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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when I look through the mind
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I see numberless people when I look
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beyond the mind
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I see the witness beyond the witness
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there is the infinite intensity of
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emptiness and silence
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how to deal with people why make plans
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and what for such questions show anxiety
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[Music]
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relationship is a living thing be at
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peace with your inner self and you will
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be at peace with everybody realize that
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you are not the master of what happens
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you cannot control the future except in
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purely technical matters human
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relationship cannot be planned it is too
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rich and varied
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just be understanding and compassionate
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free of all self-seeking
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[Music]
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you cannot avoid action it happens like
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everything else
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[Music]
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you must be free first to be free in the
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world you must be free of the world
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[Music]
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otherwise your past decides for you and
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your future between what had happened
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and what must happen you are caught call
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it destiny or karma but never freedom
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first return to your true being and then
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act from the heart of love
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[Music]
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the person is of little use it is deeply
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involved in its own affairs and is
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completely ignorant of its true being it
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is the witness that makes realization
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desirable and attainable
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the person by itself will not become the
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witness it is like expecting a cold
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candle to start burning in the course of
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time the person can stay in the darkness
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of ignorance forever unless the flame of
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awareness touches it who lights the
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candle
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the Guru his words his presence in India
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it is very often the mantra once the
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candle is lit the flame will consume the
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candle why is the mantra so effective
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constant repetition of the mantra is
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something the person does not do for
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one’s own sake the beneficiary is not
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the person just like the candle which
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does not increase by burning
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[Music]
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can the person be aware of itself by
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itself yes it happens sometimes as a
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result of much suffering the Guru wants
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to save you the endless pain such is His
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grace even when there is no discoverable
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outer rule there is always the Sadhguru
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the inner guru who directs and helps
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from within the words outer and inner
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are relative to the body only in reality
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all is one the person may be conscious
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but is not aware of being conscious when
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the darkness is questioned it dissolves
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the desire to question is planted by the
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Guru in other words the difference
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between the person and the witness is as
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between not knowing and knowing oneself
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[Music]
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the very desire to be ready means that
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the guru had come and the flame is lit
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it may be a stray word or a page in a
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book the Guru’s grace works mysteriously
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[Music]
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it is not the person that is doing
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sadhana the person is in unrest and
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resistant to the very end it is the
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witness that works on the person on the
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totality of its illusions past present
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and future
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[Music]
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the proof of the truth lies in its
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effect on the listener the effect need
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not necessarily be an experience it can
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be a change in character and motivation
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in relationship to people and oneself
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[Music]
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trances and visions induced by words or
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drugs or any other sensory or mental
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means are temporary and inconclusive the
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truth of what is said here is immovable
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and everlasting and the proof of it is
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in the listener in the deep and
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permanent changes in his entire being it
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is not something he can doubt unless he
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doubts his own existence which is
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unthinkable
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[Music]
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I am and I know I am you cannot ask for
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further proof
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when the words are spoken there is
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silence when the relative is over the
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absolute remains the silence before the
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words were spoken is it different from
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the silence that comes after the silence
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is one and without it the words could
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not have been heard it is always there
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at the back of the words shift your
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attention from words to silence and you
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will hear it the mind craves for
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experience the memory of which it takes
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for knowledge the yani
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is beyond all experience and his memory
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is empty of the past he is entirely
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unrelated to anything in particular but
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the mind craves for formulations and
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definitions always eager to squeeze
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reality into a verbal shape of
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everything it wants an idea for without
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ideas the mind is not
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reality is essentially alone but the
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mind will not leave it alone
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and deals instead with the Unreal and
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yet it is all the mind can do discover
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the Unreal as unreal there is no such
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state as seeing the real who is to see
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what you can only be the real which you
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are anyhow the problem is only mental
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abandoned false ideas that is all there
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is no need of true ideas there aren’t
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any
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[Music]
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why then are we encouraged to seek the
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real the mind must have a purpose to
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encourage it to free itself from the
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unreal it is promised something in
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return
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in reality there is no need of purpose
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being free from the false is good in
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itself it wants no reward it is just
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like being clean which is its own reward
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the reward of self-knowledge is freedom
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from the personal self you cannot know
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the knower for you are the knower
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I know that I am all I do not need to
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keep on repeating I am all I am all only
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when you take me to be a particular a
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person I protest as you are a man all
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the time so I am what I am all the time
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whatever you are change lessly
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that you are beyond all doubt you
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identify yourself with your desires and
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become their slave to me
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desires are things among other things
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mere clouds in the mental sky and I do
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not feel compelled to act on them
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[Music]
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the knower is the unmanifested the known
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is the manifested the known is always on
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the move it changes it has no shape of
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its own no dwelling place the knower is
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the immutable support of all knowledge
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each needs the other but reality lies
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beyond the yani cannot be known because
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there is nobody to be known when there
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is a person you can say something about
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it
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but when there is no self identification
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with the particular what can be said you
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may tell a Yanni anything his question
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will always be about whom are you
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talking there is no such person
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just as you cannot say anything about
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the universe because it includes
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everything so nothing can be said about
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a Yanni for he is all and yet nothing in
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particular you need a hook to hang your
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picture on when there is no hook on what
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will the picture hang to locate a thing
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you need space to place an event you
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need time but the timeless and spaceless
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defies all handling it makes everything
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perceivable yet itself it is beyond
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perception the mind cannot know what is
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beyond the mind but the mind is known by
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what is beyond it the yani knows neither
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birth nor death existence and
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non-existence are the same to him
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when your body dies you remain nothing
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dies the body is just imagined there is
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no such thing
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[Music]
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time will come to an end this is called
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the great death a death of time the
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universe is your personal experience how
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can it be affected you might have been
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delivering a lecture for two hours where
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has it gone
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when it is over it has merged into
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silence in which the beginning middle
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and end of the lecture are all together
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time has come to a stop it was but is no
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more the silence after a life of talking
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and the silence after a life of silence
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is the same silence immortality is
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freedom from the feeling I am
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yet it is not extinction on the contrary
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it is a state infinitely more real aware
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and happy then you can possibly think of
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only self-consciousness is no more
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[Music]
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the mind has its limits it is enough to
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bring you to the very frontiers of
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knowledge and make you face the
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immensity of the unknown to dive in it
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is up to you what about the witness is
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it real or unreal
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it is both the Last Remnant of illusion
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the first touch of the real the moment
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you say I am the entire universe comes
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into being along with its creator
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[Music]
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duality lasts as long as it is not
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questioned the Trinity mind self and
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spirit when looked into becomes unity
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[Music]
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everybody desires to be to survive to
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continue for no one is sure of himself
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but everybody is immortal you make
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yourself mortal by taking yourself to be
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the body
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[Music]
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attachment destroys courage the giver is
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always ready to give the taker is absent
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freedom means letting go people just do
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not care to let go of everything they do
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not know that the finite is the price of
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the infinite as death is the price of
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immortality spiritual maturity lies in
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the readiness to let go of everything
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the giving up is the first step but the
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real giving up is in realizing that
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there is nothing to give up for nothing
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is your own it is like deep sleep you do
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not give up your bed when you fall
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asleep you just forget it
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[Music]
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awareness with an object we call
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witnessing in reality there is only one
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state when distorted by
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self-identification it is called a
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person who in colored with the sense of
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being it is the witness when colorless
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and limitless it is called the supreme
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[Music]
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existence is momentary always in time
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and space while reality is changeless
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and all-pervading
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[Music]
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as a person your existence is momentary
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but are you a person only are you a
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person at all
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[Music]
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all the paths take you to the
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purification of the mind the impure mind
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is opaque to truth the pure mind is
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transparent truth can be seen through it
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easily and clearly variety and diversity
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do not create separation you imagine
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reality to stand apart from names and
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forms while to me names and forms are
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the ever-changing expressions of reality
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and not apart from it you asked for the
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proof of truth while to me all existence
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is the proof you separate existence from
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being and being from reality while to me
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it is all one however much you are
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convinced of the truth of your waking
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state you do not claim it to be
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permanent and changeless as I do when I
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talk of mine yet I see no difference
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between us except that you are imagining
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things while I do not
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you will find you know nothing for sure
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you trust on hearsay to know the truth
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you must pass through your own
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experience
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[Music]
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[Music]
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you are asking for truth but in fact you
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merely seek comfort which you want to
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last forever
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[Music]
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now nothing no state of mind can last
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forever in time and space there is
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always a limit because time and space
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themselves are limited and in the
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timeless the words forever have no
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meaning the same with the proof of truth
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in the realm of non-duality everything
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is complete its own proof meaning and
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purpose where all is one
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no supports are needed
