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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investigate your world apply your mind
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to it examine it critically scrutinize
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every idea about it
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that will do
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[Music]
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my experience is that everything is
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bliss but the desire for bliss creates
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pain thus bliss becomes the seed of pain
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the entire universe of pain is born of a
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desire give up the desire for pleasure
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and you will not even know what pain is
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for the sake of pleasure you are
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committing many sins and the fruits of
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sin are suffering and death
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[Music]
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if the world is false then God’s plan
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and God are also false
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your mistake lies in your belief that
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you are born you were never born nor
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will you ever die
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[Music]
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salvation is to see things as they are
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my guru said denying existence to
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everything except yourself through
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desire you have created the world with
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its pains and pleasures pain is the
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background of pleasure all seeking of
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pleasure is born in pain and ends in
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pain
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it is the mind that is dull or restless
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not you look all kinds of things happen
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in this room do I cause them to happen
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they just happen so it is with you the
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role of destiny unfolds itself and
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actualizes the inevitable you cannot
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change the course of events but you can
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change your attitude and what really
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matters is the attitude and not the bear
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event
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the world is the abode of desires and
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fears you cannot find peace in it for
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peace you must go beyond the world the
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root cause of the world is self-love
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because of it we seek pleasure and avoid
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pain replace self-love by love of the
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self and the picture changes Brahma God
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the Creator is the sum total of all
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desires the world is the instrument for
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their fulfillment
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Souls take whatever pleasure they desire
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and pay for them in tears Times Square’s
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all accounts the law of balance reigns
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supreme
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[Music]
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a day will come when you have amassed
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enough and must begin to build then
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sorting out and discarding are
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absolutely necessary everything must be
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scrutinized and the unnecessary
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ruthlessly destroyed believe me there
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cannot be too much destruction for in
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reality nothing is of value be
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passionately dispassionate that is all
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[Music]
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my stand I take where nothing is words
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do not reach there nor thoughts to the
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mind it is all darkness and silence then
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consciousness begins to stir and wakes
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up the mind which projects the world
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built of memory and imagination
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once the world comes into being all you
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say maybe so it is in the nature of the
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mind to imagine goals to strive towards
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them to seek out means and ways to
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display vision energy and courage these
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are divine attributes and I do not deny
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them but I take my stand where no
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difference exists where things are not
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nor the mind that creates them there I
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am at home
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whatever happens does not affect me
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things act on things that is all free
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from memory and expectation I am fresh
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innocent wholehearted
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mind is the great worker and it needs
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rest
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needing nothing I am unafraid whom to be
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afraid of there is no separation we are
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not separate selves there is only one
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self the absolute supreme reality in
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which the personal and the impersonal
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are one
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[Laughter]
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[Music]
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even a small desire can start a long
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line of action what about a strong
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desire desire can produce a universe its
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powers are miraculous just as a small
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matchstick can set a huge forest on fire
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so does a desire light the fires of
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manifestation
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[Music]
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the very purpose of creation is the
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fulfillment of desire the desire may be
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Noble or ignoble space is very neutral
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one can fill it with what one likes you
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must be very careful as to what you
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desire
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[Music]
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and as to the people you want to help
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they are in their respective worlds for
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the sake of their desires there is no
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way of helping them except through their
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desires you can only teach them to have
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right desires so that they may rise
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above them and be free from the urge to
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create and recreate worlds of desires
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abodes of pain and pleasure
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just as a sleeping man forgets all and
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wakes up for another day or he dies and
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emerges into another life so do the
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worlds of desire and fear dissolve and
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disappear but the universal witness the
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absolute supreme self never sleeps and
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never dies eternally the great heart
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beats and at each beat a new universe
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comes into being he is beyond all that
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the mind conceives he is beyond being
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and not-being
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he is the yes and no to everything
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beyond and within creating and
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destroying unimaginably real God is the
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all doer the yani is an on door God
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Himself does not say I am doing all to
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him things happen by their own nature to
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the yani all is done by God he sees no
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difference between God and nature both
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God and the yani know themselves to be
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the immovable center of the movable the
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eternal witness of the transient the
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center is a point of void and the
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witness a point of pure awareness they
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know themselves to be as nothing
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therefore nothing can resist them
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[Music]
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being nothing I am all everything is me
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everything is mine just as my body moves
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by my mere thinking of the movement so
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do things happen as I think of them mind
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you I do nothing I just see them happen
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[Music]
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I accept and am accepted I am all and
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all is me being the world I am not
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afraid of the world being all what am I
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to be afraid of water is not afraid of
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water nor fire of fire also I am not
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afraid because I am nothing that can
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experience fear or can be in danger
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I have no shape nor name it is
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attachment to a name and shape that
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breeds fear I am not attached
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I am nothing and nothing is afraid of no
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thing on the contrary everything is
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afraid of the nothing for when a thing
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touches nothing it becomes nothing it is
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like a bottomless well whatever falls
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into it disappears
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[Music]
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is God a person
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as long as you think yourself to be a
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person
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he too is a person when you are all you
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see him as all
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[Music]
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can I change facts by changing attitude
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the attitude is the fact take anger I
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may be furious pacing up and down the
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room at the same time I know what I am a
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center of wisdom and love an atom of
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pure existence all subsides and the mind
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merges into silence
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still you are angry sometimes with whom
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am I to be angry and for what anger came
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and dissolved on my remembering my self
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it is all a play of gunas qualities of
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cosmic matter when I identify myself
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with them I am their slave when I stand
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apart I am their master
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[Music]
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can you influence the world by your
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attitude by separating yourself from the
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world you lose all hope of helping it
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how can it be all is myself can’t I help
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myself I do not identify myself with
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anybody in particular for I am all both
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the particular and the universal can you
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then help me the particular person but I
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do help you always from within myself
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and yourself are one I know it but you
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do not that is all the difference and it
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cannot last and how do you help the
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entire world Mahatma Gandhi is dead yet
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his mind pervades the earth the thought
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of a yani pervades humanity and works
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ceaselessly for good being anonymous
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coming from within it is the more
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powerful and compelling that is how the
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world improves the inner aiding and
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blessing the outer
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when a Yanni dies he is no more in the
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same sense in which a river is no more
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when it merges into the sea the name the
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shape are no more but the water remains
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and becomes one with the ocean when a
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Yanni joins the universal mind all his
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goodness and wisdom become the heritage
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of humanity and uplift every human being
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[Music]
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unmanifested manifested individuality
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personality all these are mere words
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points of view mental attitudes there is
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no reality in them
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the real is experienced in silence you
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cling to personality but you are
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conscious of being a person only when
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you are in trouble when you are not in
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trouble you do not think of yourself you
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did not tell me the uses of the
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unmanifested surely you must sleep in
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order to wake up you must die in order
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to live you must melt down to shape a
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new you must destroy to build annihilate
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before creation the supreme is the
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universal solvent it corrodes every
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container it burns through every
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obstacle without the absolute denial of
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everything the tyranny of things would
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be absolute the supreme is the great
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harmonizer the guarantee of the ultimate
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and perfect balance of life in freedom
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it dissolves you and thus reassert your
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true being
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the daily life is a life of action
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whether you like it or not you must
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function whatever you do for your own
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sake accumulates and becomes explosive
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one day it goes off and plays havoc with
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you and your world when you deceive
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yourself that you work for the good of
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all it makes matters worse for you
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should not be guided by your own ideas
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of what is good for others a man who
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claims to know what is good for others
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is dangerous I always want to work then
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neither for yourself nor for others but
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for the works own sake a thing worth
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doing is its own purpose and meaning
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make nothing a means to something else
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bind not God does not create one thing
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to serve another each is made for its
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own sake because it is made for itself
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it does not interfere you are using
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things and people for purposes a lien to
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them and you play havoc with the world
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in yourself
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[Music]
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you are always the supreme but your
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attention is fixed on things physical or
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mental when your attention is off a
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thing and not yet fixed on another in
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the interval you are pure being
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[Music]
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how does one bring to an end this sense
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of separateness by focusing the mind on
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the I am on the sense of being I am so
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and so dissolves I am a witness only
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remains and that to submerges in I am
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all then they all becomes the one and
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the one yourself not to be separate from
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me
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abandon the idea of a separate I and the
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question of whose experience will not
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arise
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[Music]
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[Music]
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you speak of my experience as different
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from your experience because you believe
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we are separate but we are not on a
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deeper level my experience is your
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experience dive deep within yourself and
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you will find it easily and simply go in
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the direction of I am
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when I see something pleasant
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I want it who exactly wants it the self
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or the mind the question is wrongly put
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there is no who there is desire fear
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anger and the mind says this is me this
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is mine there is no thing which could be
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called me or mine desire is a state of
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the mind perceived and named by the mind
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without the mind perceiving and naming
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where is desire
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[Music]
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naming cannot go beyond the mind while
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perceiving is consciousness itself
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when somebody dies what exactly happens
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nothing happens something becomes
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nothing nothing was nothing remains
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why do you fret at one man dying and
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care little for the millions dying every
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day entire universes are imploding and
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exploding every moment am I to cry over
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them
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one thing is quite clear to me all that
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is lives and moves and has its being in
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consciousness and I am in and beyond
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that consciousness I am in it as the
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witness
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I am beyond it as being sure that you
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care when your child is ill don’t you I
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don’t get flustered I just do the
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needful I do not worry about the future
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a right response to every situation is
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in my nature I do not stop to think what
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to do I act and move on
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results do not affect me I do not even
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care whether they are good or bad
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whatever they are they are if they come
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back to me I deal with them afresh or
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rather I happen to deal with them afresh
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there is no sense of purpose in my doing
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anything things happen as they happen
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not because I make them happen but it is
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because I am that they happen in reality
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nothing ever happens when the mind is
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restless
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it makes Shiva dance like the restless
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waters of the lake make the moon dance
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it is all appearance due to wrong ideas
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just as the taste of salt pervades the
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great ocean and every single drop of
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seawater carries the same flavor so
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every experience gives me the touch of
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reality the ever fresh realization of my
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own being
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[Music]
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do I exist in your world as you exist in
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mine of course you are and I am but only
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as points in consciousness we are
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nothing apart from consciousness this
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must be well grasped the world hangs on
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the thread of consciousness no
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consciousness no world
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there are many points in consciousness
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are there as many worlds take dream for
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an example in a hospital there may be
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many patients all sleeping all dreaming
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each dreaming his own private personal
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dream unrelated unaffected having one
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single factor in common illness
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similarly we have divorced ourselves in
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our imagination from the real world of
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common experience and enclosed ourselves
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in a cloud of personal desires and fears
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images and thoughts ideas and concepts
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all the dreams are superimposed over a
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common world to some extent they shape
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and influence each other the basic unity
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operates in spite of all at the root of
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it all lies self-forgetfulness not
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knowing who I am
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cling to one thing that matters hold on
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to I am and let go all else this is
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sadhana spiritual practice in
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realization there is nothing to hold on
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to and nothing to forget everything is
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known nothing is remembered
