WEBVTT 00:00:00.258 --> 00:00:02.719 [Mooji] The first year we had satsang 00:00:02.719 --> 00:00:06.060 people were hanging over the side of the building. 00:00:06.060 --> 00:00:10.597 I said, No, let's hurry up and finish quickly, please. No accidents! 00:00:10.597 --> 00:00:12.776 [laughter] 00:00:14.726 --> 00:00:16.889 Let Go! (with subtitles) 00:00:16.889 --> 00:00:19.479 [laughter] 00:00:26.279 --> 00:00:29.879 Oh yes, maybe I will tell you that joke, Thomas's joke. 00:00:29.879 --> 00:00:31.767 It is a good one, isn't it? 00:00:31.767 --> 00:00:34.895 [Mooji] But everybody knows it, no? [Sangha] No. 00:00:34.895 --> 00:00:37.691 [Mooji] Ah, OK. 00:00:37.691 --> 00:00:41.579 Thomas tells this joke. He says ... 00:00:44.539 --> 00:00:50.731 Thomas tells this joke. He says, 00:00:50.731 --> 00:00:53.327 'Once a pilgrim was on his way ...' 00:00:53.327 --> 00:00:56.451 This is my version. I have to speak my version. 00:00:56.451 --> 00:01:00.301 I don't know. I make things up. [laughter] 00:01:00.301 --> 00:01:03.750 This pilgrim is on his journey to some place. 00:01:03.750 --> 00:01:11.055 He is walking through the mountain range in the night and he slips. 00:01:11.055 --> 00:01:15.559 He tumbles down the side of the hill, 'Putam-pum-pum-pum-poof!' 00:01:15.559 --> 00:01:21.643 In the last tumble, at the very edge of the cliff, he is hanging on. 00:01:21.643 --> 00:01:26.357 He is hanging on, dangling, just holding on to the root of a tree. 00:01:26.357 --> 00:01:29.247 And down below is a big drop! 00:01:29.247 --> 00:01:34.610 And he is hanging there all by himself. 00:01:34.613 --> 00:01:37.478 He is there for a while and he is shouting, 00:01:37.478 --> 00:01:43.329 'Help! Help! Is anybody there? Help!' 00:01:43.329 --> 00:01:47.935 Then minutes go past and his arm is hurting. 'Help!' 00:01:47.935 --> 00:01:51.712 He doesn't have enough strength to pull himself up. 00:01:51.712 --> 00:01:55.300 'Is anybody there?' 00:01:55.300 --> 00:01:59.358 Then finally a voice comes, 'Yes'. [with echo sound effect] 00:01:59.358 --> 00:02:06.506 'Ah', he says. 'Help! Who is there?' 00:02:06.506 --> 00:02:10.731 So, the voice says, 'God'. [with echo sound effect] 00:02:10.731 --> 00:02:13.328 [laughter] 00:02:13.328 --> 00:02:19.095 He is making special effects. 00:02:19.095 --> 00:02:22.369 [laughter] 00:02:29.499 --> 00:02:32.290 Nataraj! [laughter] 00:02:32.290 --> 00:02:35.150 The voice says, 'God'. 00:02:35.150 --> 00:02:38.144 He says, 'God? God?' He is still dangling. 00:02:38.144 --> 00:02:41.987 He says, 'God, help me! Thank you for coming. 00:02:41.987 --> 00:02:44.849 What should I do to come up?' 00:02:44.849 --> 00:02:48.477 So, the voice says, 'Let go'. [with echo sound effect] 00:02:48.477 --> 00:02:51.884 [laughter] 00:03:06.584 --> 00:03:11.473 So, so ... [laughter] 00:03:11.473 --> 00:03:22.865 So he says, 'Let go? No! Let go? If I let go, I am dead. 00:03:22.865 --> 00:03:30.401 I am dead! Please, Lord, God, help me. What should I do?' 00:03:30.401 --> 00:03:35.114 The voice says, [laughter] 00:03:35.114 --> 00:03:39.904 'Let ...' [laughter] 00:03:39.911 --> 00:03:44.059 The voice says, 'Let go'. [with echo sound effect] 00:03:44.059 --> 00:03:46.845 [laughter] 00:03:50.575 --> 00:03:58.792 He says, 'Let go? God! Help me! Please, please! 00:03:58.792 --> 00:04:03.174 What should I do? Help me.' 00:04:03.184 --> 00:04:07.453 'Let go.' [with echo sound effect] 00:04:07.453 --> 00:04:13.288 So, he is hanging. 00:04:13.288 --> 00:04:16.796 Minutes pass, again his hand is burning. 00:04:16.796 --> 00:04:21.452 His fingers are losing their power. 00:04:21.452 --> 00:04:26.275 He says, 'Hello?' [laughter] 00:04:26.275 --> 00:04:31.761 'Help! Hello? Hello-o? 00:04:31.771 --> 00:04:34.618 Is anybody there?' 00:04:34.618 --> 00:04:37.285 [laughter] 00:04:37.285 --> 00:04:40.110 No voice comes. 00:04:40.110 --> 00:04:44.862 'Hello! Help! Is anybody there?' 00:04:44.862 --> 00:04:50.089 The voice comes again, 'Yes'. [with echo sound effect] 00:04:50.089 --> 00:04:53.327 'Who is it?' 00:04:53.327 --> 00:04:55.437 'God.' [with echo sound effect] 00:04:55.437 --> 00:05:00.458 'Ah', he is hanging. He says, 'Is anybody else up there?' 00:05:00.458 --> 00:05:03.223 [laughter and applause] 00:05:15.553 --> 00:05:17.347 And I ... 00:05:17.347 --> 00:05:22.478 OK, enough of the echo. 00:05:22.478 --> 00:05:25.387 I like this story, because in some ways 00:05:25.387 --> 00:05:28.397 it has a deep truth about how we are. 00:05:28.397 --> 00:05:30.776 There is a very famous prayer. 00:05:30.776 --> 00:05:35.512 It says, 'Thy will be done'. It finishes like this, 'Thy will be done'. 00:05:35.512 --> 00:05:39.974 But secretly we are thinking, 'May my will be done'. 00:05:39.974 --> 00:05:42.266 [laughter] 00:05:42.266 --> 00:05:47.342 You see? So sometimes it is not the option that we want. 00:05:47.342 --> 00:05:49.664 Sometimes it is not what we want. 00:05:49.664 --> 00:05:56.266 If we were free of wanting ... If we are free of wanting, 00:05:56.266 --> 00:06:03.848 which gives rise to projection, desire, dissatisfaction, discontent ... 00:06:03.848 --> 00:06:08.609 If we are free of these, we are free. 00:06:08.609 --> 00:06:12.412 To be free of want, is to be free. 00:06:12.412 --> 00:06:14.878 'I have another desire. 00:06:14.878 --> 00:06:18.918 Life is not going according to my projections, 00:06:18.918 --> 00:06:26.702 therefore I suffer; therefore life is cruel, life is hard.' 00:06:26.702 --> 00:06:35.872 So we have not learned, even after thousands and thousands of years. 00:06:35.872 --> 00:06:39.462 We are developed and sophisticated. 00:06:39.462 --> 00:06:43.911 Our abilities to create and to invent know no bounds. 00:06:43.911 --> 00:06:49.987 But in the simplicity of being still, 00:06:49.987 --> 00:06:56.917 the old tendencies still lurk there. 00:06:56.917 --> 00:07:01.568 This was a funny story, but I think a very truthful one. 00:07:01.568 --> 00:07:09.460 'Is anybody else up there, apart from God?' 00:07:09.460 --> 00:07:12.213 OK. Does anybody have something to say?