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Sacrifice desire and fear daily, in sacrifice to that which is True in you: Your own Being, your presence to everything. Notice everything, love everything, BE everything.

The dream is a social one, and the people involved are all in your mind, not "out there". Not a single person exists as you imagine them to be. The common link between them all is You.

I am now 74 years old. And yet I feel that I am an infant. I feel clearly that in spite of all the changes, I am a child. My Guru told me: that child, which is you even now, is your real self (swarupa). Go back to that state of pure being, where the 'I am' is still in its purity before it got contaminated with 'this I am' or 'that I am'. Your burden is of false self-identifications -- abandon them all.

My Guru told me -- 'Trust me. I tell you; you are divine. Take it as the absolute truth. Your joy is divine, your suffering is divine too. All comes from God. Remember it always. You are God, your will alone is done'. I did believe him, and soon realised how wonderfully true and accurate were his words. I did not condition my mind by thinking: 'I am God, I am wonderful, I am beyond'. I simply followed his instruction, which was to focus the mind on pure being 'I am', and stay in it. I used to sit for hours together with nothing but the 'I am' in my mind, and soon peace and joy and a deep all-embracing love became my normal state. In it all disappeared -- myself, my Guru, the life I lived, the world around me. Only peace remained, and unfathomable silence.

I'm not interested in being 'righter than you', putting down your point. I'm interested in being universally right, in a way that's right for everyone. You, too can be so interested, provided the focus isn't on whether you're more enlightened or wiser than someone else.

I am the space in which everything occurs. In this way, inner and outer space are not-two, not apart.

I can see with the utmost clarity that you have never been, nor are, nor will be estranged from reality, that you are the fullness of perfection here and now and that nothing can deprive you of your heritage, of what you are. You are in no way different from me, only you do not know it. You do not know what you are and therefore you imagine your self to be what you are not. Hence desires and fear and overwhelming despair. And meaningless activity in order to escape.

Just trust me and live by trusting me. I shall not mislead you. You are the Supreme Reality beyond the world and its creator, beyond consciousness and its witness, beyond all assertions and denials. Remember it, think of it, act on it. Abandon all sense of separation, see yourself in all and act accordingly. With action bliss will come and, with bliss, conviction. After all, you doubt yourself because you are in sorrow. Happiness, natural, spontaneous and lasting cannot be imagined. Either it is there, or it is not. Once you begin to experience the peace, love and happiness which need no outer causes, all your doubts will dissolve. Just catch hold of what I told you and live by it.

Your feet are set on a path from which there is no return; do understand that you are destined for enlightenment. You did not choose this path, none of us did. The path chose you. Your destiny is the whole: all is You and Yours.

When the search is given up, endless discovery results: Discovery and re-discovery and re-discovery! As seeking prevents and delays finding, when seeking drops there is only finding.

We are not separate. Let those who consider themselves apart, separate themselves and then squabble like pigeons over scraps, whether physical or psychological. Maybe someday mankind will realize this glorious abundance we all share, the sacredness of what we have and are, and the uselessness of what we do not have, what we are not.

You are what you are, timelessly, but of what use is it to you unless you know it and act on it? Your begging bowl may be of pure gold, but as long as you do not know it, you are a pauper. You must know your inner worth and trust it and express it in the daily sacrifice of desire and fear.

If you sit and think about advaita all the time, all you get are thoughts about advaita. If you know your true nature is wordless, silent, already fulfilled, then act on it. Behave as though it were true. Stop filling your mind with noise. Just BE.

There is not an absolute assurance here, but rather a lack of unassurance. What is there to be unsure about? It is merely the absence of doubt, of floating anxiety, of the general sense of lack characteristic of 'me'. The need for reassurance is absent. All is silent.

WHEN THE FALSE SELF IS LOST, THE REAL SELF IS FOUND

Centuries of continued sacrifices,service,self purification,suffering and determined search have to roll on, if the aspirant is to be spiritually prepared for the final realization of God.

*OUT OF THAT NOTHING MIND CAME
OUT OF MIND CAME THIS EVERYTHING
OUT OF MIND CAME ENERGY
ENERGY HOLDS THIS EVERYTHING
OUT OF MIND CAME THIS MATTER
MATTER MEANS THIS EVERYTHING
THIS EVERYTHING ALSO NOTHING
OUT OF FORMLESS EVERYTHING
FORMLESS NOTHING HAS COME
OUT FORMLESS NOTHINF FORMFULL HAS COME
WE MUST LOSE OURSELVES IN ORDER TO FIND OURSELVES.
THUS LOSS IS GAIN
WE MUST DIE TO SELF INORDER TO LIVE IN THE GOD.
THUS DEATH IS LIFE.
WE MUST COMPLETELY VOID IN ODER TO BECOME COMPLETELY POSSESSED.
THUS COMPLETE EMPTINESS MEANS ABSOLUTE FULLNESS.
WE MUST BECOME SHED OF SELFHOOD INORDER TO BECOME ABSORBED IN THE INFFINITY OF GOD.
THUS NOTHING MEANS EVERYTHING

WHEN THE REAL LIGHT APPEARS
THIS DARKNESS
WHICH YOU THINK IS LIGHT
DISAPPEARS

"TO try to understand with the mind that the mind can never understand,is futile;and to try to express by sounds of language and in form of words the transcendental state of the soul,is even more futile.

All that can be said,and will be said,by those who live and experince that sate, is that when the false self is lost, the real self is found; the birth of the real self can only follow the death of the false;and that dying to ourselves-the true death which ends all dying--it is only way to perpetual life. This means that the mind with its satellites-desires,craving,longings-is completely consumed by the fire of divine love, then the infinite, indestructible,indivisible,eternal Self is manifested.*

We came to enjoy; we are being enjoyed. We came to rule; we are being ruled. We came to work; we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.

To feel right is, of course, right, but to the ego it is wrong. Ego will not let you alone, won't give you any peace. This is why we seek to understand it, and to transcend it.

"If we have been able to give happiness to a soul-even for a minute-it makes our life blessed." —Amma