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Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.92,0:00:45.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Still in Awareness\NCompilation of Talks 2004
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.16,0:01:01.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The most sublime truth of all has never been\Nstated or sung or written.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.88,0:01:18.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not because it is far away and can't be reached but because it is so intimately close, because it is closer
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.26,0:01:22.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than anything that can be spoken.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.50,0:01:34.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is truly alive as the stillness in the\Ncore of your being, not my being or her being
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.13,0:01:43.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or his being, your being, alive in the stillness\Nthat is the core of your being.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.22,0:01:56.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is too close to be described, too close\Nto be objectified, too close to be known in
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.23,0:02:02.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the way that we think of knowing as knowledge,\Nas objects.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.56,0:02:11.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it is yours already. It's already present.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.62,0:02:19.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The only reason that I have appeared in your\Nconsciousness is to simply confirm that.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.70,0:02:27.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I truly have nothing to teach you. You probably know more than I do anyway.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.95,0:02:36.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There have been plenty of teachers who have\Ntaught exquisite and true and useful codes
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.49,0:02:46.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of conduct, methods of meditation, ways of\Nliving in the world, ways of manifesting in
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.75,0:02:55.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the world but what this appearance that is\Ncalled “Gangaji” is, in your consciousness
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.40,0:03:06.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is simply a pointing to the stillness that\Nis alive in the core of your being,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.82,0:03:22.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and an invitation to turn your attention to that,\Nto let that live your life, to give your questions
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.39,0:03:35.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to that, to give your answers to that, your\Nfailures, your successes, your form, your
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.14,0:03:44.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,formlessness, your action, your inaction,\Nyour choice, your choicelessness, all,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.98,0:03:56.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to give it back where it came from, back before\Ncreation.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.66,0:04:03.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is possible only because you are that\Nstillness.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.15,0:04:13.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It would be impossible regardless of the intention\Nor the effort, if you were who you think you are.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.80,0:04:23.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who you think you are is by the very nature\Nof thought limited.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.57,0:04:32.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So however grandiose that thought may be, it's\Nstill limited.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.10,0:04:43.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But who you are has never been spoken, is\Ncloser than you can know.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.52,0:04:55.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who you are is where it all is.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.26,0:05:00.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,***
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.04,0:05:03.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’m far from being still.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.72,0:05:06.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You’re far from being still.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.13,0:05:07.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How do you know that?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.54,0:05:08.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who told you that?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.96,0:05:09.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I feel that.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.96,0:05:15.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Okay, there is a feeling and the interpretation\Nof that feeling, since a feeling is agitated,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.95,0:05:16.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that what you mean?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.95,0:05:22.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The feeling is agitated so then there is a\Nconclusion that therefore I am agitated.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.64,0:05:27.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And maybe there is a mental agitation that\Ngoes along with that so that’s further proof,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.58,0:05:29.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“I am agitated."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.75,0:05:36.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I am here to tell you that you are still.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:36.48,0:05:43.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this agitation is in your body perhaps,\Nin your emotions perhaps, in your mind perhaps,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.25,0:05:53.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the elements perhaps, but you are the awareness\Nthat recognizes the agitation.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.64,0:05:56.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You follow this?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:56.28,0:05:58.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There’s agitation.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.45,0:06:03.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can there be recognition of that agitation\Nwithout some awareness of that agitation?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.70,0:06:04.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.70,0:06:07.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right, It’s simple isn’t it?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.92,0:06:12.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is the awareness of the agitation agitated?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.62,0:06:15.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.58,0:06:18.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, it bears checking.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.68,0:06:20.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just take a moment to check.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.46,0:06:21.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is agitation…
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.46,0:06:24.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I understand...a lot of agitation.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.76,0:06:27.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there's awareness of that agitation.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.44,0:06:31.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is awareness agitated?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.20,0:06:32.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.56,0:06:37.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That’s right. (laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.66,0:06:41.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Awareness is still, Isn’t it?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.32,0:06:42.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:42.32,0:06:46.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I say to you, you are that awareness.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.28,0:06:54.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Agitation comes and goes, calmness comes and\Ngoes, awareness is eternal.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.60,0:06:56.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is eternally still.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.14,0:07:02.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are that.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.46,0:07:10.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can’t catch it with your mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.26,0:07:15.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, because the mind just gets agitated further\Nin trying to catch it.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.53,0:07:18.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let the mind do its thing, it doesn’t matter.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.94,0:07:22.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are the awareness of the mind’s agitation.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.90,0:07:27.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are what is already still.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.94,0:07:31.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just don't believe it.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:31.96,0:07:34.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s not a question of believing it.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.23,0:07:36.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don’t believe it. Don't believe it.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.96,0:07:39.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don’t want you to believe it.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.36,0:07:46.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want you to investigate and see for yourself,\Nis this true or is this just another belief.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.20,0:07:52.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In your life moments of agitation have appeared\Nand disappeared.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.08,0:07:53.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:53.08,0:07:55.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have not been agitated every second of\Nyour life.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.93,0:07:58.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe a majority, I don’t know.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.04,0:08:00.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that is the way it is with certain nervous\Nsystems.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.84,0:08:03.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They vary like plants vary, you know.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.86,0:08:06.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Patterns of weather vary in human beings.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.78,0:08:12.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Certain nervous systems experience or generate\Nmore agitations than others.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.64,0:08:18.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The awareness of that agitation that has never\Ncome and gone.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.95,0:08:20.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's always been present.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:20.87,0:08:24.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it has always been still.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.04,0:08:33.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The dilemma and the suffering comes out of\Nmisidentification of your Self as your body
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.37,0:08:40.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which can be agitated or sick or in pain,\Nor your mind which can be spinning or calm
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.32,0:08:47.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or confused rather than the awareness of all\Nof that.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.96,0:08:53.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Okay. What happens when I get almost overwhelmed\Nwith feelings?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:53.49,0:08:54.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Aha.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.49,0:08:55.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What gets almost overwhelmed with feelings?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:55.70,0:08:56.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My body
Dialogue: 0,0:08:56.70,0:09:02.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your body, now, does the awareness of that\Nget overwhelmed?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.36,0:09:05.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Check it out be sure
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.46,0:09:06.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Okay
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.97,0:09:14.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’m willing to go on but I want us to stop\Nalong the way because if we can nip the misidentification
Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.25,0:09:15.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the bud.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.25,0:09:26.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I get a feeling that it happens in my body\Nand then I go Okay, I’m angry or upset and
Dialogue: 0,0:09:26.33,0:09:30.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it’s so overwhelming that I think my mind\Nwill just go…
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.65,0:09:33.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes it’s overwhelming to the nervous system,\Nright?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.64,0:09:40.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The awareness, just for now, just for checking\Nit out- Has the awareness of that gone anywhere
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.18,0:09:52.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or gotten agitated or been diminished\Nor overwhelmed in the slightest? (pause)
Dialogue: 0,0:09:56.98,0:09:59.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is very good you’re taking time\Nto look.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:59.79,0:10:01.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes.Take time to see this.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.13,0:10:10.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Î don’t want you to accept it because I\Nsay so, don’t do that.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:12.68,0:10:18.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I feel like there is a little fight that goes\Non in my head...
Dialogue: 0,0:10:18.89,0:10:20.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A little fight, there is a big fight.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.82,0:10:24.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes there is a fight.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.19,0:10:26.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The mind is fragmented isn’t it?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:26.07,0:10:31.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Into the good guys and the bad guys and the\Nmediators (laughs)
Dialogue: 0,0:10:31.38,0:10:38.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the awareness of all that, is there any\Nsplit there?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:38.53,0:10:41.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No
Dialogue: 0,0:10:41.42,0:10:45.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are doing very very well, your are telling\Nthe truth.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.44,0:10:50.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the very fact that you are willing to tell\Nthe truth even though you are experiencing
Dialogue: 0,0:10:50.07,0:10:56.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the suffering of this situation means that\Nyour interest is more in truth than in this
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.71,0:10:59.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,identification of yourself as this body.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:59.96,0:11:05.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is excellent, excellent sign, you can believe\Nthat.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.24,0:11:16.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now throughout time, conditioned existence\Nhas been taught, so you have to learn that
Dialogue: 0,0:11:16.63,0:11:19.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you are your body.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.18,0:11:25.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that learning gets translated into thoughts\Nand then you have to learn you are being a
Dialogue: 0,0:11:25.05,0:11:32.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bad body because you are in pain or you're agitated,\N“and stop that you bad girl, slap, slap”.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:32.48,0:11:38.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then another part fragments off and says “I’ll\Nstop it when I feel like stopping it.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:38.08,0:11:44.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Leave me alone bam, bam” And this is what\Ngoes on in your mind, right.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:44.12,0:11:46.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am not a mind reader This is what goes on.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:46.81,0:11:55.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is what goes on in individual minds and\Ngoes on in the collective mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:55.29,0:12:02.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the collective mind we witness it as wars,\Nreligious wars, or political wars or genocidal
Dialogue: 0,0:12:02.19,0:12:06.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wars but it is the same mind at war with itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:06.91,0:12:12.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One side of the fragmentation of mind deciding\Nthe other side has to go.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:12.62,0:12:16.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No room for it here.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:16.24,0:12:22.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the identification and the suffering in\Nthat or the self-righteousness in that.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:22.72,0:12:31.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the point here is there is an awareness of\Nthis war that is not at war.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:31.46,0:12:37.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is peace itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:37.22,0:12:42.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that is your soul.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:42.54,0:12:50.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is an opportunity at this moment in\Nyour lifetime to align yourself with your
Dialogue: 0,0:12:50.15,0:12:54.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,soul rather than these warring factions of your\Nmind.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:54.56,0:12:57.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not saying the war will immediately end.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:57.96,0:13:04.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm saying if you align yourself with your\Nsoul, the war won’t be empowered.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:04.32,0:13:07.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They'll run out of provisions.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:08.10,0:13:20.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There may be clashes but the war’s steam\Nwill have finished because your central attention
Dialogue: 0,0:13:20.37,0:13:27.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has shifted to its source, which is awareness\Nitself, vast limitless awareness.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:27.79,0:13:35.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Peace, stillness has shifted to who you are,\Nnot who you thought you were.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:35.56,0:13:42.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who you thought or think you are is only a\Nthought in your mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:42.76,0:13:45.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It comes and it goes.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:45.34,0:13:51.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It changes, it mutates, it likes, it says\Nthat you are a good one day and bad the next day.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:52.44,0:14:02.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The awareness doesn’t change, doesn’t\Nmove, radiates the presence of love, regardless
Dialogue: 0,0:14:02.63,0:14:20.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the thought ” I am bad or I am good' irrelevant in the\Nface of this awareness.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:20.98,0:14:26.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And somehow you know it.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:26.76,0:14:30.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, I understand the suffering.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:30.12,0:14:36.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I don’t want to trivialize the suffering\Nor dismiss the suffering as nonexistent.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:36.01,0:14:48.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, it is but I don’t want to dismiss\Nit as that. (laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:14:48.58,0:14:53.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, I want to wait until you do that.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:53.11,0:14:56.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then we will laugh together.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:56.72,0:15:03.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because there's a weight there and an identification\Nthere and am not asking that you now layer
Dialogue: 0,0:15:03.03,0:15:08.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on top of that identification another identification\Ncalled “ I am awareness”.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:08.44,0:15:13.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Cause then they are just stacked, you know, and\Nyou can walk around saying “I am awareness”,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:13.70,0:15:22.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and smiling and laughing and then four o’clock\Nin the morning “oh yeah” comes up (laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:15:22.56,0:15:25.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it's just another belief.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:25.29,0:15:33.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But if it’s not a belief but in fact a direct\Nexperience then what ever arises in whatever
Dialogue: 0,0:15:33.17,0:15:41.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,time of day or night, you can investigate\Nthe truth, “Has awareness been diminished by this?
Dialogue: 0,0:15:42.25,0:15:50.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is the separation between me and awareness?
Dialogue: 0,0:15:50.06,0:15:54.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you find one, a separation between you\Nand awareness.?
Dialogue: 0,0:15:54.85,0:15:56.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I do now
Dialogue: 0,0:15:56.45,0:16:03.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the moment because you identify yourself\Nas a body separate form awareness but awareness
Dialogue: 0,0:16:03.19,0:16:07.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is here always and this body comes and goes.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:07.48,0:16:12.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even in a day, I’m not even speaking about\Ndeep sleep now, but in a day aren’t there moments
Dialogue: 0,0:16:12.78,0:16:14.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you are not aware if your body?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:14.65,0:16:22.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, you're aware of other things, yes, or you're aware of spacing out, yes, aware of daydreaming,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:22.36,0:16:29.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,aware of working intently focused, aware of dancing, aware of liking something, aware of not liking
Dialogue: 0,0:16:29.46,0:16:35.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, then aware of the body, aware of the heartbeat,\Naware of the breath- back and forth- the constant
Dialogue: 0,0:16:35.78,0:16:38.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in that is awareness.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:38.52,0:16:46.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, yes, this is it. You've caught it.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:46.38,0:16:54.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you recognize this, then you can explore\Nawareness with awareness, and then you see,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:55.56,0:16:59.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“does it have a boundary? Is it a thing?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:59.88,0:17:02.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is it limited?”
Dialogue: 0,0:17:02.21,0:17:10.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then you recognize “we’ what we call ourselves\Nare all in awareness.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:10.58,0:17:18.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is awareness here, aware of awareness\Nhere and differences in the form “here and here”
Dialogue: 0,0:17:18.99,0:17:27.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the same radiant, simply, absolute\Nawareness.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:28.88,0:17:33.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, I see you catch it.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:36.26,0:17:44.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Its beautiful, your willingness to tell the\Ntruth, your willingness to be exposed, to
Dialogue: 0,0:17:44.41,0:17:51.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,investigate, to be free.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:58.50,0:18:10.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, and amazingly awareness, even though it doesn’t\Nhave attributes of beauty, is beauty.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:11.14,0:18:18.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even though it's untouched by good or bad,\Nit is radiantly good.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:18.42,0:18:22.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is God itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:22.30,0:18:28.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because in truth, God has never left the soul.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:35.98,0:18:42.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm very happy to see you see your Self.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:42.23,0:18:45.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There may be moments…
Dialogue: 0,0:18:45.70,0:18:52.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Expect moments to come where self-doubt or\Nagitation will once more say, “No you're mine.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:52.72,0:18:54.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This life is mine.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:54.51,0:18:59.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's all right, you just stop and tell the\Ntruth.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:59.33,0:19:03.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Has awareness left?
Dialogue: 0,0:19:03.48,0:19:05.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Has awareness changed?
Dialogue: 0,0:19:05.98,0:19:07.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is awareness at peace?
Dialogue: 0,0:19:07.43,0:19:12.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not forcing your mind to be at peace\Nor forcing your body to stop suffering.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:12.90,0:19:14.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is just telling the truth.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:14.88,0:19:17.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then the mind naturally unwinds.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:18.10,0:19:24.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The body naturally comes to a place of equilibrium\Nor not.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:24.30,0:19:27.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn’t matter because the truth is being\Ntold.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:27.64,0:19:32.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the truth is primary.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:33.08,0:19:40.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(instrumental music playing)
Dialogue: 0,0:19:41.20,0:19:45.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So there is a certain point where you tell\Nthe truth.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:45.49,0:19:49.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this point is now, obviously.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:50.18,0:19:54.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that’s why we meet.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:54.37,0:19:58.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We meet in the spirit of truth.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:58.29,0:20:01.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We meet to surrender to truth.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:02.18,0:20:10.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The mysterious force that has already appeared\Nin your life and said,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:10.67,0:20:19.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Come here, come home, rest, be still”.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:19.06,0:20:22.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is what meditation is.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:22.54,0:20:25.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what practices are, what prayer is.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:25.97,0:20:28.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is what rituals are.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:28.03,0:20:37.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But Papaji’s invitation is, not really a\Nprayer, it is certainly not a ritual.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:37.30,0:20:39.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is not a meditation.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:39.32,0:20:41.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is not a practice.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:42.04,0:20:52.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the immediacy of right here, right now,\Nstopping, looking for anything.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:53.30,0:21:06.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Being still, not working on being still, or\Nworking to keep stillness (soft laugh).
Dialogue: 0,0:21:06.82,0:21:18.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Being still is being who you are, not cultivating\Nstillness or being bigger in your stillness.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:18.04,0:21:23.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Being who you are is being still.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:24.62,0:21:31.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Being who you think you are is your lack of\Nsurrender to being who you are.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:31.80,0:21:34.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Well, this is just who I am.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:34.41,0:21:38.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You just have to love me as I am”.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:38.19,0:21:43.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That’s who you think you are and it is not\Nlovable (laughter).
Dialogue: 0,0:21:43.17,0:21:45.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have to face it.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:45.66,0:21:48.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it never will be.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:48.15,0:21:51.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It may be cute or not cute but it is not lovable.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:51.33,0:21:53.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who you are is lovable.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:53.26,0:21:55.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Cause who you are is love.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:55.84,0:21:59.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Plain and simple, That's the truth.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:59.37,0:22:10.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All the rest is some resistance to that or\Ndenial of that or searching for that. It's all the same.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:10.86,0:22:19.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(instrumental music)
Dialogue: 0,0:22:21.02,0:22:33.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And where I’m at now is, there's been kind\Nof awareness of the story.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:33.35,0:22:39.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then going back into the story and the\Nawareness of the story and then going back
Dialogue: 0,0:22:39.82,0:22:40.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into the story.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:40.83,0:22:43.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Does the awareness go back into the story?
Dialogue: 0,0:22:43.77,0:22:44.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No
Dialogue: 0,0:22:44.77,0:22:48.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What goes in and out of the story?
Dialogue: 0,0:22:48.06,0:22:52.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Cause it's so great you can say “no”\Nimmediately.You know it is not the awareness.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:52.18,0:22:55.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are aware of something. Yes.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:55.26,0:22:57.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Going in the story and going out of the\Nstory.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:57.26,0:22:59.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is excellent, excellent.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:59.61,0:23:03.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is it that goes in and out?
Dialogue: 0,0:23:03.26,0:23:08.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The awareness becomes aware of itself and\NI’m aware of the awareness
Dialogue: 0,0:23:08.25,0:23:10.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As awareness
Dialogue: 0,0:23:10.25,0:23:14.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then I’m me again.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:14.06,0:23:18.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And where is awareness in that moment of “meness”?
Dialogue: 0,0:23:18.82,0:23:20.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Forgetting itself?
Dialogue: 0,0:23:20.46,0:23:24.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What’s aware of forgetting?
Dialogue: 0,0:23:26.10,0:23:27.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh yes.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:28.04,0:23:35.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes. You see what happens, is because the mind,\Nas we have been speaking here in the last
Dialogue: 0,0:23:35.27,0:23:41.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,few days, is so brilliant, so awesome, awareness\Nitself becomes an object.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:42.10,0:23:52.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I was speaking no form but you can then kind of have\Nthis amorphous “oh awareness”
Dialogue: 0,0:23:52.38,0:23:56.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so of course that's subject to appearance and disappearance.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:56.52,0:24:05.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the awareness of that awareness that comes\Nand goes does not disappear.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:05.44,0:24:13.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Me” appears in it, the sense of “meness”,\Nthe physical, emotional, mental sense of individual
Dialogue: 0,0:24:13.27,0:24:20.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nervous system taking in individual processing\Nof information.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:20.38,0:24:28.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That appears and disappears as does that notion\Nof awareness appear and disappear.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:28.34,0:24:36.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there is pure awareness that cannot be\Nnotioned.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:38.86,0:24:44.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you say forgetting, you are forgetting\Nsome 'thing'.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:45.14,0:24:52.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know there's a problem with this phrase\Nabout self-remembering, as there's a problem
Dialogue: 0,0:24:52.68,0:24:58.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with any phrase that is spoken and then gets\Ntaken out of context and gets worshipped and then
Dialogue: 0,0:24:58.17,0:25:00.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people have to "self-remember”.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:00.54,0:25:02.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you cannot remember your Self.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:02.84,0:25:11.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is impossible, because you're not a thing\Nthat is an object that can be stored in a memory bank.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:11.88,0:25:21.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can remember a notion of your self or\Nan experience of your self or an idea of your self.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:21.14,0:25:22.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just like you remember your name.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:23.20,0:25:27.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every morning when you wake up, you have to\Nremember your name again.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:27.06,0:25:30.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s quick because you’ve practiced it.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:30.30,0:25:37.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there is an instant where you have no name\Nand you remember it.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:37.29,0:25:40.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so we assume we can do that with the\Ntruth of who we are.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:40.79,0:25:42.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You cannot.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:43.14,0:25:50.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you recognize and are willing to recognize that you cannot remember your self, the truth of your self,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:51.40,0:25:56.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then immediately you will see that you also can’t\Nforget it.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:56.95,0:26:06.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s not subject to being remembered or\Nforgotten, because it is not an object.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:06.10,0:26:11.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Did everybody here that?
Dialogue: 0,0:26:11.64,0:26:17.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who you are is not subject to being remembered\Nor forgotten.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:17.37,0:26:22.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So give up remembering your self.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:22.12,0:26:25.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is worse than a useless activity.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:25.49,0:26:31.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the carrot again. It's an image of yourself.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:31.76,0:26:37.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like awareness, or bliss or emptiness.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:37.72,0:26:45.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But now this bliss, and awareness and emptiness\Nhas a boundary had a birth, subject to change
Dialogue: 0,0:26:45.42,0:26:47.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a death.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:47.31,0:26:48.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Forget it.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:48.99,0:26:50.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Save yourself some trouble.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:50.78,0:26:59.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Forget it, then you can see what is out of\Nthe bounds of memory, what cannot be forgotten,
Dialogue: 0,0:26:59.52,0:27:03.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cannot be remembered, cannot be denied.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:04.06,0:27:11.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cannot be found and cannot be escaped.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:11.38,0:27:16.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This idea “I will find it or I will remember\Nit or I will keep it”
Dialogue: 0,0:27:16.70,0:27:26.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is an idea of you as a thing, walking\Naround like a little stick figure, going after "It".
Dialogue: 0,0:27:26.42,0:27:27.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is all in your mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:27.94,0:27:29.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Forget it.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:29.29,0:27:30.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Forget it.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:30.63,0:27:34.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is what Papaji means when he says, “Give\Nup the search."
Dialogue: 0,0:27:34.51,0:27:39.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we think, "Oh, he couldn't really mean 'give up the search'.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:39.88,0:27:44.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He means that metaphorically or poetically,\Nnot really give up the search “.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:44.00,0:27:45.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, give it up.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:45.57,0:27:48.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Give up the search.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:48.00,0:27:52.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You give up the search, you give up the seeker.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:52.84,0:28:03.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You give up this little stick figure in your\Nmind or this fleshy wonderful, godlike creature.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:03.38,0:28:06.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And see what is here.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:06.46,0:28:09.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s the same as dying.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:09.26,0:28:15.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only it's dying consciously before the body\Ndies.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:15.94,0:28:26.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(instrumental music)
Dialogue: 0,0:28:26.30,0:28:37.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A word that I hear often, when I suggest or\Ndemand that someone stop or be still or tell
Dialogue: 0,0:28:37.35,0:28:43.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the truth is “trying”, “I’m trying\Nto. I’m trying to”.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:43.93,0:28:44.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you know this word?
Dialogue: 0,0:28:44.94,0:28:46.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you use this word sometimes?
Dialogue: 0,0:28:46.68,0:28:55.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“I’m trying to." And this is a big trap.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:55.32,0:29:04.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In using this word “trying”, what it usually\Nmeans is “I’m trying to do that”.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:05.20,0:29:10.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so the trying is the effort around doing.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:10.42,0:29:18.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But really telling the truth or being still\Nor stopping is much simpler than doing anything.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:19.08,0:29:29.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so once there's a trying involved there's tension, different from focus is tension.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:29.72,0:29:38.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because you can’t quite find how to do it\Nand many people ask me, “But how, but how?"
Dialogue: 0,0:29:38.54,0:29:45.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That’s really looking for some model, or some\Npicture, or some image and it is much simpler,
Dialogue: 0,0:29:45.82,0:29:48.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's much closer to home.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:49.14,0:29:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You may ask “how to be”
Dialogue: 0,0:29:55.28,0:29:58.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you already are.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:58.61,0:30:10.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So if you'll stop trying to be, there's an expanse\Nthat opens up of beingness, or rather there
Dialogue: 0,0:30:10.29,0:30:13.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is an expanse of recognition of beingness.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:13.67,0:30:19.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the trying is covering because of the\Ntension and contraction of energy.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:19.39,0:30:22.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“I want it." I have to get it. "How do I do it?””
Dialogue: 0,0:30:23.07,0:30:26.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’m trying to do it." Just stop. “Okay, how do I stop?'
Dialogue: 0,0:30:26.84,0:30:35.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you can see the dilemma in speaking about\Nthis because language itself is already one
Dialogue: 0,0:30:35.69,0:30:42.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,step out from what is closest in.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:42.78,0:30:50.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The simple fact of being, it takes no trying.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:50.72,0:30:58.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I really want you to understand that I\Nam not talking about changing your behavior.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:58.64,0:31:05.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a natural appropriateness of behavior\Nthat there is nothing wrong with.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:05.68,0:31:09.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The way you speak to your parents, the way\Nyou speak to your children, the way you speak
Dialogue: 0,0:31:09.91,0:31:12.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to your friends, the way you speak to the\Ndesk clerk, the way you drive your car.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:12.95,0:31:16.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is just appropriate behavior that gets learned.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:16.87,0:31:26.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But deeper inside, there is often a tension in trying to be something that that behavior says you are.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:27.66,0:31:39.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Trying to be a good person, trying to be brilliant and the fear is if I don’t’ try to be I will be the reverse of that.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:39.44,0:31:48.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will be a bad person. I will be a stupid person, trying to \Nbe of worth or I'll be a worthless person,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:48.72,0:31:54.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trying to be enlightened or I will live in hell and ignorance.
Dialogue: 0,0:31:54.51,0:32:02.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, of course, what has to be faced sooner\Nor later and the suggestion of this message
Dialogue: 0,0:32:02.58,0:32:12.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from Ramana and from Papaji is that sooner is right\Nnow, is that which is being avoided.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:12.50,0:32:16.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ramana gives us the example with facing death.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:16.81,0:32:20.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s all about facing death, all of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:20.83,0:32:26.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But our mind fragments death into lots of\Nlittle mini deaths like being worthless or being
Dialogue: 0,0:32:26.96,0:32:34.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no good or being condemned to ignorance or\Nhell.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:38.92,0:32:48.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So in this moment, if you aren't trying to be any thing or any body or any where or any way
Dialogue: 0,0:32:49.92,0:32:58.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who are you? What are you? What is here?
Dialogue: 0,0:33:00.40,0:33:06.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you aren't trying to be some place, where\Nare you?
Dialogue: 0,0:33:09.02,0:33:15.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you aren't trying to be, are you?
Dialogue: 0,0:33:20.26,0:33:33.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's possible you can at least glimpse the\Nextraneous energy and unnecessary suffering
Dialogue: 0,0:33:33.03,0:33:42.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is the attention of your lifespan which\Nmay be over today or tomorrow or in a year
Dialogue: 0,0:33:42.14,0:33:52.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or ten years, who knows? But the attention of your lifespan is spent unnecessarily, extraneously.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:58.60,0:34:09.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the question, “Where is your attention?”\Nis the same as “What are you trying to be?”
Dialogue: 0,0:34:09.45,0:34:10.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Who are you trying to be?”
Dialogue: 0,0:34:10.94,0:34:15.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"What are you trying to escape?”
Dialogue: 0,0:34:18.16,0:34:25.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which is the same as, "Who are you, really?"
Dialogue: 0,0:34:25.76,0:34:33.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(instrumental music)
Dialogue: 0,0:34:33.50,0:34:36.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How do I stop the obsession?
Dialogue: 0,0:34:36.43,0:34:44.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, this is beautiful, this is the question "How do I stop the obsession? Yes, this is a true question.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:49.92,0:35:00.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The real question behind that, the question,\N“How do I obsess?’ can be seen.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:00.08,0:35:11.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The how to stop the obsessing cannot be seen\Nbecause stopping…Do you get this?
Dialogue: 0,0:35:11.20,0:35:17.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what can be seen is how the refusal to\Nstop and its justifications and it’s tangents
Dialogue: 0,0:35:17.77,0:35:25.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it’s sophistication, and it’s cynicism,\Nhow it plays itself based on desires and hopes
Dialogue: 0,0:35:25.95,0:35:41.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and fears but what is already stopped within you?
Dialogue: 0,0:35:45.02,0:35:49.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything, it's...I don’t know. I don't know.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:50.20,0:36:00.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when you make that statement, “I don’t\Nknow," there's awareness of that statement.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:01.26,0:36:05.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is that awareness moving in any direction?
Dialogue: 0,0:36:05.28,0:36:07.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No.That’s right.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:10.44,0:36:17.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the secret really is that\Nwhen you stop, you stop identifying with the
Dialogue: 0,0:36:17.76,0:36:21.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,movement and you identify with awareness.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:21.91,0:36:25.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not speaking of observer and observed.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:25.98,0:36:32.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’m speaking of the awareness of the observer\Nand the observed, in which both the observer
Dialogue: 0,0:36:32.56,0:36:37.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the observed appear.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:38.16,0:36:43.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So already you are stopped.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:43.99,0:36:49.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so when I say “stop” you are already\Nstopped.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:49.47,0:36:54.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are already awareness.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:54.48,0:37:01.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Attention is gathered, stop to what already\Nis at peace,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:03.22,0:37:07.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where fulfillment is already.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:10.64,0:37:22.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, you see that. This is the beauty, how\Nsimply and really easily it can be seen.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:22.92,0:37:33.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With that beauty there is a tragedy, how easily\Nit is turned from, how easily it is trivialized,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:33.41,0:37:50.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,given up, dismissed, denied, ignored but the\Nease is not diminished by the turning.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:50.27,0:38:00.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So still within you, however many times your\Nmind has turned from this, simple and radiant truth,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:00.45,0:38:23.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is the welcome, there is the\Ninvitation, home, right now.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:33.00,0:38:34.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you
Dialogue: 0,0:38:34.92,0:38:37.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are very welcome.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:37.49,0:38:43.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are very welcome.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:45.54,0:38:59.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is an essential experience that is available\Nto anyone who is even curious enough to investigate.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:00.12,0:39:07.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From this essential experience, there is choice.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:07.46,0:39:18.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There may appear to be lack of choice but\Nyou have an experience now of what is already at peace,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:18.86,0:39:30.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,already stopped, already free, already who you are.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:32.46,0:39:53.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the gift my teacher sends to you,\Nfrom me, via me. This is Papaji’s gift.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:07.54,0:40:11.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Did you have anything else you wanted to say?
Dialogue: 0,0:40:11.34,0:40:17.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No, I’m just enjoying this. (laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:40:18.64,0:40:23.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the opening, that's the beginning.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:26.08,0:40:38.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There may come, expect, many, many challenges,\Nbut always there is this very simple truth:
Dialogue: 0,0:40:38.24,0:40:50.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what is free, what is conscience, what is at peace is the awareness that is present every moment.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:52.10,0:40:56.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's who you are.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:56.46,0:41:02.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who you think you are gets its power from\Nthat awareness.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:02.90,0:41:08.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Awareness has no problem with any thought.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:08.42,0:41:11.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only thoughts battle each other.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:14.58,0:41:25.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's why you can have a horrible history as a thought form acting it’s way out in the collective mind
Dialogue: 0,0:41:26.36,0:41:35.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you can still return home, as a prodigal son.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:35.64,0:41:40.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(instrumental music)
Dialogue: 0,0:41:40.78,0:41:48.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The question is, is there ever a time when\Nawareness is no longer overshadowed by emotion?
Dialogue: 0,0:41:48.18,0:41:54.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Actually all the time, all the time.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:54.94,0:42:06.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What happens is the mind, the individual awareness, the ray of universal awareness gets fixated in a loop of
Dialogue: 0,0:42:06.12,0:42:17.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,emotional drama. But if at any moment in that loop, \Nat any point that loop, the individual mind stops and
Dialogue: 0,0:42:17.71,0:42:26.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,examines that moment, investigates that moment,\Nall the way, whatever the emotion, instantly
Dialogue: 0,0:42:26.08,0:42:29.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is full clarity in awareness.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:29.08,0:42:37.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So then every emotion is a vehicle, every\Nmoment of every emotion is a vehicle.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:37.26,0:42:44.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Awareness is not overshadowed by anything\Never, ever.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:45.14,0:42:51.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, we use this word “awareness”\Nbut often what we're talking about is an
Dialogue: 0,0:42:51.96,0:42:59.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,individual state of awareness that gets called mindfulness, or equanimity, or oceanic or Samadhi,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:59.53,0:43:04.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or clarity. Those are states of awareness.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:06.14,0:43:12.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then we also have what we call the negative states,\Nwhich you know, “lack of equanimity, confusion,
Dialogue: 0,0:43:12.89,0:43:17.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anger, negativity, fear.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:17.62,0:43:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those are also states of awareness.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:21.00,0:43:26.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you cannot have any of those states without\Nawareness.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:26.63,0:43:28.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is not illogical.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:28.29,0:43:33.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is very logical.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:33.29,0:43:36.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can have awareness without any state.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:37.24,0:43:42.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You don’t need any state for awareness as\Nsome people in here have discovered.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:42.20,0:43:47.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There can be a moment, an instant of nothing happening.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:47.54,0:43:53.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just awareness as you just spoke of, no trees,\Nno me, just awareness.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:53.60,0:43:57.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then trees reappear. Does awareness disappear?
Dialogue: 0,0:43:57.28,0:44:02.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well how would you know there are trees, if awareness disappeared?
Dialogue: 0,0:44:03.02,0:44:08.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How did you know there were no trees if awareness\Ndisappeared when there were no trees?
Dialogue: 0,0:44:08.50,0:44:16.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what happens in certain spiritual conditioning\Nis we start to elevate certain states that are elevated.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:16.58,0:44:19.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don’t start to elevate them.They are elevated states
Dialogue: 0,0:44:20.04,0:44:25.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we start to assign\Nthe elevated state as the truth of awareness,
Dialogue: 0,0:44:25.58,0:44:30.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rather than recognizing awareness is\Npresent in any state.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:30.49,0:44:33.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Awareness is omnipresent.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:33.36,0:44:37.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Awareness is God.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:38.22,0:44:44.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is always here, omnipresent, omniscient,\Nknows everything, is aware of everything.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:44.43,0:44:49.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That doesn’t mean some like powerful thing\Nknowing what you're thinking, you're thinking
Dialogue: 0,0:44:49.11,0:44:51.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,knowing that you blinked, you didn’t blink.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:51.10,0:44:59.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It means, in your mind, everything that occurs or doesn’t occur, occurs in the presence of awareness.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:00.18,0:45:07.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The shift, the break happens when you recognize,\Nas was spoken of
Dialogue: 0,0:45:07.62,0:45:15.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,here so beautifully this morning about the cars passing on the road but here you are.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:16.12,0:45:20.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Emotion as weather, so the winds came up this\Nmorning.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:20.54,0:45:25.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were whitecaps on the lake, and rain\Ncame but here you are.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:25.87,0:45:27.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You didn’t change.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:27.69,0:45:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Life didn’t change.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:30.00,0:45:39.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it’s dropping the individual awareness,\Ndeeper and deeper back into it’s source.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:39.60,0:45:46.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not so you have to stay in the source, because\Nyou can’t be separate from the source.
Dialogue: 0,0:45:46.10,0:45:52.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you stay in the source there's still some\Nlatent thought, 'If I don’t stay here
Dialogue: 0,0:45:52.76,0:46:03.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than I won’t be awareness." This is fluid, effortless being. Awareness is effortless.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:03.90,0:46:10.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Identification with particular states of awareness\Nis perhaps part of the organism, perhaps part
Dialogue: 0,0:46:10.58,0:46:20.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the evolution and is a source of suffering,\Nbecause then there is identification with a sufferer.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:20.56,0:46:28.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And a sufferer is an image or a sensation that\Nappears in suffering that is identified as me,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:29.10,0:46:35.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,associated with the body and the sensory\Nnerve endings of that body.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:35.42,0:46:45.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But deeper than that, there's awareness, aware of the suffering, aware of me, aware of identification and free.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:45.68,0:46:51.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is already present.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:51.32,0:46:54.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The mystery is how it got overlooked.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:54.59,0:46:56.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But let’s leave that as a mystery.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:56.87,0:47:00.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don’t have to solve that mystery.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:00.66,0:47:05.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just stop overlooking it.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:05.78,0:47:19.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(instrumental music)
Dialogue: 0,0:47:19.24,0:47:28.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have moments that I would say of stopping\Nand waking up and then I have moments where
Dialogue: 0,0:47:28.84,0:47:34.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would say I’m aware that I’m not awake.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:34.56,0:47:41.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So there’s kind of that being awake and\Nbeing aware that I’m not awake.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:41.88,0:47:45.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I don’t really know what the question\Nis, just looking at that.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:45.34,0:47:48.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So let me ask you a question.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:48.19,0:47:55.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when you say (this is so rich because everyone can relate to this, surely).
Dialogue: 0,0:47:55.88,0:48:05.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I want to know what you mean by “I am\Nawake or I am not awake.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:05.61,0:48:15.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What “I” is awake?
Dialogue: 0,0:48:15.60,0:48:29.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a moment of seeing like how I usually\Nsee myself then seeing it likes it’s
Dialogue: 0,0:48:29.28,0:48:31.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a horse, you know like a horse that I have.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:31.74,0:48:37.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That that personality is just this horse that\NI have but it’s not me, you know
Dialogue: 0,0:48:37.11,0:48:43.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Excellent, beautiful and then in the other\Nmoment?
Dialogue: 0,0:48:43.33,0:48:52.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then I am the horse and it’s very real and\Nsometimes it's like “oh, I'm being the
Dialogue: 0,0:48:52.17,0:48:58.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,horse” and I remember that I’m not the\Nhorse but is seems really real right now.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:58.58,0:49:05.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what is exactly the same in both of those\Nexperiences?
Dialogue: 0,0:49:06.16,0:49:08.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We understand what’s different
Dialogue: 0,0:49:08.59,0:49:09.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah
Dialogue: 0,0:49:09.59,0:49:17.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One's light and one's dark or one is identified\Nand one is free of identification.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:18.12,0:49:22.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what’s the same?
Dialogue: 0,0:49:22.92,0:49:31.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What aspect of both of those experiences is\Nunchangeable?
Dialogue: 0,0:49:35.26,0:49:37.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don’t know.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:37.36,0:49:42.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know it is so close, it is so close that it goes overlooked.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:42.32,0:49:47.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you said, initially you said “and\Nthen I am aware.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:47.19,0:49:53.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am aware that I’m awake and then I am\Naware that I’m identified as a horse.”
Dialogue: 0,0:49:53.22,0:50:00.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are you aware that you are awareness?
Dialogue: 0,0:50:03.22,0:50:06.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I get the idea, you know
Dialogue: 0,0:50:06.95,0:50:13.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Impossible, you can't get the idea because\Nit doesn’t make sense but you can,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:13.96,0:50:17.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can catch the reverberation of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:17.65,0:50:24.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s like tuning, you know, (mmmm) and then\Nwe are on the same wavelength.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:24.25,0:50:29.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then what happens is you try to get it\Nas an idea and its flat.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:29.04,0:50:30.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You lose the tune.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:31.06,0:50:32.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right?
Dialogue: 0,0:50:32.38,0:50:33.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah
Dialogue: 0,0:50:33.44,0:50:43.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So in the experience of “I am aware, I am\Nawake and I am aware I am not awake”.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:43.53,0:50:50.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is unchanging is that “I am aware”.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:50.47,0:51:00.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The truth is I am awareness.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:00.88,0:51:12.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What happens is we identify with the experience\Nof awakeness and we hate the experience of ignorance.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:12.54,0:51:19.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that’s then this spiritual dharmic wheel\N'I’m awake, I’m asleep, I’m awake,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:19.83,0:51:24.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’m asleep, I’m awake, I’m asleep,'\Nwhich is the same wheel as the worldly wheel,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:24.88,0:51:30.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“I’m good, I’m bad, I’m rich, I’m\Npoor, I’m happy, I’m sad, I’m beautiful,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:30.00,0:51:32.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’m ugly, I’m stupid, I’m brilliant”\NFamiliar?
Dialogue: 0,0:51:32.57,0:51:36.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean I must of gotten your version in.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:36.30,0:51:41.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We all have all parts of it, many spokes on\Nthis wheel.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:41.97,0:51:46.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the spiritual one and that's what I’m\Nspeaking to many people is, 'I’m awake,
Dialogue: 0,0:51:46.20,0:51:49.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’m asleep, I’m awake, I’m asleep, I’m\Nawake, I'm asleep.
Dialogue: 0,0:51:49.87,0:51:53.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want be awake all the time; I don’t want\Nto be asleep anymore.'
Dialogue: 0,0:51:53.94,0:52:01.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All the time overlooking what is closer than\Nawake or asleep.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:01.97,0:52:06.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is free of both awake and asleep.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:06.46,0:52:12.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now I believe it to be so, I am not sure about\Nthis, but I believe it to be so,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:12.96,0:52:21.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that in order to discover what's closer than awake \Nor asleep, you have to first to have an experience of
Dialogue: 0,0:52:21.30,0:52:23.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“I am awake”.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:23.50,0:52:30.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because there's this tilt to our experience\Nof ignorance, sleep, sleep.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:30.10,0:52:36.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then 'poof,' there's an essential experience,\Nof awakeness, where you recognize,
Dialogue: 0,0:52:36.13,0:52:38.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am not this personality.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:38.09,0:52:40.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am not this set of this story.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:40.22,0:52:42.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am not this story.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:42.24,0:52:45.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a recognition there and it is a beautiful\Nrecognition.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:45.77,0:52:51.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it is filled with light and freedom and\Njoy and laughter.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:52.24,0:52:59.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's an essential experience because it's\Nthe counter point to the normal experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:59.54,0:53:03.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it is not the final experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:03.51,0:53:07.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s the opening of the final experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:07.05,0:53:10.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s what Papaji would call “half-baked”.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:11.24,0:53:15.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Half-baked but half-baked is half-baked. Right?
Dialogue: 0,0:53:15.15,0:53:28.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Half baked, good, so back in the oven is\Nto discover, 'Okay if I’m aware when I’m
Dialogue: 0,0:53:28.02,0:53:37.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,awake and I’m aware when I’m asleep, who\Nor what is it that is aware?
Dialogue: 0,0:53:37.98,0:53:45.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when you say, “I am aware,” Who is\Naware?
Dialogue: 0,0:53:49.04,0:53:54.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is it not awareness itself that is aware?
Dialogue: 0,0:53:54.59,0:53:59.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let’s see, like right now.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:59.63,0:54:05.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Isn’t there an awareness of this exchange,\Nan awareness of whatever maybe happening or
Dialogue: 0,0:54:05.06,0:54:08.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,awareness of no awareness of what's happening.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:08.61,0:54:18.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But awareness is here so close- closer than\Nany thought- closer than any heartbeat.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:18.12,0:54:24.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Closer than any awakening and closer than\Nany sleep, closer than any identification.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:24.79,0:54:33.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And present in every identification as well\Nas every awakening.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:38.26,0:54:43.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now when I feel into it, it doesn’t fit,\Nyou know words.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:43.05,0:54:45.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn’t fit a word, that’s right.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:45.71,0:54:47.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But a word fits into it.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:47.76,0:54:48.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every word is in it.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:48.86,0:54:54.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You see, do you catch it, what I'm talking\Nabout here.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:54.54,0:54:58.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is not just giving you another spiritual\Nsearch.
Dialogue: 0,0:54:58.04,0:55:01.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s not giving you a religion or a set\Nof beliefs.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:01.27,0:55:08.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is first of all acknowledging that you\Nhave had an essential experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:08.27,0:55:11.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you haven’t, you don’t know what I\Nam talking about.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:11.64,0:55:12.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you will have one.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:12.92,0:55:18.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You will get one because they are contagious.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:18.85,0:55:19.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it’s what you want.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:19.85,0:55:20.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you’ll have it.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:20.85,0:55:23.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are mind is turned in that direction.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:23.98,0:55:30.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would say that 90 to 99% of the people in here\Nhave had an essential experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:30.67,0:55:36.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even if you don’t remember the exact experience,\Nyou have an echo of that experience resonating
Dialogue: 0,0:55:36.75,0:55:38.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in your being.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:38.22,0:55:45.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even if that experience happened with some\Nsubstance, even if that experience happened
Dialogue: 0,0:55:45.68,0:55:51.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in your sleep, it’s there. That's great.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:51.34,0:55:59.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, what was unchanged even by that experience,\Nby that blessed, hoped for, prayed for
Dialogue: 0,0:55:59.61,0:56:06.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,searched for, worshipped for, worked\Nfor experienced, experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:06.06,0:56:10.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What is unchanged by that?
Dialogue: 0,0:56:11.90,0:56:19.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you find your Self, you find what is\Nunchanged by any experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:19.09,0:56:26.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Blessedly delivered from hell but unchanged\Nby that delivery.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:26.88,0:56:29.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You understand this?
Dialogue: 0,0:56:29.50,0:56:36.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because otherwise, you will fear hell and\Nyou will resist hell and you will hate hell
Dialogue: 0,0:56:36.94,0:56:46.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you will spend the rest of your attention\Nin this life story avoiding hell.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:46.50,0:56:51.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then that becomes the religion, the avoidance\Nof hell, the avoidance of pain, the avoidance of
Dialogue: 0,0:56:51.18,0:56:58.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,suffering and then the life once again, very superficial\Nonly now it is a spiritual superficial life.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:58.59,0:57:03.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don’t settle for that.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:03.54,0:57:09.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The essential experience is the counter balance\Nto the normal experience of plodding through
Dialogue: 0,0:57:09.90,0:57:20.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,life miserably, neurotically, there is an\Nessential experience that penetrates and cuts through.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:20.54,0:57:28.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How it came to you, I don’t know and I suggest,\Nyou don’t know.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:28.10,0:57:31.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is very skillful to not know how it came\Nto you.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:31.71,0:57:41.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By Grace, by luck, some mystery, there\Nis an opening and there is a direct knowing
Dialogue: 0,0:57:41.23,0:57:54.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of oneself as free- free of the personality\Nor free of the identification or freedom itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:57:55.26,0:58:04.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Instrumental music)
Dialogue: 0,0:58:05.04,0:58:17.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the profound teaching of Ramana when\Nhe says to Be Still, to be the stillness that you are.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:20.06,0:58:25.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this stillness is eternal.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:25.76,0:58:30.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it is the sublime nectar of being.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:30.06,0:58:32.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s not a magic potion.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:32.36,0:58:44.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It won’t keep bad experiences away but it\Nwill keep the truth shining regardless of experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:44.96,0:58:53.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It won’t keep your body from aging or keep\Nyour body in perfect health always but it
Dialogue: 0,0:58:53.31,0:59:05.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will keep the radiance and the innocence and\Nthe purity of your own nature obvious regardless
Dialogue: 0,0:59:05.86,0:59:10.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the state of the body or age.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:11.88,0:59:15.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It won’t bring you great riches.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:15.59,0:59:20.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It won’t help you win wars.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:20.26,0:59:30.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It won’t make you the queen of the world\Nor the king of the universe but it will reveal
Dialogue: 0,0:59:30.08,0:59:41.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the source of power, which is the resting\Nplace, which no war can disrupt,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:41.90,0:59:51.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which no individual power can touch.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:51.72,1:00:02.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(instrumental music)
Dialogue: 0,1:00:03.40,1:00:11.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So in this moment, as we are gathered here\Nwith our attention on this if just in this
Dialogue: 0,1:00:11.60,1:00:19.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,moment for just five seconds, thirty seconds\Nyou just put aside the whole story of who you
Dialogue: 0,1:00:19.99,1:00:28.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,think you are, the story of your unenlightenment,\Nthe story of your enlightenment, the story
Dialogue: 0,1:00:28.43,1:00:33.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of you don’t have it, the story that somebody else\Nhas it, the story that you had a horrible
Dialogue: 0,1:00:33.73,1:00:38.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,childhood, the story that you had a good childhood,\Nthe story that you’re beautiful, the story
Dialogue: 0,1:00:38.79,1:00:47.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you’re ugly, the story that your superior,\Nthe story that you’re inferior, the story
Dialogue: 0,1:00:47.12,1:00:55.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you’re brilliant, the story that you’re\Nstupid, just this moment just put it aside.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:55.40,1:00:59.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then where does you’re attention go?
Dialogue: 0,1:01:01.10,1:01:06.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If it doesn’t go anywhere, where does it go?
Dialogue: 0,1:01:07.14,1:01:13.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where does it rest?
Dialogue: 0,1:01:15.70,1:01:23.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is present always in everybody, in every\Nmoment.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:23.10,1:01:27.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That’s the glorious good news.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:27.10,1:01:42.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let your attention rest in itself, in awareness\Nand experience your Self.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:42.52,1:01:46.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not to get something, because that is another story.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:46.86,1:01:52.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not to keep it because that is a story, not\Nto wake up because that's a story.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:52.28,1:01:57.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Awareness is awake, it's awake.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:57.47,1:02:08.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How else would you know you’re asleep if\Nyou weren’t awake?
Dialogue: 0,1:02:08.29,1:02:26.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(instrumental music)