– Transcript 142
R: Good evening. (Students: Good evening Robert.) It is good being with you once again. I welcome you with all my heart. I love you all unconditionally. For I can do nothing else but to love you.
Love is another word for the Self. The Self is all pervading. The Self is consciousness. The Self is absolute reality. Therefore when I say I love you, the I which is consciousness, absolute reality, the love which is also consciousness, which is absolute reality come together into oneness. There is only one. One love, one consciousness, one I.
What I’m really saying is, “I love the Self. I am That!” We’re not talking about Robert. Robert seems to be a bag of skin with bones and organs and blood circulating. Which is here to day and gone tomorrow. But the Self is omnipresence, omniscience, omnipotence and I-am is That!
When you look at me what do you see? You see an elderly gentleman - I don’t know if I’m a gentleman? - You see an elderly fart sitting here, (laughter) talking to you, telling you nonsense. But I can assure that I am not that. I am not what most of you see, “I-am-that-I-am!” Again when I speak the words I-am, I am not speaking of Robert. I tell you truthfully there is no Robert. Most of you see a Robert but I tell you in truth there is no Robert. Robert never existed. There is no Robert that was born, that prevails and then disappears. There is only the one consciousness. Only the one absolute reality and I-am is That!
It is like newspaper and the print on the newspaper. When most of you read a newspaper you do not see the paper you see the print. Without the paper in the background there can be no print. But most of us have forgotten about the paper and we only see the print. We’re involved with the print. Whereas when I look at the newspaper I see the substratum. The paper itself and the print is meaningless.
And so it is with consciousness. Just as the print is superimposed on the paper and we become involved in the print, so it is with the human body. The human body would not appear by itself if there was no consciousness. Consciousness is the substratum. The human body appears to be superimposed on consciousness.
Most human beings are involved in the human world, in the relative world, the material world. We forget about the paper or the substratum which is eternal bliss. Absolute reality. Effortless pure awareness. And as we grow older we become deeply involved in the world, deeper and deeper and that is all we know. We see the world as it is. But again the world in itself does not exist. The universe does not exist by itself. It is Brahman, consciousness that exists as the world.
Therefore if someone asks you, “Is the world real?” you answer, “The world by itself is unreal.” For by itself it has no foundation. But the world as Brahman is real. Just as if someone asks you when you look at a newspaper, “Is the print real?” The print by itself is unreal for it would have no substance. It needs the newspaper as a background to put the print on. The same is true of consciousness in the world.
As you begin to understand this you begin to identify less and less to persons, places and things. And the deeper you go within as you identify with the substratum of all existence or consciousness you seem to become happier and happier. You become more peaceful.
There are many people who will say, “Advaita Vedanta is useless and fruitless.
For it makes you want to leave everything and go to a monastery or go to a cave. And not be involved in this world at all because you begin to understand that the world is not real, it doesn’t exist by itself.”
This is true and also not true. There are certain beings, certain people when they attain illumination, awakening, it is true they want to be alone. They want to be by themselves. After all they have realized they are the Self of the universe. They have realized that they are Brahman. So there really is no aloneness for them. They have realized that they are the consciousness of the entire universe. And the whole universe is superimposed on them. So wherever they go, whatever they do they are infinite reality. Yet there are many others who continue with their work, with their families, with whatever they were doing before. The only difference is they have attained total bliss and total joy, they have attained illumination. And the world no longer frightens them, causes them any pain and they do not have experiences like most people do.
Yet it’s very paradoxical for when you look at such people they appear to be people like yourself. This is a paradox. While they’re in the body they eat, they sleep, they do all the things that you do. The one difference is that they realize that they are not the doer, they are totally happy, filled with bliss and peace and joy.
This answers the question that most people ask, “What good is attaining illumination? It appears that I’ll lose everything that I have and want to run away some place and live by myself.” Again this is true for some people and not true for others. But the thing that I want you to understand is that you become total joy. Why should you work toward awakening? For when you do you will no longer be the one you think you are. You will no longer be a man or a woman, a human being, a world or a God or anything. You will just no longer be.
Yet the paradox is when people look at you, you will appear to them as you were before. They will see nothing different. Yet to the one who has realized knows for sure, for certain, that he or she is not a body or a mind.
This is the reason again I said in the beginning, “I love you unconditionally,” because the surface of you does not phase me. But I see you as the Self. There is no difference between you and me. The only difference there appears to be for some reason is that I realize that I am not the print. I am the newspaper. The paper without the news. Whereas you think you are the news and the print. That is why you talk so much. You’re spreading news, for you think you are the news.
When one starts to go into the self deeper and deeper within and finally reaches an awakening, that one becomes the whole universe. This is what awakening is. Awakening is not selfish. There are some people who believe you awaken to a greater and bigger personality. Some people actually believe that you awaken to gigantic ego. Where you’re able to do all kinds of miracles and perform all kinds of feats. Again let me remind you that there has to be someone left to do those things. When you awaken, the personal self has been destroyed. There is no one to have siddhis, no one to perform miracles, no one to be clairvoyant, no one to tell fortunes. All that has been completely annihilated and only the substratum remains.
And again when you say, “Well this Jnani looks just like I do. He eats, he sleeps, does everything that I do. Why is he or she different?” It is like a dream. You are living in a dreamworld and the awakened one is not. Everything you say, everything you do, everything you see, everything you feel is from your point of view. You can only see truth to the level that you have risen yourself. What you are is what you see. As long as you’re still feeling conditions. Your feelings become hurt. You’re able to look at people and judge them. You feel the world pressing in on you. You see others as reality. You have not arrived yet, you’re not cooked. When you’re totally cooked everything becomes like a movie. You realize that your body that appears to be a body is also a part of the movie. But you are aware that you have no body. You never had a body. Even when you were not illumined you were not the body. Only you’re able to see that now. And you become all pervading, omnipresent.
But for the average person as far as they are concerned if they ask you, “Why should I practice self-inquiry? Why should I practice Advaita Vedanta principles?” Simply answer and say, “Because you’ll become happier than you ever did in your life. You will become happy just the way you are. Without things or with things, without people or with people, without work or with work. It doesn’t make any difference what stage the world is going through. Whether it’s the dark ages or the golden age. You will always be the same,even minded, in total peace, pure joy. This is the reason we try to become illumined. That is how you talk to people who ask you these questions.
The world in itself becomes nonsensical when you look at it from the eyes of a Jnani. How can we take the world to be real? First of all everything changes from day to day. All through the ages we have man’s inhumanity to man. We have cataclysms. All kinds of things take place on this earth. People die by the millions, people are born by the millions, people come and go. Animals come and go. Cities come and go. Countries come and go. How can you take this to be real? Most people do not even like to think about these things. It’s too mind boggling. Just to think that you were not the same person when you were born, you grow older and older then you seem to disappear. That alone should make you think and wonder if there is any reality to hold onto or if there is anything that does not change.
Unfortunately Maya works in such a way that when we’re young we don’t seem to care about these things. When we’re teenagers all we want to do is have fun. This is the way of Maya. To befuddle you. To keep you in darkness. To make you believe that the body and affairs are real.
There are very few young people who become involved in this kind of teaching.
There are very few old people who become involved in this kind of teaching. (laughter) There are very few people who become involved in this teaching. Sometimes when life pushes you around and the rug is pulled from under you that is when the average person gets involved in a teaching like this. They say there must be something else. But blessed is the young person who gets involved in this kind of a teaching just because they realize that the world gets you nowhere. Think of the reason when you got involved with this teaching. What were you looking for?
It is most interesting when people get involved in a teaching like this in the beginning, they do so because they want to improve their affairs. They want to either get healthy, they’ve been sickly. They want to get rich. They want companionship. They want something. They want to improve their affairs. So they get involved in a teaching like this.
If they can take it for a while and go through the teaching the day will come when they’re no longer interested in attaining anything. Yet everything always works out for them in the right way. They no longer have an interest in improving their humanhood.
They come to the conclusion that they have to transcend their humanhood to become free.
Whereas if you’re involved in metaphysical movements you try to improve your humanhood. To what avail? It gets you nowhere.
The wise person begins to realize at an early age that there is nothing permanent in this world but change. Begins to search, goes through many paths. Usually begins with their own religion. Then they may get involved in yoga, spirituality. Then they become bhaktas. They surrender and surrender leads to Jnana. Leads to oneness.
You begin your Jnana training by trying to find the source of the I. Concentrating on the source of the I. Therefore you pick a place which is usually on the right side of the
The best time to do this is in the morning, when you have your first thoughts. You try to catch the I-thought as you awaken. You do this by inquiring, “To whom does the I come?” Realizing all the time when the I-thought goes from the heart to the brain, the body belief becomes prevalent. When the body becomes prevalent in your mind then you begin to see other bodies and the universe becomes factual. Everything appears. All of this happens instantaneously. This is why it’s sort of difficult to catch it. Yet if you persist you will be able to do it. As soon as you awaken before you’re able to think. The I-thought has left the center of the heart which is the source, has flown to the brain. You become cognizant of your body and then you become cognizant of other bodies and to the world and the universe. All this happens instantaneously.
That is why you have to inquire, “To whom does this come?” When you’re saying that to yourself in the morning you’re actually saying, “To whom does this universe appear? To whom does the body appear? To whom does this world appear? To whom do others appear?” Then you realize that, “I see this.” It is the I that beholds the appearance. In other words, “I am not I. I-am. But I am not the personal I that appears, the who am I?”
When you say the words, “Who am I?” A reversal begins. By reversal I mean the I, the personal I goes back from the brain into the Self. Into God on the right side of the chest.
When that happens you are liberated. Therefore the whole practice is to catch the I-thought as it goes back into the chest, into the source, into the Self. Then only the Self will appear. Everything else will disappear. This is the work you do. This is the job you have.
Yet no matter how many times I say this to you most people will not do it. They either think they’re too busy, they don’t have the time or they believe they can’t do this self-inquiry. Yet this is not true. It can really be done by anybody. If they will take the time and the effort to try it. Without giving up in a couple of days. I know many of you have tried for a day or two and have told me everything happens so fast. I get up and become aware of the world immediately. But I say to you again, if you persevere the day is going to come when you awaken, it has to!
This is really the fastest and easiest way to awaken.
I will explain it again, it’s easy. Begin to practice tomorrow morning when you get out of bed. When you go to sleep tonight tell yourself, when you get up in the morning you will immediately think of the source, the Self. Which abides on the right side of the chest. If you tell yourself before you go to sleep you will awaken with the thoughts that follow. As soon as you open your eyes before you become conscious of yourself, inquire, “Who am I?” When you inquire, “Who am I?” you’re really asking what is the source of the I. And keep still. As soon as something comes into your mind, the body, ask, inquire, “To whom does this come?” In other words you are inquiring or asking, “Where did my body come from? I wasn’t aware of my body when I was sleeping. But now I am aware of this body. Where did it come from?“That is what I mean when you inquire, “To whom does this come? Where did my body come from?” You try to become still as long as possible. Then of course it comes to you, “Why this comes to me. I feel the body.” Remember what this means also when you make that statement. You are in reality saying, “That the I-thought feels this body-phenomena. The I-thought feels it not me but the I.” The real you does not feel this, the I feels this. Therefore you inquire again, “To whom does this come? To whom does the I come?” Again you realize, “It comes to me I feel this.” Then you can say, “Then who am I?”
In other words you are asking yourself, “Who is this I-thought. What is the source of the I-thought?” And keep still.
If you can go this far in the morning when you get up you’ve come a long way. If you’re able to do this alone you have come a long way. The secret is to persevere. Do not do it one day or two days or a week or a month. Who knows how long it will take? But do not think of this. Do not wonder when it’s going to happen, when you’re going to awaken.
Just do it. Make it part of your daily routine.
It’s just like when you were a little kid you had to learn the multiplication table.
And then when you woke up in the morning you recited the multiplication table. Until you had it down pat. This is the same thing. Keep inquiring. And the day will come when you become liberated. For liberation is your very nature. You are that and all is well.
Feel free to ask questions.
SV: Robert I don’t know how clear this question will come. You’re saying that in the morning the I comes from the heart and it goes up to the brain and you say, the words is cognized and the body is cognized and you’re also saying it’s instantaneous. But I mean is it fast or really instantaneous. Is there a time for you to question what’s happening or does the question really come afterwards?
R: The question slows down the procedure. (SV: But by the time that you question it’s already happened. The words…) (R: Yes.) (SV: …so your question comes afterwards?) That is why you question. (SV: Right, thank you.) If it happened immediately and you were able to follow it you wouldn’t need to question. (SV: Umm?) There would be no need for you to question. The only reason you are questioning is because it’s happened. If you were able to catch it there would be nobody left to question. For by catching it the I-thought which is the ego has returned to the heart. (SV: So it’s to remind yourself to question it?) As you question it…
SV: Okay so this is sort of a hypothetical question. Supposing if someone was standing next to your bedside and who can tell exactly when you’re waking up and supposing at that second they say, “Well tell yourself the question, would that awake you?” Kind of remind you to do that?
If you got a gramophone that starts playing at the moment.
R: It would happen too fast. The relationship between the ego and the self happens so fast that before you turn on the gramophone you’re already the ego. You have become the ego. (SV: Okay.) So you question and inquire, “To whom does it come?” Again remember if you were able to catch it then you’ve become liberated. And there is no need
SX: Robert you mentioned something about, we don’t have to worry or think about fortune tellers or people who are star readers, so on and so forth. Would you make a comment about, for instance a person like Nostradamus that he can see the future, he can see the body moving, making activities and so on and so forth. Or would you say that he can read peoples minds. For instance sometimes you will feel like you’re talking to some person and you would have some kind of instinct or some feeling what they are just about to say. Would you have a comment on that?
R: This is part of the occult practices. Your real Self has no beginning, no end, no past and no future. When you look into the future you are on the mental level. This has to do with the mind and this is all changeable. For instance somebody tells your future and tells you are going to be rich and become a millionaire by 1986. When 1986 comes around you become a millionaire. But they didn’t tell you that you have to pay taxes and if you do not pay your taxes they’ll put you in jail. And then you lose all your money. And all kinds of things happen to you. They just told you the future that you’re going to be a millionaire.
Anything in the occult, fortune telling, futures, past, this is all nonsense. What you want to do is go beyond that. When you are looking to the future you believe that you are a human being. You believe you are a person. And if you’re a person you going to have all kinds of experiences. Good experiences, bad experiences, all kinds of experiences.
Nostradamus saw the future what good did it do? Nostradamus was able to predict Hitler and what would happen to the Jews and everything else. What good did it do?
It didn’t stop anything. He was just able to see what was going to happen. Some of the things he saw were right some of the things were wrong. But what good is this? We’re not interested to see what is going to happen. We want to get off the world. We want to transcend the world, transcend the body. Rise above conditions, rise above things. And become completely and totally free and liberated.
Then we’re in a different category. We’re in a completely different category. We have become the entire universe. We’re no longer a body. You’re no longer a seer. It’s gone, disappeared. You are a God. You have become the absolute reality. So predictions of the future are a waste of time. Fortune telling, psychics are a waste of time.
SX: Well I don’t mean that I am contemplating that prediction would be happening or so on, so forth. What I’m asking was though, is it possible that human minds, ego, has different capacities that can see the future. Is it possible or is it fake and all baloney.
R: No it’s possible, sure. The mind is very powerful. And the mind can be trained to do anything. But this is all on a mental level. The mind can see all kinds of things. Can become all kinds of things.SD: Are you saying then that whatever can be foreseen like that is still a part of Maya or the illusion? (R: Of course, certainly.) So anything someone predicts about the physical world would still be false. (R: Yes.) Even if it came — to quote — “true?”
R: Of course. Because you have to take everything that comes with it. There is no such thing in this world as perfection. (SD: Umm-hmm.) There is no one who lives a prefect life in this world. There is no perfect condition, where everything goes your way and you’re living in heaven. This is for children. It does not exist.
The way the world works is karmically you achieve the things that you’re achieving because in a past life you have earned these things. But when that karma is finished you keep going in a different direction. It is like a pendulum. The pendulum swings in one direction then has to go back to the other direction. This is duality.
So you’ve had good karma and you come into this world a multimillionaire where you have no financial problems. But then there is sickness. There are people who kidnap you, who kill you, all kinds of things can happen. Which is also your karma. Everything is karmic. What I’m trying to say is that if you play with the world you will always be disappointed. The world can never give you eternal peace, eternal happiness, eternal joy. It is only when you transmute and transcend this world that you will have permanent peace and permanent joy.
Fred (SF): It seems Robert as though karma was happening to an individual. If something bad happens to me tomorrow, it’s something I, Fred did two hundred years ago. My thought was that karma is the effect and has a cause, in so-called time. In other words if something bad happens I, Fred am not me being punished or if something good happens I, Fred am not being rewarded, it’s just something that happens. In other words, the number of people on earth is always growing, where does the new people come from that karma is happening to only people who lived before? It’s kind of confusing when you think about it.
R: When you think of karma it becomes very confusing when you think of the ways and means of karma and how it works. Before, you have lived many lives… (SF: I have? Or lives have been lived, led?) Lives have been lived. In truth this doesn’t exist. In reality there is no such thing. The more you think about these things the more you get involved in these things. Do not believe yourselves when you think about past lives. But as you believe yourself as a human being then karma does exist. This is why I say to you, do not look at yourself as a human being. Do not see yourself as a mortal. For if you do you’ve got to deal with karma. But in truth there is no karma there is no mortal being.
Therefore the things that happen to you in your life do not question it too much, drop it!
That is why we had this lesson when I told you to “drop it!”
There are yoga groups and spiritual groups that become so involved in karma and that is what they always talk about and that’s all they talk about. This is my karma, I’m going through my karma. This becomes your Master and keeps you back. This is another form of Maya. The grand illusion. Calling this part of the grand illusion. So, when some xxx In other words take your mind off the condition any way that you can. Lift up your mind to a higher plateau, to a higher level, by starting to realize the Self. By questioning, “To whom does this condition come? Who feels this? I do. Who am I?” So do not dwell on karma too long. Drop it! (SF: Drop it, anything in duality. Drop everything.) Drop everything exactly. Especially karma. (laughter) SK: Robert when you say, “Dropping it!” It’s like not getting…not letting your mind take you anywhere no matter what it comes up with, no matter what it sees outside of yourself. Whatever condition or effects, whatever is happening. What you said before, it’s all in your own mind.
What you see out there is all in your own mind, it’s all your perception. It may not be that way.
That’s the way you see it. And I’m creating this. I’m still caught up in the mind and I’m trying to separate myself from my own conditioning. My own perception of the way I see everything. And most of the time it’s not even the way I see it. I mean I’m trapped in my own thinking. As far as the mind goes and I feel just acknowledging that, the fact of asking, “Who it is?” there has been a lot of freedom for me, you know, and I can really rise above things that are happening to me, wherever my mind is taking me sort of a “drop it” and let it go. (R: That’s a good point.) In other words there is really nothing happening outside of myself? (R: Right.) It’s all in my head. It’s all my own conditioning of thoughts?
R: Right, exactly. Stop the mind as fast as you can. When the mind begins to think about your life, about situations, about conditions, try to catch it. Do not allow it to carry on. Drop it! immediately.
Fred (SF): I have another question. On Sunday I quoted a little Zen Buddhist scripture that I thought was apropos and you asked me if I realized it, I think that was your question and it’s not clear in my mind what you were asking me after I made that quote. I’m interested to understand your question.
R: So what’s the question? (SF: What was your question?) (laughter) You tell me your question first. (SF: You asked me something I don’t know what it was.) You expect me to remember what you asked me? (SF: No but I can give the quotation again.) Go ahead Fred, what is the question? (laughter) (SF: My question is what was your question? You want the quote?) The quote, yes. (SF: Yes or no!) Yes go ahead. (SF: Okay, Buddhist scripture. “By oneself an evil is done. By oneself one suffers. By oneself evil is left undone. By oneself one is purified.
The pure and the impure stand and fall by themselves. No one can purify another.’ And you asked me something I can’t remember what it was.) That’s a good quote I agree with it. (SF: You agree with the quote?) Sure. (SF: That’s good. Well let’s leave it there.) (laughter) (SH: Hallelujah.) SC: What is the source? The Buddha huh? It’s a good source. (R: Yes. Why argue with the Buddha.) (laughter) Well you’ve been saying part of that this evening.
SK: I just read something that Einstein said whatever that’s worth. He said - I can’t quote it like Fred can - but something on the field and matter, and the field is the only reality. Which is what you’re saying of the paper and the print.R: We go beyond the field. What is the source of the field? He was talking of the field of energy. But where did the field of energy come from? It came from your mind.
From Einstein’s mind. We have to go beyond that, beyond everything. (SK: I felt like the field was God’s laboratory.) It could be a baseball field. (students laugh) SG: Robert, talking about the Buddha earlier, the Buddha said, he finally just said well it was up to everybody to work out their own stuff. It seems judging on my experiences here this last week that I would be in pretty bad shape. It seems that the only assessment I can really draw on is that I’m only a reaction machine. This about not reacting is really beyond me. I feel that I used to feel much more detached years ago than I do now. With all this studying and going to seminars and talks and everything. It’s gotten much worse.
R: Sure because you’re going into all kinds of teachings. Make it simple for yourself. Do one teaching. Empty the mind. That is all you have to do. When the mind is empty you will be your Self. (SG: That’s what I find difficult because it’s not now, now. Now is easy.
But when you go about business during the week. You seem to get pummeled by the world out there.) This is where self-inquiry comes in. Remember to remember to ask the question, “Who is getting pummeled? To whom does the world come?” And realize it comes to I. It’s the personal I who feels this. And you are not that I at all. You are the source of the I.
Remember to do this during the day, during waking hours, during sleeping hours.
Just practice this alone and it will take you home. Do not make it complicated. Simply realize that you have to empty the mind completely, totally and you will be free. You empty the mind by inquiring, “To whom does the mind come?” As you persevere and you do this gently, easily, without strain, you will go deeper and deeper and deeper until one day you will be free.
But many people have so many teachings that they’re into that it becomes very confusing. For you don’t know what teaching to follow. You’ve read so many books, heard so many teachers, been to so many classes that you want to give up the whole thing and I don’t blame you. (laughter) There is really no teaching. There is no teacher, there is no teaching. Keep your life simple. Do not allow your mind to run away and tell you all kinds of things. Grab your mind and bring it back to the source.
Fred (SF): I’m wondering about a contrast between the waking state and the dream state. In the waking state I have an idea that what I do or say might have an effect on what happens. And that I should be able to control things. But in the dream state I don’t recall in a dream having that idea that I should be able to control anything that happens to me in the dream. In other words there is less or no ego in the dream state whereas in the waking state I think I should be able to control things.
R: Perhaps in the dream state you’re not evolved so far to be able to think about controlling things. (SF: I’m sorry?) In the dream state perhaps you’re not evolved to the point where you’re able to control the mind, to be able to practice self-inquiry, to do anything. Because in the dream state perhaps you’re just a human being like everybody else.
And not come upon teachings that have told you how to control the mind. So you do not
You were not involved in teachings. You’re just a human being going about your business.
So also in the dream state you are a human being going about your business. You’re not getting to the point in the dream state when you have a teaching or where you’re practicing to have sadhana, that’s all.
SD: Well would that be less evolved or maybe more evolved because it seems that we’re less evolved when we get so caught up in the mind. ( R: Both of them are false. The dream state and the waking state are both false.) It just seems that if I interpreted what Fred was saying, it seems things happen more spontaneously in the dream state and this seems to me more pure or spiritually evolved than when we’re constantly thinking about it.
R: Not really because what you’re doing in the dream state is the same as when you were say a little girl. You were just going about your business and having different experiences and you never even thought about the mind or controlling the mind. But there has to come a time in your life as you grow spiritually when you begin to see you have to control your mind completely and transcend the mind. And go through these experiences that you’re going through now and get this happening to you. But in the dream state perhaps you have not reached that as yet. So you’re just having physical, material experiences in the dream state.
SD: But didn’t Christ say to become as little children isn’t that what he was referring to?
It seems to me like the more we think even about controlling the mind the more we’re caught up in Maya, rather than the spontaneity of a child.
R: If you can have the spontaneity of a child and awaken that way that is great.
But how many people can do this. Therefore the teaching of self-inquiry was given to grown ups. When they’re no longer a child and they’ve lost that spontaneity. To be able to go back again and become like little children.
Fred (SF): There is no real reason to fret about either one?
R: No, because they’re both false. The dream state is false. The waking state is false. One may be advanced and one may not be advanced. There are people who have high spiritual dreams and there are people who have average dreams, just like the waking state. In the waking state there are people who have high spiritual practices, there are people who do not have any spiritual practices. There are all kinds of people going through all kinds of experiences. In the dream state and in the waking state. But they are both false.
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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.