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Old 02-11-2019, 12:18 PM
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Have you heard the Deva Premal version of this song?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5Ca-VIzQH0

I've listened to a lot of Deva Premal's videos but I hadn't heard this one. Thanks for sharing.
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Old 03-11-2019, 03:51 AM
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“Everyone is looking for peace and happiness. Everyone wants to be happy and peaceful, without any restrictions. So here, with Advaita Vedanta, we hear about a teach- ing of one path, non-duality. And we become interested in this, thinking that if we become self-realized, well be very happy, very peaceful. This is a big mistake. For as long as you feel that you're going to be self-realized, you never will be self-realized. For you're already self-realized. You're already awake. You're already free and liberated.

And thinking that the body can become self-realized is a big mistake. The body can never be self-realized. Yet you believe you've got a body, and trying to make it self- realized. You can’t do this. What you must do is to let go of the body completely, totally. Not looking for anything, not desiring anything, just being your Self, and then things begin to happen.

There is only Brahman. There is only the Self. There is only absolute reality ap- pearing as the world, as people, places, and things.“

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Old 03-11-2019, 04:33 AM
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I've listened to a lot of Deva Premal's videos but I hadn't heard this one. Thanks for sharing.
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Old 03-11-2019, 04:34 AM
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There are no problems. Read my lips. (laughter) No problems. But you may say, "Well this is happening in my life, and I'm going through this and I'm going through that." That's not a problem. That's your belief system. You have been brought up to believe certain things are terrible and certain things are wonderful. Consequently you're living in this kind of a world, duality, good and bad, right and wrong, up and down, backwards and forwards. You therefore feel all these things. Why not let go? Do it. Do not think anymore of these things. Simply stop thinking, by catching yourself every time you think, catching yourself and becoming aware of the thinker. That stops your thoughts. For instance, there's a thought in your mind regarding sickness, death, lack, limitation. Before the thought becomes stronger, remember to catch yourself, and just look at the thought. That's how you catch yourself, by observing the observer of the thought. This all happens by itself. As you catch yourself more and more, you begin to realize that you are the observer, watching yourself observe the thought, and you begin to laugh.

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“ Always remember a Sage is not a yogi. They do not teach meditation practices, or hatha yoga, raja yoga, ashtanga yoga. The Sage does absolutely nothing. Meaning there is no thing of theSage left. The Sage is an empty shell. Yet the empty shell walks, talks, goes to the bathroom, eats, and most people don't like to see this.

They say something like this. How can this person be a Sage? He acts like we do. This is a paradox. How do you want the Sage to act? What do you expect of a Sage? What you expect is erroneous. Expect nothing and get everything. Expect something and get nothing. It’s simplicity in itself. Just be yourself. Don't put on an act of some kind, or imagine you're holy or spiritual, be yourself.You are that right now.

What you've been looking for, that's what you are right now. You are totally liber- ated right now, totally free right this minute. Can you feel it? Feel your freedom. Feel all the pain leaving you. All your negative emotions are disappearing. Feel yourself melting in consciousness.

Feel your Essence becoming all-pervading. You have become boundless space. And all the planets, trees, mountains, are superimpositions on your Self.”

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“ You have to somehow transcend the I-thought. And this is done by forgetting all the knowledge that you have up to now. All the knowledge that you know. Everything you've been taught since childbirth has to be given up. All your beliefs, all your dogmas, preconceived ideas, they all have to go. When they're gone, you rest in the Self, and you will be unconditioned, choiceless, awareness. You see the beautiful thing about all of this, you are already enlightened. You are already self-realized.

The truth is you have nothing to transcend, nothing to overcome. Silence is your reality. Stop thinking. Be silent. Be quiet. Allow the mind to become quiescent. Never mind what's going on. What is going on is always going on, and will keep going on when you've gone. Do not concern yourself with this world, or get caught up in it, and it will be like the world will come and go. Sitting back from the world, you remember who you really are, what you really are.”

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“ When you say to yourself, I am effortless, choiceless, pure awareness, this transcends the past, transcends the future, it transcends everything and awakens you to the Self which you are now. Awaken to that Self right now: Awaken to it! Awaken to it, right now! To your true Self.

You come to sit with me to realize, that there is no teacher, there's no truth, there's no teaching. There is only the One, and you are That. I am not your teacher, there is no teacher. I Am. I Am the universal. I Am That I Am.”

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You have to somehow transcend the I-thought.
And this is done by forgetting all the knowledge that you have up to now.
All the knowledge that you know. Everything you've been taught since childbirth has to be given up. .

Yes! And this is actually the beginning Lessons of ACIM....
example, "Nothing I see means anything"...(the thing we call a wastebasket ....the door knob...the TV...ha) :)
The first few days of Lessons are surprising powerful in creating the 'mind shift' - talk about forgetting!
Cleaning the slate!
(And it's channeled from Jesus so you know it's gotta be good, lol)



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