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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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to be a living being is not the
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ultimate state there is something beyond
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much more wonderful which is neither
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being nor non being neither living nor
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not living it is a state of pure
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awareness beyond the limitations of
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space and time
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once the illusion that the body mind is
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oneself is abandoned death looses its
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terror it becomes a part of living
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your true nature is beyond description
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it cannot be known with mind yet it
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exists your true state is ever existent
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[Music]
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the mind is simply the collection of
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impressions that have been recorded
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since birth it is occupied by thoughts
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which are based upon its predominant
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concept be the witness of thoughts catch
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hold of the knower of the mind
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[Music]
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I am experiencing pleasure and pain in
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consciousness but I am neither
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consciousness nor its content
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how is it that your experience is so
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different from ours my actual experience
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is not different it is my evaluation an
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attitude that differ I see the same
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world as you do but not in the same way
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there is nothing mysterious about it
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everybody sees the world through the
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idea he has of himself as you think
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yourself to be so you think the world to
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be if you imagine yourself as separate
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from the world the world will appear a
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separate from you and you will
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experience desire and fear I do not see
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the world as separate from me and so
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there is nothing for me to desire or
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fear
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[Music]
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there is absolutely no difference
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between me and others except in mind
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knowing myself as I am I am all I know
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it for certain and you do not
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so we differ all the same no we do not
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the difference is only in the mind and
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temporary I was like you you will be
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like me
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God made a most diversified world the
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diversity is in you only see yourself as
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you are and you will see the world as it
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is a single block of reality indivisible
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indescribable your own creative power
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projects upon it a picture and all your
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questions refer to the picture
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gods and their universes come and go
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avatars follow each other in endless
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succession and in the end we are back at
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the source I talk only of the timeless
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source of all the gods with all their
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universes past present and future do you
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know them all do you remember them when
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a few boys stage a play for fun what is
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there to see and to remember
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[Music]
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why is half humanity male and half
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female for their happiness the
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impersonal becomes the personal for the
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sake of happiness in relationship by the
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grace of my guru I can look with equal
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eye on the impersonal as well as the
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personal both are one to me in life the
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personal merges in the impersonal the
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two are but aspects of one reality it is
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not correct to talk of one proceeding
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the other all these ideas belong to the
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waking State what brings in the waking
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State at the root of all creation lies
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desire desire and imagination foster and
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reinforce each other the fourth state
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Toria is a state of pure witnessing
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detached awareness passionless and
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wordless it is like space unaffected by
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whatever it contains
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[Music]
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both of the subjective and the objective
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are changeful and transient there is
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nothing real about them find the
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permanent in the fleeting the one
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constant factor in every experience
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first purify your vision learn to see
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instead of staring also you must be
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eager to see you need both clarity and
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earnestness for self knowledge you need
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maturity of heart and mind which comes
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through earnest application in daily
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life of whatever little you have
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understood
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[Music]
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[Music]
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go on pondering one dream being anxious
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to find a way be conscious of yourself
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watch your mind give it your full
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attention don’t look for quick results
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there may be none within your noticing
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unknown to you your psyche will undergo
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a change there will be more clarity in
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your thinking charity in your feeling
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purity in your behavior you need not aim
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at these you will witness a change all
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the same for what you are now is the
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result of inattention and what you
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become will be the fruit of attention
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attention alertness awareness clarity
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liveliness vitality are all
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manifestations of integrity oneness with
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your true nature
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do not under value attention it means
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interest and also love to know to do to
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discover or to create you must give your
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heart to it which means attention all
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the blessings flow from it give your
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undivided attention to the most
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important in your life yourself of your
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personal universe you are the center
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without knowing the center what else can
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you know
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as you cannot see your face but only its
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reflection in the mirror so you can know
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only your image reflected in the
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stainless mirror of pure awareness how
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am I to get such a stainless mirror
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obviously by removing stains see the
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stains and remove them the ancient
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teaching is fully valid is the universe
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of value it is of tremendous value by
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going beyond it you realize yourself but
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why did it come into being in the first
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instance you will know it when it ends
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will it ever end yes for you when did it
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begin now when will it end now it does
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not end now you don’t let it I want to
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let it you don’t all your life is
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connected with it your past and future
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your desires and fears all have their
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roots in the world without the world
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where are you who are you
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[Music]
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each man suffers alone and dies alone
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numbers are irrelevant there is as much
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death when a million die as when one
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perishes humanity’s problem lies in this
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misuse of the mind only all the
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treasures of nature and spirit are open
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to man who will use his mind rightly
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[Music]
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fear and greed caused the misuse of the
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mind the right use of mind is in the
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service of love of life of truth of
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beauty
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[Music]
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you can spend an eternity looking
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elsewhere for truth and love
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intelligence and goodwill imploring God
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and man all in vain you must begin in
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yourself with yourself this is the
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inexorable law you cannot change the
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image without changing the face first
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realize that your world is only a
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reflection of yourself and stop finding
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fault with the reflection tend to
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yourself set yourself right mentally and
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emotionally the physical will follow
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automatically you talk so much of
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reforms economic social political leave
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alone the reforms and mind the reformer
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what kind of world can a man create who
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is stupid greedy heartless
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[Music]
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you cannot change the world before
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changing yourself
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it is neither necessary nor possible to
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change others but if you can change
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yourself you will find that no other
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change is needed to change the picture
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you merely change the film you do not
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attack the cinema screen
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[Music]
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it is not of myself that I am sure I am
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assure of you all you need is to stop
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searching outside what can be found only
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within set your vision right before you
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operate you are suffering from acute
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misapprehension clarify your mind purify
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your heart sanctify your life this is
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the quickest way to a change of your
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world
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[Music]
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surely there is a factual world common
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to all the world of things of energy and
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matter even if there were such a common
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world of things and forces it is not the
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world in which we live ours is a world
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of feelings and ideas of attractions and
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repulsions of scales of values of
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motives and incentives a mental world
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all together biologically we need very
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little our problems are of a different
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order problems created by desires and
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fears and wrong ideas can be solved only
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on the level of the mind you must
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conquer your mind and for this you must
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go beyond it what does it mean to go
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beyond the mind you have gone beyond the
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body haven’t you you do not closely
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follow your digestion circulation or
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elimination these have become automatic
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in the same way the mind should work
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automatically without calling for
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attention
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this will not happen unless the mind
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works faultlessly we are most of our
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time mind and body conscious because
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they constantly call for help
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pain and suffering are only the body in
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the mind screaming for attention to go
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beyond the body you must be healthy to
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go beyond the mind you must have your
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mind in perfect order you cannot leave a
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mess behind and go beyond the mess will
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bog you down pick up your rubbish seems
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to be the universal law and adjust to
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law – am i permitted to ask you how did
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you go beyond the mind by the grace of
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my guru what shape did His grace take he
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told me what is true what did he tell
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you he told me I am the supreme reality
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it was quite a lot to remember the guru
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in his words my advice to you is even
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less difficult than this just remember I
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am is enough to heal your mind and take
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you beyond just have some trust
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I don’t mislead you why should I do I
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want anything from you
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I wish you well such is my nature
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why should I mislead you
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[Music]
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if you want to know your true nature
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you must have yourself in mind all the
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time until the secret of your being
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stands revealed why should
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self-remembrance bring one to
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self-realization because they are but
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two aspects of the same state
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self-remembrance is in the mind
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self-realization is beyond the mind the
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image in the mirror is of the face
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beyond the mirror
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it is not the worship of a person or
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guru that is crucial but the steadiness
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and depth of your devotion to the task
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life itself is the supreme guru be
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attentive to its lessons and obedient to
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its commands grow in talent and develop
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in skill desire what is worth desiring
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and desire it well just like you pick
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your way in a crowd passing between
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people so you find your way between
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events without missing your general
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direction it is easy if you are earnest
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there are no needs desires only to eat
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to drink to shelter one’s body to live
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the desire to live is the one
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fundamental desire all else depends on
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it we live because we must we live
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because we crave sensory existence a
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thing so Universal cannot be wrong not
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wrong of course in its own place and
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time
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nothing is wrong but when you are
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concerned with truth with reality you
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must question everything your very life
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by asserting the necessity of sensory
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and intellectual experience you narrow
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down your inquiry to search for comfort
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[Music]
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question every urge hold no desire
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legitimate empty of possession physical
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and mental free of all self concern be
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open for discovery have your guru always
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in your heart and remember his
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instructions this is real abidance with
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the true physical proximity is the least
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important make your entire life an
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expression of your faith and love for
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your teacher this is real dwelling with
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the Guru
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does a Yanni die he is beyond life and
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death what we take to be inevitable to
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be born and to die appears to him but a
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way of expressing movement in the
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immovable change in the changeless and
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in the endless to the Yanni it is
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obvious that nothing is born and nothing
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dies nothing lasts and nothing changes
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all is as it is timelessly you cannot
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speak of a beginning of consciousness
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the very idea of beginning and time are
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within consciousness to talk
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meaningfully of the beginning of
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anything you must step out of it and the
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moment you step out you realize that
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there is no such thing and never was
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there is only reality in which no thing
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as any being on its own like waves are
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inseparable from the ocean so is all
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existence rooted in being
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[Music]
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is the mind real it is but a collection
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of states each of them transitory
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[Music]
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how can a succession of transitory
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states be considered real they are all
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strung on the basic idea I am the body
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but even this is a mental state and does
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not last it comes and goes like all the
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other states the illusion of being the
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body mind is there only because it is
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not investigated
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non investigation is the thread on which
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all the states of mind are strung it is
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like darkness in a closed room it is
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there apparently but when the room is
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opened where does it go
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it goes nowhere because it was not there
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[Music]
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all states of mind all names and forms
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of existence are rooted in non inquiry
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non investigation in imagination it is
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right to say I am but to say I am this I
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am that is a sign of not inquiring not
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examining of mental weakness or lethargy
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[Music]
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there is no darkness in the midst of
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light self-forgetfulness is the darkness
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when we are absorbed in other things in
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the not-self we forget the self there is
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nothing unnatural about it the question
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Who am I has no answer no experience can
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answer it for the self is beyond
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experience it has no answer in
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consciousness and therefore helps to go
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beyond the consciousness here and now I
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am stopped there this is real don’t turn
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a fact into a question there lies your
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mistake you are neither knowing nor not
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knowing neither mind nor matter don’t
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attempt to describe yourself in terms of
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mind and matter
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[Music]
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setting things right lies in my very
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nature which is satyam shivam sundaram
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the true of the good the beautiful i am
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the self you imagine me as separate
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hence your questions there is no my self
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and his self there is the self the only
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self of all misled by the diversity of
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names and shapes minds and bodies you
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imagine multiple selves we both are the
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self but you seem to be unconvinced this
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talk of personal self and universal self
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is the learner stage go beyond don’t be
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stuck in duality
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[Music]
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let us come back to the man in need of
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help he comes to you if he comes he is
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sure to get help because he was destined
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to get help he came there is nothing
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fanciful about it
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I cannot help some and refuse others all
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who come are helped for such is the law
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you
