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Walk with Mooji Baba
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[Mooji] You gave me a very good question
this morning,
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[Mooji] 'What does it mean to be egoless?'
It means life, true life.
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What Does It Mean to Be Egoless?
03-01-2018
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[Mooji] You are not dominated by feelings,
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your life is not in service to your person.
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Meaning that, for most human beings,
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our life is primarily in service to our person,
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like how we are doing,
'I am not well', 'I need this',
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'I don't have any money'.
It is all about us, us, us.
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And that is such a ...
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Our lives should be for service and for ...
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It is like, one life in service,
not to itself really, but to life,
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can make hundreds of people live the joy,
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for many of them,
if you do it in proper service.
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A life in service to your self is selfish
and we would call it so wasteful.
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So much power is in you
and that power is not for your person.
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So to be egoless ...
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when the person wants to be egoless,
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it is very difficult if the person remains.
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It's trying to be good, and it is OK,
it is also a very wide path.
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Most people are told, when they read scripture,
'Love one another',
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'Do good to those who do bad things to you',
like this.
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And people try to be as loving and kind
as they can be, and it is good.
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It produces really good results,
but sometimes something is artificial,
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if you are doing it because you are told
you should be good.
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We are looking for merits,
'If I do what is good, I get something',
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so it is still for ourself, in a sense.
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But when we wake up to the Truth
that you are the Self,
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the Self cares for everything, for everyone,
it is different somehow.
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Life is much lighter,
your sense of personal problems just vanishes,
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like there are no personal problems.
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There is no person to have problems.
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Things come up in life, maybe someone can say,
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'I don't like you!' And it is going to be felt,
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and if they had a lot of poison
inside that utterance,
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you may feel that sadness,
but it will never overwhelm you.
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You are even able to do the right thing,
which is to say, 'God bless you'.
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Sometimes you don't say it in front of them,
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because it might even upset them,
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but in your heart you accept it.
And you take the poison out of your self.
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The ego is the poison
inside the life of a human being,
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It just makes things bad, it's always selfish,
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it's always drawing energy to itself all the time,
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it always needs to be right, all of these things;
it's very poisonous.
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But sometimes not knowing another way
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it feels like, 'That is just how I am'.
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As you begin to wake up
to the deeper space of Truth behind the person,
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this is where self-inquiry or The Invitation
brings you out of that,
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lifts you out of that space
and into the space behind,
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where there is a field of pure intelligence,
more light, more space.
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You already start to feel happy and light
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and in your happiness and your light,
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you naturally want to do what feels good.
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It is like what feels good
comes naturally inside your heart
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and selfishness feels ...
it's like a poison that leaves you,
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so you are not thinking so much in terms of that.
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When you find something that makes you happy,
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you want to share it to make
as many people as possible happy.
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You go through a door into a space,
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you want to let as many people as possible
come through.
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So egoless-ness is like this.
And the more ego is dropping away,
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this heavy cloak of ego,
of 'I, me, me, me, I, me my, mine',
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there is just much greater space.
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That is why I say, you come into the God-field.
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The God-field has no jealousy,
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all this kind of stuff goes:
selfishness, heavy cravings ...
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You are in a field and it naturally cares
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and everything just gets picked up in it.
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It takes care of every aspect of your life
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and the lives of those you love.
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But your love doesn't stop,
it keeps expanding more and more.
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So, that is what it is to be without ego.
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It is the most powerful thing in the whole world.
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Ego is the darkest force in the world.
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Freedom from ego is the most light
and beautiful force in the world.
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And that is, for me, the challenge
of living as a human being,
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to transcend the egoic identity.
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But it seems very rare in our world,
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because so much is put on the person,
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it is like our first love and we love that first.
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But you are meant to love the Self,
but not the person,
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love the Self first,
but we tend to love it last.
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It is like that.
We first grow up with a strong identity
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and all 'me, me, me', but we're never happy like that.
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We need so many things:
we need money, we need friendship,
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we need partners,
we need nice things in order to be happy.
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But someone who is free of ego
can just be happy anyway.
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Wherever you put them, they are happy.
They are not competitive,
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they are very broad in their dealings,
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they always think of the feelings of others.
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It's very beautiful and my wish and prayer is that
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it becomes contagious again just to be happy,
that beings just enjoy ...
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When we have group actions,
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some people learn to see
that they can work together
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and produce something beautiful, and they love it.
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In Monte Sahaja now,
the climate and the vibrations
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have become so much higher,
so that the feeling of love is easy.
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People are not pretending to love,
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they are genuinely feeling the vibration.
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Where does this vibration come from?
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It's not that we came here
and it was a special land
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and the trees were giving a vibration.
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No! We are bringing the vibration,
the living Self,
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by our actions, by our thoughts,
by the meditation,
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by the understanding,
by the veneration and the attraction to God,
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or to pure consciousness.
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All of this is lifting the vibration,
so it becomes powerful.
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Even people who don't know about these things,
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when they come, they feel something,
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'I feel good here. I like being here.'
What are they responding to?
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They are responding to the vibration of the place.
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They probably don't know the philosophy,
it's not important.
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It is the activity of the philosophy,
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it is the power of the guidance
when it is accepted.
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There is no power in the guidance
if it is not accepted.
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When it is accepted,
then it wakes up and it starts to move
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and then everything ...
The trees start to pick it up,
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the earth picks it up, everything picks it up.
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That is why in some places,
you can feel the vibration of the place
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even though that person is not there anymore.
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I have been to places like that, in India.
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Even in Jamaica, in Bob Marley's house
I felt this vibration, actually.
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I went to his room,
where his slippers are by his bed,
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I wasn't expecting anything,
but the feeling of love was so powerful.
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It was so wonderful!
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In India, Gandhi's place
and different places I have been to,
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it feels 'Whoa', not so many, but quite a few.
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You feel this vibration and it lives in the walls,
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even the bricks hold the vibration.
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You go inside and you feel,
'There was happiness in this house!'
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And it lives,
even though the people left their bodies,
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the happiness is inside the house.
It is amazing!
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Sometimes darkness can live in a house also.
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These are the strong energies of attraction,
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desire, fear, love, these are powerful forces
in the human kingdom
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and they affect even the earth,
it leaves that vibration there.
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Sometimes people go to the forest,
they say they love being in nature.
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It's because it is not polluted by human darkness.
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So they feel, 'It is empty of that'.
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It has moved more into tree consciousness
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and land, earth consciousness, more into that.
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When you come to a place where
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the consciousness has manifested the human form,
it is much more rich,
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it's more diverse in its expression.
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If it is pervaded by
and imbued with consciousness,
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it is so powerful!
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This is why I say, it was 2,100 years ago
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when Jesus was here physically, on the Earth,
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and just through one human being
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who was the embodiment of the God consciousness,
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even after leaving his body, 2,100 years later,
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people are still becoming followers of Christ,
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or followers of the Buddha,
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or followers of Krishna,
who was here 5,000 years ago,
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of Rama, who was here
many, many thousands of years ago.
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Why? Because the vibration is there
when they hold that.
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So, it is a very powerful thing!
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I used to say that
one human being forgot about themself
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and since then the whole world cannot forget them.
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That is a very powerful thing!
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Forgetting themself means to override the ego,
to just not listen to him.
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They transcended that.
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And their influence,
their presence and their words
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impacted on the lives of millions of beings.
So there are examples.
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And each of these human beings
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had exactly the same kind of blood type as us,
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looked at the same moon, the same stars
and the same sun, just like us.
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They still had appetites, they got tired,
they sometimes didn't sleep,
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they had friendships,
they had people who hated them.
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Even still, they were glowing
in the spirit of Truth, the spirit of God.
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So that, for me,
is the fulfilment of a human life,
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to wake up into the Truth of what you really are,
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and that, that is what God is,
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that you are inside the God kingdom
inside your heart.
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That is what is.
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A human being that merely follows scriptures
on the surface,
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it is not enough. Their life will change,
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it will impact on the lives of other people,
but in a soft way.
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But the one who abandons their ego
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and plunges fully into the God ocean,
this one rises up
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and becomes a guide in the world,
even if they don't speak.
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Some beings don't speak,
but their presence is so powerful,
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because it is so much inherent in their being,
this presence of God,
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that people can just be in their presence
and they are transformed.
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So for me,
that is what it means to be without ego,
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it is the most powerful thing in the world!
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If I were to meet two people,
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one who has been to Venus
and lived there for six months,
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one who lived in a cardboard box for six months
in meditation and God
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and who has awakened,
I would go there any time and be with this one.
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I don't need to speak to an astronaut about life,
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because they could be equally full of ego.
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But the one who has transcended ego
inside themself,
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that would be my happy date.
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I would rather go and sit there,
just to be with this,
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to be in that field of beings,
even beings who love God,
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or who are searching for Truth,
that is holy company.
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Just to be in the company of seekers of Truth
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is called auspicious, as well.
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So I feel that we are in the right place,
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that more and more beings
are finding true happiness,
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not a trip,
not, 'We are going to conquer the world!' No.
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Just finding, one by one is enough,
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that light moving in the world is something.
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Because I don't think the world needs
more books about spirituality.
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They need human beings who embody the Truth
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rather than books that write about the Truth!
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They want to see the living book,
not just a book of paper.
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They want to see a book of a human being like them
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whose life challenges or confronts
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or reveals something inside themself.
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By meeting someone of that calibre,
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their being cannot deny that it has met God.
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Many times we have heard of stories
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where people who have professed themselves
to be atheists,
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have met a being who has that impact on them,
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that they know, 'Whoa, I don't know what this is,
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but it is causing all these changes
inside my heart'.
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Because they can't be a true atheist,
it is just a strangeness.
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It just means the depth of ignorance,
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that you don't acknowledge
that there is a Supreme power that controls
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and determines the order of the universe
and cares for things.
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It is not human beings who are doing it,
allowing these trees to grow
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and sending rain and changing the weather
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and taking care of all the different planets,
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not only in one solar system,
but in all the solar systems!
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Even talking about it makes you feel weak.
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You can't grasp the magnificence
and the might of that Supreme Being.
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The Being is not separate as an entity
doing the things,
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it is inside the things themselves.
It is like a ...
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God cannot be just a form,
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or God is embodied in all forms and beyond them.
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The forms are constantly changing,
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because He gives them the portion of time
and growth
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and anything that is growing
must be transforming and changing.
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But the God-Self is unchanging
and yet manifesting change
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and taking care of all the different permutations
of its expression.
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Sometimes I just want to try and portray it
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as a kind of field of energy, but not just energy,
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it is an intelligence and a spirit ...
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This is the visible expression of it
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and appearing out of it,
it gives many clues, that's if you look.
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We look and see the hair on someone's head,
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which keeps coming out, but from what?
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If you look inside the head,
there's no hair inside, coming out.
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Nothing is there, it's just growing.
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It shows you,
'Out of emptiness I create all these things,
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sustain them and bring them back to emptiness'.
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It is too magnificent to talk about!
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Some beings get overwhelmed
at just the majesty of that power.
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So that power is the source
of your own sense of Self.
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To know this, even if you don't understand it,
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should set your life on fire already,
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you should have to go and sit down.
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There is no end to gratitude for knowing
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that your life is sourced in God.
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For someone who doesn't really comprehend that ...
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Also that is designated by the power,
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that there will be beings
who don't feel that for a while,
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and eventually,
they must wake up to that in themselves.
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An auspicious life, for me,
is a life which moves away from the ego
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which creates blindness inside the being
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and makes us
be concerned just about earthly things,
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as opposed to one who is aware
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and living in that awareness,
and then living as that awareness.
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If you come to live as awareness,
you are already in the kingdom,
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you are already in that space.
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It is even, I would say, greater than heaven,
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if I can say something like that.
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When that feeling came, I just thought,
Is that blasphemous to say?
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I felt, if heaven is made of images and objects,
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then they are also in a kind of time.
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Maybe, one of God's days
could be a thousand human years.
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Who knows? But whatever it is,
there has to be change.
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If there are different levels of beings,
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then of course, the process of evolving
and growing is still there.
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But in the pure awareness,
it is not concerned about growth.
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It is so perfect,
but it is so unappealing to the mind,
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because the mind is always concerned
about things and objects
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and having and losing and getting
and changing and growing
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and becoming and losing, it is all of that.
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Whereas in awareness,
it is transcendental to such concepts.
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This is what I am trying to say,
when I say to everyone, Leave this now.
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Leave this now.
Leave even the concern for your identity.
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Leave all of this. Who am I speaking to?
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To the intelligence that doesn't hear this enough.
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When it hears this command
that comes from the heart,
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it is able to drop everything
and then be in the oneness,
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in the experience of its own oneness.
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Then you see people in the hall in satsang,
in the meditations like this,
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and with guidance like this,
then the disturbance is not there,
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it is like you are in a transcendental plane.
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Selfishness and all this kind of stuff
just thins away
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and it is as though you are floating
in a lighter dimension of being.
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So it is very tangible, actually, that we feel it
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and we have the capacity to experience it.
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In the beginning, for many people,
their mind comes.
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Sometimes people come here,
they are not used to this type of environment
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and you see how much their mind is troubling them.
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It appears as though the place and the people
are troubling them,
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but their own mind is troubling them.
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It feels uncomfortable,
because it feels challenged,
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'What are these people so happy about?
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I don't even trust them. They are pretending.'
It goes into overdrive,
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cynicism, judgements, discomfort,
all these things come up.
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But they are just the birth pains
to reach a higher state,
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if they persist,
and often they don't, they go away.
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But something is inside
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and that seed begins to grow inside them,
because God brought them here.
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Even if they feel,
'I didn't want to come here, my wife ...',
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it's still the force that caused them
to come here,
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to experience the disturbance that's in them,
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but they don't recognise
that it's coming from them.
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They think it's coming from outside.
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But it's coming from a reaction
to the energy they are experiencing
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that they're not yet compatible with,
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because they are so much in the domain
of egoic identity.
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So that is shaking.
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So, it is a very good question
you gave me this morning,
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on what it means to be egoless.
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It means life, true life.
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When we think of Jesus, or Prophet Muhummad,
or Krishna, or the Buddha,
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it immediately ...
Even people who don't know about these things,
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they know it represents
a higher level of consciousness,
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a level where love and peace are the climate.
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When we say 'I', the implication,
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the real meaning of 'I' is consciousness.
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But rarely in the world, when we say 'I',
does it mean consciousness.
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It means individuality, it means person,
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it means, 'I am a man', 'I am a woman',
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it is such a contraction, such a limitation.
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But 'I', even the one who is awake will say 'I',
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knowing that it is referring
to a sense of individuality.
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But underneath that 'I',
they are in that space of a deeper knowing,
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a spiritual knowing that
it is consciousness speaking, and not the person.
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It is a different vibration altogether.
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When you are with someone,
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and when they speak you experience spaciousness,
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that 'I' is the 'I' that comes from consciousness,
that is consciousness.
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When you are speaking with someone
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and you have to be careful what you say,
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that 'I' is loaded with the personhood.
And you can see the person ...
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The Earth full of personhood
is a very suffocating place. Stifling!
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Even if there were only three million people
on the Earth,
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well probably that's a small number,
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but when you meet them,
you would feel a bit suffocated.
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But one human being who is awake to the Self,
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in a crowd of thousands, shines and illumines,
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raises the level of consciousness
in people who recognise it.
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Because something in us can recognise
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that you are standing in a higher Presence,
that's what happens there.
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Even without being told
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people start to behave differently
to someone who is awake.
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They can't help it. Without knowing consciously,
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'Oh, that person is some ...',
they just behave differently.
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They may start by treating it like,
'This is a regular thing',
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but gradually, the presence begins
to sort of percolate
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and to move more deeply inside them,
and it changes them.
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Their climate starts to change,
they start to feel more kind, more open,
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they want to do things for you,
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that is without knowing anything
about spirituality.
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It is commanded in the world,
one of the Hadiths of the Prophet says that
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when God created the world,
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it says that God commanded the whole world,
'Serve those who serve me'.
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Meaning, those who are searching for Truth,
serve them.
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'And make weary and tired those who serve you.'
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Do you understand? It is a powerful thing!
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'Serve those who serve me.'
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Meaning, serve those, take care of them,
who honour God and Truth.
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'Make tired those who serve you',
who serve the world, make them tired.
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Is that a curse? No, it is a blessing also!
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Because when you get tired of your own rubbish,
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then maybe there is space finally to say,
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'I have to try something different'.
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It says, 'Make weary those who serve you',
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because their service is in vain,
it's just serving matter and not spirit.
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So it is beautiful.
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It is written inside the heart,
in the DNA of every living being,
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not just human beings,
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that in the presence of one
who venerates the Truth,
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something in them will honour them.
It will respond to them,
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at first it may even want to get rid of them,
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but it can't deny that their presence
has an impact upon the existence.
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That is the power of the Holy Spirit
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and the spirit of Truth in each one.
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I say, this place has to shine in that.
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It has to, as long as I am here.
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It has to be that our focus is on cutting the ego.
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And not just cutting, cutting the ego,
but living in the Truth.
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Because if your life is only
trying to cut, cut, cut ego,
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maybe you don't even taste the full joy,
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you are too busy trying to cut the ego.
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But I say, I am showing you the Truth also,
in the meantime.
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So as you are trying to cut the ego,
you find the Truth,
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you put down your cutter
and just rejoice in the Truth
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and let the Truth cut the ego.
Isn't it beautiful?
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Let the Truth cut the ego.
Why do your hands have to cut the ego?
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[Friend] That's what The Invitation does.
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[Mooji] That's what The Invitation does!
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The Invitation takes all the dirty work,
the grime and stuff out of it
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and brings you into the lap of God.
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[laughter]
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For this my heart is so happy,
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because sometimes when you see the beings ...
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If somebody comes here,
'I'm so thirsty. Can I have a glass of water?'
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You give them a glass of water.
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If somebody falls down,
you say 'Come, let's get up'.
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Even though your back is hurting,
you help them up,
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'How are you feeling? Better? Sit down.'
You help them. No?
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Somebody is hungry, 'Brother, please ...'.
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You give them something to eat.
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Whatever you can do, you help.
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If they are sick, what are you going to do?
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Something must be in you to help them.
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Whether it is prayer,
or you start to learn to bless people,
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even if it doesn't work, you still keep doing it.
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'My intention is to bless their life,
to give them ...
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not that their life becomes like mine.'
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Just bless their life with whatever it needs
to remove the obstacles,
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to remove whatever it is that is contaminating,
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or disfiguring the spontaneity of their life,
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to banish that by the power of God.
You bless them!
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And with this also,
people are searching for the Truth,
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they can't find it, 'It's so difficult'.
I say, You read The Invitation.
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Listen to this.
Just listen to it. Just listen to it.
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And that is the big help they can get.
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They say, 'Oh my God,
I was getting ready to do all the gymnastics
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to try and get over these things,
and you made it so easy'.
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Some things become so easy.
'I didn't have to go through my mind,
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I didn't have to go down
into this dark place of myself.
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I came to the light place of myself.'
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Isn't that a wonderful thing?
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Why does everybody have to suffer,
blood, sweat and tears?
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And they can't do it,
because human beings are getting weaker.
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They want everything to be done by machines.
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Even the work on ourselves ...
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Yes, if it is to build your ego, you will do it!
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You will lift heavy weights to build up the ego.
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But to change, to transform your heart
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from a suffering place into the abode of peace,
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'I can't get into that!'
Because they feel it doesn't show.
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So perhaps this is why
grace brought The Invitation now,
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to say, 'But you have to also come in.
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You think you are happy,
but that is not the real happiness.'
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And to try to get them.
I feel this must be why ...
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For me, The Invitation is the easiest thing,
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like someone holding your hand,
walking you through the door, 'Lets go'.
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'I want to meet Jesus.'
Come with me, I will show you right here.
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Just a minute.
Let's walk through to the other side.
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'I was going to go to Jerusalem and to Calvary.'
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No, no. He is right here. Come.
I walk you through the door. Isn't it so?
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[laughter]
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[Friends] Thank you, Mooji.
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