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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why must a man come here to get advice
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can’t he get it from within he will not
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listen his mind is turned outward but in
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fact all experience is in the mind and
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even his coming to me and getting help
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is all within himself instead of finding
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an answer within himself he imagines an
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answer from without to me there is no me
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no man and no giving all this is merely
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a flicker in the mind I am infinite
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peace and silence in which nothing
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appears for all that appears disappears
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[Music]
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nobody comes for help nobody offers help
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nobody gets help it is all but a display
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in consciousness
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do you mean to say that you have the
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power to do everything rightly there is
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no power
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as separate from me it is inherent in my
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very nature call it creativity out of a
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lump of gold you can make many ornaments
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each will remain gold
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similarly in whatever role I may appear
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and whatever function I may perform I
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remain what I am the I am a movable
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unshakable independent what you call the
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universe nature is my spontaneous
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creativity whatever happens happens but
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such as my nature that all ends in joy
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[Music]
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all things contain their future I know
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that it is in the nature of awareness to
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set things right
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all this is one single fact I am normal
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I am saying I see things as they are and
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therefore I am not afraid of them but
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you are afraid of reality the yani has
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died before his death he saw that there
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was nothing to be afraid of the moment
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you know your real being you are afraid
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of nothing death gives freedom and power
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[Music]
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to be free in the world you must die to
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the world then the universe is your own
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it becomes your body an expression and a
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tool the happiness of being absolutely
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free is beyond the description
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[Music]
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on the other hand he who is afraid of
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freedom cannot die
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as a whole the world does not need
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saving man makes mistakes and creates
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sorrow when it enters the field of
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awareness the consciousness of a yani
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it is set right such is his nature from
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my point of view everything happens by
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itself quite spontaneously but man
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imagines that he works for an incentive
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towards a goal he has always a reward in
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mind
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and strives for it
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[Music]
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to watch the universe emerging and
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subsiding in one’s heart is a wonder
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[Music]
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when effort is needed effort will appear
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when effortlessness becomes essential it
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will assert itself you need not push
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life about just flow with it and give
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yourself completely to the task of the
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present moment which is the dying now to
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the now for living is dying without
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death life cannot be
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get hold of the main thing that the
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world and the self are one and perfect
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only your attitude is faulty and needs
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readjustment this process or
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readjustment is what you call sadhana
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spiritual practice you come to it by
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putting an end to indolence and using
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all your energy to clear the way for
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clarity and charity but in reality these
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all are signs of inevitable growth don’t
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be afraid don’t resist don’t delay be
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what you are there is nothing to be
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afraid of trust and try experiment
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honestly give your real being a chance
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to shape your life you will not regret
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it
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[Music]
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[Music]
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the self does not need to be put to rest
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it is peace itself not at peace only the
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mind is restless all it knows is
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restlessness with its many modes and
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grades the pleasant are considered
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superior and the painful are discounted
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what we call progress is merely a
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changeover from the unpleasant to the
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pleasant but changes by themselves
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cannot bring us to the change list for
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whatever has a beginning must have an
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end
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the real does not begin it only reveals
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itself as beginningless and endless
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all-pervading all-powerful immovable
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prime mover timelessly changeless
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[Music]
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the personality is but a product of
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imagination the self is the victim of
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this imagination it is the taking
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yourself to be what you are not that
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binds you the person cannot be said to
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exist in its own right it is the self
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that believes there is a person and is
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conscious of being it beyond the self
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lies the unmanifested the causeless
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cause of everything even to talk of
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reuniting the person with the self is
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not right because there is no person
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only a mental picture given a false
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reality by conviction
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nothing was divided and there is nothing
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to unite
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[Music]
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knowledge is but a memory a pattern of
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thought a mental habit all these are
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motivated by pleasure and pain it is
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because you are goated by pleasure and
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pain that you are in search of knowledge
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being oneself is completely beyond all
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motivation you cannot be yourself for
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some reason you are yourself and no
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reason is needed
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in life nothing can be had without
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overcoming obstacles the obstacles to
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the clear perception of one’s true being
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our desire for pleasure and fear of pain
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it is the pleasure pain motivation that
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stands in the way the very freedom from
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all motivation the state in which no
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desire arises is the natural state such
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giving up of desires doesn’t need time
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if you leave it to time millions of
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years will be needed
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giving up desire after desire is a
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lengthy process with the end never in
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sight leave alone your desires and fears
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give your entire attention to the
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subject to him who is behind the
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experience of desire and fear ask who
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desires let each desire bring you back
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to yourself
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a man who was given a stone and assured
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that it is a priceless diamond will be
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mightily pleased until he realizes his
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mistake in the same way pleasures lose
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their tang and pains their barb when the
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self is known both are seen as they are
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conditioned responses mere reactions
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plain attractions and repulsions based
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on memories or preconceptions usually
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pleasure in pain are experienced when
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expected it is all a matter of acquired
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habits and convictions
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[Music]
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pain and pleasure go always together
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freedom from one means freedom from both
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if you do not care for pleasure you will
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not be afraid of pain but there is
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happiness which is neither which is
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completely beyond reality is beyond the
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subjective and objective beyond all
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levels beyond every distinction most
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definitely it is not their origin source
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or root these come from ignorance of
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reality not from reality itself which is
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indescribable beyond being and not being
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[Music]
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the desire to find the self will be
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surely fulfilled provided you want
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nothing else but you must be honest with
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yourself and really want nothing else
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if in the meantime you want many other
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things and are engaged in their pursuit
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your main purpose may be delayed until
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you grow wiser and cease being torn
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between contradictory urges and go
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within without swerving without ever
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looking outward
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[Music]
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whatever work you have undertaken
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completed do not take up new tasks
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unless it is called for by a concrete
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situation of suffering and relief from
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suffering find yourself first and
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endless blessings will follow do not
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talk of helping another unless you can
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put him beyond all need of help
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[Music]
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you can only cease to be as you seem to
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be now there is nothing cruel in what I
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say to wake up a man from a nightmare is
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compassion you came here because you are
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in pain and all I say is wake up know
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yourself be yourself the end of pain
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lies not in pleasure when you realize
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that you are beyond both pain and
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pleasure aloof and unassailable then the
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pursuit of happiness ceases and the
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result in sorrow – for pain aims at
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pleasure and pleasure ends in pain
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relentlessly
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[Music]
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freedom from sorrow has no cause and
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therefore cannot be destroyed realize
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that freedom have your being outside
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this body of birth and death and all
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your problems will be solved they exist
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because you believe yourself born to die
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undeceive yourself and be free you are
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not a person there are no conditions to
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fulfill there is nothing to be done
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nothing to be given up just look and
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remember whatever you perceive is not
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you not yours it is there in the field
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of consciousness but you are not the
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field and its contents
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simply look at whatever happens and know
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that you are beyond it does it mean I
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should abstain from doing anything you
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cannot what goes on must go on if you
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stop suddenly you will crash is it a
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matter of the known and the knower
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becoming one both our ideas in the mind
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and words that express them there is no
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self in them the self is neither between
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nor beyond to look for it on the mental
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level is futile stop searching and see
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it is here and now it is that I am you
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know so well all you need to do is to
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cease taking yourself to be within the
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field of consciousness unless you have
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already considered these matters
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carefully listening to me once will not
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do
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forget your past experiences and
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achievements stand naked exposed to the
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winds and rains of life and you will
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have a chance
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[Music]
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the greatest guru is helpless as long as
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the disciple is not eager to learn
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eagerness and earnestness are
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all-important confidence will come with
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experience be devoted to your goal and
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devotion to him who can guide you will
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follow the greatest guru is your inner
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self truly he is the supreme teacher he
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alone can take you to your goal and he
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alone meet you at the end of the road
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confide in him and you need no outer
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guru do not waste energy and time on
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regrets learn from your mistakes and do
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not repeat them
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[Music]
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in this violent world how can one keep
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away from violence of some kind or
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another
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[Music]
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[Music]
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forgetting yourself is the greatest
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injury all the calamities flow from it
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take care of the most important the
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lesser will take care of itself
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you do not tidy up a darkroom you open
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the windows first letting in the light
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makes everything easy so let us wait to
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improve others until we have seen
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ourselves as we are and have changed
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there is no need to turn round and round
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and endless questioning find yourself
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and everything will fall into its proper
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place
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[Music]
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in reality the two are one just like
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breathing in and out are one the body
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exists in time and space transient and
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limited while the dweller is timeless
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and spaceless eternal and all-pervading
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there is a universal power which is in
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control and is responsible just realize
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the one mover behind all that moves and
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leave all to him if you do not hesitate
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or cheat this is the shortest way to
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reality stand without desire and fear
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relinquishing all control and all
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responsibility what is wrong in letting
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go the illusion of personal control and
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personal responsibility both are in the
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mind only
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[Music]
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of course as long as you imagine
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yourself to be in control
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you should also imagine yourself to be
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responsible one implies the other
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[Music]
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all life on Earth depends on the Sun yet
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you cannot blame the Sun for all that
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happens though it is the ultimate cause
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light causes the color of the flower but
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it neither controls nor is responsible
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for it directly it makes it possible
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that is all
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[Music]
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you cannot deny my facts for you do not
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know them
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could you know them you would not deny
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them here lies the trouble you take
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you’re imagining for facts and my facts
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for imagination I know for certain that
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all is one differences do not separate
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either you are responsible for nothing
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or for everything to imagine that you
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are in control and responsible for one
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body is the aberration of the body mind
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[Music]
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of what use is you’re arguing for or
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against God when you just do not know
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who is God and what you are talking
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about the God born of fear and hope
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shaped by desire and imagination cannot
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be the power that is the mind and heart
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of the universe
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when I say I am free I am merely stating
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a fact if you are an adult you are free
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from infancy I am free from all
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description and identification whatever
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you may hear see or think of I am NOT
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that I am free from being a precept or a
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concept
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[Music]
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I repeat I was not am NOT shall not be a
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body to me this is a fact
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[Music]
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I too was under the illusion of having
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been born but my guru made me see that
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birth and death are mere ideas birth is
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merely the idea I have a body and death
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I have lost my body now when I know I am
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NOT a body the body may be there or may
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not what difference does it make
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the body mind is like a room it is there
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but I need not live in it all the time
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[Music]
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the power that created the body takes
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care of the body
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there are two levels to consider the
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physical of facts and mental of ideas
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I am beyond both neither your facts nor
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ideas are mine what I see is beyond
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cross over to my side and see with me
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[Music]
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because you think you are the body you
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want it indestructible you can extend
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its life considerably by appropriate
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practices but for what ultimate good
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by all means live long but you are not
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the master can you decide the days of
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your birth and death we are not speaking
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the same language
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yours is make-believe talk all hangs on
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suppositions and assumptions you speak
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with assurance about things you are not
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sure of
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[Music]
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you must come to me words are of the
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mind and the mind obscures and distorts
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hence the absolute need to go beyond
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words and to move over to my side take
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me over I am doing it but you resist you
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give reality to concepts while concepts
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are distortions of reality
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abandon all conceptualization and stay
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silent and attentive be earnest about it
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and all will be well with you
