1 00:00:02,021 --> 00:00:04,189 Walk with Mooji Baba 2 00:00:04,189 --> 00:00:07,799 [Mooji] You gave me a very good question this morning, 3 00:00:07,799 --> 00:00:15,359 [Mooji] 'What does it mean to be egoless?' It means life, true life. 4 00:00:15,359 --> 00:00:17,832 What Does It Mean to Be Egoless? 03-01-2018 5 00:00:17,832 --> 00:00:25,844 [Mooji] You are not dominated by feelings, 6 00:00:25,844 --> 00:00:31,000 your life is not in service to your person. 7 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:34,714 Meaning that, for most human beings, 8 00:00:34,714 --> 00:00:37,793 our life is primarily in service to our person, 9 00:00:37,793 --> 00:00:41,829 like how we are doing, 'I am not well', 'I need this', 10 00:00:41,829 --> 00:00:45,898 'I don't have any money'. It is all about us, us, us. 11 00:00:45,898 --> 00:00:49,225 And that is such a ... 12 00:00:52,645 --> 00:00:59,075 Our lives should be for service and for ... 13 00:00:59,075 --> 00:01:08,059 It is like, one life in service, not to itself really, but to life, 14 00:01:08,059 --> 00:01:11,425 can make hundreds of people live the joy, 15 00:01:11,425 --> 00:01:14,637 for many of them, if you do it in proper service. 16 00:01:14,637 --> 00:01:24,230 A life in service to your self is selfish and we would call it so wasteful. 17 00:01:24,230 --> 00:01:30,923 So much power is in you and that power is not for your person. 18 00:01:30,923 --> 00:01:35,383 So to be egoless ... 19 00:01:35,383 --> 00:01:39,678 when the person wants to be egoless, 20 00:01:39,678 --> 00:01:43,197 it is very difficult if the person remains. 21 00:01:43,197 --> 00:01:47,378 It's trying to be good, and it is OK, it is also a very wide path. 22 00:01:47,378 --> 00:01:51,773 Most people are told, when they read scripture, 'Love one another', 23 00:01:51,773 --> 00:01:55,252 'Do good to those who do bad things to you', like this. 24 00:01:55,252 --> 00:01:59,730 And people try to be as loving and kind as they can be, and it is good. 25 00:01:59,730 --> 00:02:04,190 It produces really good results, but sometimes something is artificial, 26 00:02:04,190 --> 00:02:07,995 if you are doing it because you are told you should be good. 27 00:02:07,995 --> 00:02:12,257 We are looking for merits, 'If I do what is good, I get something', 28 00:02:12,257 --> 00:02:15,570 so it is still for ourself, in a sense. 29 00:02:15,570 --> 00:02:19,899 But when we wake up to the Truth that you are the Self, 30 00:02:19,899 --> 00:02:26,593 the Self cares for everything, for everyone, it is different somehow. 31 00:02:26,593 --> 00:02:32,486 Life is much lighter, your sense of personal problems just vanishes, 32 00:02:32,486 --> 00:02:34,944 like there are no personal problems. 33 00:02:34,944 --> 00:02:37,485 There is no person to have problems. 34 00:02:37,485 --> 00:02:40,470 Things come up in life, maybe someone can say, 35 00:02:40,470 --> 00:02:43,596 'I don't like you!' And it is going to be felt, 36 00:02:43,596 --> 00:02:47,916 and if they had a lot of poison inside that utterance, 37 00:02:47,916 --> 00:02:52,381 you may feel that sadness, but it will never overwhelm you. 38 00:02:52,381 --> 00:02:59,770 You are even able to do the right thing, which is to say, 'God bless you'. 39 00:02:59,770 --> 00:03:02,698 Sometimes you don't say it in front of them, 40 00:03:02,698 --> 00:03:04,918 because it might even upset them, 41 00:03:04,918 --> 00:03:09,967 but in your heart you accept it. And you take the poison out of your self. 42 00:03:09,967 --> 00:03:14,234 The ego is the poison inside the life of a human being, 43 00:03:14,234 --> 00:03:17,207 It just makes things bad, it's always selfish, 44 00:03:17,207 --> 00:03:20,429 it's always drawing energy to itself all the time, 45 00:03:20,429 --> 00:03:24,907 it always needs to be right, all of these things; it's very poisonous. 46 00:03:24,907 --> 00:03:27,459 But sometimes not knowing another way 47 00:03:27,459 --> 00:03:30,413 it feels like, 'That is just how I am'. 48 00:03:30,413 --> 00:03:38,049 As you begin to wake up to the deeper space of Truth behind the person, 49 00:03:38,049 --> 00:03:45,172 this is where self-inquiry or The Invitation brings you out of that, 50 00:03:45,172 --> 00:03:49,091 lifts you out of that space and into the space behind, 51 00:03:49,091 --> 00:03:54,105 where there is a field of pure intelligence, more light, more space. 52 00:03:54,105 --> 00:03:57,495 You already start to feel happy and light 53 00:03:57,495 --> 00:03:59,974 and in your happiness and your light, 54 00:03:59,974 --> 00:04:03,668 you naturally want to do what feels good. 55 00:04:03,668 --> 00:04:08,703 It is like what feels good comes naturally inside your heart 56 00:04:08,703 --> 00:04:14,167 and selfishness feels ... it's like a poison that leaves you, 57 00:04:14,167 --> 00:04:17,543 so you are not thinking so much in terms of that. 58 00:04:17,543 --> 00:04:23,013 When you find something that makes you happy, 59 00:04:23,013 --> 00:04:26,937 you want to share it to make as many people as possible happy. 60 00:04:26,937 --> 00:04:29,198 You go through a door into a space, 61 00:04:29,198 --> 00:04:33,001 you want to let as many people as possible come through. 62 00:04:33,001 --> 00:04:39,214 So egoless-ness is like this. And the more ego is dropping away, 63 00:04:39,214 --> 00:04:46,471 this heavy cloak of ego, of 'I, me, me, me, I, me my, mine', 64 00:04:46,471 --> 00:04:48,760 there is just much greater space. 65 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:51,801 That is why I say, you come into the God-field. 66 00:04:51,801 --> 00:04:53,801 The God-field has no jealousy, 67 00:04:53,801 --> 00:04:59,784 all this kind of stuff goes: selfishness, heavy cravings ... 68 00:04:59,784 --> 00:05:06,974 You are in a field and it naturally cares 69 00:05:06,974 --> 00:05:09,889 and everything just gets picked up in it. 70 00:05:09,889 --> 00:05:12,707 It takes care of every aspect of your life 71 00:05:12,707 --> 00:05:17,380 and the lives of those you love. 72 00:05:17,380 --> 00:05:21,913 But your love doesn't stop, it keeps expanding more and more. 73 00:05:21,913 --> 00:05:24,604 So, that is what it is to be without ego. 74 00:05:24,604 --> 00:05:28,817 It is the most powerful thing in the whole world. 75 00:05:28,817 --> 00:05:32,196 Ego is the darkest force in the world. 76 00:05:32,196 --> 00:05:36,795 Freedom from ego is the most light and beautiful force in the world. 77 00:05:36,795 --> 00:05:41,625 And that is, for me, the challenge of living as a human being, 78 00:05:41,625 --> 00:05:46,051 to transcend the egoic identity. 79 00:05:46,051 --> 00:05:53,508 But it seems very rare in our world, 80 00:05:53,508 --> 00:05:56,718 because so much is put on the person, 81 00:05:56,718 --> 00:06:01,451 it is like our first love and we love that first. 82 00:06:01,451 --> 00:06:04,958 But you are meant to love the Self, but not the person, 83 00:06:04,958 --> 00:06:08,178 love the Self first, but we tend to love it last. 84 00:06:08,178 --> 00:06:11,847 It is like that. We first grow up with a strong identity 85 00:06:11,847 --> 00:06:15,323 and all 'me, me, me', but we're never happy like that. 86 00:06:15,323 --> 00:06:19,069 We need so many things: we need money, we need friendship, 87 00:06:19,069 --> 00:06:22,867 we need partners, we need nice things in order to be happy. 88 00:06:22,867 --> 00:06:26,436 But someone who is free of ego can just be happy anyway. 89 00:06:26,436 --> 00:06:30,532 Wherever you put them, they are happy. They are not competitive, 90 00:06:30,532 --> 00:06:32,989 they are very broad in their dealings, 91 00:06:32,989 --> 00:06:37,669 they always think of the feelings of others. 92 00:06:37,669 --> 00:06:42,145 It's very beautiful and my wish and prayer is that 93 00:06:42,145 --> 00:06:49,017 it becomes contagious again just to be happy, that beings just enjoy ... 94 00:06:49,017 --> 00:06:51,104 When we have group actions, 95 00:06:51,104 --> 00:06:54,443 some people learn to see that they can work together 96 00:06:54,443 --> 00:06:57,685 and produce something beautiful, and they love it. 97 00:06:57,685 --> 00:07:01,576 In Monte Sahaja now, the climate and the vibrations 98 00:07:01,576 --> 00:07:05,713 have become so much higher, so that the feeling of love is easy. 99 00:07:05,713 --> 00:07:08,093 People are not pretending to love, 100 00:07:08,093 --> 00:07:10,768 they are genuinely feeling the vibration. 101 00:07:10,768 --> 00:07:13,090 Where does this vibration come from? 102 00:07:13,090 --> 00:07:16,436 It's not that we came here and it was a special land 103 00:07:16,436 --> 00:07:18,906 and the trees were giving a vibration. 104 00:07:18,906 --> 00:07:24,110 No! We are bringing the vibration, the living Self, 105 00:07:24,110 --> 00:07:27,437 by our actions, by our thoughts, by the meditation, 106 00:07:27,437 --> 00:07:33,217 by the understanding, by the veneration and the attraction to God, 107 00:07:33,217 --> 00:07:35,809 or to pure consciousness. 108 00:07:35,809 --> 00:07:39,691 All of this is lifting the vibration, so it becomes powerful. 109 00:07:39,691 --> 00:07:42,611 Even people who don't know about these things, 110 00:07:42,611 --> 00:07:44,921 when they come, they feel something, 111 00:07:44,921 --> 00:07:49,171 'I feel good here. I like being here.' What are they responding to? 112 00:07:49,171 --> 00:07:52,401 They are responding to the vibration of the place. 113 00:07:52,401 --> 00:07:56,559 They probably don't know the philosophy, it's not important. 114 00:07:56,559 --> 00:08:00,264 It is the activity of the philosophy, 115 00:08:00,264 --> 00:08:04,441 it is the power of the guidance when it is accepted. 116 00:08:04,441 --> 00:08:08,027 There is no power in the guidance if it is not accepted. 117 00:08:08,027 --> 00:08:12,393 When it is accepted, then it wakes up and it starts to move 118 00:08:12,393 --> 00:08:15,821 and then everything ... The trees start to pick it up, 119 00:08:15,821 --> 00:08:18,879 the earth picks it up, everything picks it up. 120 00:08:18,879 --> 00:08:24,092 That is why in some places, you can feel the vibration of the place 121 00:08:24,092 --> 00:08:27,900 even though that person is not there anymore. 122 00:08:27,900 --> 00:08:30,610 I have been to places like that, in India. 123 00:08:30,610 --> 00:08:35,290 Even in Jamaica, in Bob Marley's house I felt this vibration, actually. 124 00:08:35,290 --> 00:08:38,812 I went to his room, where his slippers are by his bed, 125 00:08:38,812 --> 00:08:43,501 I wasn't expecting anything, but the feeling of love was so powerful. 126 00:08:43,501 --> 00:08:45,527 It was so wonderful! 127 00:08:45,527 --> 00:08:49,533 In India, Gandhi's place and different places I have been to, 128 00:08:49,533 --> 00:08:52,667 it feels 'Whoa', not so many, but quite a few. 129 00:08:52,667 --> 00:08:57,447 You feel this vibration and it lives in the walls, 130 00:08:57,447 --> 00:08:59,963 even the bricks hold the vibration. 131 00:08:59,963 --> 00:09:05,794 You go inside and you feel, 'There was happiness in this house!' 132 00:09:05,794 --> 00:09:09,322 And it lives, even though the people left their bodies, 133 00:09:09,322 --> 00:09:13,735 the happiness is inside the house. It is amazing! 134 00:09:13,735 --> 00:09:17,898 Sometimes darkness can live in a house also. 135 00:09:17,898 --> 00:09:21,529 These are the strong energies of attraction, 136 00:09:21,529 --> 00:09:27,558 desire, fear, love, these are powerful forces in the human kingdom 137 00:09:27,558 --> 00:09:35,746 and they affect even the earth, it leaves that vibration there. 138 00:09:35,746 --> 00:09:40,220 Sometimes people go to the forest, they say they love being in nature. 139 00:09:40,220 --> 00:09:43,957 It's because it is not polluted by human darkness. 140 00:09:43,957 --> 00:09:46,762 So they feel, 'It is empty of that'. 141 00:09:46,762 --> 00:09:49,459 It has moved more into tree consciousness 142 00:09:49,459 --> 00:09:52,469 and land, earth consciousness, more into that. 143 00:09:52,469 --> 00:09:54,466 When you come to a place where 144 00:09:54,466 --> 00:09:58,946 the consciousness has manifested the human form, it is much more rich, 145 00:09:58,946 --> 00:10:01,291 it's more diverse in its expression. 146 00:10:01,291 --> 00:10:04,622 If it is pervaded by and imbued with consciousness, 147 00:10:04,622 --> 00:10:07,097 it is so powerful! 148 00:10:07,097 --> 00:10:20,640 This is why I say, it was 2,100 years ago 149 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:24,419 when Jesus was here physically, on the Earth, 150 00:10:24,419 --> 00:10:27,631 and just through one human being 151 00:10:27,631 --> 00:10:35,951 who was the embodiment of the God consciousness, 152 00:10:35,951 --> 00:10:39,151 even after leaving his body, 2,100 years later, 153 00:10:39,151 --> 00:10:42,318 people are still becoming followers of Christ, 154 00:10:42,318 --> 00:10:44,282 or followers of the Buddha, 155 00:10:44,282 --> 00:10:47,910 or followers of Krishna, who was here 5,000 years ago, 156 00:10:47,910 --> 00:10:51,520 of Rama, who was here many, many thousands of years ago. 157 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:55,526 Why? Because the vibration is there when they hold that. 158 00:10:55,526 --> 00:11:00,740 So, it is a very powerful thing! 159 00:11:00,740 --> 00:11:06,173 I used to say that one human being forgot about themself 160 00:11:06,173 --> 00:11:10,156 and since then the whole world cannot forget them. 161 00:11:10,156 --> 00:11:12,510 That is a very powerful thing! 162 00:11:12,510 --> 00:11:19,979 Forgetting themself means to override the ego, to just not listen to him. 163 00:11:19,979 --> 00:11:21,948 They transcended that. 164 00:11:21,948 --> 00:11:27,079 And their influence, their presence and their words 165 00:11:27,079 --> 00:11:32,517 impacted on the lives of millions of beings. So there are examples. 166 00:11:32,517 --> 00:11:34,513 And each of these human beings 167 00:11:34,513 --> 00:11:37,582 had exactly the same kind of blood type as us, 168 00:11:37,582 --> 00:11:42,111 looked at the same moon, the same stars and the same sun, just like us. 169 00:11:42,111 --> 00:11:47,821 They still had appetites, they got tired, they sometimes didn't sleep, 170 00:11:47,821 --> 00:11:51,472 they had friendships, they had people who hated them. 171 00:11:51,472 --> 00:11:57,241 Even still, they were glowing in the spirit of Truth, the spirit of God. 172 00:11:57,241 --> 00:12:02,070 So that, for me, is the fulfilment of a human life, 173 00:12:02,070 --> 00:12:06,248 to wake up into the Truth of what you really are, 174 00:12:06,248 --> 00:12:09,204 and that, that is what God is, 175 00:12:09,204 --> 00:12:12,868 that you are inside the God kingdom inside your heart. 176 00:12:12,868 --> 00:12:15,188 That is what is. 177 00:12:15,188 --> 00:12:19,019 A human being that merely follows scriptures on the surface, 178 00:12:19,019 --> 00:12:21,670 it is not enough. Their life will change, 179 00:12:21,670 --> 00:12:26,303 it will impact on the lives of other people, but in a soft way. 180 00:12:26,303 --> 00:12:31,645 But the one who abandons their ego 181 00:12:31,645 --> 00:12:36,375 and plunges fully into the God ocean, this one rises up 182 00:12:36,375 --> 00:12:40,145 and becomes a guide in the world, even if they don't speak. 183 00:12:40,145 --> 00:12:44,140 Some beings don't speak, but their presence is so powerful, 184 00:12:44,140 --> 00:12:50,171 because it is so much inherent in their being, this presence of God, 185 00:12:50,171 --> 00:12:54,630 that people can just be in their presence and they are transformed. 186 00:12:54,630 --> 00:12:58,282 So for me, that is what it means to be without ego, 187 00:12:58,282 --> 00:13:01,163 it is the most powerful thing in the world! 188 00:13:01,163 --> 00:13:03,390 If I were to meet two people, 189 00:13:03,390 --> 00:13:07,652 one who has been to Venus and lived there for six months, 190 00:13:07,652 --> 00:13:12,121 one who lived in a cardboard box for six months in meditation and God 191 00:13:12,121 --> 00:13:16,572 and who has awakened, I would go there any time and be with this one. 192 00:13:16,572 --> 00:13:19,871 I don't need to speak to an astronaut about life, 193 00:13:19,871 --> 00:13:22,687 because they could be equally full of ego. 194 00:13:22,687 --> 00:13:26,535 But the one who has transcended ego inside themself, 195 00:13:26,535 --> 00:13:32,126 that would be my happy date. 196 00:13:32,126 --> 00:13:35,604 I would rather go and sit there, just to be with this, 197 00:13:35,604 --> 00:13:39,642 to be in that field of beings, even beings who love God, 198 00:13:39,642 --> 00:13:42,977 or who are searching for Truth, that is holy company. 199 00:13:42,977 --> 00:13:45,995 Just to be in the company of seekers of Truth 200 00:13:45,995 --> 00:13:48,625 is called auspicious, as well. 201 00:13:48,625 --> 00:13:54,691 So I feel that we are in the right place, 202 00:13:54,691 --> 00:13:59,829 that more and more beings are finding true happiness, 203 00:13:59,829 --> 00:14:03,808 not a trip, not, 'We are going to conquer the world!' No. 204 00:14:03,808 --> 00:14:07,633 Just finding, one by one is enough, 205 00:14:07,633 --> 00:14:12,697 that light moving in the world is something. 206 00:14:12,697 --> 00:14:17,156 Because I don't think the world needs more books about spirituality. 207 00:14:17,156 --> 00:14:20,482 They need human beings who embody the Truth 208 00:14:20,482 --> 00:14:23,494 rather than books that write about the Truth! 209 00:14:23,494 --> 00:14:28,879 They want to see the living book, not just a book of paper. 210 00:14:28,879 --> 00:14:32,152 They want to see a book of a human being like them 211 00:14:32,152 --> 00:14:35,662 whose life challenges or confronts 212 00:14:35,662 --> 00:14:38,122 or reveals something inside themself. 213 00:14:38,122 --> 00:14:41,956 By meeting someone of that calibre, 214 00:14:41,956 --> 00:14:46,950 their being cannot deny that it has met God. 215 00:14:46,950 --> 00:14:49,316 Many times we have heard of stories 216 00:14:49,316 --> 00:14:53,473 where people who have professed themselves to be atheists, 217 00:14:53,473 --> 00:14:57,969 have met a being who has that impact on them, 218 00:14:57,969 --> 00:15:01,299 that they know, 'Whoa, I don't know what this is, 219 00:15:01,299 --> 00:15:07,626 but it is causing all these changes inside my heart'. 220 00:15:07,626 --> 00:15:13,294 Because they can't be a true atheist, it is just a strangeness. 221 00:15:13,294 --> 00:15:15,775 It just means the depth of ignorance, 222 00:15:15,775 --> 00:15:20,306 that you don't acknowledge that there is a Supreme power that controls 223 00:15:20,306 --> 00:15:24,328 and determines the order of the universe and cares for things. 224 00:15:24,328 --> 00:15:28,731 It is not human beings who are doing it, allowing these trees to grow 225 00:15:28,731 --> 00:15:32,527 and sending rain and changing the weather 226 00:15:32,527 --> 00:15:36,107 and taking care of all the different planets, 227 00:15:36,107 --> 00:15:41,867 not only in one solar system, but in all the solar systems! 228 00:15:41,867 --> 00:15:44,661 Even talking about it makes you feel weak. 229 00:15:44,661 --> 00:15:49,501 You can't grasp the magnificence and the might of that Supreme Being. 230 00:15:49,501 --> 00:15:53,466 The Being is not separate as an entity doing the things, 231 00:15:53,466 --> 00:16:00,312 it is inside the things themselves. It is like a ... 232 00:16:00,312 --> 00:16:02,631 God cannot be just a form, 233 00:16:02,631 --> 00:16:06,843 or God is embodied in all forms and beyond them. 234 00:16:06,843 --> 00:16:09,166 The forms are constantly changing, 235 00:16:09,166 --> 00:16:12,835 because He gives them the portion of time and growth 236 00:16:12,835 --> 00:16:22,317 and anything that is growing must be transforming and changing. 237 00:16:22,317 --> 00:16:27,513 But the God-Self is unchanging and yet manifesting change 238 00:16:27,513 --> 00:16:34,378 and taking care of all the different permutations of its expression. 239 00:16:34,378 --> 00:16:37,375 Sometimes I just want to try and portray it 240 00:16:37,375 --> 00:16:41,165 as a kind of field of energy, but not just energy, 241 00:16:41,165 --> 00:16:46,600 it is an intelligence and a spirit ... 242 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:49,600 This is the visible expression of it 243 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:55,003 and appearing out of it, it gives many clues, that's if you look. 244 00:16:55,003 --> 00:16:57,874 We look and see the hair on someone's head, 245 00:16:57,874 --> 00:17:00,329 which keeps coming out, but from what? 246 00:17:00,329 --> 00:17:04,399 If you look inside the head, there's no hair inside, coming out. 247 00:17:04,399 --> 00:17:06,729 Nothing is there, it's just growing. 248 00:17:06,729 --> 00:17:10,408 It shows you, 'Out of emptiness I create all these things, 249 00:17:10,408 --> 00:17:14,112 sustain them and bring them back to emptiness'. 250 00:17:14,112 --> 00:17:19,079 It is too magnificent to talk about! 251 00:17:19,079 --> 00:17:25,919 Some beings get overwhelmed at just the majesty of that power. 252 00:17:25,919 --> 00:17:33,486 So that power is the source of your own sense of Self. 253 00:17:33,486 --> 00:17:36,625 To know this, even if you don't understand it, 254 00:17:36,625 --> 00:17:39,352 should set your life on fire already, 255 00:17:39,352 --> 00:17:41,758 you should have to go and sit down. 256 00:17:41,758 --> 00:17:44,792 There is no end to gratitude for knowing 257 00:17:44,792 --> 00:17:47,108 that your life is sourced in God. 258 00:17:47,108 --> 00:17:54,187 For someone who doesn't really comprehend that ... 259 00:17:54,187 --> 00:17:56,587 Also that is designated by the power, 260 00:17:56,587 --> 00:18:00,265 that there will be beings who don't feel that for a while, 261 00:18:00,265 --> 00:18:03,804 and eventually, they must wake up to that in themselves. 262 00:18:03,804 --> 00:18:08,309 An auspicious life, for me, is a life which moves away from the ego 263 00:18:08,309 --> 00:18:10,979 which creates blindness inside the being 264 00:18:10,979 --> 00:18:16,268 and makes us be concerned just about earthly things, 265 00:18:16,268 --> 00:18:20,299 as opposed to one who is aware 266 00:18:20,299 --> 00:18:24,491 and living in that awareness, and then living as that awareness. 267 00:18:24,491 --> 00:18:29,100 If you come to live as awareness, you are already in the kingdom, 268 00:18:29,100 --> 00:18:31,237 you are already in that space. 269 00:18:31,237 --> 00:18:35,931 It is even, I would say, greater than heaven, 270 00:18:35,931 --> 00:18:39,016 if I can say something like that. 271 00:18:39,016 --> 00:18:43,315 When that feeling came, I just thought, Is that blasphemous to say? 272 00:18:43,315 --> 00:18:47,976 I felt, if heaven is made of images and objects, 273 00:18:47,976 --> 00:18:50,785 then they are also in a kind of time. 274 00:18:50,785 --> 00:18:55,785 Maybe, one of God's days could be a thousand human years. 275 00:18:55,785 --> 00:18:59,437 Who knows? But whatever it is, there has to be change. 276 00:18:59,437 --> 00:19:02,525 If there are different levels of beings, 277 00:19:02,525 --> 00:19:08,890 then of course, the process of evolving and growing is still there. 278 00:19:08,890 --> 00:19:14,469 But in the pure awareness, it is not concerned about growth. 279 00:19:14,469 --> 00:19:19,382 It is so perfect, but it is so unappealing to the mind, 280 00:19:19,382 --> 00:19:23,276 because the mind is always concerned about things and objects 281 00:19:23,276 --> 00:19:27,555 and having and losing and getting and changing and growing 282 00:19:27,555 --> 00:19:30,808 and becoming and losing, it is all of that. 283 00:19:30,808 --> 00:19:36,558 Whereas in awareness, it is transcendental to such concepts. 284 00:19:36,558 --> 00:19:43,341 This is what I am trying to say, when I say to everyone, Leave this now. 285 00:19:43,341 --> 00:19:47,585 Leave this now. Leave even the concern for your identity. 286 00:19:47,585 --> 00:19:50,288 Leave all of this. Who am I speaking to? 287 00:19:50,288 --> 00:19:53,544 To the intelligence that doesn't hear this enough. 288 00:19:53,544 --> 00:19:56,947 When it hears this command that comes from the heart, 289 00:19:56,947 --> 00:20:00,655 it is able to drop everything and then be in the oneness, 290 00:20:00,655 --> 00:20:03,463 in the experience of its own oneness. 291 00:20:03,463 --> 00:20:10,618 Then you see people in the hall in satsang, in the meditations like this, 292 00:20:10,618 --> 00:20:15,759 and with guidance like this, then the disturbance is not there, 293 00:20:15,759 --> 00:20:20,234 it is like you are in a transcendental plane. 294 00:20:20,234 --> 00:20:24,049 Selfishness and all this kind of stuff just thins away 295 00:20:24,049 --> 00:20:33,636 and it is as though you are floating in a lighter dimension of being. 296 00:20:33,636 --> 00:20:38,195 So it is very tangible, actually, that we feel it 297 00:20:38,195 --> 00:20:41,225 and we have the capacity to experience it. 298 00:20:41,225 --> 00:20:44,418 In the beginning, for many people, their mind comes. 299 00:20:44,418 --> 00:20:48,910 Sometimes people come here, they are not used to this type of environment 300 00:20:48,910 --> 00:20:52,043 and you see how much their mind is troubling them. 301 00:20:52,043 --> 00:20:56,037 It appears as though the place and the people are troubling them, 302 00:20:56,037 --> 00:20:58,391 but their own mind is troubling them. 303 00:20:58,391 --> 00:21:01,654 It feels uncomfortable, because it feels challenged, 304 00:21:01,654 --> 00:21:04,185 'What are these people so happy about? 305 00:21:04,185 --> 00:21:09,412 I don't even trust them. They are pretending.' It goes into overdrive, 306 00:21:09,414 --> 00:21:14,774 cynicism, judgements, discomfort, all these things come up. 307 00:21:14,774 --> 00:21:20,418 But they are just the birth pains to reach a higher state, 308 00:21:20,418 --> 00:21:24,155 if they persist, and often they don't, they go away. 309 00:21:24,155 --> 00:21:26,375 But something is inside 310 00:21:26,375 --> 00:21:31,675 and that seed begins to grow inside them, because God brought them here. 311 00:21:31,675 --> 00:21:35,735 Even if they feel, 'I didn't want to come here, my wife ...', 312 00:21:35,735 --> 00:21:38,972 it's still the force that caused them to come here, 313 00:21:38,972 --> 00:21:41,870 to experience the disturbance that's in them, 314 00:21:41,870 --> 00:21:45,150 but they don't recognise that it's coming from them. 315 00:21:45,150 --> 00:21:47,468 They think it's coming from outside. 316 00:21:47,468 --> 00:21:51,827 But it's coming from a reaction to the energy they are experiencing 317 00:21:51,827 --> 00:21:54,224 that they're not yet compatible with, 318 00:21:54,224 --> 00:21:57,904 because they are so much in the domain of egoic identity. 319 00:21:57,904 --> 00:22:00,508 So that is shaking. 320 00:22:00,508 --> 00:22:07,269 So, it is a very good question you gave me this morning, 321 00:22:07,269 --> 00:22:11,338 on what it means to be egoless. 322 00:22:11,338 --> 00:22:15,526 It means life, true life. 323 00:22:15,526 --> 00:22:26,540 When we think of Jesus, or Prophet Muhummad, or Krishna, or the Buddha, 324 00:22:26,540 --> 00:22:30,662 it immediately ... Even people who don't know about these things, 325 00:22:30,662 --> 00:22:34,827 they know it represents a higher level of consciousness, 326 00:22:34,827 --> 00:22:40,927 a level where love and peace are the climate. 327 00:22:43,107 --> 00:22:45,477 When we say 'I', the implication, 328 00:22:45,477 --> 00:22:48,855 the real meaning of 'I' is consciousness. 329 00:22:48,855 --> 00:22:54,211 But rarely in the world, when we say 'I', does it mean consciousness. 330 00:22:54,211 --> 00:22:56,886 It means individuality, it means person, 331 00:22:56,886 --> 00:22:59,413 it means, 'I am a man', 'I am a woman', 332 00:22:59,413 --> 00:23:02,315 it is such a contraction, such a limitation. 333 00:23:02,315 --> 00:23:07,732 But 'I', even the one who is awake will say 'I', 334 00:23:07,732 --> 00:23:11,721 knowing that it is referring to a sense of individuality. 335 00:23:11,721 --> 00:23:19,498 But underneath that 'I', they are in that space of a deeper knowing, 336 00:23:19,498 --> 00:23:27,478 a spiritual knowing that it is consciousness speaking, and not the person. 337 00:23:27,478 --> 00:23:31,412 It is a different vibration altogether. 338 00:23:31,412 --> 00:23:33,387 When you are with someone, 339 00:23:33,387 --> 00:23:36,737 and when they speak you experience spaciousness, 340 00:23:36,737 --> 00:23:41,429 that 'I' is the 'I' that comes from consciousness, that is consciousness. 341 00:23:41,429 --> 00:23:43,629 When you are speaking with someone 342 00:23:43,629 --> 00:23:46,208 and you have to be careful what you say, 343 00:23:46,208 --> 00:23:52,086 that 'I' is loaded with the personhood. And you can see the person ... 344 00:23:52,086 --> 00:23:59,692 The Earth full of personhood is a very suffocating place. Stifling! 345 00:23:59,696 --> 00:24:03,694 Even if there were only three million people on the Earth, 346 00:24:03,694 --> 00:24:06,684 well probably that's a small number, 347 00:24:06,684 --> 00:24:10,379 but when you meet them, you would feel a bit suffocated. 348 00:24:10,379 --> 00:24:15,332 But one human being who is awake to the Self, 349 00:24:15,332 --> 00:24:20,151 in a crowd of thousands, shines and illumines, 350 00:24:20,151 --> 00:24:25,827 raises the level of consciousness in people who recognise it. 351 00:24:25,827 --> 00:24:28,753 Because something in us can recognise 352 00:24:28,753 --> 00:24:34,666 that you are standing in a higher Presence, that's what happens there. 353 00:24:39,183 --> 00:24:41,561 Even without being told 354 00:24:41,561 --> 00:24:45,748 people start to behave differently to someone who is awake. 355 00:24:45,748 --> 00:24:49,229 They can't help it. Without knowing consciously, 356 00:24:49,229 --> 00:24:53,288 'Oh, that person is some ...', they just behave differently. 357 00:24:53,288 --> 00:24:59,155 They may start by treating it like, 'This is a regular thing', 358 00:24:59,155 --> 00:25:05,651 but gradually, the presence begins to sort of percolate 359 00:25:05,651 --> 00:25:09,942 and to move more deeply inside them, and it changes them. 360 00:25:09,942 --> 00:25:14,064 Their climate starts to change, they start to feel more kind, more open, 361 00:25:14,064 --> 00:25:16,291 they want to do things for you, 362 00:25:16,291 --> 00:25:19,646 that is without knowing anything about spirituality. 363 00:25:19,646 --> 00:25:27,463 It is commanded in the world, one of the Hadiths of the Prophet says that 364 00:25:27,463 --> 00:25:30,023 when God created the world, 365 00:25:30,023 --> 00:25:38,160 it says that God commanded the whole world, 'Serve those who serve me'. 366 00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:41,810 Meaning, those who are searching for Truth, serve them. 367 00:25:41,810 --> 00:25:46,597 'And make weary and tired those who serve you.' 368 00:25:46,597 --> 00:25:49,529 Do you understand? It is a powerful thing! 369 00:25:49,529 --> 00:25:51,876 'Serve those who serve me.' 370 00:25:51,876 --> 00:25:57,254 Meaning, serve those, take care of them, who honour God and Truth. 371 00:25:57,254 --> 00:26:02,491 'Make tired those who serve you', who serve the world, make them tired. 372 00:26:02,491 --> 00:26:05,302 Is that a curse? No, it is a blessing also! 373 00:26:05,302 --> 00:26:08,849 Because when you get tired of your own rubbish, 374 00:26:08,849 --> 00:26:11,499 then maybe there is space finally to say, 375 00:26:11,499 --> 00:26:13,827 'I have to try something different'. 376 00:26:13,827 --> 00:26:16,578 It says, 'Make weary those who serve you', 377 00:26:16,578 --> 00:26:21,503 because their service is in vain, it's just serving matter and not spirit. 378 00:26:21,503 --> 00:26:24,376 So it is beautiful. 379 00:26:24,376 --> 00:26:28,886 It is written inside the heart, in the DNA of every living being, 380 00:26:28,886 --> 00:26:30,949 not just human beings, 381 00:26:30,949 --> 00:26:34,861 that in the presence of one who venerates the Truth, 382 00:26:34,861 --> 00:26:38,863 something in them will honour them. It will respond to them, 383 00:26:38,863 --> 00:26:41,917 at first it may even want to get rid of them, 384 00:26:41,917 --> 00:26:48,779 but it can't deny that their presence has an impact upon the existence. 385 00:26:48,779 --> 00:26:52,030 That is the power of the Holy Spirit 386 00:26:52,030 --> 00:26:54,620 and the spirit of Truth in each one. 387 00:26:54,620 --> 00:27:00,424 I say, this place has to shine in that. 388 00:27:00,424 --> 00:27:02,795 It has to, as long as I am here. 389 00:27:02,795 --> 00:27:07,817 It has to be that our focus is on cutting the ego. 390 00:27:07,817 --> 00:27:11,822 And not just cutting, cutting the ego, but living in the Truth. 391 00:27:11,822 --> 00:27:15,492 Because if your life is only trying to cut, cut, cut ego, 392 00:27:15,492 --> 00:27:18,067 maybe you don't even taste the full joy, 393 00:27:18,067 --> 00:27:20,597 you are too busy trying to cut the ego. 394 00:27:20,597 --> 00:27:24,392 But I say, I am showing you the Truth also, in the meantime. 395 00:27:24,392 --> 00:27:28,419 So as you are trying to cut the ego, you find the Truth, 396 00:27:28,419 --> 00:27:31,955 you put down your cutter and just rejoice in the Truth 397 00:27:31,955 --> 00:27:35,990 and let the Truth cut the ego. Isn't it beautiful? 398 00:27:35,990 --> 00:27:41,831 Let the Truth cut the ego. Why do your hands have to cut the ego? 399 00:27:41,831 --> 00:27:44,500 [Friend] That's what The Invitation does. 400 00:27:44,500 --> 00:27:47,114 [Mooji] That's what The Invitation does! 401 00:27:47,114 --> 00:27:51,494 The Invitation takes all the dirty work, the grime and stuff out of it 402 00:27:51,494 --> 00:27:54,742 and brings you into the lap of God. 403 00:27:54,742 --> 00:27:58,797 [laughter] 404 00:27:58,797 --> 00:28:01,585 For this my heart is so happy, 405 00:28:01,585 --> 00:28:08,329 because sometimes when you see the beings ... 406 00:28:08,329 --> 00:28:12,780 If somebody comes here, 'I'm so thirsty. Can I have a glass of water?' 407 00:28:12,780 --> 00:28:14,849 You give them a glass of water. 408 00:28:14,849 --> 00:28:18,211 If somebody falls down, you say 'Come, let's get up'. 409 00:28:18,211 --> 00:28:21,439 Even though your back is hurting, you help them up, 410 00:28:21,439 --> 00:28:25,094 'How are you feeling? Better? Sit down.' You help them. No? 411 00:28:25,094 --> 00:28:27,736 Somebody is hungry, 'Brother, please ...'. 412 00:28:27,736 --> 00:28:32,266 You give them something to eat. 413 00:28:32,266 --> 00:28:35,396 Whatever you can do, you help. 414 00:28:35,396 --> 00:28:38,270 If they are sick, what are you going to do? 415 00:28:38,270 --> 00:28:40,840 Something must be in you to help them. 416 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:44,856 Whether it is prayer, or you start to learn to bless people, 417 00:28:44,856 --> 00:28:47,998 even if it doesn't work, you still keep doing it. 418 00:28:47,998 --> 00:28:51,416 'My intention is to bless their life, to give them ... 419 00:28:51,416 --> 00:28:53,915 not that their life becomes like mine.' 420 00:28:53,915 --> 00:28:58,283 Just bless their life with whatever it needs to remove the obstacles, 421 00:28:58,283 --> 00:29:01,978 to remove whatever it is that is contaminating, 422 00:29:01,978 --> 00:29:06,795 or disfiguring the spontaneity of their life, 423 00:29:06,795 --> 00:29:10,877 to banish that by the power of God. You bless them! 424 00:29:10,877 --> 00:29:14,474 And with this also, people are searching for the Truth, 425 00:29:14,474 --> 00:29:19,203 they can't find it, 'It's so difficult'. I say, You read The Invitation. 426 00:29:19,203 --> 00:29:24,696 Listen to this. Just listen to it. Just listen to it. 427 00:29:24,696 --> 00:29:27,670 And that is the big help they can get. 428 00:29:27,670 --> 00:29:31,862 They say, 'Oh my God, I was getting ready to do all the gymnastics 429 00:29:31,862 --> 00:29:35,609 to try and get over these things, and you made it so easy'. 430 00:29:35,609 --> 00:29:39,759 Some things become so easy. 'I didn't have to go through my mind, 431 00:29:39,759 --> 00:29:46,227 I didn't have to go down into this dark place of myself. 432 00:29:46,227 --> 00:29:49,025 I came to the light place of myself.' 433 00:29:49,025 --> 00:29:51,624 Isn't that a wonderful thing? 434 00:29:51,624 --> 00:29:55,386 Why does everybody have to suffer, blood, sweat and tears? 435 00:29:55,386 --> 00:30:00,608 And they can't do it, because human beings are getting weaker. 436 00:30:00,608 --> 00:30:04,495 They want everything to be done by machines. 437 00:30:04,495 --> 00:30:08,375 Even the work on ourselves ... 438 00:30:08,375 --> 00:30:11,581 Yes, if it is to build your ego, you will do it! 439 00:30:11,581 --> 00:30:14,897 You will lift heavy weights to build up the ego. 440 00:30:14,897 --> 00:30:19,133 But to change, to transform your heart 441 00:30:19,133 --> 00:30:23,695 from a suffering place into the abode of peace, 442 00:30:23,695 --> 00:30:28,972 'I can't get into that!' Because they feel it doesn't show. 443 00:30:28,972 --> 00:30:34,040 So perhaps this is why grace brought The Invitation now, 444 00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:36,924 to say, 'But you have to also come in. 445 00:30:36,924 --> 00:30:41,065 You think you are happy, but that is not the real happiness.' 446 00:30:41,065 --> 00:30:46,299 And to try to get them. I feel this must be why ... 447 00:30:46,299 --> 00:30:49,171 For me, The Invitation is the easiest thing, 448 00:30:49,171 --> 00:30:53,681 like someone holding your hand, walking you through the door, 'Lets go'. 449 00:30:53,681 --> 00:30:58,001 'I want to meet Jesus.' Come with me, I will show you right here. 450 00:30:58,010 --> 00:31:01,440 Just a minute. Let's walk through to the other side. 451 00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:04,597 'I was going to go to Jerusalem and to Calvary.' 452 00:31:04,597 --> 00:31:10,754 No, no. He is right here. Come. I walk you through the door. Isn't it so? 453 00:31:10,754 --> 00:31:12,674 [laughter] 454 00:31:12,674 --> 00:31:15,732 [Friends] Thank you, Mooji. 455 00:31:15,732 --> 00:31:17,772 [music] 456 00:31:17,772 --> 00:31:20,863 Copyright © 2018 Mooji Media Ltd. All Rights Reserved. 457 00:31:20,863 --> 00:31:23,275 No part of this recording may be reproduced 458 00:31:23,275 --> 00:31:25,706 without Mooji Media Ltd.'s express consent.