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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I am self concerned but the self is all
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in practice it takes the shape of
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goodwill unfailing and universal you may
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call it love all pervading all redeeming
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such love is supremely active without
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the sense of doing
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[Music]
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what is love when the sense of
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distinction and separation is absent you
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may call it love why so much stress on
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love between man and woman because the
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element of happiness in it is so
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prominent is it not so in all love not
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necessarily love may cause pain you then
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call it the compassion what is happiness
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harmony between the inner and the outer
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is happiness on the other hand self
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identification with the outer causes is
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suffering how does self identification
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happen the self by its nature knows
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itself only for lack of experience
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whatever it perceives it takes to be
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itself battered it learns to look out
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and to live alone when right behavior
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becomes normal a powerful inner urge
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makes it seek its source the candle of
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the body is lighted and all becomes
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clear and bright
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what is the real cause of suffering self
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identification with the limited
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sensations as such however strong do not
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cause suffering it is the mind
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bewildered by wrong ideas addicted to
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thinking I am this I am that that fears
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loss and craves gain and suffers when
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frustrated
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noble friendship satsang is the supreme
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remedy for all ills physical and mental
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seek within your own self is your best
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friend
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[Music]
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why is life so full of contradictions it
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serves to break down mental pride we
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must realize how poor and powerless we
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are as long as we delude ourselves by
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what we imagine ourselves to be to know
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to have to do we are in a sad plight
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indeed only incomplete self negation is
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there a chance to discover our real
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being
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[Music]
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you must be serious intent truly
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interested to examine yourself you must
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be full of goodwill for yourself I am
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selfish all right you are not you are
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all the time destroying yourself and
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your own by serving strange gods
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inimical and false by all means be
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selfish the right way wish yourself
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well labor at what is good for you
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destroy all that stands between you and
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happiness be all love all be happy make
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happy no happiness is greater
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[Music]
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why is there so much suffering in love
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all suffering is born of desire true
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love is never frustrated how can the
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sense of unity be frustrated what can be
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frustrated is the desire for expression
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such desire is of the mind as with all
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things mental frustration is inevitable
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what is the place of sex in love love is
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a state of being sex is energy love is
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wise sex is blind
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once the true nature of love and sex is
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understood there will be no conflict or
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confusion
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[Music]
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there is so much sex without love
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without love all is evil life itself
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without love is evil
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[Music]
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who can make me love you are love itself
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when you are not afraid
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[Music]
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he who could not complete his yoga for
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some reason is called failed in yoga
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such failure is only temporary for there
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can be no defeat in yoga this battle is
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always won for it is a battle between
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the true and the false the false has no
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chance
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[Music]
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[Music]
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there is no question of failure neither
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in the short run nor in the lung it is
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like traveling along an arduous road in
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an unknown country of all the
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innumerable steps there is only the last
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which brings you to your destination yet
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you will not consider all previous steps
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as failures each brought you nearer to
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your goal even when you had to turn back
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to bypass an obstacle in reality each
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step brings you to your goal because to
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be always on the move
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learning discovering unfolding is your
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eternal destiny
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[Music]
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living is life’s only purpose the self
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does not identify itself with success or
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failure the very idea of becoming this
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or that is unthinkable the self
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understands that success and failure are
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relative and related that they are the
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very warp and weft of life learn from
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both and go beyond if you have not
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learned repeat
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[Music]
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what am i to learn to live without self
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concern for this you must know your own
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true being as indomitable fearless ever
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victorious once you know with absolute
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certainty that nothing can trouble you
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but your own imagination you come to
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disregard your desires and fears
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concepts and ideas and live by truth
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alone nobody ever fails in yoga it is
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all a matter of the rate of progress it
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is slow in the beginning and wrap it in
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the end when one is fully matured
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realization is explosive it takes place
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spontaneously or at the slightest hint
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the quick is not better than the slow
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slow ripening and rapid flowering
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alternate both are natural and right yet
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all this is so in the mind only as I see
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it there is really nothing of the kind
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in the great mirror of consciousness
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images arise and disappear and only
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memory gives them continuity and memory
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is material destructible perishable
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transient on such flimsy foundations we
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build a sense of personal existence
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vague intermittent dreamlike this vague
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persuasion I am so and so obscures the
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changeless state of pure awareness and
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makes us believe that we are born to
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suffer and to die there is progress all
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the time everything contributes to
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progress
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[Music]
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in reality nothing ever happened
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the Sun is always there there is no
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night to it
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[Music]
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even effort is a part of the process
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when ignorant becomes obstinate and hard
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and the character gets perverted effort
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and the pain of it become inevitable in
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complete obedience to nature there is no
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effort the seed of spiritual life grows
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in silence and in darkness until it’s
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appointed our consciousness and
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unconsciousness while in the body depend
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on the condition of the brain but the
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self is beyond both beyond the brain
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beyond the mind the fault of the
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instrument is no reflection on its user
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[Music]
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why should a liberated man necessarily
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follow conventions the moment he becomes
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predictable he cannot be free his
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freedom lies in his being free to
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fulfill the need of the moment to obey
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the necessity of the situation freedom
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to do what one must what is right is
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real freedom
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[Music]
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he who knows himself has no doubts about
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it nor does he care whether others
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recognize his state or not rare is the
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realized man who discloses his
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realization and fortunate are those who
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have met him for he does it for their
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abiding welfare
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people’s destiny is what happens there
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is no thwarting of destiny do you mean
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to say everybody’s life is totally
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determined that is birth what a strange
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idea were it so the power that
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determines would see to it that nobody
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should suffer what about cause and
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effect each moment contains the whole of
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the past and creates the whole of the
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future but past and future exists in the
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mind only time is in the mind space is
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in the mind the law of cause and effect
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is also a way of thinking in reality all
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is here and now and all is one
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multiplicity and diversity are in the
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mind only
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[Music]
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I flow with life faithfully and
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irresistible I can help you too can help
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everybody can help but the suffering is
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all the time recreated man alone can
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destroy in himself the roots of pain
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others can only help with the pain but
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not with its cause which is the abysmal
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stupidity of mankind
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will this stupidity ever come to an end
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in man of course any moment in humanity
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as we know it after very many years in
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creation never for creation itself is
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rooted in ignorance matter itself is
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ignorance not to know and not to know
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that one does not know is the cause of
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endless suffering we are told of the
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great avatars the saviors of the world
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did they save they have come and gone
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and the world plods on of course they
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did a lot and open new dimensions in the
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human mind but to talk of saving the
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world is an exaggeration is there no
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salvation for the world
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which world do you want to save the
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world of your own projection save it
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yourself my world show me my world and I
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shall deal with it I am not aware of any
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world separate for myself which I am
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free to save or not to save what
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business have you with saving the world
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when all the world needs is to be saved
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from you get out of the picture and see
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whether there is anything left to save
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[Music]
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must people suffer as long as they are
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as they are there is no escape from
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suffering remove the sense of
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separateness and there will be no
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conflict
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[Music]
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the dreams are not equal but the dreamer
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is one I am the insect I am the poet in
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dream but in reality I am neither I am
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beyond all dreams I am the light in
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which all dreams appear and disappear I
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am both inside and outside the dream
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just as a man suffering a headache knows
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the ache and also knows that he is not
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the ache so do I know the dream myself
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dreaming and myself not dreaming
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all at the same time I am what I am
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before during and after the dream but
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what I see in dream I am NOT
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what is the way out of the dream there
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is no need of a way out don’t you see
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that a way out is also part of the dream
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all you have to do is to see the dream
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as a dream
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[Music]
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if I start the practice of dismissing
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everything as a dream where will it lead
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me wherever it leads you it will be a
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dream the very idea of going beyond the
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dream is illusory why go anywhere just
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realize that you are dreaming a dream
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you call the world and stop looking for
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ways out the dream is not your problem
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your problem is that you like one part
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of the dream and not another love all of
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it or none of it and stop complaining
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when you have seen the dream as a dream
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you have done all that needs be done is
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dreaming caused by thinking
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everything is a play of ideas in the
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state free from ideation nothing is
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perceived the root idea is I am it
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shatters the state of pure consciousness
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and is followed by the innumerable
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sensations and perceptions feeling and
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ideas which in their totality constitute
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God and his world the I am remains as
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the witness but it is by the will of God
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that everything happens
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[Music]
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theories are neither right nor wrong
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they are attempts at explaining the
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inexplicable it is not the theory that
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matters but the way it is being tested
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it is the testing of the theory that
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makes it fruitful experiment with any
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theory you like if you are truly earnest
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and honest the attainment of reality
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will be yours
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[Music]
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it is the earnestness that liberates and
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not the theory your sincerity will guide
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you
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devotion to the goal of freedom and
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perfection will make you abandon all
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theories and systems and live by wisdom
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intelligence and act of love theories
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may be good as starting points but must
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be abandoned the sooner the better
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[Music]
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whatever name you give it will or steady
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purpose or one pointedness of the mind
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you come back to earnestness sincerity
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honesty when you are in dead earnest you
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bend every incident every second of your
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life to your purpose you do not waste
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time and energy on other things
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you are totally dedicated all it will or
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love or plain honesty we are complex
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beings at war within and without we
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contradict ourselves all the time
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undoing today the work of yesterday no
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wonder we are stuck a little bit of
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integrity would make a lot of difference
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what is more powerful desire or destiny
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desire shapes destiny you are free now
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what is it that you want to desire
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desire it
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you can start only from where you are
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you are here and now you cannot get out
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of here and now what can I do here and
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now you can be aware of your being here
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and now that is all that is all there is
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nothing more to it
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all my waking and dreaming I am
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conscious of myself it does not help me
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much you were aware of thinking feeling
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doing you are not aware of your being
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what is the new factor you want me to
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bring in the attitude of pure witnessing
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of watching the events without taking
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part in them
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there is no chaos in the world except
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the chaos which your mind creates it is
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self-created in the sense that at it’s
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very center is the false idea of oneself
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as a thing different and separate from
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other things in reality you are not a
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thing nor separate you are the infinite
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potentiality the inexhaustible
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possibility because you are all can be
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the universe is but a partial
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manifestation of your limitless capacity
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to become
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