TABLE OF CONTENTS
Fineprint:
Voice recordings by PhilPhilms
with his permission via Facebook from April 13, 2019.
Original text from Philip Evan Cowlishaw:
“I do not own the rights to this book.
This is for educational purposes only.
Thanks for this beautiful music.”
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bodies are born and bodies die but what
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is it to me bodies come and go in
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consciousness and consciousness itself has
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its roots in me I am life and mine are
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mind and body
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[Music]
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reality can neither be proved nor
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disproved within the mind you cannot
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beyond the mind
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you need not in the real the question
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what is real does not arise the
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manifested and unmanifested are not
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different I am all as myself all is real
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apart from me nothing is real the world
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has no existence apart from you at every
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moment it is but a reflection of
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yourself you create it you destroy it
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[Music]
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to improve the world you must disprove
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it one must die to live there is no
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rebirth except through death
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[Music]
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your personal universe does not exist by
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itself it is merely a limited and
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distorted view of the real it is not the
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universe that needs improving but your
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way of looking
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[Music]
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the universe is a stage on which a world
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drama is being played the quality of the
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performance is all that matters not what
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the actors say and do but how they say
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and do it
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you take it too seriously what is wrong
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with play you have a purpose only as
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long as you’re not complete till then
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completeness perfection is the purpose
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but when you are complete in yourself
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fully integrated within and without
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then you enjoy the universe you do not
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labor at it
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to the disintegrated you may seem to be
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working hard but that is their illusion
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athletes seem to Maitre men deceptive is
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to play and display God is not only true
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and good he is also beautiful
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he creates beauty for the joy of it
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[Music]
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why do you introduce purpose purpose
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implies movement change a sense of
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imperfection God does not aim at beauty
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whatever he does is beautiful would you
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say that a flower is trying to be
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beautiful it is beautiful by its very
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nature similarly God is perfection
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itself not an effort at perfection
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[Music]
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be fully aware of your own being and you
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will be in bliss consciously because you
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take your mind off yourself and make it
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dwell on what you are not you lose your
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sense of well-being of being well
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what is your happiness worth when you
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have to strive and labor for it true
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happiness is spontaneous and effortless
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[Music]
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pleasure and pain alternate happiness
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joy is unshakable what you can seek and
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find is not the real thing
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find what you have never lost find the
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inalienable
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[Music]
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give up all questions except one Who am
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I after all the only fact you are sure
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of is that you are the I am is certain
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the I am this is not discover all that
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you are not body feelings thoughts
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time-space this or that nothing concrete
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or abstract which you perceive can be
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you
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have firm conviction that you are pure
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consciousness
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[Music]
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weak desires can be removed by
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introspection and meditation but strong
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deep-rooted ones must be fulfilled and
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their fruits sweet or bitter tasted
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[Music]
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on the human scale of values deliberate
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effort is considered praiseworthy in
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reality both the Yogi and bogey follow
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their own nature according to
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circumstances and opportunities
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the Yogi’s life is governed by a single
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desire to find the truth the bogey
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serves many masters but the bogey
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becomes a yogi and the yogi may get a
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rounding up and about of boga the final
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result is the same
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[Music]
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the good news of enlightenment will
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sooner or later bring about a
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transformation yes first hearing then
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remembering pondering and so on the man
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who heard the news becomes a yogi while
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the rest continue in their boga
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[Music]
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[Music]
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before the world was
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consciousness was in consciousness it
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comes into being in consciousness it
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lasts and into pure consciousness it
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dissolves at the root of everything is
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the feeling I am the State of Mind there
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is a world is secondary for to be I do
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not need the world the world needs me
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[Music]
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as you are now the personality is only
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an obstacle self identification with the
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body may be good for an infant but true
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growing up depends on getting the body
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out of the way
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normally one should outgrow body based
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desires
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early in life
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as long as you do not see that it is
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mere habit built on memory prompted by
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desire you will think yourself to be a
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person living feeling thinking active
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passive pleased or pained question
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yourself ask yourself is it so Who am I
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what is behind and beyond all this and
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soon you will see your mistake and it is
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in the very nature of a mistake to cease
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to be when seen living in spontaneous
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awareness consciousness of effortless
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living being fully interested in one’s
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life all this is implied in the marriage
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of life and mind
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[Music]
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humility and silence are essential for a
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sadhaka however advanced only a fully
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ripened yani can allow himself complete
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spontaneity the inner fruit must ripen
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until then the discipline the living in
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awareness must go on gradually the
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practice becomes more and more subtle
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until it becomes altogether formless
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[Music]
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the world itself is contact the totality
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of all contacts actualized in
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consciousness the spirit touches matter
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and consciousness results such
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consciousness when tainted with memory
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and expectation becomes bondage
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[Music]
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pure experience does not bind experience
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caught between desire and fear is impure
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and creates karma
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there is nothing wrong with duality as
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long as it does not create conflict
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multiplicity and variety without strife
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is joy in pure consciousness there is
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light for warmth contact is needed above
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the unity of being is the union of love
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love is the meaning and purpose of
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duality
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[Music]
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the five senses and the three qualities
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are your eight steps in yoga and I am is
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the great reminder you can learn from
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them all you need to know be attentive
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inquire ceaselessly that is all all are
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being liberated it is not what you live
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but how you live that matters the idea
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of enlightenment is of utmost importance
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just to know that there is such a
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possibility changes one’s entire outlook
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it acts like a burning match in a heap
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of sawdust all the great teachers did
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nothing else a spark of truth can burn
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up a mountain of lies the opposite is
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also true the Sun of truth remains
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hidden behind the cloud of self
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identification with the body
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[Music]
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the very hearing of enlightenment is a
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promise of enlightenment the very
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meeting with a guru is the assurance of
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liberation perfection is life-giving and
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creative just be aware and affectionate
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intensely a realized man is not rich for
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he has nothing he is not poor for he
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gives abundantly
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he is just propertyless similarly the
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realized man is egoless he has lost the
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capacity of identifying himself with
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anything he is without location
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placeless beyond space and time beyond
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the world beyond words and thoughts is
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he
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[Music]
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it is you who are deep complex
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mysterious hard to understand
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I am simplicity itself compared to you I
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am what is without any distinction
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whatsoever into inner and outer mine and
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yours good and bad what the world is I
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am what I am the world is
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how does it happen that each man creates
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his own world when a number of people
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are asleep
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each dreams his own dream only on
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awakening the question of many different
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dreams arises and dissolves when they
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are all seen as dreams as something
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imagined even dreams have a foundation
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in memory even then what is remembered
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is but another dream the memory of the
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false cannot but give rise to the false
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there is nothing wrong with memory as
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such what is false is its content
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[Music]
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remember facts forget opinions
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what is a fact what is perceived in pure
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awareness unaffected by desire and fear
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is fact
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to sit in judgment and a lot marks is
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ridiculous
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everything contributes to the ultimate
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perfection
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[Music]
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let each act according to his nature the
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ultimate purpose will be served in any
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case
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one and all are the same to me the same
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consciousness appears as being and as
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bliss chit in movement is Ananda chit
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motionless is being
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[Music]
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non distinction speaks in silence words
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carry distinctions the unmanifested has
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no name all names refer to the
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manifested it is useless to struggle
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with words to express what is beyond
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words consciousness is spirit
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consciousness is matter imperfect spirit
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is matter perfect matter is spirit in
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the beginning as in the end all is one
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all division is in the mind there is
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none in reality movement and rest our
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states of mind and cannot be without
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their opposites by itself nothing moves
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nothing rests it is a grievous mistake
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to attribute absolute existence to
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mental constructs nothing exists by
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itself
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beyond the mind there is no such thing
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as experience experience is a dual state
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you cannot talk of reality as an
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experience once this is understood you
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will no longer look for being and
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becoming a separate and opposite in
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reality they are one and inseparable
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like roots and branches of the same tree
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both can exist only in the light of
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consciousness which again arises in the
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wake of the sense I am this is the
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primary fact if you miss it you miss all
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[Music]
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whatever is spoken is speech only
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whatever is thought is thought only the
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real meaning is unexplainable though
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experienceable
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[Music]
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the maha vaakya is true but your ideas
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are false for all ideas are false is the
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conviction I am that false of course
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conviction is a mental state and that
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there is no I am with the sense I am
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emerging that is obscured as with the
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Sun rising the stars are wiped out but
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as with the Sun comes light so with the
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sense of self comes bliss the cause of
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bliss is sought in the not eye and thus
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the bondage begins
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in your daily life are you always
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conscious of your real state neither
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conscious nor unconscious I do not need
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convictions
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I live on courage courage is my essence
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which is love of life I am free of
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memories and anticipations unconcerned
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with what I am and what I am NOT I am
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NOT addicted to self descriptions so hum
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and but all must me I am he I am the
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supreme are of no use to me
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I have the courage to be as nothing and
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to see the world as it is nothing it
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sounds simple just try it
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[Music]
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anxiety and hope are born of imagination
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I am free of both I am simple being and
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I need nothing to rest on
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being shines as knowing knowing is warm
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in love it is all one you imagine
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separations and trouble yourself with
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questions don’t concern yourself over
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much with formulations pure being cannot
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be described you are dragging down
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reality to the level of experience
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how can reality depend on experience
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when it is the very ground of experience
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reality is in the very fact of
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experience not in its nature experience
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is after all a state of mind while being
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is definitely not a state of mind
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the separation is an appearance just as
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the dream is not apart from the dreamer
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so is knowing not apart from being the
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dream is the dreamer the knowledge is
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the knower the distinction is merely
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verbal the undisturbed state of being is
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bliss the disturbed state is what
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appears as the world in non-duality
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there is bliss in duality experience
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what comes and goes is experience with
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its stew allottee of pain and pleasure
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bliss is not to be known one is always
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bliss but never blissful bliss is not an
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attribute there are no others to help a
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rich man when he hands over his entire
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fortune to his family is not a coin left
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to give a beggar so is the wise man
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stripped of all his powers and
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possessions nothing literally nothing
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can be said about him he cannot help
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anybody for he is everybody he is the
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poor and also his poverty the thief and
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also his thievery
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how can he be said to help when he is
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not apart who thinks of himself as
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separate from the world let him help the
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world the only thing that can help is to
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wake up from the dream
