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[Mooji] The first year we had satsang

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people were hanging over the side of the building.

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I said, No, let's hurry up[br]and finish quickly, please. No accidents!

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[laughter]

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Let Go![br](with subtitles)

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[laughter]

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Oh yes, maybe I will tell you that joke,[br]Thomas's joke.

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It is a good one, isn't it?

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[Mooji] But everybody knows it, no?[br][Sangha] No.

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[Mooji] Ah, OK.

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Thomas tells this joke. He says ...

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Thomas tells this joke. He says,

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'Once a pilgrim was on his way ...'

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This is my version. I have to speak my version.[br]

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I don't know. I make things up.[br][laughter]

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This pilgrim is on his journey to some place.

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He is walking through the mountain range [br]in the night and he slips.

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He tumbles down the side of the hill, [br]'Putam-pum-pum-pum-poof!'

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In the last tumble, at the very edge of the cliff,[br]he is hanging on.

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He is hanging on, dangling, [br]just holding on to the root of a tree.

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And down below is a big drop!

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And he is hanging there all by himself.

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He is there for a while and he is shouting,

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'Help! Help! Is anybody there? Help!'

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Then minutes go past and his arm is hurting.[br]'Help!'

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He doesn't have enough strength [br]to pull himself up.

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'Is anybody there?'

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Then finally a voice comes, 'Yes'. [br][with echo sound effect]

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'Ah', he says. 'Help! Who is there?'

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So, the voice says, 'God'. [br][with echo sound effect]

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[laughter]

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He is making special effects.[br]

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[laughter]

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Nataraj! [laughter]

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The voice says, 'God'.

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He says, 'God? God?' He is still dangling.

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He says, 'God, help me! Thank you for coming.

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What should I do to come up?'

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So, the voice says, 'Let go'. [br][with echo sound effect]

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[laughter]

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So, so ... [laughter]

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So he says, 'Let go? No! Let go?[br]If I let go, I am dead.

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I am dead! Please, Lord, God, help me.[br]What should I do?'

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The voice says,[br][laughter]

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'Let ...' [laughter]

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The voice says, 'Let go'. [br][with echo sound effect]

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[laughter]

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He says, 'Let go? God! Help me! Please, please!

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What should I do? Help me.'

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'Let go.' [with echo sound effect]

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So, he is hanging.

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Minutes pass, again his hand is burning.

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His fingers are losing their power.

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He says, 'Hello?' [laughter]

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'Help! Hello? Hello-o?

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Is anybody there?'

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[laughter]

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No voice comes.

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'Hello! Help! Is anybody there?'

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The voice comes again, 'Yes'. [br][with echo sound effect]

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'Who is it?'

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'God.' [with echo sound effect]

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'Ah', he is hanging. [br]He says, 'Is anybody else up there?'

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[laughter and applause]

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And I ...

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OK, enough of the echo.

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I like this story, because in some ways

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it has a deep truth about how we are.

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There is a very famous prayer.

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It says, 'Thy will be done'.[br]It finishes like this, 'Thy will be done'.

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But secretly we are thinking,[br]'May my will be done'.

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[laughter]

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You see?[br]So sometimes it is not the option that we want.

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Sometimes it is not what we want.

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If we were free of wanting ...[br]If we are free of wanting,

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which gives rise to projection, desire,[br]dissatisfaction, discontent ...

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If we are free of these, we are free.

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To be free of want, is to be free.

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'I have another desire.

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Life is not going according to my projections,

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therefore I suffer;[br]therefore life is cruel, life is hard.'

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So we have not learned,[br]even after thousands and thousands of years.

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We are developed and sophisticated.

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Our abilities to create and to invent [br]know no bounds.

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But in the simplicity of being still,

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the old tendencies still lurk there.

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This was a funny story,[br]but I think a very truthful one.

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'Is anybody else up there, apart from God?'

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OK. Does anybody have something to say?