0:00:02.021,0:00:04.189 Walk with Mooji Baba 0:00:04.189,0:00:07.799 [Mooji] You gave me a very good question[br]this morning,[br] 0:00:07.799,0:00:15.359 [Mooji] 'What does it mean to be egoless?'[br]It means life, true life. 0:00:15.359,0:00:17.832 What Does It Mean to Be Egoless?[br]03-01-2018 0:00:17.832,0:00:25.844 [Mooji] You are not dominated by feelings, 0:00:25.844,0:00:31.000 your life is not in service to your person. 0:00:31.000,0:00:34.714 Meaning that, for most human beings, 0:00:34.714,0:00:37.793 our life is primarily in service to our person, 0:00:37.793,0:00:41.829 like how we are doing, [br]'I am not well', 'I need this', 0:00:41.829,0:00:45.898 'I don't have any money'.[br]It is all about us, us, us. 0:00:45.898,0:00:49.225 And that is such a ... 0:00:52.645,0:00:59.075 Our lives should be for service and for ... 0:00:59.075,0:01:08.059 It is like, one life in service,[br]not to itself really, but to life, 0:01:08.059,0:01:11.425 can make hundreds of people live the joy, 0:01:11.425,0:01:14.637 for many of them,[br]if you do it in proper service. 0:01:14.637,0:01:24.230 A life in service to your self is selfish[br]and we would call it so wasteful. 0:01:24.230,0:01:30.923 So much power is in you[br]and that power is not for your person. 0:01:30.923,0:01:35.383 So to be egoless ... 0:01:35.383,0:01:39.678 when the person wants to be egoless, 0:01:39.678,0:01:43.197 it is very difficult if the person remains. 0:01:43.197,0:01:47.378 It's trying to be good, and it is OK,[br]it is also a very wide path. 0:01:47.378,0:01:51.773 Most people are told, when they read scripture,[br]'Love one another', 0:01:51.773,0:01:55.252 'Do good to those who do bad things to you',[br]like this. 0:01:55.252,0:01:59.730 And people try to be as loving and kind[br]as they can be, and it is good. 0:01:59.730,0:02:04.190 It produces really good results,[br]but sometimes something is artificial, 0:02:04.190,0:02:07.995 if you are doing it because you are told[br]you should be good. 0:02:07.995,0:02:12.257 We are looking for merits,[br]'If I do what is good, I get something', 0:02:12.257,0:02:15.570 so it is still for ourself, in a sense. 0:02:15.570,0:02:19.899 But when we wake up to the Truth[br]that you are the Self, 0:02:19.899,0:02:26.593 the Self cares for everything, for everyone,[br]it is different somehow. 0:02:26.593,0:02:32.486 Life is much lighter,[br]your sense of personal problems just vanishes, 0:02:32.486,0:02:34.944 like there are no personal problems. 0:02:34.944,0:02:37.485 There is no person to have problems. 0:02:37.485,0:02:40.470 Things come up in life, maybe someone can say, 0:02:40.470,0:02:43.596 'I don't like you!' And it is going to be felt, 0:02:43.596,0:02:47.916 and if they had a lot of poison[br]inside that utterance, 0:02:47.916,0:02:52.381 you may feel that sadness,[br]but it will never overwhelm you. 0:02:52.381,0:02:59.770 You are even able to do the right thing,[br]which is to say, 'God bless you'. 0:02:59.770,0:03:02.698 Sometimes you don't say it in front of them, 0:03:02.698,0:03:04.918 because it might even upset them, 0:03:04.918,0:03:09.967 but in your heart you accept it.[br]And you take the poison out of your self. 0:03:09.967,0:03:14.234 The ego is the poison[br]inside the life of a human being, 0:03:14.234,0:03:17.207 It just makes things bad, it's always selfish, 0:03:17.207,0:03:20.429 it's always drawing energy to itself all the time, 0:03:20.429,0:03:24.907 it always needs to be right, all of these things;[br]it's very poisonous. 0:03:24.907,0:03:27.459 But sometimes not knowing another way 0:03:27.459,0:03:30.413 it feels like, 'That is just how I am'. 0:03:30.413,0:03:38.049 As you begin to wake up[br]to the deeper space of Truth behind the person, 0:03:38.049,0:03:45.172 this is where self-inquiry or The Invitation[br]brings you out of that, 0:03:45.172,0:03:49.091 lifts you out of that space[br]and into the space behind, 0:03:49.091,0:03:54.105 where there is a field of pure intelligence,[br]more light, more space. 0:03:54.105,0:03:57.495 You already start to feel happy and light 0:03:57.495,0:03:59.974 and in your happiness and your light, 0:03:59.974,0:04:03.668 you naturally want to do what feels good. 0:04:03.668,0:04:08.703 It is like what feels good[br]comes naturally inside your heart 0:04:08.703,0:04:14.167 and selfishness feels ... [br]it's like a poison that leaves you, 0:04:14.167,0:04:17.543 so you are not thinking so much in terms of that. 0:04:17.543,0:04:23.013 When you find something that makes you happy, 0:04:23.013,0:04:26.937 you want to share it to make[br]as many people as possible happy. 0:04:26.937,0:04:29.198 You go through a door into a space, 0:04:29.198,0:04:33.001 you want to let as many people as possible [br]come through. 0:04:33.001,0:04:39.214 So egoless-ness is like this.[br]And the more ego is dropping away, 0:04:39.214,0:04:46.471 this heavy cloak of ego,[br]of 'I, me, me, me, I, me my, mine', 0:04:46.471,0:04:48.760 there is just much greater space. 0:04:48.760,0:04:51.801 That is why I say, you come into the God-field. 0:04:51.801,0:04:53.801 The God-field has no jealousy, 0:04:53.801,0:04:59.784 all this kind of stuff goes:[br]selfishness, heavy cravings ... 0:04:59.784,0:05:06.974 You are in a field and it naturally cares 0:05:06.974,0:05:09.889 and everything just gets picked up in it. 0:05:09.889,0:05:12.707 It takes care of every aspect of your life 0:05:12.707,0:05:17.380 and the lives of those you love. 0:05:17.380,0:05:21.913 But your love doesn't stop,[br]it keeps expanding more and more. 0:05:21.913,0:05:24.604 So, that is what it is to be without ego. 0:05:24.604,0:05:28.817 It is the most powerful thing in the whole world. 0:05:28.817,0:05:32.196 Ego is the darkest force in the world. 0:05:32.196,0:05:36.795 Freedom from ego is the most light[br]and beautiful force in the world. 0:05:36.795,0:05:41.625 And that is, for me, the challenge[br]of living as a human being, 0:05:41.625,0:05:46.051 to transcend the egoic identity. 0:05:46.051,0:05:53.508 But it seems very rare in our world, 0:05:53.508,0:05:56.718 because so much is put on the person, 0:05:56.718,0:06:01.451 it is like our first love and we love that first. 0:06:01.451,0:06:04.958 But you are meant to love the Self,[br]but not the person, 0:06:04.958,0:06:08.178 love the Self first,[br]but we tend to love it last. 0:06:08.178,0:06:11.847 It is like that.[br]We first grow up with a strong identity 0:06:11.847,0:06:15.323 and all 'me, me, me', but we're never happy like that. 0:06:15.323,0:06:19.069 We need so many things: [br]we need money, we need friendship, 0:06:19.069,0:06:22.867 we need partners,[br]we need nice things in order to be happy. 0:06:22.867,0:06:26.436 But someone who is free of ego[br]can just be happy anyway. 0:06:26.436,0:06:30.532 Wherever you put them, they are happy.[br]They are not competitive, 0:06:30.532,0:06:32.989 they are very broad in their dealings, 0:06:32.989,0:06:37.669 they always think of the feelings of others. 0:06:37.669,0:06:42.145 It's very beautiful and my wish and prayer is that 0:06:42.145,0:06:49.017 it becomes contagious again just to be happy,[br]that beings just enjoy ... 0:06:49.017,0:06:51.104 When we have group actions, 0:06:51.104,0:06:54.443 some people learn to see[br]that they can work together 0:06:54.443,0:06:57.685 and produce something beautiful, and they love it. 0:06:57.685,0:07:01.576 In Monte Sahaja now,[br]the climate and the vibrations 0:07:01.576,0:07:05.713 have become so much higher,[br]so that the feeling of love is easy. 0:07:05.713,0:07:08.093 People are not pretending to love, 0:07:08.093,0:07:10.768 they are genuinely feeling the vibration. 0:07:10.768,0:07:13.090 Where does this vibration come from? 0:07:13.090,0:07:16.436 It's not that we came here [br]and it was a special land 0:07:16.436,0:07:18.906 and the trees were giving a vibration. 0:07:18.906,0:07:24.110 No! We are bringing the vibration,[br]the living Self, 0:07:24.110,0:07:27.437 by our actions, by our thoughts,[br]by the meditation, 0:07:27.437,0:07:33.217 by the understanding, [br]by the veneration and the attraction to God, 0:07:33.217,0:07:35.809 or to pure consciousness. 0:07:35.809,0:07:39.691 All of this is lifting the vibration,[br]so it becomes powerful. 0:07:39.691,0:07:42.611 Even people who don't know about these things, 0:07:42.611,0:07:44.921 when they come, they feel something, 0:07:44.921,0:07:49.171 'I feel good here. I like being here.'[br]What are they responding to? 0:07:49.171,0:07:52.401 They are responding to the vibration of the place. 0:07:52.401,0:07:56.559 They probably don't know the philosophy,[br]it's not important. 0:07:56.559,0:08:00.264 It is the activity of the philosophy, 0:08:00.264,0:08:04.441 it is the power of the guidance[br]when it is accepted. 0:08:04.441,0:08:08.027 There is no power in the guidance[br]if it is not accepted. 0:08:08.027,0:08:12.393 When it is accepted, [br]then it wakes up and it starts to move 0:08:12.393,0:08:15.821 and then everything ...[br]The trees start to pick it up, 0:08:15.821,0:08:18.879 the earth picks it up, everything picks it up. 0:08:18.879,0:08:24.092 That is why in some places,[br]you can feel the vibration of the place 0:08:24.092,0:08:27.900 even though that person is not there anymore. 0:08:27.900,0:08:30.610 I have been to places like that, in India. 0:08:30.610,0:08:35.290 Even in Jamaica, in Bob Marley's house[br]I felt this vibration, actually. 0:08:35.290,0:08:38.812 I went to his room,[br]where his slippers are by his bed, 0:08:38.812,0:08:43.501 I wasn't expecting anything,[br]but the feeling of love was so powerful. 0:08:43.501,0:08:45.527 It was so wonderful! 0:08:45.527,0:08:49.533 In India, Gandhi's place [br]and different places I have been to, 0:08:49.533,0:08:52.667 it feels 'Whoa', not so many, but quite a few. 0:08:52.667,0:08:57.447 You feel this vibration and it lives in the walls, 0:08:57.447,0:08:59.963 even the bricks hold the vibration. 0:08:59.963,0:09:05.794 You go inside and you feel,[br]'There was happiness in this house!' 0:09:05.794,0:09:09.322 And it lives, [br]even though the people left their bodies, 0:09:09.322,0:09:13.735 the happiness is inside the house.[br]It is amazing! 0:09:13.735,0:09:17.898 Sometimes darkness can live in a house also. 0:09:17.898,0:09:21.529 These are the strong energies of attraction, 0:09:21.529,0:09:27.558 desire, fear, love, these are powerful forces[br]in the human kingdom 0:09:27.558,0:09:35.746 and they affect even the earth,[br]it leaves that vibration there. 0:09:35.746,0:09:40.220 Sometimes people go to the forest,[br]they say they love being in nature. 0:09:40.220,0:09:43.957 It's because it is not polluted by human darkness. 0:09:43.957,0:09:46.762 So they feel, 'It is empty of that'. 0:09:46.762,0:09:49.459 It has moved more into tree consciousness 0:09:49.459,0:09:52.469 and land, earth consciousness, more into that. 0:09:52.469,0:09:54.466 When you come to a place where[br] 0:09:54.466,0:09:58.946 the consciousness has manifested the human form,[br]it is much more rich, 0:09:58.946,0:10:01.291 it's more diverse in its expression. 0:10:01.291,0:10:04.622 If it is pervaded by[br]and imbued with consciousness, 0:10:04.622,0:10:07.097 it is so powerful! 0:10:07.097,0:10:20.640 This is why I say, it was 2,100 years ago 0:10:20.640,0:10:24.419 when Jesus was here physically, on the Earth, 0:10:24.419,0:10:27.631 and just through one human being 0:10:27.631,0:10:35.951 who was the embodiment of the God consciousness, 0:10:35.951,0:10:39.151 even after leaving his body, 2,100 years later, 0:10:39.151,0:10:42.318 people are still becoming followers of Christ, 0:10:42.318,0:10:44.282 or followers of the Buddha,[br] 0:10:44.282,0:10:47.910 or followers of Krishna, [br]who was here 5,000 years ago, 0:10:47.910,0:10:51.520 of Rama, who was here[br]many, many thousands of years ago. 0:10:51.520,0:10:55.526 Why? Because the vibration is there[br]when they hold that. 0:10:55.526,0:11:00.740 So, it is a very powerful thing! 0:11:00.740,0:11:06.173 I used to say that[br]one human being forgot about themself 0:11:06.173,0:11:10.156 and since then the whole world cannot forget them. 0:11:10.156,0:11:12.510 That is a very powerful thing! 0:11:12.510,0:11:19.979 Forgetting themself means to override the ego,[br]to just not listen to him. 0:11:19.979,0:11:21.948 They transcended that. 0:11:21.948,0:11:27.079 And their influence, [br]their presence and their words 0:11:27.079,0:11:32.517 impacted on the lives of millions of beings.[br]So there are examples. 0:11:32.517,0:11:34.513 And each of these human beings 0:11:34.513,0:11:37.582 had exactly the same kind of blood type as us, 0:11:37.582,0:11:42.111 looked at the same moon, the same stars[br]and the same sun, just like us. 0:11:42.111,0:11:47.821 They still had appetites, they got tired,[br]they sometimes didn't sleep, 0:11:47.821,0:11:51.472 they had friendships,[br]they had people who hated them. 0:11:51.472,0:11:57.241 Even still, they were glowing[br]in the spirit of Truth, the spirit of God. 0:11:57.241,0:12:02.070 So that, for me, [br]is the fulfilment of a human life, 0:12:02.070,0:12:06.248 to wake up into the Truth of what you really are, 0:12:06.248,0:12:09.204 and that, that is what God is, 0:12:09.204,0:12:12.868 that you are inside the God kingdom[br]inside your heart. 0:12:12.868,0:12:15.188 That is what is. 0:12:15.188,0:12:19.019 A human being that merely follows scriptures[br]on the surface, 0:12:19.019,0:12:21.670 it is not enough. Their life will change, 0:12:21.670,0:12:26.303 it will impact on the lives of other people,[br]but in a soft way. 0:12:26.303,0:12:31.645 But the one who abandons their ego 0:12:31.645,0:12:36.375 and plunges fully into the God ocean,[br]this one rises up 0:12:36.375,0:12:40.145 and becomes a guide in the world,[br]even if they don't speak. 0:12:40.145,0:12:44.140 Some beings don't speak,[br]but their presence is so powerful, 0:12:44.140,0:12:50.171 because it is so much inherent in their being,[br]this presence of God, 0:12:50.171,0:12:54.630 that people can just be in their presence [br]and they are transformed. 0:12:54.630,0:12:58.282 So for me, [br]that is what it means to be without ego, 0:12:58.282,0:13:01.163 it is the most powerful thing in the world! 0:13:01.163,0:13:03.390 If I were to meet two people, 0:13:03.390,0:13:07.652 one who has been to Venus[br]and lived there for six months, 0:13:07.652,0:13:12.121 one who lived in a cardboard box for six months [br]in meditation and God 0:13:12.121,0:13:16.572 and who has awakened,[br]I would go there any time and be with this one. 0:13:16.572,0:13:19.871 I don't need to speak to an astronaut about life, 0:13:19.871,0:13:22.687 because they could be equally full of ego. 0:13:22.687,0:13:26.535 But the one who has transcended ego[br]inside themself, 0:13:26.535,0:13:32.126 that would be my happy date. 0:13:32.126,0:13:35.604 I would rather go and sit there,[br]just to be with this, 0:13:35.604,0:13:39.642 to be in that field of beings,[br]even beings who love God, 0:13:39.642,0:13:42.977 or who are searching for Truth, [br]that is holy company. 0:13:42.977,0:13:45.995 Just to be in the company of seekers of Truth 0:13:45.995,0:13:48.625 is called auspicious, as well. 0:13:48.625,0:13:54.691 So I feel that we are in the right place, 0:13:54.691,0:13:59.829 that more and more beings[br]are finding true happiness, 0:13:59.829,0:14:03.808 not a trip, [br]not, 'We are going to conquer the world!' No. 0:14:03.808,0:14:07.633 Just finding, one by one is enough, 0:14:07.633,0:14:12.697 that light moving in the world is something. 0:14:12.697,0:14:17.156 Because I don't think the world needs[br]more books about spirituality. 0:14:17.156,0:14:20.482 They need human beings who embody the Truth 0:14:20.482,0:14:23.494 rather than books that write about the Truth! 0:14:23.494,0:14:28.879 They want to see the living book,[br]not just a book of paper. 0:14:28.879,0:14:32.152 They want to see a book of a human being like them 0:14:32.152,0:14:35.662 whose life challenges or confronts 0:14:35.662,0:14:38.122 or reveals something inside themself. 0:14:38.122,0:14:41.956 By meeting someone of that calibre, 0:14:41.956,0:14:46.950 their being cannot deny that it has met God. 0:14:46.950,0:14:49.316 Many times we have heard of stories 0:14:49.316,0:14:53.473 where people who have professed themselves[br]to be atheists, 0:14:53.473,0:14:57.969 have met a being who has that impact on them, 0:14:57.969,0:15:01.299 that they know, 'Whoa, I don't know what this is, 0:15:01.299,0:15:07.626 but it is causing all these changes[br]inside my heart'. 0:15:07.626,0:15:13.294 Because they can't be a true atheist,[br]it is just a strangeness. 0:15:13.294,0:15:15.775 It just means the depth of ignorance,[br] 0:15:15.775,0:15:20.306 that you don't acknowledge[br]that there is a Supreme power that controls 0:15:20.306,0:15:24.328 and determines the order of the universe[br]and cares for things. 0:15:24.328,0:15:28.731 It is not human beings who are doing it,[br]allowing these trees to grow 0:15:28.731,0:15:32.527 and sending rain and changing the weather 0:15:32.527,0:15:36.107 and taking care of all the different planets, 0:15:36.107,0:15:41.867 not only in one solar system,[br]but in all the solar systems! 0:15:41.867,0:15:44.661 Even talking about it makes you feel weak. 0:15:44.661,0:15:49.501 You can't grasp the magnificence[br]and the might of that Supreme Being. 0:15:49.501,0:15:53.466 The Being is not separate as an entity[br]doing the things, 0:15:53.466,0:16:00.312 it is inside the things themselves.[br]It is like a ... 0:16:00.312,0:16:02.631 God cannot be just a form, 0:16:02.631,0:16:06.843 or God is embodied in all forms and beyond them. 0:16:06.843,0:16:09.166 The forms are constantly changing, 0:16:09.166,0:16:12.835 because He gives them the portion of time[br]and growth 0:16:12.835,0:16:22.317 and anything that is growing[br]must be transforming and changing. 0:16:22.317,0:16:27.513 But the God-Self is unchanging[br]and yet manifesting change 0:16:27.513,0:16:34.378 and taking care of all the different permutations[br]of its expression. 0:16:34.378,0:16:37.375 Sometimes I just want to try and portray it 0:16:37.375,0:16:41.165 as a kind of field of energy, but not just energy, 0:16:41.165,0:16:46.600 it is an intelligence and a spirit ...[br] 0:16:46.600,0:16:49.600 This is the visible expression of it 0:16:49.600,0:16:55.003 and appearing out of it,[br]it gives many clues, that's if you look. 0:16:55.003,0:16:57.874 We look and see the hair on someone's head, 0:16:57.874,0:17:00.329 which keeps coming out, but from what?[br] 0:17:00.329,0:17:04.399 If you look inside the head,[br]there's no hair inside, coming out. 0:17:04.399,0:17:06.729 Nothing is there, it's just growing. 0:17:06.729,0:17:10.408 It shows you, [br]'Out of emptiness I create all these things, 0:17:10.408,0:17:14.112 sustain them and bring them back to emptiness'. 0:17:14.112,0:17:19.079 It is too magnificent to talk about! 0:17:19.079,0:17:25.919 Some beings get overwhelmed[br]at just the majesty of that power. 0:17:25.919,0:17:33.486 So that power is the source[br]of your own sense of Self. 0:17:33.486,0:17:36.625 To know this, even if you don't understand it, 0:17:36.625,0:17:39.352 should set your life on fire already, 0:17:39.352,0:17:41.758 you should have to go and sit down. 0:17:41.758,0:17:44.792 There is no end to gratitude for knowing 0:17:44.792,0:17:47.108 that your life is sourced in God. 0:17:47.108,0:17:54.187 For someone who doesn't really comprehend that ... 0:17:54.187,0:17:56.587 Also that is designated by the power, 0:17:56.587,0:18:00.265 that there will be beings[br]who don't feel that for a while, 0:18:00.265,0:18:03.804 and eventually, [br]they must wake up to that in themselves. 0:18:03.804,0:18:08.309 An auspicious life, for me,[br]is a life which moves away from the ego 0:18:08.309,0:18:10.979 which creates blindness inside the being 0:18:10.979,0:18:16.268 and makes us[br]be concerned just about earthly things, 0:18:16.268,0:18:20.299 as opposed to one who is aware 0:18:20.299,0:18:24.491 and living in that awareness,[br]and then living as that awareness. 0:18:24.491,0:18:29.100 If you come to live as awareness,[br]you are already in the kingdom, 0:18:29.100,0:18:31.237 you are already in that space. 0:18:31.237,0:18:35.931 It is even, I would say, greater than heaven, 0:18:35.931,0:18:39.016 if I can say something like that. 0:18:39.016,0:18:43.315 When that feeling came, I just thought,[br]Is that blasphemous to say? 0:18:43.315,0:18:47.976 I felt, if heaven is made of images and objects, 0:18:47.976,0:18:50.785 then they are also in a kind of time. 0:18:50.785,0:18:55.785 Maybe, one of God's days[br]could be a thousand human years. 0:18:55.785,0:18:59.437 Who knows? But whatever it is,[br]there has to be change. 0:18:59.437,0:19:02.525 If there are different levels of beings, 0:19:02.525,0:19:08.890 then of course, the process of evolving[br]and growing is still there. 0:19:08.890,0:19:14.469 But in the pure awareness,[br]it is not concerned about growth. 0:19:14.469,0:19:19.382 It is so perfect,[br]but it is so unappealing to the mind, 0:19:19.382,0:19:23.276 because the mind is always concerned[br]about things and objects 0:19:23.276,0:19:27.555 and having and losing and getting[br]and changing and growing 0:19:27.555,0:19:30.808 and becoming and losing, it is all of that. 0:19:30.808,0:19:36.558 Whereas in awareness,[br]it is transcendental to such concepts. 0:19:36.558,0:19:43.341 This is what I am trying to say,[br]when I say to everyone, Leave this now. 0:19:43.341,0:19:47.585 Leave this now.[br]Leave even the concern for your identity. 0:19:47.585,0:19:50.288 Leave all of this. Who am I speaking to? 0:19:50.288,0:19:53.544 To the intelligence that doesn't hear this enough. 0:19:53.544,0:19:56.947 When it hears this command[br]that comes from the heart, 0:19:56.947,0:20:00.655 it is able to drop everything[br]and then be in the oneness, 0:20:00.655,0:20:03.463 in the experience of its own oneness. 0:20:03.463,0:20:10.618 Then you see people in the hall in satsang,[br]in the meditations like this, 0:20:10.618,0:20:15.759 and with guidance like this,[br]then the disturbance is not there, 0:20:15.759,0:20:20.234 it is like you are in a transcendental plane. 0:20:20.234,0:20:24.049 Selfishness and all this kind of stuff[br]just thins away 0:20:24.049,0:20:33.636 and it is as though you are floating[br]in a lighter dimension of being. 0:20:33.636,0:20:38.195 So it is very tangible, actually, that we feel it 0:20:38.195,0:20:41.225 and we have the capacity to experience it. 0:20:41.225,0:20:44.418 In the beginning, for many people,[br]their mind comes. 0:20:44.418,0:20:48.910 Sometimes people come here,[br]they are not used to this type of environment 0:20:48.910,0:20:52.043 and you see how much their mind is troubling them. 0:20:52.043,0:20:56.037 It appears as though the place and the people[br]are troubling them, 0:20:56.037,0:20:58.391 but their own mind is troubling them. 0:20:58.391,0:21:01.654 It feels uncomfortable,[br]because it feels challenged, 0:21:01.654,0:21:04.185 'What are these people so happy about? 0:21:04.185,0:21:09.412 I don't even trust them. They are pretending.'[br]It goes into overdrive, 0:21:09.414,0:21:14.774 cynicism, judgements, discomfort,[br]all these things come up. 0:21:14.774,0:21:20.418 But they are just the birth pains[br]to reach a higher state, 0:21:20.418,0:21:24.155 if they persist,[br]and often they don't, they go away. 0:21:24.155,0:21:26.375 But something is inside 0:21:26.375,0:21:31.675 and that seed begins to grow inside them,[br]because God brought them here. 0:21:31.675,0:21:35.735 Even if they feel, [br]'I didn't want to come here, my wife ...', 0:21:35.735,0:21:38.972 it's still the force that caused them[br]to come here, 0:21:38.972,0:21:41.870 to experience the disturbance that's in them, 0:21:41.870,0:21:45.150 but they don't recognise[br]that it's coming from them. 0:21:45.150,0:21:47.468 They think it's coming from outside. 0:21:47.468,0:21:51.827 But it's coming from a reaction [br]to the energy they are experiencing 0:21:51.827,0:21:54.224 that they're not yet compatible with, 0:21:54.224,0:21:57.904 because they are so much in the domain[br]of egoic identity. 0:21:57.904,0:22:00.508 So that is shaking. 0:22:00.508,0:22:07.269 So, it is a very good question[br]you gave me this morning, 0:22:07.269,0:22:11.338 on what it means to be egoless. 0:22:11.338,0:22:15.526 It means life, true life. 0:22:15.526,0:22:26.540 When we think of Jesus, or Prophet Muhummad,[br]or Krishna, or the Buddha, 0:22:26.540,0:22:30.662 it immediately ...[br]Even people who don't know about these things, 0:22:30.662,0:22:34.827 they know it represents[br]a higher level of consciousness, 0:22:34.827,0:22:40.927 a level where love and peace are the climate. 0:22:43.107,0:22:45.477 When we say 'I', the implication, 0:22:45.477,0:22:48.855 the real meaning of 'I' is consciousness. 0:22:48.855,0:22:54.211 But rarely in the world, when we say 'I',[br]does it mean consciousness. 0:22:54.211,0:22:56.886 It means individuality, it means person, 0:22:56.886,0:22:59.413 it means, 'I am a man', 'I am a woman', 0:22:59.413,0:23:02.315 it is such a contraction, such a limitation. 0:23:02.315,0:23:07.732 But 'I', even the one who is awake will say 'I', 0:23:07.732,0:23:11.721 knowing that it is referring[br]to a sense of individuality. 0:23:11.721,0:23:19.498 But underneath that 'I',[br]they are in that space of a deeper knowing, 0:23:19.498,0:23:27.478 a spiritual knowing that[br]it is consciousness speaking, and not the person. 0:23:27.478,0:23:31.412 It is a different vibration altogether. 0:23:31.412,0:23:33.387 When you are with someone, 0:23:33.387,0:23:36.737 and when they speak you experience spaciousness, 0:23:36.737,0:23:41.429 that 'I' is the 'I' that comes from consciousness,[br]that is consciousness. 0:23:41.429,0:23:43.629 When you are speaking with someone 0:23:43.629,0:23:46.208 and you have to be careful what you say, 0:23:46.208,0:23:52.086 that 'I' is loaded with the personhood.[br]And you can see the person ... 0:23:52.086,0:23:59.692 The Earth full of personhood [br]is a very suffocating place. Stifling! 0:23:59.696,0:24:03.694 Even if there were only three million people[br]on the Earth, 0:24:03.694,0:24:06.684 well probably that's a small number, 0:24:06.684,0:24:10.379 but when you meet them,[br]you would feel a bit suffocated. 0:24:10.379,0:24:15.332 But one human being who is awake to the Self, 0:24:15.332,0:24:20.151 in a crowd of thousands, shines and illumines, 0:24:20.151,0:24:25.827 raises the level of consciousness[br]in people who recognise it. 0:24:25.827,0:24:28.753 Because something in us can recognise 0:24:28.753,0:24:34.666 that you are standing in a higher Presence,[br]that's what happens there. 0:24:39.183,0:24:41.561 Even without being told 0:24:41.561,0:24:45.748 people start to behave differently[br]to someone who is awake. 0:24:45.748,0:24:49.229 They can't help it. Without knowing consciously, 0:24:49.229,0:24:53.288 'Oh, that person is some ...',[br]they just behave differently. 0:24:53.288,0:24:59.155 They may start by treating it like,[br]'This is a regular thing', 0:24:59.155,0:25:05.651 but gradually, the presence begins[br]to sort of percolate 0:25:05.651,0:25:09.942 and to move more deeply inside them,[br]and it changes them. 0:25:09.942,0:25:14.064 Their climate starts to change,[br]they start to feel more kind, more open, 0:25:14.064,0:25:16.291 they want to do things for you, 0:25:16.291,0:25:19.646 that is without knowing anything[br]about spirituality. 0:25:19.646,0:25:27.463 It is commanded in the world,[br]one of the Hadiths of the Prophet says that 0:25:27.463,0:25:30.023 when God created the world, 0:25:30.023,0:25:38.160 it says that God commanded the whole world,[br]'Serve those who serve me'. 0:25:38.160,0:25:41.810 Meaning, those who are searching for Truth,[br]serve them. 0:25:41.810,0:25:46.597 'And make weary and tired those who serve you.' 0:25:46.597,0:25:49.529 Do you understand? It is a powerful thing! 0:25:49.529,0:25:51.876 'Serve those who serve me.' 0:25:51.876,0:25:57.254 Meaning, serve those, take care of them,[br]who honour God and Truth. 0:25:57.254,0:26:02.491 'Make tired those who serve you',[br]who serve the world, make them tired. 0:26:02.491,0:26:05.302 Is that a curse? No, it is a blessing also! 0:26:05.302,0:26:08.849 Because when you get tired of your own rubbish, 0:26:08.849,0:26:11.499 then maybe there is space finally to say, 0:26:11.499,0:26:13.827 'I have to try something different'. 0:26:13.827,0:26:16.578 It says, 'Make weary those who serve you', 0:26:16.578,0:26:21.503 because their service is in vain,[br]it's just serving matter and not spirit. 0:26:21.503,0:26:24.376 So it is beautiful. 0:26:24.376,0:26:28.886 It is written inside the heart,[br]in the DNA of every living being, 0:26:28.886,0:26:30.949 not just human beings, 0:26:30.949,0:26:34.861 that in the presence of one[br]who venerates the Truth, 0:26:34.861,0:26:38.863 something in them will honour them.[br]It will respond to them, 0:26:38.863,0:26:41.917 at first it may even want to get rid of them, 0:26:41.917,0:26:48.779 but it can't deny that their presence[br]has an impact upon the existence. 0:26:48.779,0:26:52.030 That is the power of the Holy Spirit 0:26:52.030,0:26:54.620 and the spirit of Truth in each one. 0:26:54.620,0:27:00.424 I say, this place has to shine in that. 0:27:00.424,0:27:02.795 It has to, as long as I am here. 0:27:02.795,0:27:07.817 It has to be that our focus is on cutting the ego. 0:27:07.817,0:27:11.822 And not just cutting, cutting the ego,[br]but living in the Truth. 0:27:11.822,0:27:15.492 Because if your life is only [br]trying to cut, cut, cut ego, 0:27:15.492,0:27:18.067 maybe you don't even taste the full joy, 0:27:18.067,0:27:20.597 you are too busy trying to cut the ego. 0:27:20.597,0:27:24.392 But I say, I am showing you the Truth also,[br]in the meantime. 0:27:24.392,0:27:28.419 So as you are trying to cut the ego,[br]you find the Truth, 0:27:28.419,0:27:31.955 you put down your cutter[br]and just rejoice in the Truth 0:27:31.955,0:27:35.990 and let the Truth cut the ego. [br]Isn't it beautiful? 0:27:35.990,0:27:41.831 Let the Truth cut the ego.[br]Why do your hands have to cut the ego? 0:27:41.831,0:27:44.500 [Friend] That's what The Invitation does. 0:27:44.500,0:27:47.114 [Mooji] That's what The Invitation does! 0:27:47.114,0:27:51.494 The Invitation takes all the dirty work,[br]the grime and stuff out of it 0:27:51.494,0:27:54.742 and brings you into the lap of God. 0:27:54.742,0:27:58.797 [laughter] 0:27:58.797,0:28:01.585 For this my heart is so happy, 0:28:01.585,0:28:08.329 because sometimes when you see the beings ... 0:28:08.329,0:28:12.780 If somebody comes here, [br]'I'm so thirsty. Can I have a glass of water?' 0:28:12.780,0:28:14.849 You give them a glass of water. 0:28:14.849,0:28:18.211 If somebody falls down,[br]you say 'Come, let's get up'. 0:28:18.211,0:28:21.439 Even though your back is hurting,[br]you help them up, 0:28:21.439,0:28:25.094 'How are you feeling? Better? Sit down.'[br]You help them. No? 0:28:25.094,0:28:27.736 Somebody is hungry, 'Brother, please ...'. 0:28:27.736,0:28:32.266 You give them something to eat. 0:28:32.266,0:28:35.396 Whatever you can do, you help. 0:28:35.396,0:28:38.270 If they are sick, what are you going to do? 0:28:38.270,0:28:40.840 Something must be in you to help them. 0:28:40.840,0:28:44.856 Whether it is prayer,[br]or you start to learn to bless people, 0:28:44.856,0:28:47.998 even if it doesn't work, you still keep doing it. 0:28:47.998,0:28:51.416 'My intention is to bless their life,[br]to give them ... 0:28:51.416,0:28:53.915 not that their life becomes like mine.' 0:28:53.915,0:28:58.283 Just bless their life with whatever it needs[br]to remove the obstacles, 0:28:58.283,0:29:01.978 to remove whatever it is that is contaminating, 0:29:01.978,0:29:06.795 or disfiguring the spontaneity of their life, 0:29:06.795,0:29:10.877 to banish that by the power of God.[br]You bless them! 0:29:10.877,0:29:14.474 And with this also,[br]people are searching for the Truth, 0:29:14.474,0:29:19.203 they can't find it, 'It's so difficult'.[br]I say, You read The Invitation. 0:29:19.203,0:29:24.696 Listen to this.[br]Just listen to it. Just listen to it. 0:29:24.696,0:29:27.670 And that is the big help they can get. 0:29:27.670,0:29:31.862 They say, 'Oh my God,[br]I was getting ready to do all the gymnastics 0:29:31.862,0:29:35.609 to try and get over these things,[br]and you made it so easy'. 0:29:35.609,0:29:39.759 Some things become so easy.[br]'I didn't have to go through my mind, 0:29:39.759,0:29:46.227 I didn't have to go down[br]into this dark place of myself. 0:29:46.227,0:29:49.025 I came to the light place of myself.' 0:29:49.025,0:29:51.624 Isn't that a wonderful thing? 0:29:51.624,0:29:55.386 Why does everybody have to suffer,[br]blood, sweat and tears? 0:29:55.386,0:30:00.608 And they can't do it,[br]because human beings are getting weaker. 0:30:00.608,0:30:04.495 They want everything to be done by machines. 0:30:04.495,0:30:08.375 Even the work on ourselves ... 0:30:08.375,0:30:11.581 Yes, if it is to build your ego, you will do it! 0:30:11.581,0:30:14.897 You will lift heavy weights to build up the ego. 0:30:14.897,0:30:19.133 But to change, to transform your heart 0:30:19.133,0:30:23.695 from a suffering place into the abode of peace, 0:30:23.695,0:30:28.972 'I can't get into that!'[br]Because they feel it doesn't show. 0:30:28.972,0:30:34.040 So perhaps this is why[br]grace brought The Invitation now, 0:30:34.040,0:30:36.924 to say, 'But you have to also come in. 0:30:36.924,0:30:41.065 You think you are happy,[br]but that is not the real happiness.' 0:30:41.065,0:30:46.299 And to try to get them.[br]I feel this must be why ... 0:30:46.299,0:30:49.171 For me, The Invitation is the easiest thing, 0:30:49.171,0:30:53.681 like someone holding your hand,[br]walking you through the door, 'Lets go'. 0:30:53.681,0:30:58.001 'I want to meet Jesus.'[br]Come with me, I will show you right here. 0:30:58.010,0:31:01.440 Just a minute. [br]Let's walk through to the other side. 0:31:01.440,0:31:04.597 'I was going to go to Jerusalem and to Calvary.' 0:31:04.597,0:31:10.754 No, no. He is right here. Come.[br]I walk you through the door. Isn't it so? 0:31:10.754,0:31:12.674 [laughter] 0:31:12.674,0:31:15.732 [Friends] Thank you, Mooji. 0:31:15.732,0:31:17.772 [music] 0:31:17.772,0:31:20.863 Copyright © 2018 Mooji Media Ltd.[br]All Rights Reserved.[br][br] 0:31:20.863,0:31:23.275 No part of this recording may be reproduced 0:31:23.275,0:31:25.706 without Mooji Media Ltd.'s express consent.