing all of the ideas that you have in your head about being human or having a mind. In other words, spiritual life is a matter of letting go, not gaining. Not adding on to what you already know. But removing what you already know. For what you know makes you human. What you think you know makes you intelligent in this world. And this keeps you back from spiritual life, from reality. From reality you are all together different than what you think you are. Your true nature is Brahman, such as Ananda, absolute reality. This is what you already are. You don’t have to try to bring it to you or make it happen. Again, what you have to do is remove what you’re doing. It’s really what you’ve got. mentally, and the truth will present itself all by itself. A good sign of practice is in the morning when you get out of bed, when you first awaken. All great traditions say the same thing. What you think about when you awaken, you carry through the day. For instance, if you awaken thinking about paying your bills and you should have cash, it will become worse as the day goes on. What kind of ideas will come to you when it’s bad? Something’s going to happen if you can’t pay your bills, or if you’re in a sickness.
You wake up thinking about your sickness. You have a cold or a cancellator you’ve got. You’re starting an initial idea. Anything will carry on with more words, more ideas, in the same order. When the evening comes, it will be a physical wreck. Mentally thinking about these things. I’m trying to save all of the things that you think about as soon as you awaken. your character is able to become more stronger. So you must train yourself to wake up and think of other things. No matter how things are going to be rough in your life, what’s going on in your life. You must not think of these things at all. What we’re going to think of is to provocate them. So you must awaken and think of positive things. We’ll talk about three aspects of awakening now. Three things to think about when you awaken. Unless you get it at one at a time. Depending on how you feel. The first one is to practice self-inquiry, the second one is to self-surrender, and the third one is to see things the way they are, to be able to see things the way they really are, or solve without them for terror, self-inquiry.
And as soon as you wake in the morning, as soon as you open your eyes, before the mind takes over, remember the mind is resting in the heart all evening, all night, the mind is resting in the heart. And when you wake up, the mind rushes to the body and becomes the mind, the heart and the mind. If we think about heart things, you can inquire on it like this. You can say, who wakes up? Who’s awake? Who’s this eye? Where did the eye come from? Who’s this eye that’s awake? Who am I? And it keeps still. This is as soon as you open your eyes, as soon as you’re awake in the morning. If this person comes to you, you do the same thing. You inquire on whom did these thoughts come? Who’s seeing these thoughts? I am. Who is this I? Where did the I come from? Why would I think about it? If I think of anything outside myself, I can’t be that self. That’s what I’m thinking about. Are there two me’s? Are there two I’s? Do you know what I think? Let’s ask each other’s questions. Inquire. Ask each other’s questions continuously. Where did the I come from? Who gave birth to the I? If you think this way, it will carry you through the day, inquiring, and go to work. Keep inquiring. It will work. If you’re not happy with the job, I want you to do the job.
Keep inquiring like this. It will be long. That’s what will happen to you. You’ll notice that you’re becoming happier and happier. It is. You’re actually becoming happier and happier. It’s because things are going away because something good has happened to you. You got a promotion already. On the contrary, you’re becoming happy, because you’re inquiring about the eye, that’s why you’re becoming happy. Just by inquiring about this eye, you become happy, totally happy, for no reason. When you inquire about the eye, the eye becomes weaker and weaker. And the eye becomes weaker, the true nature of yourself, happiness, is the biggest place, that’s why you become happy. The true nature is happiness, unaligned happiness, infinite happiness. Happiness is because something good is happening to you materially. Spiritual happiness, true happiness, real happiness. It comes by itself. So you don’t control this whole thing. There are no outside forces coming upon you and causing things to happen to you. Unless you believe in this and you make it happen yourself. There’s no outside force of evil that you have to contend with and make it go away. doesn’t exist. There’s no evil. Except in your thinking. If you have enough faith in this universe, nothing can happen to you. Negative nature. Nothing can ever hurt you in this universe. Unless you believe it can. Unless you think it can. Unless you give it the power. Remember, you’re giving it the power. You’re doing it. You’re beyond good and bad. You’re You’ll be done right from your mind.
You’ll be done up and down. You’ll be done all of the dualities. Dualities arise from you. They abide in you and they go back to you. So you’re making your life every time you get out of bed in the morning and you think. Every day you begin to think you’re making your life. You’re shaping your life. Forget about the past. You’re worried about the future. What are you supposed to do now? If you do the right things now, the future will take care of itself. That’s the only way it works. I mean, you’re supposed to put it into your thinking, I’m inquiring from these sorts of gum. Why are these sorts? Where do they come from? It’s a wonderful tool you guys have to find yourself. Just who you are. Keep it up. And one day something will happen, something wonderful will happen. But you don’t want to make it happen, nobody else is but you. You give all the power. There’s no other power but you. Look at the world that never reacts to the world. Look at the world that never reacts to it. See what’s happening in the world that never reacts to the world. Watch manifestation. Self-inquiry, we don’t know how to do this. And when you’re supposed to try to do this for a while, you can change it to self-surrender. Self-surrender is when you realize you do not have a life of your own. You have no life at all.
It is consciousness living your life. Consciousness is all there is. Effortless choice with pure awareness, so that you can do it if you’re bhakti devoted, if you’re a path, if you’re a devotional person. Submit everything to bhakti through devotion. Surrender yourself, that’s my will, Lord, designed. That’s my will, Lord, designed. The force of my own. I have no desire to my own. This is my God. I surrender everything to it right now. Surrender totally everything you’ve got when you awaken. First thing upon awakening. Surrender totally when you’re first awakened. If any source comes to you about problems, give them up. Say, say, be to the Lord. Take these problems from me. When it comes to you surrender, Surrenders completely totally. Whatever fears come through, surrender them. Let go of them and surrender them all completely totally. You’ll feel wonderful when you do this. You have no responsibility for yourself. You have no responsibility at all for your future, for your actions. It is all God’s love, not yours. You surrender your friend, a peace that you’ve never found before, a harmony that you’ve never had before. It will come by itself for you, with your melody, and your humbleness. Remember that Bhakti is hard knowledge. Yannin and Bhakti-Bos, humility always. And love your problems, love your troubles, love your fears, love your frustrations. It’s all surrender. You’re going to be ashamed to do this. You’re going to know that you are like a leaf in the breeze.
You can build it this way and that way. You are a leaf in consciousness. Let go. Let go of your fear. Let go of your frustration. Let go of your desire, every want, every need. Let go of everything. Give it all up to God. You never ask to be blind, or have karma, or have experiences. Do these things, do these things whatsoever. So give it up to God. God will take care of you wonderfully. And then you get two messages, two messages aside from that, practice. Want to self-inquiry, want to self-surrender. Surrender yourself. And it’s a third practice you can practice, and knowing the way things are. Just knowing the way things are, it’ll be free. to be emancipated, to have moksha, affirmation. Don’t know if you think of the way things are. All of things, like a snake in the world, accept this, believe this. You have total freedom. Focus your attention on the self. When you get up in the morning, say to yourself, I am consciousness, I am another body. I am the self, pure self, pure awareness. I am Brahman. These are powerful statements to make in the mind when you open your eyes and wake up. One thing you have to remember, when you say I am Brahman, I am consciousness, It looks like your body. Your body can never be God, your body can never be consciousness, it’s impossible. Your body can never be yourself. I am, it’s not your body that you’re talking about.
Remember this. You’re saying, I am this consciousness. You’re saying, I am as a self. I am pure awareness. It’s not your body at all. But when you say, I am. Remember this again. When you first look up in the morning, you say, I am pure awareness. I’m of the truthless pure awareness. I am Brahman. and said to Ananda, you’re never referring to your body. You’re referring to the illusion, it can’t be anything. You’re referring to I am. I am that I am. You’re the same as consciousness itself. It’s absolute reality. So when you say, I am Brahman, I am consciousness, you make me say the truth, aren’t you? You’re trying to change a thing. You’re trying to change anything. You’re trying to turn your body to something it wasn’t before. You’re referring to your body at all. You’re referring to pure awareness. When you say this in the morning, when you say, I am Brahman, You’re opening up a new idea. What can I do with you? Say it to yourself, I am Brahman. Don’t think of yourself. It’s a statement. Bring it to the truth. I am Brahman. In the absolute reality, say it to yourself. And it affects your body, remember. Because of habit, it’s not saying that your body is Brahman. But it says the body we’re talking about at all. Forget about your body. Think about I am. I am consciousness. I am Brahman. I am the Self. I am Assetta Dhananda.
So you have three messages of practice. Yourself inquiry. If you wake up in the morning, you inquire, who am I? What will come up? What wakes up? When you get out of bed, what else? When you wake up in the morning, you practice I’ll be fearless, in the light, the truth, and the way. I have no fears. I surrender them to God. It’s always freedom. It’s always free. Two methods of practices, not the gods, not your body, not your mind, but you, really you, deeply. If you can truly practice the signature with you today, you’ll awaken in no time, you have to awaken. And you’ve got to freely breathe. Learn what these things are, by surrender, and by yourself and Corey. Let’s help you do these things. I can only stand with you. I’m going to do them for you. We need you to the goldmine, which you have to be yourself to find the gold. So you need to see methods as it’s practice. If you’re practicing, call me and tell me that you’re feeling great. You can tell me your problems all the time. You’re not practicing, you can’t do anything. I can only see you see us four hours a week. This is up to you. There’s no accident in a class like this. No way it’s in. No mistakes. Be happy. Any questions you’d like to ask, anybody? Yes. I think that’s not true. You keep acquiring all the amount of improvements as well.
You keep still. something else will take its place, and you inquire, who am I, what is the need, I do as far as you go, say, who am I, and keep still, when you keep still, something else will happen, every time the thought comes to you, who am I, keep still, you don’t answer the question, you answer the question, you’re in your mind, you’re trying to destroy the mind, when you say, I’m a woman, you’re using your programming, you’re going to train you through this with your will, You say nothing after you say, who am I? But upon the source coming, you ask for them to come. More cells will come to you after that. You don’t know what kind of crazy things. So go, who am I? Again, what is your spot? Where do you source come from? And do it again and again and again. And if you keep practicing, one day the answers will come to you. The right answer to join you for. and you’ll feel wonderful and you’ll find great and it’s great. Just keep practicing. Remember to love yourself, to pray for yourself, to worship yourself, to bow to yourself.
For God lives in you as you. Peace. Om Shanti. Now I’ll Prasad.