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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the witness attitude is also faith it is
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faith in oneself you believe that you
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are not what you experienced and you
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look at everything as from a distance
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there is no effort in witnessing you
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understand that you are the witness only
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and the understanding acts you need
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nothing more just remember that you are
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the witness only if in the state of
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witnessing you ask yourself Who am I the
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answer comes at once though it is
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wordless and silent cease to be the
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object and become the subject of all
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that happens once having turned within
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you will find yourself beyond the object
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when you have found yourself you will
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find that you are also beyond the
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subject that both the subject and the
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object exist in you
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but you are neither
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as long as you deal in terms real unreal
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awareness is the only reality that can
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be but the supreme is beyond all
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distinctions and to it the term real
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does not apply for in it all is real and
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therefore need not be labeled as such it
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is the very source of reality it imparts
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reality to whatever it touches it just
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cannot be understood through words even
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a direct experience however sublime
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merely bears testimony nothing more
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the universal mind cheat Akash makes and
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unmix everything the supreme param Akash
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imparts reality to whatever comes into
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being to say that it is the universal
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love
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maybe the nearest we can come to it in
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words just like love it makes everything
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real beautiful desirable Y desirable
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why not wherefrom come all the powerful
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attractions that make all created things
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respond to each other that bring people
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together if not from the supreme tion
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not desire see only that it flows into
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the right channels without desire you
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are dead but with low desires you are a
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ghost what is the experience which comes
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nearest to the supreme immense peace and
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boundless love realize that whatever
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there is true noble and beautiful in the
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universe
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it all comes from you that you yourself
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are at the source of it the gods and
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goddesses that supervise the world maybe
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most wonderful and glorious beings yet
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they are like the gorgeously dressed
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servants who proclaim the power and the
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riches of their master
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how does one reach the supreme state by
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renouncing all lesser desires as long as
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you are pleased with the lesser you
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cannot have the highest whatever pleases
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you keeps you back until you realize the
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unsatisfactoriness of everything
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it’s transiency and limitation and
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collect your energies in one great
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longing even the first step is not made
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on the other hand the integrity of the
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desire for the supreme is by itself a
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call from the supreme nothing physical
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or mental can give you freedom you are
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free once you understand that your
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bondage is of your own making and you
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cease forging the chains that bind you
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Krishnamurthy says that a guru is not
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needed somebody must tell you about the
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supreme reality and the way that leads
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to it
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Krishnamurti is doing nothing else to
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find a living guru is a rare opportunity
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and a great responsibility one should
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not treat these matters lightly you
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people are out to buy yourself heaven
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and you imagine that the Guru will
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supply it for a price you seek to strike
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a bargain by offering little but asking
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much you cheat nobody except yourselves
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just sitting near you can it be
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considered spiritual practice of course
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the river of life is flowing some of its
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water is here but so much of it has
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already reached its goal you know only
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the present I see much further into the
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past and future into what you are and
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what you can be I cannot but see you as
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myself it is in the very nature of love
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to see no difference
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how can I come to see myself as you see
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me it is enough if you do not imagine
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yourself to be the body it is the I am
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the body idea that is so calamitous it
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blinds you completely to your real
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nature even for a moment do not think
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that you are the body give yourself no
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name no shape in the darkness and the
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silence reality is found
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it is enough to know that there is
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suffering that the world suffers by
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themselves neither pleasure nor pain
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enlighten only understanding does once
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you have grasped the truth that the
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world is full of suffering that to be
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born is a calamity you will find the
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urge and the energy to go beyond it
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pleasure put you to sleep and pain wakes
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you up if you do not want to suffer
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don’t go to sleep you cannot know
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yourself through bliss alone for Bliss
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is your very nature you must face the
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opposite whatdo you are not to find
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enlightenment
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does not the knower know itself the mind
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is discontinuous again and again it
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blanks out like in sleep or swoon or
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distraction
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there must be something continuous to
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register discontinuity memory is always
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partial unreliable and evanescent it
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does not explain the strong sense of
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identity pervading consciousness the
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sense I am find out what is at the root
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of it
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while looking with the mind you cannot
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go beyond it to go beyond you must look
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away from the mind and its contents in
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what direction am I to look all
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directions are within the mind I am NOT
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asking you to look in any particular
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direction just look away from all that
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happens in your mind and bring it to the
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feeling I am the I am is not a direction
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it is the negation of all direction
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ultimately even the I am will have to go
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for you need not keep on asserting what
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is obvious bringing the mind to the
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feeling I am merely helps in turning the
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mind away from everything else where
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does it all lead me when the mind is
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kept away from its preoccupations it
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becomes quiet if you do not disturb this
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quiet and stay in it
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you find that it is permeated with a
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light and a love you have never known
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and yet you recognize it at once as your
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own nature
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once you have passed through this
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experience you will never be the same
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man again the unruly mind may break its
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peace and obliterate its vision but it
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is bound to return provided the effort
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is sustained until the day when all
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bonds are broken delusions and
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attachments end and life becomes
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supremely concentrated in the present
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what difference does it make the mind is
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no more there is only love in action
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how shall I recognise this state when I
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reach it there will be no fear
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surrounded by a world full of mysteries
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and dangers how can I remain unafraid
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your own little body too is full of
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mysteries and dangers yet you are not
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afraid of it for you take it as your own
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what you do not know is that the entire
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universe is your body and you need not
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be afraid of it
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you may say you have two bodies the
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personal and the universal the personal
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comes and goes the universal is always
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with you entire creation is your
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universal body you are so blinded by
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what is personal that you do not see the
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universal this blindness will not end by
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itself it must be undone skillfully and
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deliberately when all illusions are
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understood and abandoned you reach the
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error free and perfect state in which
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all distinctions between the personal
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and the universal are no more
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knowing yourself as the dweller in both
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the bodies you will disown nothing the
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entire universe will be your concern
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every living thing you will love and
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help most tenderly and wisely
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there will be no clash of interests
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between you and others all exploitation
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will cease absolutely your every action
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will be beneficial every movement will
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be a blessing it is all very tempting
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but how am I to proceed to realize my
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Universal being you have two ways you
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can give your heart and mind to
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self-discovery or you accept my words on
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trust and act accordingly in other words
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either you become totally self concerned
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or totally unselfish the supreme realize
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yourself as the ocean of consciousness
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in which all happens
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this is not difficult a little of
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attentiveness of close observation of
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oneself and you will see that no event
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is outside your consciousness
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where is the need of changing anything
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the mind is changing anyhow all the time
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look at your mind dispassionately that
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is enough to calm it when it is quiet
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you can go beyond it do not keep it busy
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all the time stop it and just be
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if you give it rest it will settle down
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and recover its purity and strength
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constant thinking makes it decay
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if my true being is always with me how
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is it that I’m ignorant of it because it
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is very subtle and your mind is gross
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full of gross thoughts and feelings calm
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and clarify your mind and you will know
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yourself as you are do I need the mind
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to know myself you are beyond the mind
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but you know with your mind it is
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obvious that the extent depth and
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character of knowledge depend on what
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instrument you use improve your
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instrument and your knowledge will
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improve to know perfectly I need a
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perfect mind a quiet mind is all you
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need all else will happen rightly once
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your mind is quiet
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do understand that you are destined for
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enlightenment cooperate with your
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destiny don’t go against it and don’t
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Fort it allow it to fulfill itself all
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you have to do is to give attention to
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the obstacles created by the foolish
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mind
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what you take to be the I and the I am
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is not you to know that you are is
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natural to know what you are is the
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result of much investigation you will
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have to ignore the entire field of
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consciousness and go beyond it for this
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you must find the right teacher and
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create the conditions needed for
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discovery generally speaking there are
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two ways external and internal either
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you live with somebody who knows the
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truth and submit yourself entirely to
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his guiding and molding influence or you
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seek the inner guide and follow the
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inner light wherever it takes you in
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both cases your personal desires and
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fears must be disregarded you learn
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either by proximity or by investigation
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the passive or the active way you either
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let yourself be carried by the river of
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life and love represented by your guru
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or you make your own efforts guided by
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your inner star in both cases you must
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move on you must be earnest rare are the
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people who are lucky to find somebody
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worthy of trust and love most of them
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must take the hard way the way of
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intelligence and understanding of
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discrimination and detachment
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this is the way open to all
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once you say I want to find truth all
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your life will be deeply affected by it
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all your mental and physical habits
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feelings and emotions desires and fears
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plans and decisions will undergo a most
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radical transformation
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do I need experience you already have
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all the experience you need otherwise
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you would not have come here
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you need not gather anymore
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rather you must go beyond experience
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whatever effort you make whatever method
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sadhana you follow will merely generate
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more experience but will not take you
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beyond nor will reading books help you
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they will enrich your mind but the
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person you are will remain intact
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if you expect any benefits from your
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search material mental or spiritual you
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have missed the point
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truth gives no advantage it gives you no
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higher status no power over others all
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you get is truth and the freedom from
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the false
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surely truth gives you the power to help
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others this is mere imagination however
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noble in truth you do not help others
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because there are no others
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you divide people into noble and ignoble
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and you ask the noble to help the
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ignoble you separate you evaluate you
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judge and condemn in the name of truth
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you destroy it your very desire to
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formulate truth denies it because it
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cannot be contained in words truth can
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be expressed only by the denial of the
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false inaction for this you must see the
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false as false and reject it
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renunciation of the false is liberating
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and energizing it lays open the road to
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perfection
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the false is limited in time and space
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and is produced by circumstances
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whatever is conceived by the mind must
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be false for it is bound to be relative
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and limited the real is inconceivable
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and cannot be harnessed to a purpose
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it must be wanted for its own sake
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self-interest and self concern are the
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focal points of the false your daily
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life vibrates between desire and fear
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watch it intently and you will see how
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the mind assumes enumerable names and
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shapes like a river foaming between
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boulders trace every action to its
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selfish motive and look at the motive
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intently till it dissolves discard every
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self seeking motive as soon as it is
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seen and you need not search for truth
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truth will find you
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one must survive you can’t help
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surviving the real you is timeless and
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beyond birth and death and the body will
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survive as long as it is needed it is
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not important that it should live long a
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full life is better than a long life if
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you seek reality
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you must set yourself free of all
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backgrounds of all cultures of all
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patterns of thinking and feeling even
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the idea of being man or women or even
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human should be discarded the ocean of
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life contains all not only humans so
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first of all abandon all
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self-identification stop thinking of
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yourself as such and such so and so this
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or that
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abandon all self concern worry not about
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your welfare material or spiritual
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abandon every desire gross or subtle
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stop thinking of achievement of any kind
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you are complete here and now you need
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absolutely nothing
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it does not mean that you must be
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brainless and foolhardy improvident or
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indifferent only the basic anxiety for
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oneself must go
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