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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there is nothing to do just be do
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nothing be
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no climbing mountains and sitting in
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caves I do not even say be yourself
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since you do not know yourself just be
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[Music]
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having seen that you are neither the
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outer world of perceivable z– nor the
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inner world of thinkable z– that you
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are neither body nor mind just be there
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are no steps to self-realization
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there is nothing gradual about it it
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happens suddenly and is irreversible you
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rotate into a new dimension seen from
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which the previous ones are mere
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abstractions just like on sunrise you
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see things as they are so on
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self-realization you see everything as
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it is the world of illusions is left
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behind
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there can be progress only in the
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preparation sadhana realization is
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sudden the fruit ripens slowly but falls
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suddenly and without return you will
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recognize that you have returned to your
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natural state by a complete absence of
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all desire and fear after all at the
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root of all desire and fear is the
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feeling of not being what you are
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just as a dislocated joint pains only as
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long as it is out of shape and is
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forgotten as soon as it is set right so
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is all self concern a symptom of mental
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distortion which disappears as soon as
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one is in the normal state
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hold on to the sense I am to the
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exclusion of everything else when thus
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the mind becomes completely silent it
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shines with a new light and vibrates
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with new knowledge
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it all comes spontaneously you need only
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hold on to the I am just like emerging
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from sleep or a state of rapture you
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feel rested and yet you cannot explain
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why and how you come to feel so well in
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the same way on realization you feel
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complete fulfilled free from the
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pleasure pain complex and yet not always
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able to explain what happened why and
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how you can put it only in negative
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terms nothing is wrong with me any
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longer
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[Music]
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don’t try to convey it to others if you
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can it is not the real thing be silent
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and watch it expressing itself in action
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[Music]
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how can anybody tell you what you shall
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become when there is no becoming you
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merely discover what you are all molding
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oneself to a pattern is a grievous waste
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of time think neither of the past nor of
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the future just be
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[Music]
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changes are inevitable in the changeful
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but you are not subject to them you are
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the changeless background against which
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changes are perceived
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[Music]
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[Music]
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if you watch carefully you will find
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that even your daily consciousness is in
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flashes with gaps intervening all the
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time what is in the gaps
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what can there be but you’re a real
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being that is timeless mind and
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mindlessness are one to it the only
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proper place is within the outer world
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neither can help you nor hinder no
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system no pattern of action will take
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you to your goal give up all working for
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a future concentrate totally on the now
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and be concerned only with your response
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to every movement of life as it happens
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[Music]
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if you are earnest you will find that in
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the end you will get fed up with roaming
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and regret the waste of energy and time
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to find yourself you need not take a
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single step
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[Music]
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[Laughter]
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there can be no experience of the
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absolute as it is beyond all experience
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on the other hand the self is the
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experiencing factor in every experience
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and thus in a way validates the
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multiplicity of experiences the world
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may be full of things of great value but
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if there is nobody to buy them they have
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no price the absolute contains
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everything experienceable but without
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the experiencer they are as nothing that
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which makes the experience possible is
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the absolute that which makes it actual
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is the self there can be no experience
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without desire for it
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there can be gradation between desires
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but between the most sublime desire and
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the freedom from all desire there’s an
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abyss which must be crossed the unreal
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may look real but it is transient the
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real is not afraid of time to the real
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the unreal is not it appears to be real
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only because you believe in it
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doubt it and it ceases when you are in
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love with somebody you give it reality
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you imagine your love to be all-powerful
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and everlasting when it comes to an end
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you say I thought it was real but it
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wasn’t transiency is the best proof of
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unreality what is limited in time and
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space and applicable to one person only
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is not real
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the real is for all and forever above
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everything else you cherish yourself you
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would accept nothing in exchange for
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your existence
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the desire to be is the strongest of all
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desires and will go only on the
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realization of your true nature when the
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Sun shines colors appear when it sets
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they disappear
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where are the colors without the light
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[Music]
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all thinking is in duality in identity
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no thought survives
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[Music]
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you must unlearn everything god is the
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end of all desire and knowledge all
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desires must be given up because by
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desiring you take the shape of your
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desires when no desire remains you
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revert to your natural state
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you cannot know perfection you can know
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only imperfection for knowledge to be
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there must be separation and a
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disharmony you can know what you are not
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but you cannot know your real being you
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can be only what you are the entire
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approach is through understanding which
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is in the seeing of the false as false
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but to understand you must observe from
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the outside
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[Music]
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there can be no knowledge of the
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unmanifested the potential is unknowable
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only the actual can be known the knower
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knows the known do you know the knower
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who is the knower of the knower you want
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to know the unmanifested can you say you
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know the manifested
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[Music]
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the total is open and available but you
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will not take it you are attached to the
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little person you think yourself to be
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your desires are narrow your ambitions
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petty after all without a center of
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perception where would be the manifested
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unperceived the manifested is as good as
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the unmanifested and you are the
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perceiving point the non-dimensional
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source of all dimensions know yourself
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as the total
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[Music]
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there is enough space in a point for an
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infinity of universes there is no lack
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of capacity self-limitation is the only
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problem but you cannot run away from
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yourself however far you go you come
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back to yourself and to the need of
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understanding this point which is as
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nothing and yet the source of everything
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[Music]
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you create the world and then worry
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about it becoming selfish makes you weak
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[Music]
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no need of practice no need of any acts
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of renunciation just turn your mind away
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that is all desire is merely the
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fixation of the mind on an idea get it
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out of its groove by denying it
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attention whatever may be the desire or
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fear don’t dwell upon it try and see for
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yourself here and there you may forget
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it does not matter
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go back to your attempts till the
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brushing away of every desire and fear
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of every reaction becomes automatic
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[Music]
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you can have all the emotions you want
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but beware of reactions of induced
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emotions be entirely self determined and
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ruled from within not from without
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[Music]
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merely giving up a thing to secure a
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better one is not true relinquishment
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give it up because you see its value
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lessness you have to give up everything
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to know that you need nothing not even
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your body your needs are unreal and your
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efforts are meaningless you imagine that
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your possessions protect you
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in reality they make you vulnerable
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realize yourself as a way from all that
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can be pointed at as this or that you
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are unreachable by any sensory
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experience or verbal construction
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turn away from them refuse to
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impersonate you must keep it in mind and
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ponder over it and try to understand the
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state of mind which makes me say what I
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say I speak from truth stretch your hand
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and take it you are not what you think
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yourself to be I assure you the image
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you have of yourself is made up from
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memories and is purely accidental
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you have never been nor shall ever be a
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person refuse to consider yourself as
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one but as long as you do not even doubt
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yourself to be a mr. so-and-so there is
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little hope when you refuse to open your
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eyes what can you be shown you are
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already perfect here and now you imagine
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yourself to be what you are not stop it
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it is the cessation that is important
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not what you are going to stop nothing
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compels you are as you believe yourself
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to be stop believing
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[Music]
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nothing compels me I do what needs doing
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but you do so many unnecessary things it
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is your refusal to examine that creates
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Karma it is the indifference to your own
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suffering that perpetuates it leave it
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all behind you forget it
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go forth unburdened with ideas and
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beliefs abandon all verbal structures
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all relative truth all tangible
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objectives the absolute can be reached
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by absolute devotion only don’t be
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half-hearted
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[Music]
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the real is simple open
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Collier kind beautiful and joyous
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it is completely free of contradictions
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it is ever new ever fresh endlessly
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creative being and non-being life and
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death all distinctions merge in it the
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mind is what it sinks to make it true
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think true in reality there is only
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perception the perceiver and the
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perceived are conceptual the fact of
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perceiving is actual
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the absolute is the birthplace of
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perceiving it makes perception possible
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but too much analysis leads you nowhere
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there is in you the core of being which
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is beyond analysis beyond the mind you
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can know it in action only express it in
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daily life and it’s light will grow ever
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brighter the legitimate function of the
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mind is to tell you what is not but if
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you want positive knowledge you must go
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beyond the mind in the entire universe
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is there one single thing of value yes
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the power of love
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[Music]
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the goal is shown by the Guru obstacles
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are discovered by the disciple the Guru
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has no preferences but those who have
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obstacles to overcome seem to be lagging
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behind in reality the disciple is not
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different from the guru he is the same
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dimensionless center of perception and
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love in action it is only his
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imagination and self identification with
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the imagined that encloses him and
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converts him into a person the Guru is
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concerned little with the person his
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attention is on the inner watcher it is
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the task of the watcher to understand
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and thereby eliminate the person while
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there is Grace on one side there must be
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dedication to the task on the other
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the person is merely the result of a
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misunderstanding in reality there is no
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such thing
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feelings thoughts and actions race
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before the watcher in endless succession
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leaving traces in the brain and creating
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an illusion of continuity a reflection
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of the watcher in the mind creates the
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sense of I and the person acquires an
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apparently independent existence in
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reality there is no person only the
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watcher identifying himself with the eye
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and the mine
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the teacher tells the watcher you are
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not this there is nothing of yours in
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this except the little point of I am
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which is the bridge between the watcher
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and his dream I am this I am that is
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dream while pure I am has the stamp of
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reality on it
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[Music]
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you have tasted so many things all came
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to not only the sense I am persisted
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unchanged stay with the changeless among
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the changeful until you are able to go
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beyond
