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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what is done under pressure of society
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and circumstances does not matter much
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for it is mostly mechanical mere
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reacting to impacts
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[Music]
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the Guru demands one thing only clarity
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and intensity of purpose a sense of
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responsibility for oneself the very
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reality of the world must be questioned
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who is the Guru after all he who knows
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the state in which there is neither the
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world nor the thought of it
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he is the supreme teacher to find him
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means to reach the state in which
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imagination is no longer taken for
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reality please understand that the Guru
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stands for reality for truth for what is
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he is a realist in the highest sense of
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the term he cannot and shall not come to
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terms with the mind and it’s delusions
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he comes to take you to the real don’t
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expect him to do anything else
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to him your questions about obedience
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and discipline do not make sense for in
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his eyes the person you take yourself to
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be does not exist
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your questions are about a non-existing
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person what exists for you does not
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exist for him what you take for granted
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he denies absolutely he wants you to see
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yourself as he sees you then you will
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not need a guru to obey and follow for
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you will obey and follow your own
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reality realize that whatever you think
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yourself to be is just a stream of
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events that while all happens comes and
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goes you alone are the changeless among
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the changeful the self-evident among the
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inferred separate the observed from the
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observer and abandoned false
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identifications
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do your work when you have a moment free
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look within if you are earnest you will
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use your leisure fully that is enough
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your difficulty lies in your wanting
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reality and being afraid of it
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at the same time you are afraid of it
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because you do not know it
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the familiar things are known you feel
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secure with them the unknown is
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uncertain and therefore dangerous but to
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know reality is to be in harmony with it
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and in harmony there is no place for
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fear
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[Music]
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in deep silence the self contemplates
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the body it is like the white paper on
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which nothing is written yet be like
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that infant instead of trying to be this
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or that be happy to be you will be a
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fully awakened witness of the field of
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consciousness
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[Music]
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when you love the self and nothing else
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you go beyond the selfish and the
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unselfish all distinctions lose their
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meaning love of one and love of all
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merged together in love pure and simple
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addressed to none denied
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to none stay in that love go deeper and
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deeper into it investigate yourself and
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love the investigation and you will
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solve not only your own problems but
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also the problems of humanity
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the main thing is earnestness be honest
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with yourself and nothing will betray
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you virtues and powers are mere tokens
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for children to play with they are
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useful in the world but do not take you
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out of it to go beyond you need alert
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immobility quiet attention
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[Music]
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your body is food transformed as your
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food gross and subtle so will be your
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health
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sex is an acquired habit go beyond as
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long as your focus is on the body you
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will remain in the clutches of food and
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sex fear and a death find yourself and
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be free when you sit quiet and watch
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yourself all kinds of things may come to
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the surface do nothing about them don’t
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react to them as they have come so will
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they go by themselves all that matters
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is mindfulness total awareness of
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oneself or rather of one’s mind
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[Music]
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The Observer is beyond observation what
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is observable is not the real self you
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can observe the observation but not the
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observer you know you are the ultimate
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observer by direct insight not
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biological process based on observation
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you are what you are but you know what
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you are not the self is known as being
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the not self is known as transient but
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in reality all is in the mind the
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observed observation and observer our
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mental constructs the self alone is to
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divide and particularize is the minds
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very nature there is no harm in dividing
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but separation goes against fact things
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and people are different but they are
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not separate nature is one reality is
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one there are opposites but no
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opposition
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[Music]
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there is a difference between work and
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mere activity all nature works work is
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nature nature is work on the other hand
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activity is based on desire and fear
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unlocking to possess and enjoy on fear
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of pain and annihilation work is by the
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whole for the whole activity is by
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oneself for oneself
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do what you feel like doing don’t Ambala
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yourself violence will make you hard and
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rigid do not fight with what you take to
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be obstacles on your way just to be
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interested in them watch them observe
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inquire let anything happen good or bad
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but don’t let yourself be submerged by
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what happens the mind must learn that
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beyond the moving mind there is the
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background of awareness which does not
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change the mind must come to know the
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true self and respect it and cease
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covering it up like the moon which
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obscures the Sun during a solar eclipse
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just realize that nothing observable or
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experienceable is you or binds you take
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no notice of what is not yourself
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[Music]
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to be aware is to be awake unaware means
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asleep you are aware anyhow you need not
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try to be what you need is to be aware
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of being aware be aware deliberately and
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consciously broaden and deepen the field
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of awareness you are always conscious of
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the mind but you are not aware of
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yourself as being conscious
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[Music]
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look at it this way the mind produces
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thoughts ceaselessly even when you do
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not look at them when you know what is
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going on in your mind you call it
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consciousness this is your waking state
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your consciousness shifts from sensation
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to sensation from perception to
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perception from idea to idea in endless
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succession then comes awareness the
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direct insight into the whole of
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consciousness the totality of the mind
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the mind is like a river flowing
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ceaselessly in the bed of the body you
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identify yourself for a moment with some
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particular ripple and call it my thought
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all you are conscious of is your mind
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awareness is the cognizance of
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consciousness as a whole
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don’t say everybody is conscious say
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there is consciousness in which
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everything appears and dissapears our
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minds are just waves on the ocean of
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consciousness as waves they come and go
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as ocean they are infinite and eternal
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know yourself as the ocean of being the
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womb of all existence these are all
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metaphors of course the reality is
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beyond description you can know it only
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by being yet
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[Music]
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while the mind is centered in the body
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and consciousness is centered in the
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mind awareness is free the body has its
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urges and mind its pains and pleasures
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awareness is unattached and unshaken it
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is lucid silent peaceful alert and
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unafraid without desire and fear
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meditate on it as your true being and
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try to be it in your daily life and you
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shall realize it in its fullness
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[Music]
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[Laughter]
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[Music]
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mind is interested in what happens while
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awareness is interested in the mind
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itself the child is after the toy but
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the mother watches the child not the toy
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[Music]
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by looking tirelessly I became quite
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empty and with that emptiness all came
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back to me except the mind I find I have
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lost the mind irretrievably I am neither
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conscious nor unconscious
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I am beyond the mind and its various
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states and conditions distinctions are
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created by the mind and applied to the
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mind only I am pure consciousness itself
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unbroken awareness of all that is I am
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in a more real state than yours
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I am undistracted by the distinctions
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and separations which constitute a
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person as long as the body lasts it has
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its needs like any other but my mental
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process has come to an end
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[Music]
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I am NOT a person in your sense of the
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word though I may appear a person to you
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I am that infinite ocean of
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consciousness in which all happens
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I am also beyond all existence and
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cognition pure bliss of being there is
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nothing I feel separate from hence I am
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all no thing is me so I am nothing
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the same power that makes the fire burn
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and the water flow the seeds sprout and
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the trees grow makes me answer your
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questions there is nothing personal
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about me though the language and the
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style may appear personal a person is a
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set pattern of desires and thoughts and
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resulting actions there is no such
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pattern in my case there is nothing I
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desire or fear how can there be a
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pattern
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[Music]
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life will escape the body will die but
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it will not affect me in the least
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beyond space and time
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I am uncaused uncaused yet the very
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matrix of existence
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[Music]
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my teacher told me to hold on to the
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sense I am tenaciously and not to swerve
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from it for even a moment I did my best
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to follow his advice and in a
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comparatively short time I realized
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within myself the truth of his teaching
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all I did was to remember his teaching
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his face his words constantly this
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brought an end to the mind in the
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stillness of the mind I saw myself as I
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am unbound
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[Music]
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the search for reality is itself the
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movement of reality in a way all search
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is for the real bliss or the Bliss of
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the real
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[Music]
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one has to understand that the search
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for reality or God or guru and the
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search for the self are the same when
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one is found all are found when I am and
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God is become in your mind
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indistinguishable then something will
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happen and you will know without a trace
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of doubt that God is because you are and
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you are because God is the two are one
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[Music]
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destiny refers only to name and shape
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since you are neither body nor mind
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destiny has no control over you you are
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completely free
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the cup is conditioned by its shape
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material use and so on but the space
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within the cup is free it happens to be
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in the cup only when viewed in
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connection with the cup otherwise it is
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just space as long as there is a body
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you appear to be embodied without the
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body you are not disembodied you just
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are
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[Music]
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[Music]
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to be free from thoughts is itself
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meditation you begin by letting thoughts
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flow and watching them the very
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observation slows down the mind till it
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stops altogether once the mind is quiet
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keep it quiet don’t get bored with peace
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be in it go deeper into it
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[Music]
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watch your thoughts and watch yourself
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watching the thoughts the state of
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freedom from all thoughts will happen
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suddenly and by the Bliss of it you
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shall recognize it
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[Music]
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[Music]
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all illness begins in the mind take care
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of the mind first by tracing and
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eliminating all wrong ideas and emotions
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then live and work disregarding illness
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and think no more of it with the removal
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of causes the effect is bounded apart
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[Music]
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man becomes what he believes himself to
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be abandon all ideas about yourself
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and you will find yourself to be the
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pure witness beyond all that can happen
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to the body or the mind
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[Music]
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people come to you for advice how do you
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know what to answer as I hear the
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question
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so do I hear the answer and how do you
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know that your answer is right once I
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know the true source of the answers I
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need not doubt them from a pure source
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only pure water will flow I am NOT
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concerned with people’s desires and
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fears I am in tune with facts not with
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opinions man takes his name and shape to
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be himself while I take nothing to be
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myself were I to think myself to be a
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body known by its name I would not have
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been able to answer your questions or I
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to take you to be a mere body there
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would be no benefit to you from my
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answers no true teacher indulges in
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opinions he sees things as they are and
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shows them as they are if you take
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people to be what they think themselves
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to be you will only hurt them as they
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hurt themselves so grievously all the
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time but if you see them as they are in
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reality it will do them enormous good
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if they ask you what to do what
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practices to adopt which way of life to
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follow answer do nothing just to be in
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being all happens naturally
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you
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