What Is Real Self, It Is Source Of All Knowledge

Freedom and Happiness. When we learn the principles of eastern wisdom, we apply discernment that becomes dispassion. The highest dispassion leads to knowledge of real self, awakens to permanent happiness.

We will learn from Yoga Sutra, Gita, and other texts together to discover the true nature.
we will follow the four-step approach as taught and passed on to us by great masters of eastern wisdom
Learning the principles - I do not know, let me know it.

Transcript

To come.

You bring a new cloth,

You see that you are putting on something very new or you bring a rose flower and you smell how good the smell is.

Please you also smell it and then we both together say it is beautiful,

It is outside,

It is outside,

It is out but when you meditate it is the inner fragrance.

That inner fragrance only you know it,

Only you know it.

No other person can know that.

You cannot bring the real self out,

Come on have a fragrance of it.

That is the first thing,

Second thing that we do not,

We means yoga tradition,

Do not reject or disprove what we experience through the sense work,

Direct sense work.

We don't say why,

Why we don't disapprove,

It is a fact.

I see you,

You see me,

I through the smell,

Through the nose I hear the,

I smell the fragrance.

That is what we say,

The valid means of knowledge to know the world outside.

But this is not a valid means to know my real self.

How can you say?

See the conflict between the two,

The nose can only know the smell,

Eyes can only see,

Their domains are different.

You cannot say looking at the eyes,

Oh what a good smell.

Eyes cannot have a smell,

Ears cannot have the sight.

They are independent.

So when these two are independent,

So yoga,

Valid means of yoga is totally different than the valid means by these sense organs.

And it is an inner journey.

So when it is an inner journey,

The best thing to be in the state of bliss by yourself.

Sometimes we feel we are attracted,

Oh come on I found something very good in meditation,

Come on let us do,

I invite my friends.

No,

No don't do that.

First find yourself.

First,

First thing is to discover inner peace and happiness.

So once you discover that inner peace and happiness,

Right?

Now if someone comes to you and says I am divorcing my honey because he or she has created lot of problem.

See that now you have learnt meditation,

You have learnt,

You have different ways of knowledge.

So there because you have found it,

You know it,

You have started living into that state,

Then yes,

Then you express yourself.

There is a,

There is another way to understand this relationship.

So there you introduce the knowledge.

You see happiness is not outside.

See that?

Now there it will make a sense but wait,

Don't force anyone.

Do not force anyone.

The moment you say happiness is inside,

I know it,

The other will say,

So I know it then why you are divorcing.

But again you cannot say that.

You have yet to become a teacher.

So you can say I have found inner happiness,

I found that happiness is independent of anything outside and because I am seeking happiness outside that is the cause of the problem.

So my first understanding is that have I stopped seeking happiness outside?

Now people misunderstand this also.

What do you mean?

Should I stop earning money?

Should I stop living in a family?

I'm not saying it.

Are you ready to listen?

Are you ready to understand?

So if people do not want to understand it is better to leave them.

Let them continue to suffer,

Live in miseries.

Don't,

You cannot implant or install in knowledge until one is ready.

Until one is ready.

Do you see that?

See that point until one is ready.

That is why we say if you want to embark on this journey you have to become a seeker.

If you are not a seeker you may listen to thousands of beard guys,

Nothing is going to happen because my mind is not interested.

Since the day I met and now see the other quality of becoming a seeker,

Never forget who has supported you in the material world or otherwise.

You all are good people,

I'm not saying not good,

But the way Anne supported me when I came to US I cannot forget.

So you have to thank Anne of attending all these sessions.

I have no criteria,

I have not set any criteria that I will seek this much of fees.

Be very clear about it.

There was another,

Girls are always,

Women are always beautiful.

That beautiful woman hired me for personal counseling for a year,

Used to go to her house.

So when she wanted to join I said you have to pay the same amount because you can afford to pay.

No,

No,

I will help you in future I said forget about it.

Don't try to be a businessman.

So you have to thank every time Anne.

Just I spoke about it.

So now coming last time we studied,

We understood the understanding of what is pure consciousness,

That is our real self and the knowledge of the real self,

Knowledge of the real self you have to apply a valid means that yoga asks for it.

You cannot see that real self by the sense organs.

Are you clear?

One has to be hundred percent clear that is why there has to be something,

A new way of knowledge that is what we are learning.

That is what we are learning.

See that?

So last time we understood what do we understood?

Klesha karma,

That consciousness,

That real self is free from all the actions,

That real self is not the doer and the enjoyer nor the fruits of an action and it is totally absent,

Complete absence of suffering.

That is what we covered yes and the second part we covered,

Tat tran nirati shayam sarvadnya bhiyajam,

It is the source of all the knowledge.

It is the source of all the knowledge.

That is what the real self is.

So let me focus on this,

Whatever master says,

Pay attention to this.

We want to attend,

We want to discover,

We want to find what is already there in me.

I am searching for a job outside.

It is not yet attend,

It is not already present in me.

See that?

I want to earn money,

It is not with me so it has to come from outside.

Did you understand that point?

Because it is already within me how to reach to what is already within me.

So I cannot apply the same method that I have been using in the world outside.

It has to be a different method.

Now see the what our master says from where I learned this knowledge from my master.

Then my master,

His master,

Who is the ultimate master?

The ultimate master is the real self present in all of us.

It is within you,

It is within me.

It is here and now.

What?

And I can't see.

Tell me if you can see it because you cannot see.

We need a method of knowledge by which we know the self.

So followed by the principles and the meditation practice.

The way you cannot teach,

You cannot teach biology in the name of physics.

Similarly to discover our real nature we have to follow the way this knowledge is,

Has been passed on by the tradition.

Anytime I speak of anything which raises the doubt,

Tell me,

That is the beauty of yoga.

Keep smiling and also there is no.

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So what we say?

Now see where we have arrived?

We want to achieve what is already within us.

What is within us?

The real self.

And what is the nature of the real self?

Pure awareness,

Truth,

Permanent peace,

Happiness,

Love and wisdom.

I have yet to achieve but now I have understood the destination.

What is the destination?

I have to go within myself.

I answered another way.

Sophie,

Your question.

The question you asked in the beginning.

No need to worry if they do not know.

I'm answering.

That is also the topic.

You see that?

So it means that real self is the source of that knowledge of the reality.

So what I have to do?

Allow the mind to touch that reality and that is why we have to move the mind within.

Move the mind within.

I think in the morning I had a wonderful encounter.

That was a group session here.

The person is extremely intelligent.

You cannot figure out where the gender is.

So that's why I'm using person.

I have all the examples every day in life,

In my family,

In my everyday.

Whenever I talk you see that that's how you can have a glimpse that how we live,

Think and work in this world.

Live into that state of permanent happiness.

So that person is extremely intelligent and every time I talk about it,

Person says I have understood.

It has been for the last one year.

Every week person is committed.

Now today after the meditation I always ask to share your experiences.

Turn of that person came,

The person said I have lot of problem.

I have lot of problem.

My nostrils are blocked.

I could not do it.

I was feeling discomfort.

That was his experience,

That was person's experience of the meditation.

There were 20 people.

Did I guide that person differently than other 19 people?

See,

So what blocked the knowledge?

What blocked that person not to have that experience?

Can you figure out?

And then you will know how long you have to treat this path.

That will make a sense.

So when I say I am real self means this I is the real self and that is permanent peace and happiness,

Love and wisdom.

Right?

Now I say I am suffering from lot of problems.

Where is the problem?

Where is the problem?

I am identifying myself with the body.

See that?

I identify with the body.

I am the body.

Then you build your big ego and that ego says come on you are suffering.

I could not do it.

I have no problem.

Why should I take my ego that why I am guiding you?

Why didn't you experience?

That is your problem.

That is your problem.

So what is that problem?

Our master says that problem is problem of ignorance.

That I understand real self is my nature but I have lot of pain.

I have been suffering a lot.

Why?

Because there is a strong identification that I is sitting in the body.

It doesn't want to leave the drop the identification.

So for for the sake of goody-goody talking yes real self that is what meditation helps but when it comes to challenges in my life then I say I have lot of problem.

I didn't say anything.

Now what is the solution?

So again we have to understand the solution.

So in another text the master says Sathasangatvi Nesasangatvan Nesasangatvi Nirmohatvan.

Sathasangat means company.

Company of what?

Company of those teachers who know this who is well versed with this knowledge.

Sathasang you have to listen to those crazy people again and again and again and again until the mind finds yes I got it.

So that is the first step.

So what happens by listening again and again and again one day mind says oh I have been deluded by my ego let me drop the ego and you are in peace and happiness.

So what happens?

Sathasangatvi Nesasangatvan first line Nesasangatvi Nirmohatvan.

So what happens by listening again and again and again and again?

Mind has been listening that I am the body that I have problem that I am suffering that my honey causes the problem to me because the money causes the problem to me.

Now by listening again and again these principles in different ways what happens?

Now the mind says I can see there is a center within me that is not at all affected.

You find a kind of de-identification,

Unattachment,

Detachment,

Dispassion.

We are totally detached with the neighbor's house let it happen whatever happens.

But when it comes to the body then we say no it is me.

So that kind of detachment has to be there.

So that comes by listening again and again.

So first step Sathasangatvi Nesasangatvan detachment.

So by listening again and again you your mind is becomes pure and the mind sows the seed of detachment.

So what happens by detachment?

So once the detachment is there you get rid of the delusion.

What is delusion?

What appears true is not true.

So what happens when the delusion is removed?

You get the right knowledge.

Tell me we know by science that the sky is not blue and still I know hundred percent that it is not.

Still whenever I see the sky it appears blue but I know it is not.

You see that?

I know it is not.

We know it is not.

We see the water in the miraz and the moment I have collected information that there is a sand,

There is a desert all around and I could see the desert at a longer,

At a much higher and longer far distance it is all desert but still I see the water.

So water in a miraz appears but it is not true but the knowledge inside tells me that there is no water.

It is a delusion.

The knowledge inside you tells you that the sky is not blue.

Are you getting it?

Science.

Same way the valid means of knowledge in yoga will tell you one day that you are real self not the body,

Not the breath,

Not the mind,

Not the intellect.

Am I am I making the thing simple?

See that.

Compare.

I see the sky is blue but I know it is hundred percent it is not.

It is because of the reflection.

I see the same body again.

Now I see come on worry.

I am not the worry.

I am the real self.

You are getting it?

Simple.

Same logic that the science uses.

Science uses inference.

The entire 90% of the physics is based on that logic,

Multiple logic.

What we say theoretical physics,

Metaphysics and ultimately we arrive at a conclusion and we understand here is the truth.

So then what happens?

So nirmohattva,

Right knowledge and that right knowledge awakens in the practice of meditation that reveals the real self and once the real self is revealed to you it is irreversible process.

It cannot be reversed.

That is the beauty.

So now find out what is the ultimate destination of meditation when I should reach to a irreversible state of peace and happiness,

Love and wisdom.

It cannot be reversed.

It can only come to you if you have such a long beard but only I and John have a luxury to have beard.

You don't have a luxury.

So is there no chance?

No,

We all are human beings.

You see that that is beautiful.

Whereas,

Sata sangatve nesasangatam and that is when I say I lived with my teacher for 26 years.

It is because of this and I have that experience.

What the crazy guy is speaking real self?

My mind used to think about it,

About my master but gradually when the changes takes place in the mind then everything changes around you.

How long you have been craving for that permanent peace and happiness?

You have been running,

Still running and running and running,

Days after days,

Weeks after weeks,

Months after months,

Years after years.

Where is permanent happiness?

Ask yourself so that it should stimulate your intellect and you start thinking of it.

We hardly think,

No I'm very busy to think of my own life.

What a great people we are.

I don't have time.

Okay,

You don't have time.

Why you are running?

Money.

What you do with the money?

To buy a thing.

Why you want to buy a thing?

To secure happiness.

So why don't you start the journey directly?

Such a long path.

I will be happy once I marry.

I will be happy when I divorce.

That is what I say days after days,

Weeks after weeks,

Months after months,

Years after years.

We are changing people.

We are changing the things.

We are changing the things.

I had a wonderful,

Beautiful,

Very small kid.

She is 13 and her father here in one of the other states.

So she is attending virtual lessons.

So her father heard me somewhere and he said to me that I want to see that she should get that knowledge.

So she booked me for a private lesson for almost 20 sessions.

I normally give two hours of lessons to her.

So today we were talking about that and she beautifully,

Wisely said,

After it has been after 10 hours.

So you see that how the knowledge is revealed when you are committed to yourself,

Not to me,

Not to a weekly lesson.

What the weekly lesson will do?

Nothing.

Okay,

I will stop and come into the next lesson.

No,

No,

Don't do that.

But pay attention to what the knowledge is there.

Contemplate and reflect on this.

Contemplate and reflect on this.

Now I got upset because my dad did not buy a cloth but then now I realize that I already have 20 pairs of cloths.

Yes,

I have 20 pairs and you told me that happiness is not containing in the cloths.

So it means happiness is within me.

I experienced that happiness within me and my anger and reaction calmed down.

I was so happy.

13 year old.

Knowledge does not know the barrier.

It has no barrier of the age,

Gender,

Color,

Anything,

Religion,

Provided I am ready for it or not.

One hour,

Listen to this guy,

What he says and forget the rest because I have been running in my life days after days,

Weeks after weeks,

Months after months,

Years after years.

I am living totally unsatisfied.

I will die unsatisfied.

That is why I'm running,

Running,

Running,

Running.

Ask yourself,

Think of it.

You all are wiser than that 13 year old girl.

Think of it,

Think,

Think,

Think in your mind.

Don't paralyze your intellect.

That is last point the master is saying and I always love it.

Oh there is a heaven.

Can I prove it by valid means of knowledge?

No,

Drop it.

Any teacher belonging to my tradition guides you something,

A mysticism.

Don't worry,

You use these mantras and your honey will be controlled.

Control yourself first.

Control yourself,

Change yourself first.

First change yourself.

Never be misguided by those invalid means of knowledge.

I have to change myself.

That is the journey of self-discovery and that is the journey of meditation.

I made you so serious.

Don't be so serious.

Continue days after days,

Weeks after weeks,

Months after months.

You have all the,

You have all the freedom.

Should I stop doing this?

I should not stop doing this.

Yoga teaches you how to do it in peace and happiness.

It doesn't say stop it.

It says days after days,

Weeks after weeks,

Months after months,

Years after years.

You have been searching for happiness and still it is deluding you.

That is why this knowledge is there.

So meditation doesn't mean that you practice for an hour and you rest time.

I forget.

It's fine.

No,

It has nothing to be.

This is what the journey of life,

The goal of life to discover that permanent peace and happiness.

Leave it.

I made you so serious.

Let us start our practice of meditation.

Close your eyes.

Close your eyes.

Close your eyes and looking inside,

Looking inside,

Looking inside the head or the heart.

Don't start looking inside your honey or any of your friend or enemy.

You have to look inside yourself.

What it means,

Understand every step.

That understanding will reveal the knowledge.

There is nothing which is blind belief.

So what it means by moving the mind within or facing inside the head and or the heart,

Your intellect knows.

What it knows?

That mind is searching within and inside.

The world is not present,

Including our honey,

Our family,

Our money.

Nothing is present.

That is the understanding awareness of mind facing within.

Then what happens when the mind is facing within?

You know that knowledge,

That awareness reveals that I am also not the body from the very first step.

But we don't go there so deeply in the beginning.

We say look at the body.

You see that now,

You see understanding,

I say look at the neck joint,

Be there,

Feel the sensation and comfortable and steadiness.

Simple.

When I am not this book or form,

I have nothing to do with it.

When I'm not the body,

When I can have that awareness,

Awareness beginning is to experience the sensation,

Comfortable and steadiness.

Why?

So that the mind which has entered unorganized in the body by various thoughts,

Feeling,

Emotions every day should not identify with the body and it will stop moving the body.

That understanding is required.

Oh yes,

In the beginning it comes by practice,

Practice,

Practice.

I have been telling you,

Knowing practice,

Knowing practice.

So now with that understanding,

Look at the shoulder joints.

Who is looking?

The mind.

But the mind is 100% aware that I am not the body.

So question of movement of the body doesn't arise and you stay there,

You have a feeling,

Feeling of sensation,

Comfortable and steadiness.

How simple it is my dear friends.

Move the mind on the hip joint,

Feel sensation,

Comfortable and steadiness.

The entire body.

You see there are two parts of the journey of meditation.

One is clarity,

Understanding and the knowledge is constantly present in the intellect.

One that is what we say seeking and practice.

You have closed your eyes,

You made your body steady and then the intellect lives with that understanding.

So seeking and searching,

Practice has two parts in the meditation.

Like driving has two parts.

Where are you driving?

You know it.

Can you see?

Can anyone see in your head where you are driving?

No,

But you are aware.

That's how you drive.

See that?

Be very clear.

In that state of the steadiness,

Now you are carefree and that is also a remarkable step.

Markable step.

You see I will be using the same word,

Same step,

But I'll take you deeper and deeper and deeper.

Step by step and then what is that carefree?

Free from cares.

Who cares me?

The mind,

How it cares by the past and present and the future thoughts and the feeling and the agenda.

Same thing.

What is the same thing?

Days after days,

Weeks after weeks,

Tell your mind at least for a few minutes,

Can you stop your gibberish talk?

But you don't fight with the mind.

Then what you do?

Then you separate in your mind.

You separate the blueness of the sky from the fact,

The truth of the color of the sky.

See that?

So what is that?

So how I explained that?

I explained you are standing across the road watching the traffic.

There is a mental traffic.

Let it come.

Let it go.

Who cares?

So when your intellect says who cares,

You become carefree instantly.

You enjoy the state.

Come on mind,

You may say that I'm crazy or happy,

Good or bad.

They are all your tantrums.

I'm not a part of it.

That is a part of the traffic.

I'm only standing across and watching you.

You see the greater the deeper clarity of knowledge and understanding.

Success in meditation is deeper my friends.

Now,

Now,

Now we do not know the accumulated impressions of the mind.

That accumulated impressions of the mind may return.

How I explained that?

Days after days,

Weeks after weeks,

Those impressions are accumulated.

They may return anytime.

Oh,

They may return anytime.

What should I do?

That is why we do the nyasa.

What is nyasa my friend?

What is nyasa?

It is deep,

Silent,

Slow breathing,

Not very deep so that the mind reacts to it.

Not very slow so that mind may fall into laziness or sleep.

You see,

You have to adjust that very soft,

Gentle,

Deeper breath.

What we are doing?

The intellect is fully aware,

Is watching the breath and then what we do?

Understand clearly this breath is a car.

You are driving.

You are driving.

You are driving.

You are driving.

You are driving.

You are driving.

Understand clearly this breath is a car.

You are driving.

Mind is the driver and where you are driving on the highway.

What is that highway?

It is the absence of the word inside the body.

So how you do it?

The moment you start inhaling,

Move the mind from right shoulder to the fingertips and become aware of the space and the blankness inside,

Reaching to the fingers and as you exhale,

Move the mind from the fingers.

Who is moving?

Exhaling car,

Driver,

Mind,

Driver.

Mind is the driver,

Car is the breath is the car and the mind is moving in the space inside.

At least mind needs to be educated what it means to leave the world outside.

Then the moment you leave the world outside,

No object,

No thought.

Can it happen in a day?

No,

It needs practice,

Practice,

Practice.

Now move the mind inside the left arm.

As you inhale,

The mind moves from the left shoulder to the fingertips,

From the fingertips as you exhale.

But what intellect is aware of?

The intellect is aware of the space,

The blankness.

Thought may come.

When you are driving the car,

Thought other cars are also running.

Are you attached to any other car except yours?

No,

No,

That is the way.

Let the thought come,

Let it go.

Because our mind is so much identified,

Why it is identified?

Remember again,

Days after days,

We have made our habit.

And then inside the right leg,

From the right side of the waist to the toes.

Now you see that you have a total freedom.

Breath is the car moving.

The moment you start inhaling,

You move the mind inside the space of the right leg and the moment you start exhaling.

And at the same time,

You will experience some tingling,

Some numbness,

Some freezing of the body,

Depending on the intensity of your awareness,

Not the intensity of the breath.

Remember,

See the point of understanding.

We are going little deeper,

The way we are doing today.

Now inside the left leg,

Moving the mind from the left side of the waist inside.

What is moving?

Breath is going into the lungs,

No doubt about it.

Yoga says yes,

It is happening.

But because we use the breath as a car,

We use the car,

We park the car into a garage and then only we can enter into the house,

The role of the car is gone.

That is what we are asking the,

That is what this practice,

This step is asking for.

So don't start putting wrong logic.

Just be into the practice with a clarity of understanding,

Knowledge.

The knowledge of the Eastern wisdom and yoga is different than now move the mind from the crown of the head as you inhale,

The mind moves,

Drops down.

I can say easily drops from the crown of the head to the tailbone and as you exhale,

The mind rises from the tailbone to the crown of the head.

Where in the space,

In the blankness,

In the emptiness,

Which is not a big deal to be aware of,

Why the space,

Absence of the world,

But why to discover our real nature.

So now you have a clarity of understanding that helps a great deal.

Now there is a natural focus that returns.

Can we add one more thing as you inhale,

Drop the mantra,

Mentally,

Om Shanti,

When you exhale again,

Om Shanti,

Why we do it?

What is Om?

We will understand this Om is the name of the real self.

As your name is Sophie,

Michelle and me,

Yeah.

So as you inhale,

Mind is moving inside,

Dropping Om Shanti.

So now this Om Shanti is significant in the intellect because of understanding.

Shanti means peace.

Om is the real self and what is real self we have understood?

It is a pure consciousness.

Does the pure consciousness have any color,

Shape,

Size,

Can it be divided?

No.

So the intellect keeps with that awareness,

The way we keep our awareness that the space is,

The sky is not blue.

So we are still taking the support of the breath.

Continue.

So now we have to park the car that is the breath in the garage.

Means what?

Stop doing the deep silence,

Low breath.

Allow the breath to be normal.

Okay.

Now every time the breath goes in the normal breath,

No change.

Body remains still,

You may find variety of experience in the body,

No worries.

The moment the breath goes in,

The mind looks inside the forehead and at the same time it drops.

Om Shanti,

Just an awareness.

Breath returns Om Shanti,

But the point in the space inside the forehead remains the same.

Only one thing remains the same.

The breath changes,

Every time Om Shanti changes.

Your awareness,

So it does not mean that you are hard focusing.

It is not hard focus,

It is natural.

Every time the breath goes in,

The mind looks for the point and you drop Om Shanti.

As if Om Shanti returns with the breath outside,

In,

Out.

No change in the in and out of the breath at this moment.

So you bypass the body and the breath and the moment and the moment you bypass means you transcend the body and the breath.

That leads you to a deeper state.

That is why we are doing.

Om Shanti So only you change the awareness.

Now the point of awareness goes deep inside the heart.

Just at the center of the rib cage here,

When we say heart is the seat of your consciousness.

We are not talking the physical heart.

So casually the breath goes in and the mind casually looks inside the heart dropping the Om Shanti.

What is the one point that is common?

Every time you are aware of a point in the space inside the heart.

That is the key.

But how it happens is that the mind happens because of understanding,

Because of knowledge.

Knowledge does not have a shape,

Size,

Name,

Form,

Color.

You see that it is pointed by the word,

The language.

Om Shanti.

But at the same time the intellect is aware.

Om Shanti means I am the Om Shanti.

Om is real self and it is oozing out that peace in the space at a point you are looking at.

Om Shanti Now inside the belly button pick up a point in the space.

So what is common?

The point in the space.

One breath goes in Om Shanti that comes out Om Shanti while being aware of the point in the space inside the belly button.

Second Om Shanti,

Third Om Shanti,

Breath,

Third,

Second,

Fourth and continue.

That is what happens when you are driving home.

We need not to repeat I am going home,

I am going home.

Let the time come when we need not to say Om Shanti and we know.

And do nothing,

Remain as you are.

So what is the meaning of doing nothing?

Mind is not doing anything.

Why?

If the mind does anything it made it turn outside.

So we are asking the mind just be there.

Thoughts are there okay but do nothing.

So when you live into that state of doing nothing in that state one day the knowledge will be revealed.

One day when you are in that state of doing nothing the knowledge will be revealed.

Another way to understand doing nothing means what?

Mind,

Servant of mind is your will,

Is your body.

So if you are doing nothing,

Body,

You have already transcended the body.

Pick up the understanding.

Om Shanti Shanti Shanti Om Shanti Shanti Shanti Om Shanti Shanti Shanti Om Shanti Bring your awareness on the right hand,

Your awareness on the left hand.

Lift your Buddha palms,

Place it on your eyes,

Open the eyes inside,

Know your experiences and bring the hands down my friends.

We will share our experiences to know progress.

Bring the hands down.

How are you Sophie?

My mind was a little bit lazy but then all of a sudden I woke up.

Yeah,

Yeah,

Yeah,

It happened.

And then I felt very good.

Feel very good.

Let the time come as we continue the journey,

We will understand there are nine obstacles on the path.

And if you really understand,

Out of the nine,

Eight obstacles belongs to the mind.

And you will understand a very subtler levels of craziness of the mind.

So once you understand and you keep that mind at bay,

Mind is already pure,

You can enter into that state.

So laziness is one of them.

Why I remember laziness?

How are you Mead?

Coming,

Coming home.

Coming,

That's beautiful.

That's a beautiful coming home.

Yes,

Yes,

That's a beautiful expression.

So you see that when you come home,

You feel relaxed.

Sometimes people go home,

They become more stressed.

No,

I'm not saying funny anyone but that also happens.

How are you Michelle?

I think I must have visited Sophie because my mind was very lazy today.

I actually,

I think I dozed on and off different forms of consciousness.

That is okay?

That is okay.

That is okay?

That is okay.

So you see that we recognize the mind dozed off.

And then the next time if you are doing a regular practice,

The time comes,

Mind knows why it is dozing off and remain aware and alert during the practice.

So it's all a journey.

How are you John?

How am I?

My nostrils are blocked.

That's a good point.

No,

They're not blocked.

Unlike your person earlier today.

I think I achieved a certain amount of detachment and I appreciated all your explanations,

Which I found very helpful.

So thank you.

Wonderful.

It is very important.

I have been saying again and again,

The knowledge,

Understanding is extremely important.

Don't leave any area of the mind blind.

If it is blind,

You have all the nine obstacles.

Now understand in a different way.

See me,

Michelle.

So when you say dozed off or laziness and I woke up again,

Because the mind is blind,

Not knowing what it is doing.

As if we are drunk and driving on a highway.

You see the similes and metaphor.

Understand with that.

Boris,

I and Ann know.

Boris also,

I think Michelle also knows.

So Boris was driving in my early days in US and he told me,

You see that on the corner of a road,

When your vehicle,

When your tire moves on the extreme corner,

You know,

It starts making a noise.

So they have made a certain cut.

If you are drunk and you know it,

It is in New Jersey,

It is here also.

What this,

I don't remember what it's,

What is the specific name of it.

So on each side.

So on each side.

Yeah,

On each side.

Yeah,

On each side.

So,

So you see that why it made it so because if you are drunk and suddenly there is a noise and you wake up.

So I got the simile from there.

Yes,

That is the right way.

How are you Ann?

Yeah,

It was nice.

I overrode my unruly thoughts and I feel fine.

So you have to remain fine.

You have to remain fine.

They will attack you again.

That's right.

So remain vigilant,

Remain vigilant.

Yes,

Sophie,

What is the question?

I have in every group,

There is one or two people,

They are ready to ask a question.

So what is the,

Do you have any question today?

So how do you remain two things?

First of all,

During this week,

I saw a lot of white during meditation,

And then I thought it was your beard.

John,

Be careful.

It was my beard,

Very good.

White color represents a purified state of the mind.

So that reveals the knowledge.

So knowledge might not have been revealed.

But if we continue to do the practice and we continue to do the practice,

We will be able to do the knowledge.

So we will be able to do the knowledge and we will be able to do the practice and we continue to see the white color,

The knowledge reveals.

And what is the next question?

So how do you,

How do you stay,

Like if you,

The meditation is,

I wouldn't say completely successful,

But it's quite good.

How do you stay during the day all the time?

Answer me,

How do you remember every time you wake up that your name is Sophie,

Not Michelle?

No.

How do you know that you have this house?

Is this yours?

How do you know that there guy I see,

John,

Is yours,

Not somebody else?

How do you know?

How do you know?

Is it remembering?

So one master says it is remembering,

Yes.

So do I have a self-remembering 24 by 7?

Done.

Done.

Done.

One way to answer your question,

See that,

See,

Understand.

So,

But why I forget?

That is the most important thing.

Why I forget?

Because of your mind,

Mind returns to the body,

It says I am the body.

So not only because of the wrong notions we have created in the mind,

It has a very thick deposit,

Very thick layer.

You can thin it by regular practice,

Regular practice,

Regular practice.

One day you never forget.

You never forget.

Have you ever forgotten your name and you say,

You know,

Today I woke up and I,

My mind said I am Ann,

I'm Michelle,

I'm me,

Or forget about all others,

They live in different houses,

I'm John.

You never forget.

So now see what is forgetfulness?

You'll be amazed how mind or masters explain forgetfulness,

One and the doubt.

Both,

One master explains when knowledge sleeps then you forget.

You have a doubt when the knowledge sleeps.

So the knowledge of the reality sleeps in the mind.

That is why.

So the same thing,

Listening,

Learning the knowledge step by step and understanding,

Regular practice will take you to that state of self-remembering 24 by seven.

I don't want to bore you,

That is all.

Thank you,

My friends.

Thank you.

Michelle is a beautiful expression.

People sometimes get tired of listening to me.

People sometimes get tired because of listening to me.

Do the practice I'm saying.