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this spring winter and spring we have

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been studying and talking about demand
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opieop initial demand okok Erica which
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is based on that most sacred of all
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mantras the most sacred of all sounds
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all so this meditation now is a vedantic
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meditation non-dualistic meditation on
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all we have to listen and then follow
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and experience it within yourself the
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world ohm has three letters in it three
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sounds in it ooh and mmm so when you
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combine these three it becomes Oh what
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does it mean the letter R it stands for
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our waking experience here you are here
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we are we have this body and we are in
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this world where other people are around
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us outside is the city Manhattan you
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have a life here people problems
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prospects a story that is the waking
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life you are the Waker the Waker and the
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wakers world you the Waker and your
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entire waking life this is a the first
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letter of all and then we fall asleep
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every day sometimes innovate on the
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class also
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and then we dream there are many dreams
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some good some bad some pleasant some
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unpleasant a mixture and we are in our
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own dreams we don't even know it's a
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dream so we are a person in the dream
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also only later when we wake up we say
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oh it was a dream but when they are in
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the dream we are ourselves there and we
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experience a world a strange world but a
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world nevertheless a world conceived in
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our minds which we realized later but
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still a world is a subject and an object
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so that subject in the dream is you the
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dreamer and what you experience in your
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dreams that is your dream world and all
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together the dreamer and the world of
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dreams is denoted by the letter ooh
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the second letter of ohm and then we
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fall asleep dreams also cease no waking
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no dreaming deep sleep in deep sleep we
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experience a darkness you see if I don't
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experience darkness I don't experience
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nothing but it is exactly that's what
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you say I experience nothing it's an
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experience of absence not an absence of
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experience that darkness that in folded
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nests of deep sleep is denoted by the
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letter mmm in English we say AUM but
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actually the sanskrit sounds are uh who
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and the moon the end of ohm when it ends
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with them that that is our deep sleep
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experience no waking world no Waker no
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dreams no dreamer just the blankness
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darkness and what are we then whatever
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we are that is called the deep sleeper
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or the sleeper that is mmm and these are
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our three aspects which we think of
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ourselves as our lives sometimes we are
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awake ER sometimes we are dreamer
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sometimes we are sleeper and the whole
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of our life think about it there is
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nothing more than this the baker and the
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wakers world your life the dreamer and
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the dream world and the deep sleeper and
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and the darkness in deep sleep this is
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what is our life and this is what we
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cycle through every day and all of this
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is expressed in the world
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oh but apart from these three the Waker
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and the baker's world the dreamer and
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the dreamers world and a deep sleeper
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and the deep sleep darkness oh oh and
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mmm there is a fourth there is a four
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that is what we danta wants to tell us
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you are not the Waker you're not the
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dreamer
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you are not the deep sleeper they come
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and go
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you remain then what is the you what is
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the I that remains when the Waker comes
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and goes and the dreamer comes and goes
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and the deep sleeper comes and goes
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what is that background awareness what
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is that stage upon which this play of
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three acts is played every day that
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stage that background awareness is the
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real you is the real I it is called the
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fourth why the fourth because it is not
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the Waker the first it is not the
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dreamer the second it is not the deep
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sleeper the third it is the fourth with
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respect to these three but it is
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actually the one it is the real you it
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is the real I that pure consciousness
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which indeed alone appears as the Waker
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and the wakers word as the dreamer and
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the dreamworld as the deep sleeper and
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the deep sleep darkness that one
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consciousness different from the Waker
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dreamer deep sleeper and yet underlying
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and in and through all of them that
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fourth is denoted by the silence which
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follows oh what is Vedanta saying that I
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am the Waker this is our ordinary state
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of affairs saying that I am the
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unaffected unchanging consciousness
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ever-present experienced as the Waker
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dreamer and deep sleeper that unchanging
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consciousness that I am I am the fourth
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I am Turia Turia is the term used in the
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opening shot for the fourth don't worry
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it is not just a lecture on the
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Upanishad this is what you need to know
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to actually experience this the fourth
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that is what we shall try to do before
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we go into that to actually be the fort
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you are the fourth but you realize the
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fourth and notice and experience the
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fourth
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before we do that let us settle
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ourselves into this be comfortable into
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this home that the three letters and our
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waking dreaming deep sleep
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we shall chant it together and with
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sitting relaxed with eyes closed I shall
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ask Misha we shall mentally recreate try
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to experience what it is like to be the
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Waker don't look puzzled what is it like
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to be the Waker just like right now what
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you are that's what it's like to be the
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Waker and you know what it is like to be
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in your dreams and you can recreate in
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your mind simulate don't fall asleep
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simulate what it is like to be in deep
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sleep for we wanted to work you must be
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awakened in the waking state but reflect
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upon your experiences as waked dreamer
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deep sleeper so when you are ready
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remember this is just the preparation no
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the light should be on when you are
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ready I don't want people to get too
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comfortable it's a warm day in Manhattan
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today and conducive to dozing off and
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sleep so when you are ready where you
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close your eyes and sit relaxed and
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listen to my voice
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let us chant together
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ohm
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[Music]
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[Music]
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Oh
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Oh
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as we will chant ohm remember vividly
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feel your life waking life your life as
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you imagine it to be as you see it to be
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as we go into the imagine your dream
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life not any particular dream just the
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idea that you dream and exist in a world
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of dreams as we go into the final mmm
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try to mentally recreate the absolute
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darkness of deep sleep not only do you
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not experience anything in deep sleep
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any external object you do not dream any
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dreams you are not even thinking of
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yourself as a person who is sleeping
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there is no thought at all
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no constructs at all just a potentiality
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a darkness that is them and after which
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we shall have a period of silence when
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you think I am the fourth the
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consciousness in which the three appear
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I am the silence in which ohm appears
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and disappears and the consciousness in
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which Waker comes and goes with me with
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wakers world the dreamer comes and goes
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with the dream world and the deep
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sleeper comes and goes with the darkness
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of deep sleep I am that unchanging
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consciousness before the next home
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starts
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let us try this chant with me
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Oh
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[Music]
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silence
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I am NOT the vehicle none of the Baker's
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problems are mine I am NOT the dreamer
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none of those dreams are mine I am NOT
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the deep sleeper the darkness is not
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mine
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I am light the one consciousness in
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which these three appear and disappear
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silence
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again
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[Music]
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silence
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again
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Oh
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[Music]
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silence
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in this silence the Waker is not there
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nor the vehicles world there is no the
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dreamer is not there nor the dreams
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there is no ooh and the deep sleep is
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not there
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you are awake there is no deep sleep
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there is no hmm
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when home fades away into silence it
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points to the real you this real
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consciousness
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neither comes nor goes it is the Waker
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dreamer and sleep consciousness which
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come and go it does not change
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hence it is immortal it is not born and
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does not die you are and forever we're
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free of death death old age disease are
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out the body not of you the
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consciousness
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separation and loss are of persons not
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of you the one consciousness struggled
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sorrow and strife are for the person not
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for the consciousness that you are
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the person you think yourself to be
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cannot exist without you the
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consciousness but you the consciousness
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you very well exist without the person
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you are that where the universe ceases
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to exist
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Robin Joker Shannon you are peace itself
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not peaceful but peace itself
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Shanta you are bliss itself
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Shivam
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you are that non-dual reality which
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appears as the DOOL DOOL universe of
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your experience the dual universe of the
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waking dreaming and the potential
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duality in deep sleep Adam
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again
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silence
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Oh
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[Music]
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Oh
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when you are comfortable become aware
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that you are sitting here in the waking
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world open your eyes and manifest as the
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Waker again slowly remember even when
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you come back to this world you are that
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one consciousness now you are playing
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the role of this person the Waker with
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the vehicles peculiar karma and life but
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remember you are ever free of this
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person you are not trapped within this
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person this person is not the limit of
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your reality just as an actor can come
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on stage and play three different roles
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you also come on stage and play three
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different roles you are literally the
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stage and the actor too you play the
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role of the Waker in the drama called
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waking life you play the role of the
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dreamer in the drama called dream life
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and you play the role of the deep
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sleeper in the non drama not much drama
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going on there in deep sleep but the
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potential for all drama is there but you
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are ever free of all of them when life
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becomes theater Broadway Hollywood for
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you when you are not constrained when
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you are not trapped when you are not
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bound to suffer then actually pleasure
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and pain both become drama and movie and
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theater for you you can say Bravo now
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this is one way of doing it now we shall
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do the second one we have the time for
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that a simpler more direct way of
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accessing that fourth
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remember waker dreamer and deep sleep
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these are what are called in vedanta the
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gross or physical world the subtle world
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and causal world stool a sukshma car and
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a Provencher now that all these three we
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can experience right now in the waking
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here itself you don't actually have to
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fall asleep or I don't have to remember
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imagine how it is to dream you can
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experience it here itself how try this
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sit relaxed and now you have to do this
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with first open eyes look at something
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let us say is this flower visible to you
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the bird here is it visible this is the
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highest thing I can find here which is
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this one or the one next to that
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whichever is comfortable look at it look
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at it become aware of it as a flower it
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is an object drishya
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and the eyes are the seer of this object
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rush now it is seen and the eyes are the
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seer become aware of this flower as the
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scene and your own eyes as the seer next
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close your eyes you are now aware that
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eyes are closed this awareness of the
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eyes makes the eyes themselves the seen
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the known the drishya and what knows
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that the eyes are closed the mind so the
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mind is the seer now the eyes themselves
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become the same seer in the sense of
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knowing the mind knows that the eyes are
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closed
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is it not check within yes obviously the
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eyes are closed what is it that says
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obviously the eyes are closed
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that is the mind mind seer eyes seeing
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in the mind there are thoughts
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you can try it say your name to yourself
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in your mind I am I say I am Swami
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server pre Ananda clearly that was a
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thought it's a thought and it was
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experienced if it was experienced than
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it is the scene
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what experienced that thought that is
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consciousness you can never make that
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consciousness the scene or an object
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slowly open your eyes again now go
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through this process when you look at
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the flower look at the flower the flower
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is part of the physical world it is a
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the first letter of ohm using your eyes
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to see the flower this experience this
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is in microcosm the your experience of
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the entire waking life is it not when
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you experience a world with your sense
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organs with your body so this is our the
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first letter of ohm now close your eyes
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the inner world of thoughts my eyes are
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closed emotions how does it feel how
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does it feel eyes are closed and relaxed
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thoughts emotions ideas memories
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feelings all of this is the second
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letter ooh and as you try to push beyond
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the thoughts you will hit a wall
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nothingness blankness what is it right
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now what is there beyond the thoughts if
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are all thoughts sees a blankness that
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is the letter mmm and beyond that
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silence
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that is the consciousness which
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experienced the flower which experienced
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the mind the eyes which experience the
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mind all three come and go to that one
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consciousness which is still the silence
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once again gently open your eyes here
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itself we will access that fourth that
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consciousness notice the flower or
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anything else what you are comfortable
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with flower drishya object seen eyes
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seer subject brushed our eyes and flower
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are clearly different that is something
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else this is something else
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closing the eyes I'm aware of the eyes
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are closed the eyes themselves become
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the object drishya mind becomes the seer
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thirst of clearly the mind and the eyes
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are separate the thoughts in the mind
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I am Swami server pre Ananda or whoever
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that is an object appearing to
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consciousness so consciousness I am that
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consciousness and whatever comes in
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front of that consciousness is an object
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I am separate from it it is separate
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from me that consciousness I am
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remain as that if you get distracted you
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can open your eyes look at the flower
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from the flower become aware of the eyes
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from the eyes become aware of the mind
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and from the thoughts in the mind become
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aware of awareness itself and rest there
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rest has consciousness itself
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the great sage ashtavakra sings if at
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this moment you can see yourself as
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consciousness
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apart from body and mind witness of body
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and mind then at this very moment you
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will be free of all bondage you will be
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peaceful you will be happy forever and
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ever beautiful simple Sanskriti sings
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yadi the hump Rita Rita
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Chitti Vishram you teach to see a
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universe okey Shantou bond on October
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VEISHEA see if you can see yourself as
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pure consciousness witness of body and
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mind and rest us that pure consciousness
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then a Doudna you were right now here
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itself right now you are liberated
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bandha Mokpo you are happy blissful
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Sookie you are beyond sorrow peaceful
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Shanta
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Oh
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Oh
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[Music]
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Oh
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what we think to be our lives is all
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what we really are is the silence after
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the ohm when you are comfortable you can
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gently open your eyes look down at your
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lap at first don't look up suddenly and
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gently look up
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enlightened not so fast
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it is not just an exercise it is
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pointing to the reality which you are
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that reality is common to all of us
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notice something as persons we are
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different bodies are different
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personalities are different but even in
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the stage of deep sleep your deep sleep
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and my deep sleep they are one and the
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same your waking and my baking are
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different your dreams and his dreams and
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her dreams and my dreams are different
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but our deep sleep is exactly the same
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experience in blankness what variety can
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there be and beyond the deep sleep the
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unchanging consciousness there we are
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one we are not separate persons we are
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one there there is no loss and
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separation there as that one
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consciousness we are forever united with
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your loved ones and yes your annoying
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neighbors also but remember loved one an
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annoying neighbor are at the level of
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body and mind
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