1 00:00:12,221 --> 00:00:19,053 Sometimes I say ...this universe...this world 'IS NEVER' what you think it is, 2 00:00:19,053 --> 00:00:26,235 and, this universe 'IS' what you think it is. 3 00:00:26,235 --> 00:00:30,107 This world 'IS NEVER' what you think it is. 4 00:00:30,107 --> 00:00:34,321 This world 'IS EXACTLY' what you think it is. 5 00:00:34,321 --> 00:01:06,236 Can you understand this? 6 00:01:06,236 --> 00:01:11,773 Since I arrived in Tiru, I stayed at Ramana Ashram. 7 00:01:11,773 --> 00:01:17,543 I could recognize all thought...all feelings ... are not the true 'I' 8 00:01:17,543 --> 00:01:22,288 because in one second they could disappear. 9 00:01:22,288 --> 00:01:25,086 And they do. 10 00:01:25,086 --> 00:01:36,404 If I could just recognize this ... a huge, endless, formless, peacefulness happened. 11 00:01:36,404 --> 00:01:39,302 It's the Self ...the true 'I'. 12 00:01:39,302 --> 00:01:43,340 It is the true freedom. 13 00:01:43,340 --> 00:01:51,622 Some minutes later I recognized another thought and then let it go ... and then... the Self. 14 00:01:51,622 --> 00:01:58,256 If I continue this practice, the 'I' thought will disappear. 15 00:01:58,256 --> 00:02:04,428 I mean the sense of individuality will disappear completely ...then question mark is there. 16 00:02:04,428 --> 00:02:11,968 So the question is "if I continue to practice, the 'I' thought will disappear" 17 00:02:11,968 --> 00:02:25,016 "I mean will the sense of individuality disappear completely?" 18 00:02:25,016 --> 00:02:29,149 Yes, and it sometimes is still there, like a soft shadow. 19 00:02:29,149 --> 00:02:37,534 It is said that sometimes in daytime you can still see the moon, in full daylite, we can see. 20 00:02:37,534 --> 00:02:43,040 Sometimes in the full presence of the sun, the moon can be seen, 21 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:46,819 but then nobody pays much attention to it. 22 00:02:46,819 --> 00:02:51,939 When no sun, we write poetry to the moon. 23 00:02:51,939 --> 00:02:59,513 But when the sun comes, sometimes you can still see the moon, but nobody pays attention to it. 24 00:02:59,513 --> 00:03:13,064 Sense of individuality ...I don't know ...In the inner experience of this, what this question is asking 25 00:03:13,064 --> 00:03:18,568 ...in the inner experience of this, people may speak to you about personality, 26 00:03:18,568 --> 00:03:29,644 but inside you will not have a way of understanding what it is ...this personality ...what it means? ... it has no meaning at all. 27 00:03:29,644 --> 00:03:37,087 When we are really in the believe with the mind, it feels like, ah yes, your personality...my personality....well it's just ... 28 00:03:37,087 --> 00:03:41,993 but in the state of freedom, such words, they have no meaning. 29 00:03:41,993 --> 00:03:48,462 What is personality? I don't know. 30 00:03:48,462 --> 00:03:52,734 Your life is more like a verb than a noun. 31 00:03:52,734 --> 00:03:55,006 It's not a fixed thing. 32 00:03:55,006 --> 00:04:01,484 For a long time we are really perceiving ourselves like we are an object ....referring to your body like 'you'. 33 00:04:01,484 --> 00:04:13,188 But as your mind also is merging in that heart, Infinite Heart, you don't feel like an object at all. 34 00:04:13,188 --> 00:04:22,199 It's as though your existence is experienced like it is space moving in space. 35 00:04:22,199 --> 00:04:26,604 You are like a form of space moving about in space. 36 00:04:26,604 --> 00:04:34,445 There is a lightness ... a transparency ...a purity. 37 00:04:34,445 --> 00:04:41,782 When that belief ...the 'I' belief' ... 38 00:04:41,782 --> 00:04:48,426 when that is thinned out and only that radiant consciousness is remaining 39 00:04:48,426 --> 00:04:53,531 then all these things we speak about will become known to you spontaneously, you don't have to learn them. 40 00:04:53,531 --> 00:04:57,874 You don't have to go study them in a book anymore because they are revealed in you. 41 00:04:57,874 --> 00:05:05,942 And this is why I am sharing with you ...reminding you ...you don't have to study so much. 42 00:05:05,942 --> 00:05:12,279 They way in which 'mind' studies, it accumulates information, 43 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:16,952 but you are the information-less Being. 44 00:05:16,952 --> 00:05:24,319 So, I say, don't worry about studying all these things, unless you want to impress people with them. 45 00:05:24,319 --> 00:05:28,165 Find THAT and BE THAT. 46 00:05:28,165 --> 00:05:32,902 And what needs to be known arises spontaneously. 47 00:05:32,902 --> 00:05:37,240 What needs to be done arises spontaneously in you. 48 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:42,013 The needs ...the true needs of the moment get satisfied. 49 00:05:42,013 --> 00:05:45,584 Appropriate actions come ...appropriate responses come. 50 00:05:45,584 --> 00:05:48,618 Where from? Out of the depth of your Being, they come. 51 00:05:48,618 --> 00:05:54,225 And in a moment. 52 00:05:54,225 --> 00:05:58,859 You can go anywhere ...in any climate ...in any culture ... 53 00:05:58,859 --> 00:06:10,207 you may not be able to speak their language, but you'll still be in tune with the Presence there. 54 00:06:10,207 --> 00:06:15,346 You will speak to people who have a discipline that you don't know anything about, 55 00:06:15,346 --> 00:06:19,397 but just being present as Presence, you will converse 56 00:06:19,397 --> 00:06:24,318 and they will have the sense that they are speaking to someone who is in their discipline. 57 00:06:24,318 --> 00:06:29,568 All of this is inside your own Being. 58 00:06:29,568 --> 00:06:33,897 So, don't lose energy studying individual things. 59 00:06:33,897 --> 00:06:45,656 Find that thing, which when found, you won't have to be asking others questions anymore. 60 00:06:45,656 --> 00:06:54,184 If something is to be known, it will arise out of the depth of your own Being. 61 00:06:54,184 --> 00:06:58,662 I speak to you from that common ground. 62 00:06:58,662 --> 00:07:02,959 Not from the place of multiplicity and differences. 63 00:07:02,959 --> 00:07:09,232 Differences really are superficial ...they are unreliable ...momentary. 64 00:07:09,232 --> 00:07:13,604 Enjoy. Don't be afraid. 65 00:07:13,604 --> 00:07:17,075 Naturally our Beingness is not a fearful Being. 66 00:07:17,075 --> 00:07:35,191 We learned fear. But it's instinct in us to trust. 67 00:07:35,191 --> 00:07:37,902 "if I continue to practise" this person says ... 68 00:07:37,902 --> 00:07:42,942 What is the practice? Best practice ...remain as the Self. 69 00:07:42,942 --> 00:07:44,267 Keep identifying 'I AM THE SELF'.. 70 00:07:44,267 --> 00:07:47,653 What does it mean "the Self'?' 71 00:07:47,653 --> 00:07:51,940 That which perceives everything else that is taking place in It's presence. 72 00:07:51,940 --> 00:07:54,821 It is the Seer. 73 00:07:54,821 --> 00:08:02,751 Both the actions, reactions, interactions are ocurring spontaneously in your Presence. 74 00:08:02,751 --> 00:08:07,091 If you don't touch the thought that 'I am the doer - I am the one that makes things happen', 75 00:08:07,091 --> 00:08:11,364 because if you touch this thought with belief, then you'll believe it into existence 76 00:08:11,364 --> 00:08:13,262 and it will become your experience. 77 00:08:13,262 --> 00:08:20,104 This is how the world works, by the way. 78 00:08:20,104 --> 00:08:27,043 Sometimes I say, this universe, this world 'IS NEVER' what you think it is 79 00:08:27,043 --> 00:08:34,420 and, this universe 'IS' what you think it is. 80 00:08:34,420 --> 00:08:38,325 This world 'IS NEVER' what you think it is. 81 00:08:38,325 --> 00:08:42,456 This world 'IS EXACTLY' what you think it is. 82 00:08:42,456 --> 00:08:47,488 Can you understand this? 83 00:08:47,488 --> 00:08:57,208 If you believe ... we are perceiving what we are conceiving. 84 00:08:57,208 --> 00:09:02,488 If you are a person, this world will seem full of persons. 85 00:09:02,488 --> 00:09:08,285 When you are Being you will not feel bound. 86 00:09:08,285 --> 00:09:14,758 You will know every Being ...look in the eyes of every Being ...and you'll know ...you'll recongnize your Self.. 87 00:09:14,758 --> 00:09:19,263 These things are not poetry. They are simple truths. 88 00:09:19,263 --> 00:09:23,429 And you will experience them and confirm them for your Self. 89 00:09:23,429 --> 00:09:52,629 You will confirm them. In your Heart they will be confirmed.