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Table of Contents Foreword Who is Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj? Translators Note Editors Note 1. The Sense of ‘I am’ 2. Obsession with the body 3. The Living Present 4. Real World is Beyond the Mind 5. What is Born must Die 6. Meditation 7. The Mind 8. The Self Stands Beyond Mind 9. Responses of Memory 10. Witnessing 11. Awareness and Consciousness 12. The Person is not Reality 13. The Supreme, the Mind and the Body 14. Appearances and the Reality 15. The Jnani 16. Desirelessness, the Highest Bliss 17. The Ever-Present 18. To Know What you Are, Find What you Are Not 19. Reality lies in Objectivity 20. The Supreme is Beyond All 21. Who am I? 22. Life is Love and Love is Life 23. Discrimination leads to Detachment 24. God is the All-doer, the Jnani a Non-doer 25. Hold on to ‘I am’ 26. Personality, an Obstacle 27. The Beginningless Begins Forever 28. All Suffering is Born of Desire 29. Living is Life’s only Purpose 30. You are Free NOW 31. Do not Undervalue Attention 52. Being Happy, Making Happy is the Rhythm of Life 53. Desires Fulfilled, Breed More Desires 54. Body and Mind are Symptoms of Ignorance 55. Give up All and You Gain All 56. Consciousness Arising, World Arises 57. Beyond Mind there is no Suffering 58. Perfection, Destiny of All 59. Desire and Fear: Self-centred States 60. Live Facts, not Fancies 61. Matter is Consciousness Itself 62. In the Supreme the Witness Appears 63. Notion of Doership is Bondage 64. Whatever pleases you, Keeps you Back 65. A Quiet Mind is All You Need 66. All Search for Happiness is Misery 67. Experience is not the Real Thing 68. Seek the Source of Consciousness 69. Transiency is Proof of Unreality 70. God is the End of All Desire and Knowledge 71. In Self-awareness you Learn about Yourself 72. What is Pure, Unalloyed, Unattached is Real 73. Death of the Mind is Birth of Wisdom 74. Truth is Here and Now 75. In Peace and Silence you Grow 76. To Know that You do not Know, is True Knowledge 77. 'I' and 'Mine' are False Ideas
32. Life is the Supreme Guru 33. Everything Happens by Itself 34. Mind is restlessness Itself 35. Greatest Guru is Your Inner Self 36. Killing Hurts the Killer, not the Killed 37. Beyond Pain and Pleasure there is Bliss 38. Spiritual Practice is Will Asserted and Reasserted 39. By Itself Nothing has Existence 40. Only the Self is Real 41. Develop the Witness Attitude 42. Reality can not be Expressed 43. Ignorance can be Recognised, not Jnana 44. 'I am' is True, all else is Inference 45. What Comes and Goes has no Being 46. Awareness of Being is Bliss 47. Watch Your Mind 48. Awareness is Free 49. Mind Causes Insecurity 50. Self-awareness is the Witness 51. Be Indifferent to Pain and Pleasure 78. All Knowledge is Ignorance 79. Person, Witness and the Supreme 80. Awareness 81. Root Cause of Fear 82. Absolute Perfection is Here and Now 83. The True Guru 84. Your Goal is Your Guru 85. ‘I am’: The Foundation of all Experience 86. The Unknown is the Home of the Real 87. Keep the Mind Silent and You shall Discover 88. Knowledge by the Mind, is not True Knowledge 89. Progress in Spiritual Life 90. Surrender to Your Own Self 91. Pleasure and Happiness 92. Go Beyond the l-am-the-body Idea 93. Man is not the Doer 94. You are Beyond Space and Time 95. Accept Life as it Comes 96. Abandon Memories and Expectations 97. Mind and the World are not Separate 98. Freedom from Self-identification 99. The Perceived can not be the Perceiver 100. Understanding leads to Freedom 101. Jnani does not Grasp, nor Hold Appendix-1: Who is Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Appendix-2: Navnath Sampradaya Foreword That there should be yet another addition of I AM THAT is not surprising, for the sublimity of the words spoken by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, their directness and the lucidity with which they refer to the Highest have already made this book a literature of paramount importance. In fact, many regard it as the only book of spiritual teaching really worth studying. There are various religions and systems of philosophy which claim to endow human life with meaning. But they suffer from certain inherent limitations. They couch into fine-sounding words their traditional beliefs and ideologies, theological or philosophical. Believers, however, discover the limited range of meaning and applicability of these words, sooner or later. They get disillusioned
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Page 5 and 6: happens spontaneously, without inte
Page 7 and 8: vastness and variety of the Indian
Page 9 and 10: And can you validly talk about your
Page 11 and 12: M: Who can say? It happened so. Thi
Page 13 and 14: M: Desire is the memory of pleasure
Page 15 and 16: M: Causality, even as a concept, do
Page 17 and 18: understand its causes and its worki
Page 19 and 20: Q: Are you not immersed timelessly
Page 21 and 22: Q: If my real self is peace and lov
Page 23 and 24: Q: I was born, I shall die. M: Can
Page 25 and 26: Q: Still, memory is there to prove
Page 27 and 28: Q: What does it mean to know myself
Page 29 and 30: M: Of course. Q: What are your drea
Page 31 and 32: You may not be quite conscious of y
Page 33 and 34: mind is flooded with light. The ope
Page 35 and 36: Identity remains, but identity is n
Page 37 and 38: Q: I am not enquiring about the cau
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Page 41 and 42: M: That's what you say! Did God com
Page 43 and 44: Q: Is all imaginable unreal? M: Ima
Page 45 and 46: Before desiring, deserve. Q: I am e
Page 47 and 48: M: It helps you to understand what
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Q: I am what I know myself to be. M
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negation. Q: How can I see the worl
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Q: I can now understand that I am n
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M: They are not the same and pain i
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Q: It takes time to know oneself. M
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Q: We talk of divine virtue. M: Tru
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Q: Still the outer helps. M: How mu
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Q: Why should he answer so? M: Beca
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M: You should consider more closely
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Q: Why should pleasure be the seed
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est and apparent darkness, when the
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Q: Isn't God a person? M: As long a
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Questioner: Are you ever glad or sa
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M: As bad as to remember oneself co
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M: How can it be? Aren't they contr
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M: A life lived thoughtfully, in fu
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M: In memory. Even then, what is re
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Q: Can't they co-exist, as the tumu
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M: That is what you are told. Is it
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M: Because the element of happiness
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Questioner: What does it mean to fa
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M: Their destiny is what happens. T
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M: Wherever it leads you, it will b
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Q: But what can I do here and now?
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M: There is absolutely no differenc
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accordance with the true nature of
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Q: Nature kills by the millions, bu
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know your true nature, you must hav
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states of the mind and their conten
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M: Why talk like this? Such express
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M: His case is registered in consci
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Q: It gave me good health and a mea
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you expect to find? Q: The true kno
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Q: I am not talking of pleasing, bu
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confidence are strong, they will op
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M: Only in matters pertaining to th
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M: It is all right. When there is t
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Q: Sri Ramana Maharshi died. What d
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Q: It is pain that is at the root o
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Q: It does not make me aware. M: Wa
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You tend to say: "This is real. Tha
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can be lived. Maharaj: The experien
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what I am willing to give? Q: You s
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Q: Not everybody has the chance of
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eflection only in the focus of cons
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with. Q: This world is so rich and
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notice is taken. The mind is a form
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so on. But to me the entire commoti
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M: The causes of perversity are als
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you are their slave. By imagining t
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troubles me. I offer no resistance
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M: When you are hurt, you cry. Why?
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un, never still, never fully reflec
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that it is due to the habit of taki
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these defines the person. You think
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child of chaos. To find order you m
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Q: I guess it does not. But I have
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M: If you are earnest, you don't ne
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Q: Is there a way for me to speed u
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M: You can observe the observation,
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Q: As you talk to us just now, are
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Q: What is meditation and what are
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enormous good. If they ask you what
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accidental when its causes are untr
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the space as ruined or intact? It i
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Q: If it is not the natural, or nor
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explosion will set it right. You ha
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me she resisted, any attempt to go
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53. Desires Fulfilled, Breed More D
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Q: I have been barren for the last
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As to method, there is only one --
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M: A prince who believes himself to
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dream and I know that you must wake
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Questioner: When an ordinary man di
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covers up the world as it is, with
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Maharaj: There is not much differen
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change. Pain is essential for the s
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Q: Does the Guru then dismiss, or d
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Of course, not every activity of ma
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M: When more people come to know th
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M: There is no wall, because there
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consciousness Itself. You are the s
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childhood. She was badly mutilated
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62. In the Supreme the Witness Appe
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Q: Do you mean to say you are quite
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There was not much of thinking or s
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very fortunate to be brought here.
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Q: But who creates the world? M: Th
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Q: Must we not suffer to grow? M: I
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M: They don't. The sense of identit
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66. All Search for Happiness is Mis
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M: To what purpose? Q: In order to
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Q: University education is most use
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need no bread. You need cessation,
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will accept the conditions and some
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all. Two people talk to each other
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Q: No, I cannot. M: How do you know
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ack to life? What wakes you up in t
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Q: You mean to say that I become Go
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Q: How can one live without emotion
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The legitimate function of the mind
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M: Break the bonds of memory and se
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Q: Sir, let me first come to know w
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Q: Must I not use effort to arrest
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Q: Why do you want to annihilate th
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Q: Are awareness and love one and t
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M: Oh no, you are compelled to desi
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changes in his entire being. It is
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with flowers, then burnt and the as
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Maharaj: What about science? Q: Sci
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the paths take you to the purificat
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which neither sensory nor the menta
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M: The outer represent the inner, t
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Q: When a truth-seeker earnestly pr
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Q: Why am I so engrossed? M: Becaus
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law, none compels to suffer. It is
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M: Have a better look at yourself.
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Q: There are people whom I love. Mu
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pencil can draw innumerable picture
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M: The mind ceased producing events
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M: Both. It is unreal when we say:
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died, I lived on. His words proved
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witnessing dissolves in the Supreme
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Q: I am the river too. M: Of course
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them experiences for the lack of a
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Q: I cannot say. But as a result of
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Q: What remains when the ‘I am’
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of saying that wars are inevitable
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it. Q: But you love everything! M:
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Q: How can action born from imperfe
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knowledge is in memory; it is only
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Accept my words on trust and live a
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play for a time. They will sober up
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Q: I have a Guru and I love him ver
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then realise the self. It is defini
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M: When the content is viewed witho
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Questioner: Who is the Guru and who
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M: I remain conscious, but not cons
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M: If your motives are pure, if you
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Q: It may be inferred and yet it is
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Q: Is the ‘I am’ the Ultimate?
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M: The catch is in your mind, which
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what is not true -- which is enough
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encourage. Q: What am I expected to
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Ramanashram; now I am on my way bac
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Q: Must one endure suffering, howev
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destructive of true happiness. Q: I
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through to the Yogi my friend’s l
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power to bring it into the now. Q:
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Q: I attended one of the group medi
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Q: But ultimately is there a world,
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perfection. Everybody loves his bod
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with happiness. Usually you have to
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M: The person, the 'I am this body,
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stop a river. Too many factors are
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Q: I respond to what you say, but I
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M: No, this is but an introduction.
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M: You must find your own way. Unle
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Q: I cannot make out whether I am t
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Q: What is right and what is wrong?
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M: Do you realise that as long as y
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knowing what your next step should
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unchangeable, which appears to be a
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Q: Not at all. The memory of the la
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a matter of courage, the courage to
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M: All change affects the mind only
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Q: If I remain passive, nothing wil
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Q: I have understood that personali
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Q: Even at the Moment of death? M:
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not affected by the availability of
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atmosphere of timelessness about hi
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