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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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you are holding on to the need for a
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proof a testimony and authority you
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still imagine that truth needs pointing
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at and telling you look here is truth it
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is not so truth is not the result of an
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effort the end of a road it is here and
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now in the very longing and the search
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for it it is nearer than the mind and
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the body near then the sense I am you do
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not see it because you look too far away
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from yourself
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outside your innermost being
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you have objectified truth and insisted
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on your standard proofs and tests which
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apply only to things and thoughts
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the discovery of truth is in the
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discernment of the false you can know
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what is not what is you can only be
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knowledge is relative to the known in a
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way it is the counterpart of ignorance
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where ignorant is not where is the need
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of knowledge by themselves neither
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ignorant nor knowledge have being they
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are only states of mind which again is
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but an appearance of movement in
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consciousness which is in its essence
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immutable
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[Music]
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do understand that the mind has its
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limits to go beyond you must consent to
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silence truth is not a reward for good
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behavior nor a prize for passing some
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tests it cannot be brought about it is
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the primary the unborn the ancient
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source of all that is you are eligible
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because you are you need not merit truth
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it is your own
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just stop running away by running after
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stand still be quiet
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[Music]
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the body is made of food as the mind is
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made of thoughts see them as they are
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non identification when natural and
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spontaneous is liberation you need not
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know what you are enough to know what
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you are not what you are you will never
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know for every discovery reveals new
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dimensions to conquer the unknown has no
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limits
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[Music]
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what is the relation between the inner
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and the outer gurus the outer represents
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the inner the inner accepts the outer
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for a time whose is the effort the
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disciples of course the outer guru gives
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the instructions the inner sends the
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strength the alert application is the
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disciples without will intelligence and
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energy on the part of the disciple the
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outer guru is helpless the inner guru
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bides his chance obtuseness and wrong
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pursuits bring about a crisis and the
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disciple wakes up to his own plight wise
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is he who does not wait for a shot which
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can be quite rude is it a threat not a
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threat a warning the inner guru is not
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committed to non-violence he can be
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quite violent at times to the point of
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destroying the obtuse or perverted
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personality suffering and death as life
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and happiness are his tools of work it
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is only in duality and non-violence
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becomes the unifying law has one to be
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afraid of his own self not afraid for
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the self means well but it must be taken
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seriously
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it calls for attention and obedience
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when it is not listened to it turns from
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persuasion to compulsion for a while it
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can wait it shall not be denied the
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difficulty lies not with the Guru inner
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or outer the Guru is always available it
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is the ripe disciple that is lacking
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when a person is not ready what can be
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done
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[Music]
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the outer and the inner self are both
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imagined the obsession of being an eye
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needs another obsession with a super eye
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to get cured as one needs another thorn
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to remove a thorn or another poison to
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neutralize a poison all assertion calls
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for a denial but this is the first step
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only the next is to go beyond to both
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[Laughter]
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here you bring in the Sadhguru the inner
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guru
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beginningless changeless the root of
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being the standing promise and the
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certain goal is he a concept or a
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reality he is the only reality all else
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is shadow cast by the body mind on the
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face of time of course even a shadow is
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related to reality but by itself it is
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not real when the shadow is seen to be a
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shadow only you stop following it you
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turn round and discover the Sun which
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was there all the time behind your back
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does the inner guru also teach he grants
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the conviction that you are the eternal
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changeless reality consciousness love
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within and beyond all appearances
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[Music]
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it is like loving one’s own child who
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can doubt it
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what makes us progress silence is the
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main factor in peace and silence you
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grow trust the teacher take my own case
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my guru ordered me to attend to the
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sense I am and to give attention to
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nothing else I just obeyed I did not
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follow any particular course of
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breathing or meditation or study of
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scriptures whatever happened I would
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turn away my attention from it and
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remained with the sense I am
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it may look too simple even crude my
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only reason for doing it was that my
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guru told me so yet it worked
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obedience is a powerful solvent of all
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desires and fears just turn away from
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all that occupies the mind do whatever
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work you have to complete but avoid new
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obligations keep empty keep available
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resist not what comes uninvited in the
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end you reach a state of non grasping of
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joyful non attachment of inner ease and
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freedom indescribable
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yet wonderfully real
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all happens by itself neither the seeker
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nor the Guru do anything things happen
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as they happen
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blame or praise are apportioned later
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after the sense of do ership appearing
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how strange
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surely the doer comes before the deed it
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is the other way around the deed is a
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fact the doer a mere concept your very
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language shows that while the deed is
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certain the doer is dubious shifting
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responsibility is a game peculiarly
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human considering the endless list of
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factors required for anything to happen
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one can only admit that everything is
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responsible for everything however
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remote doership
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is a myth born from the illusion of me
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and mine
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things just happen to be as they are but
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we want to build them into a pattern lay
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down by the structure of our language so
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strong is this habit that we tend to
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deny reality to what cannot be
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verbalized we just refuse to see that
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words are mere symbols related by
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convention and habit to repeated
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experiences what is the value of
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spiritual books they help in dispelling
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ignorant they are useful in the
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beginning but become a hindrance in the
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end one must know when to discard them
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[Music]
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what is the link between optima and
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sattva between the self and the
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universal harmony as between the Sun and
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its rays harmony and beauty
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understanding and affection are all
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expressions of reality it is reality in
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action the impact of the spirit
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unmatched Thomas obscures
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Raja’s distorts sattva harmonizes with
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the maturing of the sattva all desires
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and fears come to an end the real being
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is reflected in the mind undistorted
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matter is redeemed spirit revealed the
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two are seen as one they were always one
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but the imperfect mind saw them as two
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perfection of the mind is the human task
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for matter and spirit meet in the mind
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obedience is the golden rule freedom is
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one by obedience to escape from prison
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one must unquestioningly obey
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instructions sent by those who work for
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one’s release when time comes faith
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comes everything comes in time
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the Guru is always ready to share but
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there are no takers
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in the course of time
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everything happens all will come through
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not a single soul shall be lost
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I understand these conversations are
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going to be published what will be their
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effect on the reader in the attentive
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and thoughtful reader they will ripen
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and bring out flowers and fruits words
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based on truth if fully tested have
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their own power
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[Music]
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there is the body inside the body there
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appears to be an observer and outside a
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world under observation the observer and
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his observation as well as the world
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observed appear and disappear together
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beyond it all there is void this void is
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one for all I know myself as I am
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timeless spaceless causeless
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you happen not to know being engrossed
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as you are in other things why am I so
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engrossed because you are interested
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what makes me interested fear of pain
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desire for pleasure pleasant is the
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ending of pain and painful the end of
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pleasure they just rotate in endless
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succession investigate the vicious
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circle till you find yourself beyond it
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[Music]
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don’t I need your grace to take me
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beyond the grace of your inner reality
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is timelessly with you
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you’re very asking for grace is a sign
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of it do not worry about my grace but do
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what you are told the doing is the proof
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of earnestness not the expecting of
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grace
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what am I to be earnest about a sidious
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li investigate everything that crosses
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your field of attention with practice
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the field will broaden and investigation
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deepen until they become spontaneous and
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limitless
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[Music]
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the timeless knows the time the time
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does not know the timeless all
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consciousness is in time and to it
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the timeless appears unconscious yet it
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is what makes consciousness possible
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[Music]
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light shines in darkness in light
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darkness is not visible or you can put
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it the other way in the endless ocean of
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light clouds of consciousness appear
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dark and limited perceivable by contrast
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these are mere attempts to express in
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words something very simple yet all
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together inexpressible
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words should serve as a bridge to cross
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over words refer to a state of mind not
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to reality the river the two banks the
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bridge across these are all in the mind
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words alone cannot take you beyond the
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mind
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there must be the immense longing for
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truth or absolute faith in the Guru
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believe me there is no goal nor a way to
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reach it you are the way and the goal
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there is nothing else to reach except
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yourself
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all you need is to understand and
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understanding is the flowering of the
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mind the tree is perennial but the
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flowering and the fruit-bearing come in
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season the seasons change but not the
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tree
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you are the tree
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you have grown numberless branches and
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leaves in the past and you may grow them
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also in the future yet you remain
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not what was nor shall be must you know
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but what is yours is the desire that
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creates the universe know the world as
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your own creation and to be free you are
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the maker of the world in which you live
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you alone can change it or unmake it
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when you know yourself as you are in
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reality you know the world as yourself
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if you stand aloof as observer only you
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will not suffer you will see the world
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as a show a most entertaining show
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indeed
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the cause of suffering is in the
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identification of the perceiver with the
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perceived out of it
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desire is born and with desire blind
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action unmindful of results look round
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and you will see suffering is a man-made
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thing descriptions are many and
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contradictory reality is simple all is
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one harmony is the eternal law
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none compels to suffer it is only when
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you try to describe and explain that the
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words fail you
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[Music]
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I remember Gandhiji telling me once that
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the self is not bound by the law of
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non-violence the self has the freedom to
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impose suffering on its expressions in
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order to set them right on the level of
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duality it may be so but in reality
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there is only the source darken itself
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making everything shine unperceived it
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causes perception unfelt it causes
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feeling unthinkable it causes thought
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non-being it gives birth to being it is
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the immovable background of motion once
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you are there you are at home everywhere
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[Music]
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if I am that then what causes me to be
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born the memory of the unfulfilled
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desires traps energy which manifests
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itself as a person when its charge gets
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exhausted the person dies unfulfilled
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desires are carried over into the next
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birth self identification with the body
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creates ever fresh desires and there is
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no end to them unless this mechanism of
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bondage is clearly seen it is clarity
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that is liberating for you cannot
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abandon desire unless its causes and
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effects are clearly seen I do not say
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that the same person is reborn it dies
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and dies for good but it’s memories
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remain and their desires and fears they
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supply the energy for a new person the
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real takes no part in it but makes it
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possible by giving it the light
