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Michael Singer: Jai Guru Dev, Jai Masters. One could say there are many stages on the spiritual path. It’s both true and not true. The truth of the matter is there are layers and layers and layers and layers and layers, not just stages. Each person, every individual, every human. Is here. They took birth because they’re blocked. They’re stuff stored inside of their energy flow, their Shakti flow that keeps it from going up and the entire purpose of your birth, despite anything anybody tells you.
Otherwise, the entire purpose of your birth is to go back up with less than you came down with. It’s that simple. Will you reach total liberation in this lifetime? Some have, but it doesn’t matter. You go back up with less than you came down with. Many people go back up with more than they came down with, and it’s really not that funny.
That is a wasted journey, a wasted round. Why would I go back with more than I came down with? ’cause what you came down with, and it’s very deep. People think they’re working on themselves when they’re just working on the surface. Rarely. You would see something so foundational down there that scared you to death.
It’s been there from when you were born. You’ve always been like that. It’s just this fear, this something down there that is running things, and you have layers and layers that it comes up in manifest. You were in a past lifetime, you’re abused and things went wrong, and whatever it is, right? So when you come down.
It really lays a foundation like some people carried fears fixations about something that they don’t even understand why. Why am I so afraid of heights? I’m so afraid of being blamed for something I didn’t do, or whatever the heck it is. There’s lots of stuff, and so I don’t talk about pest lives. Your personality is the manifestation of the, some scars that you came down with and what you did about them.
That’s why psychology says, you know, the sum of your learned experiences. No, you are the sum of your learned experiences put on top of what you came down with. It did not start neutral. And people talk to ’em about, I had twins ever since they were born. They’re just totally different. Mm-hmm. Same gene, same this, same everything.
Okay. Because you’re not clean when it comes down. And why did one kid go in this direction and that direction this? And they’re like, I don’t wanna talk about it. I’m not here to prove anything. But usually I don’t talk about his lies at all. But in the deep traditions, and that includes, I had a Rabbi, Hasidic rabbi tell me that in the ancient times.
Judaism believed in reincarnation and certainly in the Buddhist and the Hindu tradition, and in many others, there is the teaching of reincarnation and there’s enlightened masters that transcended everything, emerged at everything and they all say it. You are a soul that is evolving and it is not like at the end if you don’t make it.
The GI is so beautiful at one point. Haruna asked Krishna, okay, you tell me there’s this very high state of liberation of, uh, a liberated soul. I reached, I did it. I’m done. And then there’s these low states where we’re here and we got all these desires and fears and anxieties. And so Krishna are teaching me that the path of yoga is to discipline oneself and to try to raise the energy, always raise the energy up toward enlightenment, up toward the higher things.
And then June is so beautiful. He says, well, Christian, what happens if I do that? I spend this lifetime doing that, and I don’t make it. Aren’t I like a cloud caught in between heaven and earth, and lightning will come down and strike me and just blow it away and dissipate it. I wasted a whole lifetime, and Christian’s answer is just so beautiful.
He said, no, no, no, no. That’s not how it works. He says, in your next incarnation, at some point, not immediately. At some point you’ll pick up where you left off. Always you lose nothing of what you gained in your disciplined life and your spiritual life. Okay? And then he says a really, really beautiful thing.
I know I won’t get exact a long time I read it, but you’ll know. He says, and perhaps per chance you’ll be so blessed. That you’ll drop down into yo Guinea’s womb in the lap of piety itself, and it was born into a yogi’s house to where that’s what takes you from the beginning, right? Isn’t that beautiful?
And so this is how it talks about your next life and so on. So basically, you are here to grow. That says so much. It’s so beautiful to start your understanding of your life. Certainly at the point we are now to understand I’m not here to be perfect. If I was perfect, I wouldn’t be here. I’m not here to not have trouble.
Trouble is evidence that I’m not done. A great master has no trouble ever. I told you they asked Roman Krishna once fully enlightened being does an enlightened master ever feel anger. And he said, yes they do. But it’s like riding on water. It just comes and passes through like anything else. So I saying, does the master ever feel wind?
Yeah, sure. Okay. It just passes through. It doesn’t make any difference. It leaves no impressions. It leaves, no, some scars. It leaves no karma because you didn’t resist it. Any energy can just pass unless it has an obstacle, unless it has some force resisting it, not how Newton talks reaction equal and opera reaction, something has to stop, otherwise it keeps going.
So if an event happens to you, any event in this life, it comes in, you experience it and it passes through. It’s not that you don’t experience it. Well, that’s wonderful. That means you’re done there. That’s an area you don’t need to be working on. Well, what happens if something comes in e pass through? I didn’t like it.
I couldn’t handle it. No, no. Then you are saying your consciousness, your soul is sitting there saying, no, I don’t want this to have happened. I teach it all the time. The trouble is it did. Don’t worry. If it didn’t happen, don’t even thinking about it. That’s crazy. But if it did happen, don’t say I don’t want it to have happened.
Why? ’cause that means you resist. And when you resist the energy that comes in, you push it down and hold it inside of you. And that’s what your spiritual growth is about. And don’t ever think’s about anything else. It’s not about what happened to you, it’s about how you handle what happened to you. So basically things happen.
They’re supposed to happen. It’s a happening place. Somebody once asked me, isn’t it true that, God, now I’m gonna talk very deeply to here, that God is so amazing that he manifests for each person exactly what they need for their growth, what they’re going through, and the world is rearranged so that that’s there.
Okay. My mind says, well, I, I like God a lot and I give him a lot of credit. But if we’re standing next to each other and you need something to happen and I don’t, how’s that work out? Or, I need the opposite to happen. And what you find out and listen to me, okay, is. What’s happening is the event is impersonal.
I always teach you that, and it’s very hard for you because you take it very, very personal. The event is impersonal. It is not raining. ’cause God doesn’t like you and it’s your birthday. You do not have a miscarriage. Because God didn’t want you to have another child. Well, what’s happening, what’s happening is some people can handle a situation.
Some people can’t handle a situation, so if the same situation happens in front of both people, it won’t bother one person and will bother the other person. That means one person needed it for their growth. And the other person didn’t need it for their growth, but they both experienced the same thing. So it’s not what happened that matters.
It’s what it hit inside of you that matters. And what hit inside of you is exactly what you need for your growth all the time. Do you see the difference? So God can just sit back in his easy chair, you know, here, okay, go about your business. ’cause you guys, he developed a school that’s phenomenal. Imagine if you went to school in a math class and everybody was at different levels and what was being taught hit each person at the level they were at.
That’s a perfect school. Earth is a perfect school. Earth is a place that souls the center to evolve. It did a perfect school. That’s why it’s here. Well, how do I know what course I should take? You’ll know, but, but why did that have to happen? The very fact that you’re asking why did it have to happen means you needed it to happen.
I mean, it was like karma. I don’t like that word. I know it’s a truth to it, but it’s so misused. If I use the word karma to you, you think it was a punishment. You did something wrong. You have bad karma, you have to pay for that. Or, oh, you did real good. You get good karma, good things will happen, right?
That’s basically saying you’re in charge of the universe and not that God will decide what happens. You get to decide what happens. Just behave a certain way and you get what, right? So you’re, you’re creating the structure. No. What’s happening is events are happening. Events are happening. It rains, it snows, it’s hot, it’s cold.
People are nice. People are not nice. People say nice things. They say mean things, yes or no. Have you noticed? It’s a happening place. Okay. If you are okay with it, it’s okay. You didn’t need it. It doesn’t mean it can’t happen. If you have trouble with temperature below 43 and above 90 and everything in between, you’re okay with, it’s not that it’s not going to be the in between temperatures ’cause you don’t need them.
It’s that you don’t need ’em, so you don’t even notice ’em. It doesn’t matter. But if something happens that hits your stuff, what does that mean? Stuff you store down there. So if something happens to hit your stuff, for example, you hurt somebody. In the past, and now you’ve grown some and you don’t feel good about it, it’s bothering you.
I’m telling you, everything will hit that. So they say, oh, Christina called me yesterday. That’s the person you hurt. But it’s not that, Christina, it still bother you. Your heart will go because you carried something in there about that. Is that your karma? No. It’s God’s universe behaving exactly like it should.
She got what she’s supposed to get. No. I’m telling you, it hits something in. People that do terrible things doesn’t mean they don’t suppress them. I’ve worked with, I told you, I went 30 years max in prison. Worked with a lot of people. It’s not that deep inside. They don’t have feelings and they don’t know.
That they hurt somebody That is out of balance. Okay? They rationalize it, they suppress it, they justify it. They hang out with people who did it. Also, there’s all kinds of ways to hide the underneath reality of what you have stored down there. So basically, events happen. They hit your stuff to give you a chance to work it through.
There are no punishments. There’s only school. I tell you God is love, but what all this karma stuff and going to hell Wanna hear my idea of hell mess up your mind so bad. The only time you’re okay is when you entertain yourself outside and it distracts you from yourself. You’re getting everything the way you want it to be.
You’re forcing people to be the want them to be. Just, I can live with what’s going on in there because of the outside situations that I’m distracting myself with the vacations and the money, with the marriages, with this, with children. I’ve distracted my consciousness from hanging out in here. Okay, goodbye.
Death. There is no out there. There’s no movies, there’s no drugs, there’s no this, there’s no that. Ah, like putting me in solitary confinement. I get stuck inside myself. Well, there’s a nice definition of hell and there are people who teach that. Your hell is inside of you. So it’s all about what you have stored in there.
Everything, the whole concept of karma, the whole concept of coming down and growing through and evolving, and not evolving and all that stuff is all you. It’s all because what you have stored in there. That’s how perfect it is. There’s nothing that’s happening that doesn’t need to be happening. ’cause if it doesn’t need to be happening, you won’t notice it.
So it doesn’t matter. It’s so hard to talk about. ’cause it’s like 16 level chess now it’s 65 trillion level chess and that’s God’s dance. You know, that’s what’s happening. Okay. So that basically you are here for one reason and only one reason, but we’ll, we’ll qualify that in a second so you don’t misunderstand.
You are here. To empty the junk that you have stored inside of you and to not put more in that is why you took birth. That is why every single situation takes place that you interact with. Good, bad, like, dislike. I don’t care every single thing. If it hit your stuff, it’s ’cause you have stuff. If it didn’t hit your stuff, if you don’t have stuff, how’s that?
By definition, I used to tell a story. The white lines in the road don’t bother you. How many times do you freak out about the white lines in the road? They’re dashed. Oh my god. They’re yellow. Oh my God. They’re white. They’re double. No, you don’t remember them. You don’t do it unless you happen to be one of the dudes who paints the white lines.
They sit in the back and they pull that little handle. You’ve seen him, right? And this guy was a dribbling. He just left little dribbles, and so he got fired. He got fired from his job. I tell you right now, if he drives by a line that’s not perfectly straight or sometimes it’s not perfectly straight, he has trouble.
How about this guy didn’t get fired? What’s going? Why did I get fired? It hits something inside. You don’t have something inside, so it didn’t hit it. You were in a relationship and the person cheated on you, but you worked with it a little bit. It hurt you, but you worked with it. Now you’re in another relationship.
I don’t care how much you work with it. Unless it’s gone completely. You are going to be jealous. You’re going to be sensitive. Where somebody didn’t come home when they said they were gonna be home or where are they? Why on the phone so long. Okay. It left an impression on you. There are people that fall love ’cause they see that the person they love has a close relationship with somebody else.
I didn’t say sexual, but a close relationship. They feel good that the love that they feel for this person can be shared and that other people can enjoy how wonderful this person is. Now, that may seem totally logical to you. That may seem, what are you crazy? It depends on what you have stored in there.
Do not start defining good and bad and right and wrong, and what I want and what I don’t want. Well, you want today, let one thing happen and you won’t want it tomorrow. First comes up to you. Oh my God. Since we were in kindergarten, I’ve been so attracted to you, but I, I’m embarrassed to say anything. And now we’re going to college and we end up in the same college.
I just had to tell you, I was just thinking it was beautiful thing. I walked the face of the earth. Wow, how you doing? Especially if you like the person, like good looking person, all right. And you’re just in heaven until you see them walk over and say the exact same thing to somebody else. How you doing now?
So if the first event didn’t happen, the person is just a person walking around campus. If the first event happened, the person, not just somebody walking around campus, somebody really special walking around campus. If two hours later the second event happens. And that person’s walking around campus, you don’t have nothing to do with it every morning.
And you think that’s logical. You just say, whoa, whoa. That’s natural. No, it is some scars. It’s what should happen. Somebody come up to you and say, oh, you’re welcome on water. You’re so beautiful. You stand there and smile. Okay. Hi. Thank you. You go talk to somebody else. Yeah, I thought so. It doesn’t touch you.
You didn’t need them to honor and worship you and, and watch you and have a relationship. I mean, you don’t, but you didn’t need it. And so when they did that and then they walked talk to somebody else, this feeling cute, right? Didn’t turn you on and it didn’t bother you again, the Gita Krishna says, equanimity is yo.
That’s it. Equanimity is, yo, you can handle both of these. You don’t have to try even, here’s to try. There’s nothing inside of you that needs to be honored and worship and special. My God. How long ago do you realize you’re sitting a little planet? I always tell you this all the time. You are sitting on a little planet of which 1.3 billion fit inside the sun.
How special are you? You’re one of 8.3 billion people on a planet that is so small, that 1.3 million of ’em inside the sun, and there are 300 billion suns in your one galaxy. That’s growth. That’s what it means. Equanimity is yo. It’s not that you have to try and control that. Somebody walked up and said something really nice, it’s just, I’m gonna pla for a middle of nowhere.
If someone said something really nice, now they’re saying there somebody else. Oh, is neat. What a neat place. You don’t have to do anything ’cause you don’t need anything you. Why don’t you need anything? Okay, now we’re down to it. Is there such a thing as not need? Of course you need food, clothing, and shelter.
I’m not talking about that. Talking about psychological needs. I’m so bold. I don’t know anybody says it. There are no psychological needs. There are no psychological needs. There are no psychological needs. There are no psychological needs. You are filled with love, filled with light, filled with enthusiasm, filled with joy, filled with Shakti so much.
You can’t even see straight every second of your life. Where’s your needs? There are no needs. Doesn’t mean you don’t interact. People say that to me. Well, if you’re there, then why would you get married and why would you have relationships and why would you go to work? Because you’re so filled with inspiration that it wants to express itself, not ’cause you need something.
Need is a four letter word to a yogi. Do you understand that? No one will talk to this way. You are a whole being. You’re complete and whole within yourself. The word is self ault. You are self opposes in that state. You don’t have needs. You can still interact, but it’s fun. You do the best you can. Why not?
You do the best you can at a sport, don’t you? How fun is it to play football and go in at midnight, take the ball and cross the goal line. Hooray, hooray, ding, ding, ding. It’s not fun at all. There’s nothing to it. What you want, challenge you want, and bring out the best you have. That’s how you play life.
When you’re high, there’s no winning or losing. What do they say? There’s no winning or lose. It’s how you play the game. They’re right. It’s just a matter of I got to interact, I got to meet people, I got to do things. I gotta do the best I could. I learned this guy was better than me. Wow. That’s what I wanna play.
If I don’t play somebody, I’m better than I win all the time. What fun is that? I wanna play someone’s better than me so that I get better as I play. So this is how a great being lives. It’s not that they don’t interact, they just don’t need to interact. That’s the difference. Why do you need to interact?
Because you’re blocked. Because you don’t feel ecstasy all the time because you don’t feel love all the time because you don’t feel inspiration all the time. Now you have to go out and find love. Oh, that’s a joke. It’s inside of you. Where are you gonna find it? It’s all about the blockages. You’re so blocked that you have to try to find somebody that, and it’s not that they only do your blockage, don’t you dare think that.
It’s your blockage. The only way it’s going away when you let it go, but if they entertain you enough to distract your consciousness from yourself, it’s called opening. You hear me? Usually you’re closed. You’re a closed system. My conscious is in here and I’m controlling everything I need, everything I’m scared and I need, well, all of a sudden you meet somebody who they say I love.
It is attractive, tend to be physically attractive to any level. You got many spiritual attraction, but I like the word you call it attraction. What does that mean? It pulls your consciousness toward them instead of being stuck inside of you. And when it does that, it. Shakti can flow because you’re not in there fighting everything within yourself.
It’s still there. If you haven’t noticed in relationships, it tends to come back up at some point. God, you’re just like my ex. I told you I didn’t like that. You’re just like my mother. I’m a man. I don’t care. You’re just like my mother. The stuff is still there and we’ll talk about whether it can go, but right now what I’m saying is what you’re looking for is something that is distracting enough to your consciousness to where it takes your consciousness off of you.
You’re not gonna feel love. It was just sitting inside of you. You were manipulating, controlling, and struggling and fighting, but there is such a thing as falling in love. You didn’t fall in love. Love is inside of you. Anytime you feel love, it’s not in your hand, not in your foot on the pole, not in the other person.
Where do you feel it? In my heart. Well, I don’t understand if it’s in my heart, what do I need this person for? Okay, because my heart is closed. ’cause I got a lot of stuff stored in there in that heart. Every single time you resist something or some scar, we call it pattern that you couldn’t handle, it gets stored in the shakti flow of your heart and it gets pushed down to the third chakra.
But basically it goes down into the heart and so the heart can’t open. People have closed hearts. Even people that think they have open hearts, they have conditionally open hearts. I love you so much. What did you say? What did you do? I say one word. You don’t love her so much. It’s called conditional wellbeing.
So the heart is conditioned by the Samaras, but if you distract your consciousness and you’re not thinking about your worries and your knees and your finances and this and that, blah blah, you just feel love, then that is why you feel love. ’cause your conscious got pulled off of your stuff. I’m sorry to tell you.
It will show back up, doesn’t it? It shows back up. Does that mean you shouldn’t have relationship? No. I’ll tell you, relationships are very good. Life is good. Life is your teacher, and so basically you catch on that need is because you’re blocked. If you are not blocked, even in a given area. Don’t think this is all or nothing.
You could be blocked about money. I was gonna need money. And another thing, I didn’t have it. And I grew up poor as a big thing to me. And I, I just, I have to have money. I don’t care about anything else. You don’t steal it. I’ll do it on any, you understand that it’s, you’re blocked in the area of money. Why I past experience?
I don’t know. I don’t even wanna know, just know it’s there or in the area of relationships. It all depends upon your, some scars, right? Nothing’s good or bad, or right or wrong, or better or worse. It is your some scars that determine what is going on. And again, the reason for your birth is to get rid of that stuff, not to do or not something they always say.
It’s not about doing who’s ever the deep teaching. It’s not about doing or not doing. It’s not about doing or not doing. It’s about your some scars and how you’re dealing with it. It is not about the outside, it’s about the inside. It’s always about the inside. Do you understand that? No, you don’t because you’re messed up inside and these different situations help you feel better inside or make you feel worse.
And now it’s about the outside. Do you see a difference? Is it about the outside? ’cause the outside affects the inside. Does the outside affect the inside? I should start off by asking you that, does what happens outside affect how you feel inside? Can it hit your stuff? Can it make you open? That’s why you care about the outside.
You don’t really care about the outside. You care about the inside, but because the outside affects the inside, everything, your whole life is devoted to making the outside be a way that affects the inside the way you want. Did you get that sentence was very fast. You get lost outside. So there we are.
Most people never get past. I told you this layers the party has talked about, which is it’s not about the outside. Yes, it affects the inside. Yes, I have desires and fears. Why? Because the outside affects the inside and I want the outside to be away. That makes me feel good, and I don’t want the outside to be away.
That makes me feel bad, as opposed to a great being who says bring it on. Bring it on. I don’t want to be run by these scars. I don’t want to be run by my past life. I don’t want to be run by this past life, and your past life doesn’t have to go back before your birth. It happened yesterday and five years ago, and 10 years ago, and mommy and daddy, that’s enough past life for me.
Don’t worry about the rest. But you’re run by that. Your behavior patterns, your likes, your dislikes, everything you decide to do, the way your mind thinks, all your thoughts are, all that stuff. The energy tries to come up through that stuff and it rearranges itself, and by the time it hits the mind, that’s what’s bubbling up in there as your thoughts.
However, your worries and your thoughts and your desires and your hope, your dreams, and even the really weird stuff that goes on in there. It’s all because of the some scars. Everything’s because of some scars. So at some point you wake up and we’ll talk about how you do this or what you do once you wake up.
Very few people wake up. When you wake up, you see, I have all this stuff in here and it’s been running in my life. Why? Because if it gets hit, everything that got stored with it comes up. And I didn’t handle it when it happened, and I can’t handle it now. So no. Or when it happens to be stimulated and I feel positive and I want, then I go running after things, passion and so on, and, and they never pan out.
People say it all the time and did this for a while. It worked and this happened and my partner did this, and what do I do about that? And do people have trouble with relationships? And I’m not just talking about personal one-to-one relationships. They have trouble with business relationships. They have trouble with religious relationships.
They have trouble with everything. Why? Because they have all this stuff in there. Right. It’s like, please listen. You are on a spiritual path, not when you’re done. It’s not about being done. So working on where you are, and I told you it’s layers moving forward on a regular basis to let go of your some scars, that’s your growth.
Alright, and you just realize the purpose of my life, every minute of my life, every second of my life is to be in life and let go If it’s disturbing something inside of me as opposed to blame, shame, guilt, okay? It hits something inside of me. What they did was terrible that they should never have done that.
That’s not the point. The point is, can you use it for your growth? Can you use it for the reason you took birth? This event happened, that event happened, this event didn’t happen. You do the same thing. What didn’t happen? Do you understand that? You’re just as messed up? But what didn’t happen is what? Did.
Why? ’cause you wanted it to happen. You thought it would make you better and you get disappointed. So it’s all about these, some scars and where we are in a normal state, which makes sense. Of course, I wanna feel better inside, and of course I don’t wanna feel worse inside. So you just run around, manipulating the world, blaming everybody.
Just can’t even think about it. I moved out here when I was, what, 23 years old? 19 seven, what to say? 70. I moved out here like 70. 71. I saw this, I just said, I am not gonna live that way. A chance. The world living like that way, I better take a little hiatus in. I spent a little time hanging here, taking a look.
What’s going on in here because I ain’t living that life and amazing is now 50, 55 years later, something like that. I tried my whole life. I tried not to. Alright. I devoted my life. I’m not perfect in any way, shape, or form, but I devoted my life to that purpose, which is if there’s stuff in here. I want it out.
I don’t want it there right now. I started talking about one person can be finished in one area and not finished at all in another area. And so what happens to them? They go through what they need to go through exactly in those areas. And is that bad? No. It means they will get hit in that area and they will grow.
Does that mean there’s something wrong? It means they went through it. They needed to go through to keep evolving. Do you understand that you just end up take the dust from each one’s feet serving mother where she sleeps, judge. Not that you should not be judged, that’s the Bible. Third and patriarch, the burdensome practice of judging you, judge.
Because you got all these concepts about how things are supposed to be and not supposed to be, and you know, if you did it, I would never do that. I wouldn’t, how could you do that? ’cause that’s what you build. That’s your stuff. Okay, well, somebody else says totally different stuff. I teach you that all the time.
And eventually, believe it or not, you stop judging. Doesn’t mean you don’t deal with it. You still deal with stuff, but you don’t judge you. Just, to me, that is the definition of the word compassion. Compassion is when you are done. And you look at someone who’s not, and you understand because you grew through your stuff, they’re growing through their stuff, and you don’t judge, but doesn’t mean you don’t deal with it, but not from a place of judgment.
And you just realize people go through. I told somebody actually today, and I said something like, you go through what you need to go through. Well, let’s do it better. You go through what God puts you through. I don’t even want you owning it. I want you going through it ’cause owning it with guilt and shame and all kinds of junk.
It’s just basically if you look back at your past. It is the definition of what you needed to go through, but I can’t say that to you ’cause you think, why did I cause that person to do that to me? Nobody said you cause that person to do it to you. The person behaved in accordance to some of their learned experiences and based on some scars that you have, it hits your stuff.
Does it make it right or wrong? It just means. That was my growth at that time. Did I grow? No. I suppressed it. I hated it. I hate them. It’s like you did not use it to let go of yourself. I’m not blaming you. It’s a very difficult life. I’m talking about. You’re not out there trying to be okay. You’re out there trying to let go of everything that makes you not okay.
That’s a very different life, and that’s what life is about. It’s about understanding that you are gonna go through this path in your life. And it’s unique. Nobody’s having the same, can I say that to you guys? I don’t dunno if you get it. Nobody is having the same experiences as you in sequence. Are they?
Who has gone through the same experiences that you have every single moment as you’re walking through life. Nobody, not only is not somebody going through it now, they have never gone through it ’cause it didn’t exist and they will never go through it ’cause it’s not gonna exist. So you’re having a unique experience, a unique walk through life.
My God, when I realize that you say thank you, thank you for this life that unfolded in front of me that only I got to have and they’re my moments. They must be yours or nobody else’s. Wow. But you can’t accept them. You judge them and you judge everybody else based on what If you liked what happened. You judge them with like, if you don’t like what happened inside of you, you judge ’em with dislike.
That’s you. You’re doing that. This is deep. This is the meaning of your life. Now, can you live that way perfectly? Of course not. Why? ’cause you have some scars. So it is some scars that you’re dealing with, not life. I told you life is unfolding. If it doesn’t hit something, you’re fine. If it does hit something you’re not.
So it hits something in you one day and not in the next. It’s yours. Some scars. It’s what you stored in there. You’re living inside out. It’s affecting you outside in God, I hope it can anybody understand this? This is the deepest understanding of the purpose and meaning of your life and of spiritual growth.
You are here to do your best to honor and respect the moment that is unfolding in front of you. Do your best to handle it, and sometimes you can’t, so you push it away a little bit, but do your best to let it go. No matter how terrible it or good it was, you don’t want that in there. It’s gonna screw your whole life up.
It just makes your mind think a certain way and act a certain way and be a certain way. It’s just not, you don’t want it, but you have it. So now we’ll talk about what’s the technique now that you understand, that’s all about purification, and that doesn’t mean being pure. Wearing white it. It’s not about that.
That’s not purification. Purification is, is there stuff in there? Does it get hit? The answer is, yeah. Are you afraid of it getting hit? Yeah. Do you blame your past because it put that stuff in there? Yeah. Okay. You got work to do ’cause you will not be liberated. Well, that stuff’s in there, and I don’t care how good you are, if that stuff’s in there, you’re not gonna be liberated.
You can paint it white. It’s called spiritual ego. Paint it white. Wear white. Be sweet. I love you. I love you too. Oh, I love you. And I accept everything. Nothing bothers me. I’m doing so good. And I say Christian’s name or Jesus’ name all the time over and over again. Right? That’s a spiritual ego. If there’s still an eye sitting there, when somebody walks up to you and says, you say what name?
That’s disgusting. You should be saying Christ’s name. How dare say Christ? You’re not doing so good. Do you hear me? You’re not done. You’re just making up a false facade that looks spiritual, that’s very dangerous. Like regular ego is safer than spiritual ego. Why? Because regular ego, you know, you’re full of it.
Spiritual ego, you think you’re somewheres, you’re not gonna work on yourself to let go, right? MDA said it. You know, Ramdas is a very deep being, right? So it was fun to watch the evolution of his life. He came and visited a few times. I spent time with Robin Nelson. It’s very beautiful, and I think the last book he wrote was Becoming Nobody.
So it’s not a matter of ego or not ego. Nobody. What does that mean? Every thought that’s personal. That comes up. I want, I don’t want, I should, I shouldn’t. That shouldn’t have happened. I wish this had hap everyone. You’re letting it go and eventually you catch on to what is the technique that you devote your life to on a regular basis to the best of your ability.
You will not do it perfectly. You’re not supposed to, to it perfectly. You wouldn’t need it. Your job is to do your best. Your intent is to let go, to release the stuff, and you do your best all the time. So what’s it like? It’s amazing. It’s just so simple. It’s ridiculous. Are there, they will cause the mind and the heart to react in accordance to their presence.
When you see that happening, relax. If I say, let go, you don’t know what that means. If I surrender, what does that mean? There’s just a word relax. You know what that means? Because you’re gonna get uptight when that stuff gets hit. You’re gonna react. The tendency is gonna be, I don’t want that happening inside of me, therefore I’m going to resist.
And resistance requires opposition. It requires force. It requires tension. It requires two forces fighting each other that some scars, emanation, and you. And they fight each other, relax. People write me, but it won’t relax. I tried. It won’t relax. I did not say it should relax. Anger will not relax. Jealousy will not relax.
Fear will not relax. That’s not their nature. What is the nature of fear? Fear What? Nature of Jealousy. Jealousy. What’s the nature of insecurity? Insecurity. They have their nature. They feel like that these energies are down there emanating what they were stored with, not. It relaxes. You relax. And when they write me back and they say, I got it, that changes everything.
You’re in there, you’re noticing it, then you’re resisting it, relax. You relax. But no, if I relax, I can’t protect myself. It’s gonna come closer to me. Mm-hmm. It’s gonna come up further. No. No. I wanna get rid of it. I wanna know how not to have it come up further. I, I don’t wanna feel it. Okay, then you’re not gonna grow.
What you’re gonna do is push it back down. You find a way to push it back. You find a way to not feel it. Well, why did you not wanna feel it? Because I’m not done in that area. Oh, I thought you wanted to be done. This is deep. Alright, so you in there relax? Is that easy? No, it’s not easy. ’cause when it gets triggered, it’s instantaneous.
The reaction to defend yourself, it feels like natural. It’s instinctual. I have to defend myself from it. It doesn’t feel good. It’s wrong. You have to be willing to relax. Will you do it perfectly each time? He will absolutely not do it perfectly each time. Each time it comes back up is a practice run. If I throw a ball at you and you never call one, you’re gonna drop it.
If I try again and again, you’ll get a little better. You’ll get better at relaxing in the face of your attempt to protect yourself. There is nothing, God, I’m gonna say it again. I said There’s no such thing as psychological need. Here’s another one. There is absolutely nothing to protect yourself from inside your psyche.
You made the thing up, it’s not even there. Your psyche is made up of stuff you stored inside your mind and said, I’m this and this is what I like and what I don’t like. And then when something happens, you protect yourself from what you made up When you’re done, it is nothing to protect. It’s just a feeling.
It comes in, goes, somebody said something, but you feel that need to protect yourself from what? From the thing you made up called your ego, that in every bit of it is built as a result of your some scars. What you like, what you don’t like, who you like, who you don’t like your past, that you like your past, you don’t like every single thing.
You held it together to protect yourself from your some scars. And that basically protects yourself from cleansing. And so you just, you can’t do it right away. But I remember when I interviewed with Oprah on, uh, the Untoned Soul, one of her main things she liked was a chapter that said, let go now or fall.
What do you mean? If you do not let go the moment, and I mean the moment that you feel the tendency to resist you fall. You have to start right then. Not should I, shouldn’t I? Is this fair? No, it has to just be. I do not want this going on inside of me. And because I don’t wanna go inside of me ’cause I practiced.
I practice letting go the moment I feel the tendency, it’s funny, not the moment I feel the thing come up. The moment I feel the tendency to resist. That’s further back. Your tendency to resist. Obviously, you’ve already experienced the other thing. Buddhists say, work at the root. This is the root, your tendency to resist because you don’t want to feel it because yourself has not evolved enough, and you just relax anyways.
You relax in the face. Of what you would never have thought of relaxing in the face of because it’s not comfortable and I don’t wanna do it. And why would I do it? I don’t have to do it ’cause he was wrong and I shouldn’t have. That’s how you mind things to, to convince yourself. I ain’t letting this go. I ain’t let this go.
It’s not my fault. It’s in there. Good. Don’t let it go. You wanna go back up with less than you came down with. You’re not gonna go that way, are you? You have to be willing to say, I will do my best. I’m not perfect. You’ll get lost. A lot of times. You’ll react if you can just for a moment, notice it. And I want you to notice the tendency to protect yourself.
Notice the tendency to resist. That’s the key word. The antithesis of acceptance is resistance. Acceptance is non-resistance. I’m in here, it’s coming up. I accept that means I don’t resist. So non-resistance is acceptance. And it’s easier to understand if I say accept it. I know if I say don’t resist it. Uh, there you go.
’cause that’s an action you’re doing is resisting. If you don’t do the resistance, don’t worry about acceptance. It already happened. ’cause it passes through and you just sit there and keep letting go. You let go of your ego. You let go of yourself. You let go of the tendency to protect yourself. All of this is the evolution of the soul.
You’ll see that if you do this with smaller things and this and that, you just keep letting go of your tendency to resist. That’s why I teach you, they’ll yell at me. It’s the same example all the time. The car in front of you is driving 10 miles an hour below speed limit. It’s hot out. You’re complaining.
Why do you keep giving those examples? Because if you can’t do those, you can’t do anything else. If you can’t do the simple little low hanging fruit, I call it, of not resisting the hemp, the weather ’cause it’s raining or 95 degrees. Alright? Learn how to not resist and the next thing you’ll know you’re better at not resisting just like a sport or learning an instrument, you get better at it by practice.
This is the meaning of your life and you just keep working with it. And next thing you know, something comes up and you see the tendency to resist. You. Let go. Just relax your shoulders. Relax your tummy, relax your buttocks. Just relax. Relax. If you need to do a mantra, do a mantra. And you say God’s name, say God’s name, I don’t care, whatever it is, but relax.
Relax and it’s gonna come up more, and you’re find out it can’t hurt you. Your past cannot hurt you. Look me in the eyes. How can your past hurt you? It’s not even there. It’s just something inside that you stored inside yourself. It’s gone. It’s over. It’s not there, but you kept it. So now what you kept can hurt you.
The past can’t hurt you, and you eventually get to the point and sit there and say, I love my past. I love every single thing. Now, I’m a spiritual person. I love every single thing that happened in my past. ’cause it put me where I am now and where I am now is filled with love and joy and not having to fight with this world and appreciating everything that’s happening.
I wasn’t there before. It took me on a path that trained me, taught me that, that example of your psyche. A block of marble. Just a block of marble, and there’s this great sculpture, probably mic and chisel. It hurts. Leave me alone. Leave me alone. Stop it. Stop it. Get away from me. What’s happening here? There, that’s your reaction to everything.
And then all of a sudden, one day when you’re, you get a little space and you start seeing a shoulder coming out of your marble. It’s gorgeous, it’s smooth, and you realize he’s carving you into something really beautiful and you sit there and say, I. I, sorry, I resisted here. I am not my will, but I will.
I’m here to let you take what I made a mess outta myself by storing all this garbage inside of myself. Come take it. Be welcome. Let it go. I offer it to you. See, first you resist. Now you start. That’s the whole concept of offering. What do you do when it hurts? It’s Offer it up. Offer it up. I don’t want it in the air.
It’s not that my pants didn’t happen, is that I don’t wanna resisted it. I would didn’t know better and I resisted it and I left all the stuff inside myself. The trouble is you think it’s justified. You literally let your mind think, but that person was wrong, so I have the right to be like this, fine, have the right to be screwed up.
I’ll be having fun. Do you hear me? And I’m talking about no matter what happened, the more you think as your past was terrible, you will never let it go. It wasn’t just, it was terrible. It wasn’t fair. You’re not letting that go. You may cope with it. You may force yourself to live with it, but you ain’t letting it go.
How could you let something go that’s terrible? You have to look at it and say, no, I dropped down on the planet Earth and this was my route to the planet. These are my experiences. I love them. I grew through them. I honor them. I respect them. There’s no blame. There’s no shame, and I just keep on trucking.
That’s where I’m going, and you’re gonna end up in God. Understand that there’s a thing in India mantra saying, knitty, knitty ever heard that Knitty, knitty, not this, not this, not this. If you keep letting go of who you’re not, you will end up who you are. If you’ve made up in your mind who you want to be or who you are, you’re just another mind trip.
Okay, let it go. Sometimes if you’re spiritual and it starts hurting, it’s like saying to God, oh, you want this? Okay, here, take it. Here I put flowers. A 9 50, 60 years. There ain’t nothing compared to laying this at his feet, right? You wanna give God a gift? Give him your junk. It’s way more devotional, isn’t it?
And it takes you closer to God. So that’s how you live. It’s constantly devotion. That’s the ultimate devotion here. This is yours. This belongs to you. Alright. If you can even hear a fraction of it and you’ll understand what is the meaning of your life, you still go about your life. You do the best you can.
It’s not that you don’t get married, not that you don’t have a relationship, but you use your relationship to get rid of yourself. Use your job every minute of it. Your coworker. Every single situation is an opportunity to let go of yourself, isn’t it? Okay. Work with these things. Jai Guru Dev.
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