Mooji Answers #4 During Coronavirus: Wisdom, Kindness and Peace – The True Wealth of Humanity

Mooji Answers
During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Moojibaba responds to questions

put to him by his students
and many concerned Truth seekers worldwide

Session 4

Wisdom, Kindness and Peace -
the True Wealth of Humanity

2 April 2020
(with subtitles)

Namaste, welcome back. This is Mooji here.

I am sitting in my room in my little hut,

and I am answering, or endeavouring to answer,

some of the many letters that
come to me at this time,

during the COVID-19 challenges that
we are having around the world.

I offered up some space for a week that
people could write in to me

and I would try and address their letters.

So I hope you enjoy and find benefit from them.

God bless you. Thank you so much.

We will go straight in.

I will have a sip of water now.

Good, good.

'Beloved Father,
Please accept our immense gratitude,

love and joy of the Self,

which is found in our hearts profoundly,
by your grace.

Father, we have been affected financially
by this recent calamity,

but we are so pleased to report that,
by your grace,

we are able to taste and witness

this miraculous stillness within,
more than before,

while the surface is being shaken strongly.

Thank you so very much for being here,
shining your light upon Earth.

Please keep burning every impurity left inside,

and merge us fully with you!
Ever with you as one.'

And this is a family that has come to visit me.

They are a beautiful family,
and I am very happy to see you all,

and to receive your gracious words.

Thank you very much.

Now, it says here,
'We have been affected financially

by this recent calamity,
but we are so pleased to report that,

by your grace,
we are able to taste and witness

this miraculous stillness within,
more than before,

while the surface is being shaken strongly'.

And this is often the kind of paradox

and the seeming contradictions that
can appear in life.

Who would have thought that
a challenge or a calamity of this enormity

would produce such richness of human spirit?

Because here is a family who is saying,

'We have been affected financially
by this recent calamity'.

And many people are in the same boat.

They are facing financial challenges.

Some people are just completely
out of any kind of money!

And they have to survive.
And I tell you, this is not ...

Yes, perhaps, I don't think in my life time, that

I have heard of any calamity which

has involved the whole world in one sweep,
such as this.

But I want to tell you that
trying times are nothing new to this planet,

and to the human beings of this Earth.

Throughout history,
going back thousands of years,

different things have come,
plagues and big diseases have come.

One wiped out half of Europe one time,
so many people died.

And in many places
there have been catastrophic events

in the human kingdom and the human history!

It is not the first time.

But an event that
has really engulfed the whole world,

I don't think
I have heard of anything like this before.

People have been pressed into very hard times,
even in our time,

during wars,
people have been shifted out of their own lands,

into other countries,
where they have to start all over again,

where they don't know the language,
they don't know anything at all.

All these put a tremendous pressure
on the human spirit.

And I have to say that, in spite of that,

it is as though the human spirit
needs the challenges, the pressures,

in order to evolve, to grow and to mature!

It is like we need this to grow,
in the way that we need to.

And I see this as a gift from God.

I don't want to say that
the strong things that happen to us

come from Satan, from the devil, and so on!

I put Satan ...
His power is not so great!

I think if you look from a higher way,
they come from the Divine itself,

to help us to
face the demons within our own self!

And to overcome the influence of dark energies

which cause us to do many things,
very dark things!

Something of the magnitude of this coronavirus,
for instance,

is devastating in its impact,
because it comes in one big swoop.

But in all these little ways,
human beings in our own distortions,

in our own judgements, fears, and the wars,

add up to something much much greater, actually,

than the impact of coronavirus.

These are not easy things to hear,
but they are true!

And I would have to say that,
this is why I see this

not just as a kind of punishment or something,

but more as a corrective measure
offered to the human kingdom,

not just to ask us to change,
we are compelled to change!

So I don't look upon this ...
I look at it with great concern,

I'm very saddened by the number of lives

that have to leave the planet like this,

but I also see a great opportunity
for life on this planet.

So many of us have children.
Young children are born every day!

And there isn't a planet for them to grow up on!

If we change our ways now,
if we become more conscious,

and life is helping us sometimes,

because it is not waiting for us
to be cozily ready to change,

it is imposing change!

And some things happen so powerfully that,

you don't have time to learn,
but just to change!

But we are an intelligent species,
and we must also learn by will!

We must also learn and change by will,
and by, I would say,

the nobleness and the integrity
of the true human spirit.

We must care more for ourselves,
for our families, our friends,

our strangers, our planet.

We must do this.

So here are a few words from a family,
a very close family,

who are saying that,

although they are financially challenged
very, very deeply,

because of the very calamity,

they are pleased to report that,
they are able to taste and witness

the miraculous stillness within,
even more than before.

Nobody can put a price on peace,
on stillness, joy and contentment.

This is the real wealth of the human experience!

Not just perishable things,
but the wealth of kindness,

peace and good will,

of compassion, wisdom and inner silence.

All this is the wealth that we are missing

while we pursue perishable things!

'Thank you so very much for being here,
shining your light upon Earth.

Please keep burning every impurity left inside us,

and merge us fully in the Truth you are.'

This is a beautiful letter here.

A wise person doesn't ask,
'Give me, give me, give me things!'

But rather, 'Burn that which is impure in me.
Help me to get rid of it,

to detox, not just from physical things that
I need to detox from,

that is good also, but detox from bad thinking.

Detox from jealousy, fear and envy,

detox from murderous thinking
and dark thinking!

Let me be rid of this impurity,

so that we can be merged
in the supreme Self of the universe.'

A wonderful letter.
Thank you so much. Wonderful.

'Beloved Mooji,
Let me begin by saying,

I'm fully established in the heart
as the Is-ness.'

When we say Is-ness we mean
that which is real inside us,

as What Is, as the spirit of Truth.

'I'm fully established in the heart as Is-ness,

and I am so grateful
for the recent satsang season.

It came at a critical time
to prepare me for now!

I am a nurse in the USA,
and currently we are facing a great challenge.

I am not afraid of death.

This being has been blessed
to be involved in end of life care,

for the last ten years.

I would like to ask you for your understanding

of the 'Revelation' book of the Bible,

and how we may use this understanding.

I find so much wisdom and solace in the Bible.

Much love to you and all the sangha.
Cathy from Florida.'

It is good and refreshing,
to hear the voice of an intelligent human being

saying, 'I am not afraid of death'.

'I am not inviting death,
but I am not afraid of death.'

I remember, my own mother wrote me a letter,

the most intimate of the letters
I have received from her,

and she said,

'I am ready to leave.

I am not wanting to leave,
but I feel I am ready,

because much of my life
I spent collecting burdens, for much of it.'

But now her heart is right with God.
She is happy.

'If I have to leave, I am happy to leave now.'

But Cathy from Florida is not saying that.
She is saying,

'I am simply not afraid of death'.

She said that she has been blessed to be involved

in end of life care, for the last ten years.

There are many people
who are working in this field,

who are sometimes the last face that
your loved ones, or yourself, may see

before leaving the light of this kingdom,
the human kingdom.

And I know some of them. They are very kind!

God puts them in this place to serve you!

Because many people,

sometimes elderly people,
sometimes younger people,

their parents have passed,
or their children have passed,

or they've got no relatives around, and so on.

And in a moment like this, you may think,

the most intimate moment in life,

the most ...

What would I say now?

One of the strongest moments
is the moment of departing,

or we think it's like that.

Sometimes the face of
people like Cathy and others

are those who come to serve you
as you leave here.

And others come
as you are entering your new dimension,

they will come like that.

So Cathy continues,
'I would like to ask for your understanding

of the 'Revelation' book of the Bible,

and how we may use this understanding'.

Myself, I have to say that, I read the Bible

when I grew up in a very strong ...
Not very strong in my personal way,

but I would say that growing up in Jamaica,

Jamaica is a very Christian country,
and in fact,

it is said that, we have more churches
than anywhere else in the world,

more churches per square mile.

These are not grand churches,
they are not cathedrals.

Sometimes it's just someone's front room,

sometimes it's somebody's little outer house,

they've turned it into a church
and they go and worship there.

That's called a church.

So we grew up with the Christian environment,

and when I went to England in 1969,

I continued attending my mother's church,
the Seventh-day Adventist church.

So we are very familiar with the Bible.
But I have to tell you,

when I really was transformed,

it happened in 1987,

when I said that,
I met God as reality inside my heart.

Then, actually, at that period,
I read the entire Bible,

from cover to cover.

Not because I felt it was my duty,

there was just some powerful urge in me
to do that.

I'm not someone who reads books much.
I'm not attracted to words.

I'm more attracted to images;
I was an artist for a long time.

But the Bible, at that time,
was the living book for me.

And so I read it from cover to cover.

I didn't absorb everything,
there are some favourites there,

parts that I love very much.

But I was not drawn so deeply
towards the book of 'Revelation'.

I don't know why.

But many people are,

and many churches
stress so strongly the end of times,

and how things will be,

and the seven horsemen of the apocalypse.

And they speak about this kind of thing.

I have not been concerned so much about that.

I met God in a much kinder way.

I met God as the living spirit of Truth,
peace, love and mercy.

And that is the God that I have known.

So the end of times
are spoken of in other religions also.

From India we learn that this age,

it has been going on for quite a long time,
they call it the Kali Yuga,

a time of great darkness and challenges.

Any intelligent human being will look and say,

'We can't be far from those times,
it is happening already!

So many terrible things
are happening on the planet,

and so many things are happening all at once.

The weather is going berserk.
So many things are happening.'

I would also like to remind you that,

as a result of this present calamity that
is taking place,

human beings
are forced to stay at home, largely.

So the fuel emissions,
the dangerous emissions of fuel and toxic gases,

the waste and all the things that
we pour into the oceans and the rivers,

and how we pollute ...
and rape the forests of the Earth,

which are like the lungs of the planet,
and so on,

has stopped, for now!

And what we are seeing is a recovery,
by the Earth, that is astonishing.

So many wonderful signs are here.

And as I have spoken before,
I walk outside now,

because our quarantine time
has stopped for the moment.

We are still obeying
many restrictions on that,

but we are more free than we were ourselves
in the last couple of weeks.

We can step outside and be ...
We have a forest nearby.

I can see that the skies
are brilliant cobalt blue skies

and fluffy white clean clouds,

and the air smells like rain, fresh and crisp!

And I see that the plants are healthy,
they are not covered in sickness,

and the earth feels rich.

Some earth, you can almost put in your mouth!

I see many good signs, and I continue to see

many good things happening around the world,

such as, rivers that were polluted
for a long time,

dolphins are swimming in the rivers!

People are astonished,
'What's going on here?'

It's saying that the Earth is responding.

It's detoxing from much of the filth that
we push upon it,

upon the very Earth that takes care of us,
without which we cannot live.

I see wonderful signs there,
of detoxing, of returning to harmony.

Many things we see.

And I hope this is happening also
for human beings,

that we are detoxing also,
in our hearts and minds,

our spirit and being is being ...

We feel, of course, under tremendous stress
and crisis at the moment,

but often these things produce wonderful results
inside the human heart.

We don't like it, our minds don't like it,

because we are used to
a certain idea of freedom that

we are now not able to enjoy,
in the way that we take for granted.

That's one of the things.
We take a lot of things for granted.

But right now
we can't take many things for granted.

And I feel that this kind of pressure,
throughout human history,

has helped human beings.
It gave them the chance to stop, to reflect,

to grow, to deepen,
to discover a deeper truth about what we are,

and our purpose on this planet.

So again, like I say, for me, 'Revelation' means,

whatever is going to take place on the planet,
in the world,

God has got it, for me.

And we don't have to worry.
I don't want to be blind.

I'm not closing my eyes and saying,
'I don't want to look'.

I look very much, and I see plenty!

And I have also had a taste of it,
to see what it can be,

how human beings can be unkind,

how they can speak many bad things,
lies and deceitful things,

with the intent to harm each other!

And how people kill each other!

So many things, they neglect their children,
they poison people and so on.

I have seen these things.

I just want to tell you,
because I don't know if your last statement,

you say,
'I find so much wisdom and solace in the Bible',

if you are directing that
to the book of 'Revelation'.

All the books of the Bible share something,

speak something to our human nature.

They give us a chance to reflect, to change,
to harmonise, and so on.

So, with that being said, you close by saying,

'Much love to you and all the sangha.
Cathy from Florida.'

Thank you, Cathy. Thank you.

And thank you for all the work that you do

in helping to say goodbye in the best way,

to people whose time has come
to leave this dimension,

and to go into God's next play.

OK. Here we go.

'Beloved Mooji, thank you for giving us
the opportunity to write to you.

Such a blessing.

I heard about you a few weeks ago,
on the 21st of February.

I saw a video from a satsang in Rishikesh,

and in my heart it was immediately clear,
''You are That''.

I was crying all week long with joy.

Now, every day, I just sit. I close my eyes,

and I fall, in one moment, into this emptiness,
full of peace!'

Wonderful.

'I could stay all day with closed eyes.

Time doesn't exist anymore.

I feel love, compassion and gratitude.

I belong to everything!

Thoughts are coming and going.

But now I know where home is.

Sometimes I still get lost,
but now I know the way back home.

It is so easy!

My question is,
why does God play this game with us?

If it is so easy, why do we all get lost,
life after life?

Thank you. Om Shanti.
Bandhu (Roberto Rossi)

P.S. I've meditated for many years,

but I feel now, my time to jump is coming.
I love you.'

OK. Where can I pick this up?

OK. 'I could stay all day with closed eyes.'

It feels like that.
You don't have to stay all day with closed eyes.

There is something that sees even closed eyes,
from inside.

You say, 'Time doesn't exist anymore'.

That is, in the place of the real,

time is also

not that which you read by a clock.

So time doesn't exist.
Your mind is in so much harmony and peace,

there is no thought about time and change.

You say, 'I feel love, compassion and gratitude.

I belong to everything.'

It is another way of saying,
'I feel in harmony with all that exists'.

'Thoughts are coming and going,
but now I know where home is.'

'The thoughts are coming and going,
but now I know where home is.'

Home is where?
Home is no longer just a house of bricks or wood

and stone, and metal, and a roof.
It's not just that home.

This is a deeper home.
This is a home that is my Self!

My home is my Self!

Not even just my body.
Your body is also a home.

Your body is also a home.

You can have a house.
You can live in a house,

somebody may come and knock on your door,
you are not there.

But your body, generally,
if somebody recognises your body,

and they come,
you are pretty much likely to be there.

That's the home that people generally talk about

when they're developing
some spiritual consciousness,

some awareness of themself.
They say, 'This is my house.

I live in the house, but I am not the house.'
Some people even say that.

But the home, the true home,
is actually not a physical place,

but the place of your spiritual heart.

Home is the place where you are free.

You are not growing old.

You are not sick.

It can never be sick.

It never dies.

It is pure consciousness.

This is your reality, the true home.

'Sometimes', you say, Roberto, or Bandhu,

'Sometimes I still get lost,
but now I know the way back home.

It is so easy.'

Some great beings,
it's not that they know the way back home,

because they are never away from home!

There are some people who say,
'Now I know how to go back home.

Especially when trouble is coming,
when I'm tired and weary, I go home.'

But some beings know that
they and home mean the same thing.

So they are never apart from home.

Home and themself are the same thing.

So you say, 'It is so easy'.
I say, yes, it is so natural.

'My question', you say now,
'Why does God play this game with us?'

Once, I remember a man, he was saying ...
He was a little bit frustrated.

I said, 'Are you OK?'

He said, 'I don't know.

I just feel like
God is constantly playing with me,

playing about with me!'
He said it in a very disappointed way.

I said,
Actually, I don't think God is playing with you,

I feel like God is playing as you.

He was very surprised to hear that.

I don't think he fully grasped what that meant.

But somehow, it felt like a great space
had opened up inside his heart.

He said, 'Whoa, I'm not just some thing that
is being flicked around

by the fingers of God'.

'The God Self is also in me.

And that one is playing,
appearing and pretending to be

a human being going about,
this kind of stuff.

And in all of my plays, even when I am deluded

and I think I am doing something only for myself,
selfishly,

somehow, my actions still serve God!'

That is wonderful.
He went away quite relieved.

You say, 'If it is so easy,
why do we all get lost, life after life?'

Something only becomes easy, when it is easy.

The obvious is only obvious when it is obvious.

Only when we mature enough
to grasp the fundamental things of life,

which are, in fact,
the simplest and the most natural,

the easiest, in some way ...

But as we are growing up,
our worldly conditioning ...

We get much more complex, much more mental.

We turn many things which are simple
into problems.

And then set about trying to solve the problems.

In this play,
we seem to get a bit lost, after a while.

We become lost
because we want to go by our own light,

by our own experience.

We are not open to be in synchronicity,

or to find a harmony with a higher intelligence.

We want to do it all by ourselves.

So after a while, you will get frustrated,

because your intellect is not great enough

to fathom how life really works.

For this, we have to surrender,
we have to be humble,

we have to give more time to introspection,
to contemplate, and so on.

Like this,
we grow in wisdom and understanding.

Excuse me, I have to take ...

I've had this beautiful cup of tea here
for quite some time

and now it is lukewarm.

I am having a cup of tulsi tea. Thank you.

Thank you. So, well, I mean, that is it.

You close by saying,

'Thank you. Om Shanti.
Bandhu (Roberto Rossi)'

You put, 'P.S. I've meditated for many years,

but I feel now, my time to jump is coming.
I love you.'

To jump is simply another idea.

We think, 'Finally, I must make the final jump!'

The best way I can put it,
is to stop avoiding your Self.

That is what I would say.

Because the deceiving mind is always jumping.

It's like a monkey mind,
it's always jumping for the next banana,

to the next thing, the next thing!

So I call this stage,
in which most of life is lived,

the stage of distraction, or distractedness,

meaning distracted from
the truth of your own Self.

We want to find out about everybody else!

But about yourself, you don't know.
You only assume.

The best way I can read these last lines,

'I feel it is my time to jump',
I can see it only in this way,

to jump means to jump out of avoidance,

and to step back into my stillness,
to pay attention to my Self.

All the very best to you Bandhu, Roberto.
Lots of love. Thank you.

OK. What do we have here now?
I really feel for a short one.

Let's see how we get on with this one.

'Dear beloved Mooji, you have touched my heart

in such a profound way that,
silence is progressively becoming my home.'

What a wonderful thing,

when silence becomes your home!

Actually, home,
even in its physical implication,

should be a place where you feel most relaxed,
you feel most yourself.

You are not performing,
you don't have to become somebody.

You don't have to impress anyone,
you can just relax!

But sometimes people are not able to enjoy,
even when by themselves!

If you have an agitated mindset,
if you have a strong ego,

you will not be able to enjoy this!

Here, Robin, she is saying,
'You have touched my heart

in such a profound way that
silence is progressively becoming my home'.

What happens when your home becomes silence?

And this home is not a home of bricks
and mortar and stone.

This home is inside your heart.

Then even when you're walking about,
or you go to another country,

you are always at home.

And your home is becoming a place of silence.

What a beautiful thing.

'There is this burning, Mooji,
but also some fear of losing my way,

or becoming complacent as a seeker of Truth.'

It is a very healthy concern to have.

'Some fear of losing my way,

or becoming complacent as a seeker of Truth.'

Then if that is arising in you,
regard that as an act of grace.

It's telling you maybe you are
indulging in some aspect of the mind that

is not in service to Self-discovery.

It is more taking you out,

out into the wild lands of the senses
and mind projections.

So this caution is arising in you,
'Some fear of losing my way'.

You don't want to lose your way,
that's why you say that.

'Or becoming complacent as a seeker of Truth',
meaning that some people,

they begin to discover the Truth
inside their heart,

but what tends to happen is that,

they start to just enjoy the nice feelings.

And they don't do the deeper work,
which is to keep focus,

not just paying attention to feelings,
which are momentary,

but even looking at
where the feelings arise from,

and what it is that is perceiving even feelings!

Even the subtle things that
come up in the mind are perceived!

What is it that perceives them?

When these questions engage your attention,

this is already an auspicious sign.

Here you are going to go even more deep,

and be more stabilised in your inner discovery.

I read on,
'I can confirm that both the fear of loss

and the seeker identity,
are relative to the idea I have of myself.

They are Not true!' Capital N for 'Not'.

'They are imagined images or ghosts.'

She is saying,
'I know that the fears that I have,

of really losing my way, or becoming complacent,

are not really the truth of what I am.

They are not the Truth.
I'm imagining them. They are only ghosts.

There is still a seeming narrator voice here,

who interprets, comments and judges,
but I'm aware of it,

and I know that I cannot be this voice.'

What a wonderful recognition!

Listen again.
'There is still a seeming narrator voice here.'

The mind, the psychological mind,
the personal ego mind,

is constantly chattering,
'Look at them, they don't like you'.

'Watch this thing here.'
'You are doing really well.'

'You made a mistake.'
'No, you are going to miss out.'

'They are not going to like you.'
'Do this thing.'

And this one, that you say,
'This narrator voice

who is always interpreting,
commenting and judging',

you know this voice,
everybody knows this tendency inside.

The thing is, 'But I'm aware of it,
and I know I cannot be this voice'.

This is the trouble with many people.
They believe in this voice!

They believe, even though this voice is a liar,
he is a deceiver.

He's the devil, actually! We say like this.

We don't have to say 'devil',
as some people don't like to hear that.

But I say they are negative energies,
if you want to call them that,

the gremlins in your head
talking, interpreting

and judging people,
or putting yourself down,

or putting other people up too high,
or this type of thing.

You are aware of that.
That is the deluded mind.

It's the negative mindset
that is speaking like that.

And you know, 'I am not this voice'.

Still, it seems to go on!
How to get rid of it?

You may not be immediately able
to stop that voice.

But you can see its unreality,
and recognise that,

where you're looking from,
to notice its unreality, is a truthful place.

And keep meditating on this place,

which is a higher place of consciousness,

and be effectively dead
to the voice of what the mind says.

This may take some time, a little practice.

Whenever the mind speaks,
you just turn away from it.

Don't follow it.
Don't drift off with this voice.

And get a little bit more clear.

So it tallies up with you saying that

you have a fear of becoming complacent.

By listening to these voices,
this mind, this negative mindset,

is always trying to get you involved
in some activity,

so that you're distracted from paying attention

to your natural state, your natural Self.

And because of this,
you will come into suffering states,

confusion, anxiety and so on, doubts even,

if you give too much attention to this voice.

Every human being knows this voice

and has the power to transcend its influence!

Every human being has the power.

And if you trust in God,
if you listen and contemplate,

and listen to the voice of messengers of God,
then it will guide you,

and you will develop the strength
and the authority

to transcend these negative mind states.

'I choose to use everything for freedom.

My mother's recent passing,
this coronavirus pandemic,

this body that will also pass some day.

I know nothing, nothing at all.
And I am grateful for this.'

Listen to this lady,
'I choose to use everything for freedom'.

'I am putting everything in my freedom basket!'

'I am using every experience,
my mother's recent passing.'

That is a very strong thing.
Many people fall into depression,

and are heavily debilitated

when their loved ones
have to leave their mortal frame.

But you are saying, 'I am using that!'

'Even the pain of that
is helping me to find my freedom!'

'I am using this coronavirus pandemic',

with all of its roaring face,
''Argh! I am going to get you!''

'I am using this also for my freedom.'

This is very great wisdom, actually.

'I am also using the fact that

this body will also pass away some day,
sooner or later.'

'I am using it, because I am alive now.

I am using all these testing,
challenging phenomena,

to actually find my way home to the Truth.'

How wonderful.

She admits, 'I know nothing, nothing at all.

And I am grateful for this.'

Who says this?

'I know nothing.'
'I can't rely on anything at all!

Everything seems to be changing!

Everything that appears, disappears.
Everything that comes goes!

Something looks like that today,
tomorrow it looks like this!'

'I know nothing.'
It means, 'I can depend on nothing at all!'

That is what she is saying, Robin.

'I can't depend on anything at all!'

For a long time,
you've been depending on your bank account,

depending on your job,

depending on your marriage, on your children,

you've been depending on your friends,

you've been depending on the weather,

you've been depending on so many things!

And where are they now?
Where are they now?

So Robin has recognised,

'Yes. I am not cursing the world.
The world is beautiful.'

I say, There is one Earth,
but there are billions of worlds,

because inside,
there is your own movie of your own life.

You make your own unique world in your mind.

And the world isn't just a physical phenomenon,
a physical thing,

it is a psychological thing too,
an emotional thing.

So there is a saying,
'I am not really seeing the world as it truly is.

I am seeing the world as I am.'

These are very, very important things
to reflect upon.

If you are feeling happy,
things feel generally happy,

you see things with happy eyes and happy heart.

You actually bless them with your happiness.

When you are feeling down and sad,

you don't even
like to see happy people, sometimes!

'I know nothing, nothing at all.
And I am grateful for this.'

Meaning, 'I have come to see that

I cannot depend on material existence.
It is not enough!'

You may have all the money in the bank,
and you can still be unhappy.

I say, 'There is a poverty in wealth,
and there is a wealth in poverty.

Can you understand this?

Don't think because you have things,
it means that you are rich!

Real richness is a richness of spirit,
richness of warmth, love,

kindness, openness, wisdom and reflectiveness.

Please reflect on that.

Finally, 'I have no question.
I just ask if you can confirm my seeing,

and help me to burn whatever doubt remains.

With deep love and gratitude.
Robin.'

'I have no more questions.

I just ask if you can confirm my seeing.'

What I can do is,
encourage your seeing to continue deepening,

and deepening, and deepening, and deepening.

Until even the concept of deepening
is thinning away.

You are empty of all the treasures of the mind,
so to speak.

And do you know what happens
when you are empty like this?

You become ...
You find a harmony with all of existence.

You may not have to save up,
you are not spending from your account!

You are plugged into the powerhouse of God.

And you don't have to prepare,
manoeuvre and manipulate anything,

because you are a child of God,
a child of the universe.

You can move more spontaneously, more freshly,

more intuitively, more harmoniously.

But it will feel like a risk to the ego

that is always trying to make some technique
out of life,

always learning how to be,
rather than being your Self.

So I respect and love you.
I love your letter, Robin.

I feel that you are a true student of Truth

in your dynamic self-portrait.

And you are also focusing
and discovering more and more,

and stabilising in your fundamental nature.

This is wonderful!

God bless you, God bless you.

I think I will read just one more letter today.

Here it goes, 'Beloved Guruji,
Thank you for this opportunity.

My soul is in peace,

knowing that God is behind the curtain

of all happenings in the world now.

And there is no fear for that.'

What a wonderful statement.

'My soul is at peace,

knowing that God is behind the curtain

of all that is happening in the world now.

And there is no fear for that.'

Only here will you find peace,
when the world is not in your hands!

Sometimes we feel,
'My life is in my own hands!'

'My future is up to me!'
'My happiness is up to me!'

But here is one, a young woman,
Moni Valo from Macedonia,

who has come to see,

'My soul is in peace,
knowing that God is behind the curtain

of all that's happening in the world now.

And there is no fear for that.

What causes a deep sadness in my heart,

is to see people getting mad
by being with each other

in this quarantine time.'

Yes, yes, yes. Much madness!

Many people have not learnt to be alone,

even when they are by themselves.

They have not learnt to be alone,
in the greater sense.

They feel lonely,

but they don't know how to be alone,
in the real sense.

If you find people, and put people together,

who are not comfortable
being alone even with themselves,

you are going to have some trouble.
But here is what now,

this trouble, whatever trouble they will have,

whatever trouble they will have,

is going to give them greater strength.

But you must have the correct mentality

and the correct openness
for what I am speaking now.

Because if you go with
your bad habit of thinking, and negativity,

and judging and so on,
you've missed your chance!

Life has put you in a certain situation,

where you may feel that,
your hands are a little tied.

But it is for your good. It is for your good!

There are some people who have to be tied down,

otherwise they hurt themselves.
I'm being very extreme now.

But these cases do exist.
There are people who have to be tied down

for their own good,
otherwise they hurt themselves.

You have not gone that far.

Some people, the more restriction ...
The mind fears restriction,

but restriction often helps us to appreciate,
to discover and to mature.

This is the amazing thing!

Just in the same way that
sickness is often a kind of healing also!

But who tells us this?

If you are sick, you go to a doctor,
they push medicines on you!

And that is the way we are used to!

But who tells you that, sometimes,

being sick is also a step towards healing?
Sometimes it is a detoxing.

When you are detoxing, you don't feel good!
You feel terrible!

But you are in the stage or process of healing.

And we must be patient.

So this is what has happened
for a lot of people.

When they are put in quarantine,
they are finding it very, very difficult.

I saw a video which someone sent
to one of the sangha members.

And I was watching it, a funny one,
in this quarantine time.

Somebody was talking to a young man
and said to him,

'OK. Now that the quarantine time has come,

because of the virus and so on,
you are being given one of two choices.

A or B. You must choose.'
And they say,

'Option A: You must be confined
with your wife and your child.

And B ...'
He says, 'B! I will take B!'

I found it very funny.
He didn't want to know what B was!

He said, 'No, no, no, no.

I don't want to be stuck at home
with my wife and daughter.'

It seems, 'Whoa!'
Sometimes people, a bit perfectionist,

they will say, 'That is so terrible,
it's not even funny at all!'

But many people get the fun of it!
That sometimes ...

I know also, one of my aunties ...
I have to be honest about it.

She was married to her husband in England
for many, many years.

Some people are married for 50, 60 years.

And they have a routine, he goes out to work,

does his work, comes home in the evening,

has his dinner, reads a newspaper,

they watch some TV and go to bed.

This has been the routine for a very long time.

Maybe at weekends they have a bit of time.
I don't know what they do.

But he was made redundant.
I think he was about 50 years old.

He became redundant.
When he became redundant, he had to be at home.

And in a short time, they divorced.

They couldn't cope with each other.

I'm sorry, I should not laugh!
I should not laugh!

I don't know why,
I have a funny sense of humour.

I'm sorry,
because it's not a good time to laugh now,

when many of you are having so much trouble.

But sometimes it is funny.

You, when you are quarantined,
and you have time with your family ...

I have seen many people have found

many wonderful things have come out of it!

Some people have found,

'My God,
I'm just beginning to appreciate my family now'.

Sometimes they find much more creative ways
of being together,

to pass the time also.

Others, they learn to sit and to meditate.

We have been trying to help
in this type of way also.

And to play games, or whatever it is.

But even if you don't,

even the very hardship
of having to spend time by yourself

is maturing you on some deeper levels that
you may not yet appreciate.

It will come, gradually,
into the consciousness later,

'Wow, that was good for me!'

But you won't say thanks right now.

So Moni is saying here,
'What causes a deep sadness in my heart,

is to see people getting mad
by being with each other

in this quarantine time,

starting from my family, friends, relatives, etc.

Everyone is seeking distractions
just to avoid each other.'

They are finding something ...

Actually, we are seeking distractions

to avoid our self first, in fact.

Many people, all our lives
we have been looking for distractions,

to avoid being with our self.

What does it mean?
Do you hate yourself, or what?

No, it means that
what we accept as our self presently,

is not our higher Self.
And something inside knows it!

The way we accept, 'This is me ...',
is usually your ego.

And you know, at some level,
more or less, that this is not true!

It is not the Truth!

But to face the Truth,
to meet up with the Truth,

something is avoiding that!

There is an energy inside us ...
Let me call it two energy plays.

One seems to be an energy that

seems to be compelling us to be distracted,
to go and find things to do,

to amuse our minds and so on,
to distract you from something!

And the other energy
is to elevate your consciousness,

to higher and higher altitudes of functioning.

So that you become much more deep,
more intuitive,

more stable, more quiet.

These two plays are happening in you.

Actually, you are neither of them, absolutely.

But they are connected with you,
and you must use ...

You must learn to navigate your way,
to understand your powers

and to use them well.

So, 'Everyone is seeking distraction,
just to avoid each other.

My heart is very meek.'

The word 'meek',
we don't hear it much in our modern language.

'Weak' we know! But 'meek' we don't hear.

'Meek' means something more gentle,
more compassionate, more ...

It's a lighter word.

'Meek and mild',
means someone who is kind and open.

'My heart is very meek
to witness all of this madness,

because I experience the connections differently,

in a more deep way,
with true unselfish love and presence.'

This is the Truth!

She knows from her own experience

of spending time within her own Self,

the value of that,
the richness of that, the beauty of that.

Maybe the people that she is speaking about

have not, as yet, discovered the potential,

that potential
and that capacity within themselves,

that the more you are at one with your own Self,

you observe the mind with detachment,
or neutrality.

Or if you are guided by
a spiritual force within you,

that guides you to not get invested in

the psychological antics of the mind,

but to observe them with detachment,

then you will come to appreciate and enjoy,
in fact, to enjoy your Self.

That is what it really means,
you start to enjoy your Self!

Not enjoy yourself doing something.
Just enjoy your own Being.

That is what it means.

That is the real meaning of,
'To enjoy yourself'.

She continues, 'Every relationship

I've had with people with a human mindset,
has failed'.

What a strong thing!

'Every relationship I have had with people
with a human mindset',

meaning stuck in a very personal mode,
or mindset,

these relationships failed.

And don't we know how many times
we get into relationships with people,

sometimes deeply romantic relationships,

superficially romantic relationships,
sometimes just friendships,

and they fall away? Why do they fall away?

A friendship is supposed to be growing together
more and more.

Why do they fall away?

Why is it that relationships, often these days,

they go out a few times,
after two or three months they break up?

Because they don't have any stamina!

Not stamina as in 'physical stamina'.
They don't have the stamina

of patience, compassion and introspection,
of their own silence.

They can't cope with their own self,
much less cope with somebody else.

And what is happening is that,

we have this fantasy
that someone else is going to make us happy.

No, you are going to make you happy!

God in you is going to make you happy!

You cannot be miserable
and somebody makes you happy!

If you feel like that, it won't last,
I will tell you that!

So, 'Every relationship I've had
with people with a human mindset has failed.

And I feel so alone.'

Be alone. But don't be lonely.

Be alone as your own Being.

Don't feel alone as a reaction
to the truth of seeing that,

when people are very, very much engaged
with their own ego,

they become very difficult,

and almost incompatible with any other people.

That is a truth! But not for everyone!

There are many people who are flexible,

they are not tied into any concept too rigidly,

they are very open-minded.

They can change their mind
without feeling ashamed, or something.

They are not in conceptual competition
with other people,

they are easy, flexible and very likable.

They are very easy to be with.

But they are not naive, they are not stupid!

They are just great fun! And inspiring also!

'Please give me courage to surrender
this weak self-identity that

feels experientially so tangled
in this circle of suffering.'

Yes.

Take courage.

'Please give me courage to surrender
this weak self-identity.'

So it is the weak self-identity that suffers

from other people's weak self-identity.

When you are strong,
what happens is that you inspire others

to rise up to higher regions of consciousness,
of spirit.

So don't be weakened by weak-minded people!

Stay in the light that your letter started with!

Your letter started, remember,
'My soul is in peace,

knowing that God is behind the curtain

of all that is happening in the world,

and there is not fear for that'.

Then why are you finishing like this?

The first statement is more enduring
than all your other statements!

The first statement,
that God is behind the curtain

of all the happenings in the world,
should bring you great peace.

You said anyway, 'My soul is in peace,

knowing that God is behind the curtain

of all happenings in the world now,
and there is no fear for that'.

Stay in that peace. And leave it all to God.

Don't let your mind interpret what is happening,

because it is often wrong. It is often wrong.

Don't believe what people say.
They say all kinds of things!

They say this now, then that tomorrow.

They say this,
then something else another day.

Don't rely on what human beings just say.

Stay inside your heart,
be faithful to your heart,

and you will begin to hear God's voice in you.

So again, these last closing words,

'Please give me courage
to surrender this weak self-identity

that feels experientially so tangled
in this cycle of suffering'.

Don't give it so much importance.

These are things that come and go,
they come and go.

Don't look to people for your happiness!

Look to God,
or look inward to your inmost Being,

and you will begin to find
that happiness is rising up inside you.

Don't look to people.
People cannot make you happy!

They can give you fun!

But they cannot give you real joy
and real happiness,

if that happiness is not already sparked in you!

Don't look for what people can bring you,

look for what you can bring to them also.

'Elevate my consciousness
towards its source, please.'

'Elevate my consciousness towards it.'
'Draw my consciousness,

or elevate my consciousness
to go back home to its own source,

which is God,
pure awareness, Self, the Absolute.

The only One that there is.'

There are not two. He has no second.

He is one without two.

He is the only one that exists.

All this existence is His play.

And nothing is apart from Him.
Not one atom exists apart from Him.

'Love you Father.'

Thank you.

Thank you for your attention
and the time that you are spending like this.

I hope by reading these letters ...

As I'm reading them, in fact,
I know in my heart that

this is a good thing.

It gives some space to your voice,

how you are feeling at this moment in your life.

And that you can draw strength and go deeper.

A human life is a very, very powerful thing!

All the things that you can get in this world,
externally,

cannot compare to what you can find internally!

Spend some time, and now is a good time,
the best time of all!

You have internet access,

you can try a little bit there
to find anything on the subject,

'How can I find peace?'
'How can I wake up to my Self?'

'How can I realise God?'

There are many, many people's voices that
can guide you.

I am one of them.

And try and listen with your heart.

You don't need to listen
to anything too complex or too mental.

Listen to what speaks to your heart,
and follow that.

Marinate in the things that resonate with you.

And by and by,
you will find that your time at home

transforms from prison to paradise!

The mind wants to take it as a prison.
'You are imprisoned.'

No, you are in paradise!
Where is paradise? In your room only?

No, it is inside your heart.

So I close today with this blessing that
each and every one of you,

whether you understand these letters ...

Many of these letters are written by people
who are already

walking a spiritual path of Self-discovery,
of God-realisation.

And I am addressing many letters like that.

But don't think these letters are not about you.

Every single one is about you
because fundamentally, you are consciousness.

And these conversations,
these talks, these responses,

are consciousness responding to consciousness
about consciousness.

It is consciousness responding to consciousness

about the God universe that we exist in, and as,

and it is our fundamental nature.

So make use of this.

Continue to abide by the instructions
given by the governments,

and by the helping groups, the nurses,

the many fine nurses and doctors
who have given up so much

to support your physical health at this time.

And also the many people,
psychologists and so on,

who are themselves also offering advice to people

at the level that you can make use of.

And all the teachers,
all the teachers in the world,

the preachers and the prophets who are around

to help to guide mankind at this time,
for those who are open.

Find a voice that resonates with you,

and that helps you to feel not afraid,
but encouraged,

and feel courage,
and feel not just hope only, hope too,

but feel invigorated and inspired also,
that your life is not over.

It will never be over,
in the true sense of the word!

I hope that you understand,

having listened to my responses
to some of the letters today.

All the very best to you that I can wish,

whoever you are, and wherever you may be.

I pray for and bless
all the governments of the world

and all the world leaders,

all the presidents and prime ministers,
all of them!

That they may receive the grace of God

and be rightly guiding their people,
their governments,

their ministers, their armies, their nations,

to a greater solution to these challenging times.

To show, as an example,
places like Portugal and other countries,

who are really setting great examples at this time
of how we should be,

how we should be with our families,

how we should be with our neighbours,

how we should be with ourselves.
And setting a good example.

They are not going out to set examples!

But they cannot help it,
because of their compassion,

their humanity, their love.

So many wonderful things
are happening in the world.

I wish goodness for this world.
I wish you a happy life,

a life of prosperity in the spirit,

prosperity in the body as well, why not?

And good will towards everybody.

Bless you. Bless you.

Have a wonderful day, wherever you are.
God bless you.

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