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R: Good afternoon. It is good to be with you again this wonderful Sunday afternoon. There’s nothing else to do so you might as well come here, get out of the wind, come to a beautiful atmosphere, enjoy the trees, the view, the smog. It is good to be with you again. I welcome you with all my heart.
Always ask yourself “Why am I here?” It is always good to ask yourself this. I don’t mean why are you in the universe? Why are you here in this room, in this class, at satsang? What do you want? What are you looking for? Remember, if you’re looking for anything you’re here for the wrong reason, for there is nothing that I can give you, really, that you haven’t already got. There is absolutely nothing I can do for you. For I am not the doer. Neither are you. You are already fulfilled. Everything I have is yours. There is absolutely nothing lacking in you. You are spirit. You are not the body that appears to be a body. You are spirit, something absolutely different than what you can ever imagine.
How do you see yourself? What do you think you are when you think about yourself? Do you think you are a separate entity, striving, fighting for existence, trying to become enlightened? This is a great mistake. Everything that you can ever imagine that you want to be, you already are. You are the imperishable Self that has always been, that you always will be, beyond birth, beyond death, beyond experiences, beyond doubts, beyond opinions, beyond whatever it is your body is going through. Whatever thoughts your mind thinks, you are beyond that. You are the silence, the silence of the heart.
Know yourself. Whenever you think of yourself, think of yourself as the Self. Not the I-thought, not the personal self, but as the supreme energy, Sat-Chit-Ananda, nirvana.
You are that. If you really believed you are that you would be in total peace. There would be no thing in this world that can ever disturb you. You would have no doubts. You would have unalloyed happiness, total joy. It would make no difference what your body is going through, or what thoughts come into your mind, or what people are doing or are not doing, who is right, who is wrong, who is enlightened, who is not. You would never think things like this.
When you think you’re human you have duality to contend with, right and wrong, healthy or sick, rich or poor, happy or sad, and the rest of it. But when you have transcended this you see yourself in a completely different light. You see yourself as the light, the light that shineth in the darkness. The eternal glow that can never diminish.
Omnipresence, all pervading. You are that one. You have always been that one. You are not what you think you are when you’re sad, when you’re angry, when you’re upset. This is a lie. There is something within you that knows the truth. That is the truth. You are that.
Last Thursday I brought to your attention that I wish I could share the things with you that I feel, but they were ineffable. There are no words to describe these things. There is no language that can try to describe the realities, the pure awareness. No words. I received some phone calls from some of you, and they said “Robert, you can tell me how you feel, You can share it with me.” A few people asked me this. I tried to explain, if I was able to share it with words, I would.
But that’s not important. What’s important to you is how do you feel? Never mind what’s going on within me. If you understand who you are then you understand what is happening within me. Do not spend your time trying to determine what teachers are feeling or where they are coming from. Rather try to determine where you are coming from and who is it that thinks? Who is it that has a problem that they can’t resolve? Who is it that believes that they want to become enlightened? Find out. Understand the truth about yourself. Go deeper within yourself. Stop thinking about the world and your problems, or whatever is going on in your life. That will resolve itself when you begin to understand that you are pure intelligence. Your so called personal life will always resolve itself, will always take care of itself. The power is within you. There is nothing lacking.
Never compare yourself to anybody else. Look at yourself with your inner eye.
Think how many years you’ve been going through life believing you’re a body, a mind, an ego, the situations you’ve been through, the agonies, the ecstasies, the dualities.
You’re beginning to see now that all of those things belong to the I-thought, to the personal self, which is not really you. You are total freedom, having absolutely nothing to do with the personal self. You simply have to ask yourself “Who is this personal self? Where did it come from? How did it arise? How did it get a hold of me and make me believe I’m human? That makes me feel I was born, and I have to die? What is this personal self? Where did it come from?” And as you follow the personal self, the I-thought, you’ll begin to see it never existed. It was never born. It is absolute nothingness. And you’ll become radiantly happy, full of love, full of peace.
So some people still ask me “When you say you feel love, what do you mean?”
The love that I feel is totally unconditioned. This is the reason I can love you no matter what you do, no matter how you act, no matter where you come from, no matter what’s going on. I can love you because I love myself. And there is only one Self. So the Self that I love is you. It’s not separate. If I loved you as a separate entity I’d have a problem, for the separateness would show me different phases of your life. But I can’t do that. I can only love, for the Self is love. It is not a personal love. It is all pervading. So, as I am an embodiment of love, you are in that love also. There is only one love and that love is consciousness, and you are that.
People ask me when I see peace, what do I mean? I don’t have to see peace where it’s peaceful. I feel and see peace in every situation. Whatever there appears to be going on,
there is peace. Just as in the center of a hurricane there is a peaceful circle, total stillness at the center of a hurricane. The same is true in the center of a tornado, in the cyclone. There is a center of peace. We are all that center. The true peace is you. The turmoil, the chaos that appears to be in this world, is not the truth. It is not reality. It is something that comes and goes. This too shall pass. But your center is God, consciousness, absolute reality, Brahman. Those are all synonymous. That is the peace that exists.
The reasoning behind this is that everything that appears is an image, an image that appears on the reality of life. There’s reality, consciousness, and all of the vicissitudes of the world that go on all the time are superimposed on this consciousness, like a chalkboard. Images are drawn on the chalkboard. It never affects the chalkboard. They are erased. New images are drawn. The new images never affect the chalkboard. No thing affects the chalkboard. The chalkboard remains the same whether you decide to draw a fire, a hurricane, a murder, famine, death, or whatever you decide to draw. Wholeness, health, peace, birth, anything. They are all impostors. The chalkboard never changes.
Always think of yourself as the chalkboard. And all the things that go on in this world, try to feel them as images on the chalkboard, that change, change continuously.
This will help you. It will help you to understand that you are not the conditioning that goes on in your mind. You are not what your eyes show you in this world. You are not the feelings you feel. You are not the things that you hear, the things that you taste. Those are all the images. You are totally absolute freedom, total harmony and joy. This is your true nature. Abide in this truth and become free.
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Absätze ohne Sprecherpräfix gehören dem zuletzt genannten Sprecher — so steht es im Buch, wo der Präfix nur den Anfang einer Rede markiert. Die Zuordnung ist eine Folgerung dieser Ausgabe. Namen in Klammern sind aus dem Text erschlossen: sicher belegt sind SM = Mary, SF = Fred, SJ = Jay, SC = Nate, wahrscheinlich SG = Glen, SR = Jorge. Alle anderen Kürzel bleiben stehen, weil der Beleg nicht trägt.