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The realization of the Self
is a very simple thing in itself

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What it is, in itself, is just simple and natural.

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What it is, is just simple and natural

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And I even wondered if there was a time

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when human beings were just like that,

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just in our natural state, but I don't know that.

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I felt, in those days, I want to share this

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because it is so simple, it's so simple. 


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But in my own case,

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it took a little bit of scrubbing as well,
to arrive at that.

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This is a kind of paradox, in a way,
because it is so simple,

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but where we are coming from is so complex.

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As I said before, The Truth is simple,

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but the seeker of Truth is complex.

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And he has to get over himself.

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He cannot do anything for Truth.

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We cannot do anything for Truth.
We cannot help Truth.

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It's total nonsense, arrogance and stupidity 
to even think of that.

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The basis of the entire universe
is that it emanates

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and plays in the space of Truth.

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So no one can do anything for Truth.

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And the fact is that, we are Truth.
We are Truth.

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But in order to make a search happen,

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we have to be under the spell of the untrue.

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Otherwise, there is no search.
Why would there be any search?

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Just like now, we came to be convinced
that we are our name,

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that we are our culture, that we are our race,
that we are our gender.

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We believe that, so we don't have to question that.

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We just assume; nobody questions that.

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In the state of the Truth, 
then it is completely natural.

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You don't have to question that any more.

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But while we have the identity

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or the idea that we are persons and people,

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it is a very complex state of consciousness,

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it's very self-centred, 
but self-centred in the psychological sense.

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Meaning that, it is a kind of neurosis;
a complexity is there.

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And we are not going to be happy.

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There is no one who, 
not being aware of the pure Self,

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can be in a state of equanimity
and unbroken happiness.

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Our lives will be topsy-turvy. 
We will experience that.

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But for one who is aware of the Truth,

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and aware that they are the Truth,

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then the waves of the mind,
the waves of the vital force

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cannot trouble them at all.
There is no trouble at all,

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because they are not holding onto the mind,

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they are not holding onto any emotional state,

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they are not holding onto the body.

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Just like how they say the Ganga is flowing,

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but it is also constant.

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The waves are like, maybe, our thoughts.

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The changefulness that occurs
and arises in the body is like the waves,

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but the Ganga itself, you can say, is untroubled.

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It is the same thing.

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So we don't need to study for years
to realize the Self.

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And yet we do.
We don't need to study for years and years.

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What are we studying? What are we practising?

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Sometimes, also, we are practising,

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and we still don't know what we're practising for.

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Sometimes we meditate,

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yet we don't know the aim
and object of meditation.

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If we are meditating only to meditate,

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to enjoy a portion of time in a state of non-duality,

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meditation can offer us this.

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But as we have heard people say in satsang,

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'The minute I step away, 
the minute my meditation is over,

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the chaos of life and of the mind comes again'.

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So that cannot be the permanent state.

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Nothing that we acquire 
will be the permanent state.

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Only what we discover,

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which is independent of the personal wave,

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only that is stable by itself; 
nobody can make it stable.

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We can only discover that untouched essence.

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And when 'we' discover 'That', we are That!

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You cannot discover the Self

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and be a discoverer of the Self as a person.

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And this is why I say that
the self-inquiry is my 'piranha question',

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because as we are exploring
and introspecting this question,

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the questioner and the questioning 
are being swallowed up

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by the very inquiry itself.

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[music]

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'Nothing that you acquire
can be the permanent state ... '

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' ... only what you discover.'
~ Mooji ~

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Spontaneous Satsang
under Papaji's Tree

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Rishikesh, India, 2013