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R: (tape starts abruptly) Students: Good afternoon Robert.) Happy mothers day. (students: Thank you.) Welcome to satsang. I welcome you with all my heart. I love everyone unconditionally, equivocally. You are all divine beings.
Everyone here is a replica of God. There are no exceptions.
Whatever you do whatever you don’t do, you’re God incarnated. Whether you have sins of omission or commission makes no difference. You can never be separated from God or consciousness that is impossible. Therefore you can only say, “God made you do it.” True! For there is only God. Who else would do it? There is only consciousness, absolute reality. Every move you make, every step you take, every action you take, is nothing to do with you, it’s all consciousness. Therefore what do you have to fear? What is there to be afraid of? You are the one. You are the holy one. Rejoice!
You have to love yourself, to worship yourself, to bow to yourself. For you are the holy one of Israel. Is there a holy one of Mecca? A holy one of Hinduism? Whatever you like, but you are that. Never take yourself for granted. You are the one. Never mind what the physical form shows you, the world shows you, what people show you, do not take these things seriously. Look to your Self! Abide in the Self! Find the absolute reality, this is you. You are that.
What is satsang?
Most of us do not have any idea what satsang is. You know what satsang is, but not what satsang is not. Satsang is not a philosophy. Where you come in and have a debate over points of religion. Satsang is not a sermon that I give. Satsang is not a place where you make casual relationships. Meet new people, new friends. Satsang is not a place where you come to emulate the speech.
The only reason I talk like this is because I see you about twice a week, for four hours a week. In real satsang, if I were with you all of the time, I would sit in the silence with you. I’ll be available to you all day long and you can sit with me all day. So since you are not in that position you should be here twice a week, to feel the benefits of satsang.
Sat means consciousness, being, the absolute reality is sat. Sang is a getting together of people sitting at the feet of the Sage. Sangha the holy temple. If one comes into satsang they should be quiet, still, for they’re in the presence of the Self. The holy one. You are that.
In satsang there may be bhajans where you sing together, kirtans where you chant together, silence where you do nothing, just sit. Questions once in a while. This is what satsang is all about. It really makes no difference what I say. Whether I talk about God or I talk about chocolate, makes no difference what I talk about. It’s not the words. When you sit in satsang with me, you take the form in the name of the Self in your heart, and see the form in the heart, the Self in the heart, the name in the heart. You become the heart, you are the heart. The heart of awareness. The heart of consciousness. This is what satsang does, it opens your heart, totally and completely, absolutely. If your heart is to be opened, you have to have a tremendous humility, tremendous surrender. When you’re surrendering, you’re surrendering your ego, your past karma, your dogmas, your preconceived ideas, all these have surrendered to the Self in satsang.
Remember this all the time, what satsang really is. Just being here is the same. Be here twice a week. The world has you the rest of the time influencing all kinds of ideas, nonsense. To get away from the world and come to satsang is refreshing, like a gentle breeze that comes along, takes away the heat from you. Makes you calm and cool and collective and peaceful. To help in this process, we sing bhajans which we’re going to do right now.
(bhajans sung)
When I say, all is well, and everything is unfolding as it should, I mean that literally. All is well, everywhere. You may see things that you do not agree with. Any experiences that make you mad, angry and upset. When you have personal problems in your life with health, finances, people. You have to ask yourself, “Are these really problems, or is it something I do not understand?
If we live in universal bliss, and we do, how can there be such man’s inhumanity to man. These dastardly things that are taking place all over the world. Yet the question for you is, “Who sees this? To whom does this come?” You’ve been programmed to see things a certain way and you have your likes and your dislikes, your good and your bad, your ups and your downs. You have to go beyond that, take a step backwards from that.
You must never allow a condition to get the better of you. Whatever that condition may be. And you do this by simply not reacting to the condition. Do not give any condition any power, by fearing it, liking it, seeing it, hearing it. Your nature is bliss consciousness and the universe is also bliss consciousness. There is no difference between you and the universe, yet somehow you’ve been programmed to see something else. Where does this programming come from? Your mind, where else?
You think you have a mind that creates things, and it experiences the things it creates. But the truth is you never had a mind. You do not have a mind right now. There is no mind. Awake from your sleep and see this. There is no mind. There has never been a mind and there will never be a mind. For whom is there a mind? Ask that question to yourself. Who has to fake to make their life better? “Who?” ask yourself. Be patient with yourself. Never be in a hurry.
You have an eternity. And eternity is this very moment. So this very moment all is well and everything is unfolding the way it’s supposed to. Yes, everything is unfolding the way it’s supposed to, everything, everywhere. There are no mistakes!
If you cannot comprehend something in this world, it gets to you and makes you feel upset. Do not try to change the condition, for the condition will pop up wherever you go. It’s like a person who gets disgusted with the world and she comes to live in an ashram some place, but the world that she got disgusted with is in her mind. And she has to take that mind with her. She is going to find the same problems in the ashram as she found in the streets, no difference. Places will not change you. It’ll make you feel good for a little bit, but soon you revert to your old self which has always been.
Try to leave people alone, leave things alone. You will know what to do when the time comes. Everything has been planned for you. Every step you take. Every action you take has been predetermined for you. Consequently do not worry about these things.
Don’t be concerned about anything. All is well! It is!
What difference does it make what you’re going through? The experiences you’re having, good or bad, it has absolutely nothing to do with you. For you are beyond experiences, beyond karma, beyond God, beyond eternity. You are that substratum from which everything comes. Learn to love yourself deeply, purely. Never never feel sorry for yourself. You have to see the truth by going within. Spend time alone. Dive deep within yourself, where all your answers are. Everything that you’ve ever been looking for is in yourself. You are the one. The holy one. There is no one else, but you. See this, feel this, become this.
It’s so wonderful that you’re beginning to understand that you are the universe.
The whole universe is you, everything that exists. Everything that has ever existed is you.
There is nothing to fight, nothing to fear. When you begin to think this way then moksha will be shown to you. You will know where to go, what to do, with whom to meet. And you will know everybody you see, every situation you encounter, is only a projection of yourself, that’s all, your creation. You are the one, no one else but you. Feel this, see this, accept this. Become free, liberated. You’re already free and liberated. Know this!
Stand up tall, fear nothing. There is more going for you than against you. The truth only wants acknowledgement from you that’s all, it wants you to acknowledge it. It wants you to acknowledge that you are not the body or the mind or the problems, acknowledge it now. You are free already…
(tape ends abruptly)
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.