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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that which makes you think you are a
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human is not human it is but a
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dimensionless point of consciousness a
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conscious nothing all you can say about
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yourself is I am you are pure being
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awareness bliss to realize that is the
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end of all seeking you come to it when
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you see all you think yourself to be as
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mere imagination and stand aloof and
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pure awareness of the transient as
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transient imaginary as imaginary unreal
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as unreal it is not at all difficult but
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detachment is needed it is the clinging
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to the false that makes the true so
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difficult to see once you understand
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that the false needs time and what needs
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time is false you are near the reality
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which is timeless ever in the now
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eternity in time is mere repetitiveness
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like the movement of a clock it flows
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from the past into the future endlessly
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an empty perpetuity reality is what
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makes the present so vital so different
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from the past and future which are
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merely mental if you need time to
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achieve something it must be false
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the real is always with you you need not
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wait to be what you are only you must
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not allow your mind to go out of
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yourself in search when you want
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something ask yourself do I really need
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it and if the answer is no then just
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drop it
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[Music]
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nothing can make you happier than you
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are all search for happiness is misery
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and leads to more misery the only
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happiness worth the name is the natural
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happiness of conscious being
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experience leaves only memories behind
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and adds to the burden which is heavy
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enough you need no more experiences the
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past ones are sufficient and if you feel
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you need more look into the hearts of
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people around you you will find a
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variety of experiences which you would
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not be able to go through in a thousand
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years
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learn from the sorrows of others and
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save yourself your own it is not
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experience that you need but the freedom
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from all experience don’t be greedy for
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experience you need none
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to deal with yourself you need nothing
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be what you are conscious being and
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don’t stray away from yourself
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[Music]
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you are not even a human being you just
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are a point of awareness coextensive
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with time and space and beyond both the
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ultimate cause itself uncaused if you
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ask me who are you my answer would be
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nothing in particular
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yet I am
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[Music]
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every existence is my existence every
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consciousness is my consciousness every
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sorrow is my sorrow and every joy is my
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joy this is universal life yet my real
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being and yours too is beyond the
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universe and therefore beyond the
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categories of the particular and the
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universal it is what it is totally
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self-contained and independent you must
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give yourself time to brood over these
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things the old grooves must be erased in
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your brain without forming new ones you
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must realize yourself as the immovable
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behind and beyond the movable the Silent
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Witness of all that happens
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[Music]
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[Music]
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destiny must fulfill itself you will go
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through it without resistance facing
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tasks as they come
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attentive and thorough both in small
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things and big but the general attitude
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will be of affectionate detachment
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enormous goodwill without expectation of
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return constant giving without asking in
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marriage you are neither the husband nor
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the wife you are the love between the
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two you are the clarity and kindness
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that makes everything orderly and happy
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it may seem vague to you but if you
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think a little you will find that the
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mystical is most practical for it makes
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your life creatively happy your
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consciousness is raised to a higher
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dimension from which you see everything
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much clearer and with greater intensity
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you realize that the person you became
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at birth and will cease to be a death is
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temporary and false
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you are not the sensual emotional and
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intellectual person gripped by desires
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and fears find out your real being
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what am I is the fundamental question of
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all philosophy and psychology go into it
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deeply
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all that lives works for protecting
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perpetuating and expanding consciousness
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this is the world’s sole meaning and
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purpose it is the very essence of yoga
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ever raising the level of consciousness
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discovery of new dimensions with their
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properties qualities and powers
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[Music]
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The Seeker is he who is in search of
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himself soon he discovers that his own
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body he cannot be once the conviction I
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am NOT the body become so well grounded
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that he can no longer feel think and act
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for and on behalf of the body he will
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easily discover that he is the universal
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being
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knowing acting that in him and through
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him the entire universe is real
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conscious and active this is the heart
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of the problem either you are body
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conscious and a slave of circumstances
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or you are the universal consciousness
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itself and in full control of every
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event yet consciousness individual or
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universal is not my true abode I am NOT
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in it it is not mine there is no me in
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it I am beyond though it is not easy to
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explain how one can be neither conscious
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nor unconscious but just beyond I cannot
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say that I am in God or I am God God is
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the universal light and love the
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universal witness
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I am beyond the universal even
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I am what I am neither with form nor
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formless neither conscious nor
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unconscious I am outside all these
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categories you cannot find me by mere
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denial I am as well everything as
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nothing nor both nor either these
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definitions apply to the Lord of the
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universe not to me I am complete and
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perfect
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I am the beingness of being the
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knowingness of knowing and the fullness
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of happiness you cannot reduce me to
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emptiness
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[Music]
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I am offering you exactly what you need
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awakening you are not hungry and you
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need no bread you need cessation
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relinquishing disentanglement what you
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believe you need is not what you need
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your real need I know not you you need
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to return to the state in which I am
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your natural state anything else you may
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think of is an illusion and an obstacle
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believe me you need nothing except to be
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what you are you imagine you will
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increase your value by acquisition it is
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like gold imagining that an addition of
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copper will improve it elimination and
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purification renunciation of all that is
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foreign to your nature is enough all
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else is vanity
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[Music]
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it is the mind that tells you that the
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mind is there don’t be deceived all the
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endless arguments about the mind are
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produced by the mind itself for its own
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protection continuation and expansion
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[Music]
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listen to what I keep on telling you and
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do not move away from it think of it all
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the time and of nothing else having
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reached that far
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abandon all thoughts not only of the
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world but of yourself also stay beyond
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all thoughts in silent being awareness
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it is not progress for what you come to
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is already there in you waiting for you
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experience however sublime is not the
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real thing by its very nature it comes
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and goes
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self-realization is not an acquisition
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it is more in the nature of
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understanding once arrived at it cannot
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be lost on the other hand consciousness
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is changeful flowing undergoing
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transformation from moment to moment do
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not hold on to consciousness and its
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contents consciousness held ceases to
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try to perpetuate a flash of insight or
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a burst of happiness is destructive of
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what it wants to preserve what comes
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must go
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the permanent is beyond all comings and
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goings go to the root of all experience
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to the sense of being beyond being and
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not-being
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lies the immensity of the real try and
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try again
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[Music]
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tirelessly I draw their attention to the
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one incontrovertible fact that of being
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being needs no proofs it proves all else
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if only they go deeply into the fact of
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being and discover the vastness and the
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glory to which the I am is the door and
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cross the door and go beyond their life
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will be full of happiness and light
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believe me the effort needed is as
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nothing when compared with the
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discoveries arrived at
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there is such a way open to all on every
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level in every walk of life everybody is
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aware of himself the deepening and
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broadening of self-awareness is the
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Royal way call it mindfulness or
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witnessing or just attention it is for
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all none is unripe for it and none can
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fail
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[Music]
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no doubt striving for the improvement of
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the world is a most praiseworthy
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occupation done selflessly it clarifies
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the mind and purifies the heart but soon
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man will realize that he pursues a
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mirage local and temporary improvement
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is always possible and was achieved
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again and again under the influence of a
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great king or teacher but it would soon
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come to an end
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leaving Humanity in a new cycle of
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misery it is the nature of all
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manifestation that the good and the bad
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follow each other and an equal measure
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the true refuge is only in the
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unmanifested
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are you not advising escape on the
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contrary the only way to renewal lies
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through destruction
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you must melt down the old jewelry into
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formless gold before you can mold a new
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piece only the people who have gone
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beyond the world can change the world it
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never happened otherwise the few whose
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impact was long-lasting were all knowers
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of reality reach their level and then
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only talk of helping the world it is not
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the rivers and mountains that we want to
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help but the people there is nothing
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wrong with the world but for the people
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who make it bad go and ask them to
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behave desire and fear make them behave
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as they do exactly as long as human
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behavior is dominated by desire and fear
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there is not much hope and to know how
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to approach people effectively you must
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yourself be free of all desire and fear
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certain basic desires and fears are
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inevitable such as are connected with
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food sex and death
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these are needs and as needs they are
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easy to meet even death is a need having
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lived a long and fruitful life you feel
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the need to die only when wrongly
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applied desire and fear are destructive
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by all means
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desire the right and fear the wrong but
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when people desire what is wrong and
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fear what is right they create chaos and
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despair what is right and what is wrong
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[Music]
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relatively what causes suffering is
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wrong what alleviates it is right
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absolutely what brings you back to
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reality is right and what dims reality
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is wrong
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when we talk of helping humanity we mean
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a struggle against disorder and
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suffering
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you merely talk of helping have you ever
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helped really helped a single man have
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you ever put one soul beyond the need of
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further help can you give a man
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character based on full realization of
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his duties and opportunities at least if
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not on the insight into his true being
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[Music]
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when you do not know what is good for
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yourself how can you know what is good
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for others
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[Music]
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it is you that need my body to talk to
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you I am NOT my body nor do I need it I
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am the witness only I have no shape of
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my own you are so accustomed to thinking
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of yourselves as bodies having
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consciousness that you just cannot
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imagine consciousness as having bodies
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once you realize that bodily existence
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is but a state of mind a movement in
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consciousness that the ocean of
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consciousness is infinite and eternal
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and that when in touch with
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consciousness you are the witness only
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you will be able to withdraw beyond
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consciousness altogether
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[Music]
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we are told there are many levels of
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existence do you exist and function on
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all the levels while you are on earth
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are you also in heaven I am nowhere to
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be found I am NOT a thing to be given a
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place among other things all things are
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in me but I am NOT among things you are
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telling me about the superstructure
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while I am concerned with the
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foundations the super structures rise
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and fall but the foundations last I am
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NOT interested in the transient while
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you talk of nothing else
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the bhagavad-gita says the sword does
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not cut it
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it is literally so it is in the nature
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of consciousness to survive
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it’s a vehicle’s it is like fire it
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burns up the fuel but not itself just
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like a fire cannot last a mountain of
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fuel so does consciousness survive
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innumerable bodies
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[Music]
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be aware of being conscious and seek the
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source of consciousness that is all a
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[Music]
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very little can be conveyed in words it
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is doing what I tell you that will bring
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light not my telling you the means do
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not matter much it is the desire the
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urge the earnestness that counts
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[Music]
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you can see both the image and the
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mirror you are neither who are you don’t
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go by formulas the answer is not in
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words the nearest you can say in words
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is I am what makes perception possible
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the life beyond the experiencer and his
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experience
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[Music]
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learn to separate yourself from the
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image and the mirror keep on remembering
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I am neither the mind nor its ideas do
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it patiently and with conviction and you
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will surely come to the direct vision of
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yourself as the source of being knowing
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loving eternal all embracing all
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pervading you are the infinite focused
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in a body now you see the body only try
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earnestly and you will come to see the
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infinite only
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all experience is necessarily transient
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but the ground of all experience is
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immovable nothing that may be called an
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event will last but some events purify
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the mind and some stain it moments of
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deep insight and all-embracing love
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purify the mind while desires and fears
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envy and anger blind beliefs and
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intellectual arrogance pollute and dull
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the psyche is self-realization so
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important without it you will be
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consumed by desires and fears repeating
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themselves meaninglessly an endless
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suffering most people do not know that
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there can be an end to pain but once
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they have heard the good news obviously
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going beyond all strife and struggle is
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the most urgent task that can be you
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know that you can be free and now it is
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up to you
