Maharaji: Madrid Aspirants, 1993

Maharaji: Madrid Aspirants, 1993

MADRID III

I guess for some of you it's again a chance to be able to hear and for me I guess it's another opportunity to talk about just a simple wonderful subject of Knowledge of this life and as simple as it is, as profound as it is, as simple as it is, it takes a lot, it takes a lot for a human being, for a person to shed everything and allow just that feeling to emerge. It takes a lot for a person to be able to say I want, I need just that one thing. It takes a lot for a person to be able to recognize the first and we are here just for that, just for that wonderful magic to be able to take place but it begins when we can shed, when we can literally throw away everything else. Now let me qualify what I mean by throwing away everything else. Just in the room that I was waiting in, I was talking about, I've been receiving a lot of letters, a lot of letters and in England I was reading them, letters from people who had just received Knowledge, letters from people who already had Knowledge, letters from people who had received Knowledge not too long ago and how much they were enjoying it and what a beautiful and a profound thing that had manifested in their lives and it touched me. I mean it, it really touched me personally.

I felt incredibly inspired, I felt incredibly, it felt incredibly good. Not because I caused it to happen, no. Not because I was involved in it, no. Not because isn't that wonderful, mission being accomplished, no. Not because of those reasons but for a whole another reason. That that magic can happen, that that incredible magic, magic of this life, magic of this heart can really take place and I don't have to try to resolve all my problems for that magic to happen because if somebody told me, take all your problems and get rid of them and then you can have magic in your life, then I would be a very disappointed man because I can't do that. The reality of the matter is that the problems in my life have a jump on me. They're slightly ahead and I'm trying to chase them so I can squash them, so I can get rid of them and they're faster than I am and I merely get through one problem and another one comes up and I get through one and another one comes up and I, I mean I don't even know consciously and consciously what seeds I might have sown and what is going to happen, what is going to surface, what problems will come next. I haven't got the foggiest idea.

I mean you know it's like being desperate, being really desperate that I, you know I used to, I travel a lot, need to get to places and used to have an airplane, go here, go there, set your own schedule, do what you want. You know you're free, you had your wings and somebody, not somebody, I did it, just went click, can't do that anymore. I mean today it was absolutely amazing the amount of time that it took me to come from London to Madrid. I could have gone from London to Madrid back to London and back halfway to Madrid. I mean it's like, it's so stupid, I mean people in this whole species of all the animals in this universe, humans have to be the most stupid sometimes. I couldn't believe it. I couldn't, you wait in one line, you wait in one line so you can get your ticket. Now this person sitting there asks you for your ticket and asks you for your passport, right. So you, first you pull out your ticket, then you pull out your passport, she looks at your passport, she then looks at your ticket, then she writes you, I mean then she writes you this boarding card.

Why? Why? What for? Why do you need this stupid little boarding card? So they can cut down more trains. So they can do something stupid. So then you go and you're waiting and you're waiting and you're waiting and you're waiting and you're waiting and you're waiting. And then you go from there and you go and you join another line and there they want to see your boarding card. And you know what they do with it? They tear it in half. (laughter) And they keep half of it. Why? Why give it to a passenger if you're going to keep it? So you look at it and it's like oh my God, how long can I keep traveling like this? Most people travel once a month. Then they come back and it's done. They'll never go there again. Most people are tourists. They travel once a year, go to their favorite country, come back home. Me? I sometimes end up traveling once a day, twice a day, sometimes every single day for a week.

And you'll see the whole effect of the system. It's just like, yeah, make your life simple and then you can feel happy. No. Can't do that. It's too complicated. But can I feel the magic? With all my problems, can I feel the magic? And the answer is yes. I can feel the magic. I can feel the calling of this life. I can feel that wonderful thing that this existence is all about. And all of that doesn't have to change. But when I take on this incredible venture to go within me, I have to be able to make everything happen. So that the only thing that is present is me. You know the paradox with human beings? We try to imagine the unimaginable. We'll do it. We will spend a lifetime trying to imagine the unimaginable, trying to paint the unpaintable, trying to think of the unthinkable, trying to touch the untouchable, trying to hear the unhearable, trying to see the unseeable, trying to conceive of the unconceivable. No. That's a waste of time.

If you see a man standing at the end of the runway with his arms stretched out and you say, what are you doing? I'm waiting for takeoff clearance so I can fly. And he's standing there and making all the noises of the engine through his mouth and he's sitting there shaking a little bit because of the engine running and he's just standing there at the end of the runway saying, I'm just waiting for the green light from the tower so I can take off. If you are as stupid as him, you might even hang around to see him take off. I'll wait. I gotta see this. I'll wait. See if he really does. He's not going to take off. He's not. That's not the reason why you fly. You can't just hold out your hands. Your hands are not good enough to produce the lift needed to lift you. Certainly they're not big enough.

But people will do it. Trying to take the unimaginable and trying to imagine it. Something that does not fall into the realm. The only thing you can do is to feel. How much and what have you done to just be able to feel? Not think, just feel. What have we done? What can anybody do to just do that? And that is where absence comes in. When I can allow everything to become absent. Because in reality, it is absent. You may have heard so many great people call this world an illusion. Do you ever wonder why they called it an illusion? No, most people don't. Most people are like, well he was saying something profound. No. There's a very clear, simple reason for why it's an illusion. Why is it an illusion? Because you exist in a temporary world. Think of this.

You exist in a temporary world. In a temporary body. Very temporary. You perceive this world, though, as permanent. You've got a problem. You've got a real problem. Living, existing, when you do not even own your own time. You don't own it. It's coming, it's going. Can't stop it, can't slow it down, can't speed it up, can't do anything to it. Yet, you think that it will last forever. Knowing, knowing that one day you will have to go. You make plans as though you will be here on the face of this earth for the rest of the time. Your life, the way each individual's life is set up, it does not reflect the reality of birth and death. It does not reflect the simplicity of existence. It doesn't reflect anything. How can it be that that harmony could ever be created if somebody is living in such an illusionary style? That's why it's an illusion. You can say, I own that. But you don't even own that which says, I own that. It's not yours. That thing that just said, I own that, it's not yours. You own nothing. Yet, you own everything. Yet, you own nothing. Because that day will come. And you will take absolutely nothing. And you know that. That's the amazing thing. You know that.

Musical Interlude I was in Brighton. And I asked you for Knowledge there. And I died down. And I really didn't know if you were going to give it to me or not. But after a while, I was sitting there. And I thought that I would be scared. And I thought, well, I already told you about it, and this is okay like this. I'll It'll pass. I was still missing something. I trusted you, but not myself. And I was afraid to let go. I was, well, scared. And I didn't know whether to stand up and say, okay, let's leave this aside about Knowledge. We'll talk about it another day. And then I thought, okay, it's this one that's telling me that I'm not ready. He'll decide. I went back to Barcelona. I didn't stay there every day because I had work. And it was fine that you didn't give it to me. Because a lot of things started happening. And here I am. And I'm asking you for it again. (applause) And I hope that if I get scared or something, that at least I'll stand up and tell you.

Well, my problem is this. Who is asking for Knowledge? Cabeza or corazón? If it's this thing, it'll play games with you. This thing always plays games. Buy it, don't buy it. Buy it, now you don't need it. Now you need it, now you don't need it. Have you done that? I mean, do you have a closet at home that's got things in it that you bought personally? Have you drawers in your house that you bought things personally and they will never be used again? Of course. Maybe this thing goes, buy it, buy it. You buy it. Then, no. Plays games all the time. You're ready. No, you're not ready. Are you ready? No, you're not ready.And to eliminate that, I have said, look, let's not even talk about receiving Knowledge. In a sense, that's why I'm here. Would I like to give it? Of course. Would I like to give you Knowledge? Not this. Not your ideas of wanting Knowledge. None of these things. And just slow down. Center. Realize that there's a whole another realm to you. Appreciate. Appreciate. And sooner you can allow that process to unfold, the more ready you can be. Trust. Trust that the answer doesn't have to come from here. Trust this too. Don't be so caught up with this. It takes a lot of trust. Language of the heart is like that. To live by the heart is very difficult. Very difficult indeed. It's actually really difficult. But I know why it's difficult. Because this gets in the way. This gets in the way.

If I look at a record of this thing, it has led me astray more times than this has ever. If I look at the pure record, this will score 100%. This will score about 20. But through habit, through ignorance, through whatever it may be, I will believe this more than I will believe this. And when I can begin that, because it is not going to happen just like that. People think, well, how do I begin to trust him? How do I begin to do this? No, no, no. Settle down. Settle down and understand that each breath that you take, one breath in and one breath out. Do you realize how simple that is? You cannot take two breaths at the same time.You can't have one going in and one going out. One breath in and one breath out. This is me. This is something. Even if you want to approach it with great curiosity of all the things that I'm going to do in my life, all the mountains I'll climb, all the wonderful places I'll go to, all the pain that I'll have, all the suffering that I'll go through, all the things that'll happen to me, all the things that won't happen to me. You know what I'll be doing through all of them, unbiased? One breath. That's my pulse. That's my beat. And if that is how simple it is, then let me understand and let me trust.

What am I? Who am I? Do I know if the sun will rise tomorrow? How can I guarantee you that? I can't. With all my great intelligence, I can't guarantee you that. But it will.

Understand your vulnerability, how vulnerable you are. You are very vulnerable. Alas, you think a lot more of yourself than you are. And you do. You are simple. Deep down inside, you are simple. Be attracted to that simplicity. Take control. Take control. And ask for Knowledge. When the desire is overwhelming from here. Nothing.Yes?

Interlude My name is Silvia. I want to thank you for everything that you've given me in every moment. For being the motor that's giving impulse to my life. And for all the magic that you give me. And I love you. And I want to ask you something. How can you love me so much when sometimes I can't even love myself? Thank you.

Because love is a very simple thing. The definition of love that we have in this world is not the definition of love. That's not love. Love is something else. You can love in the truest sense. Because love does not need to know your name. Love does not need to know who you are. Love does not need to know if you are intelligent or if you are stupid. Love is love. Love loves. That's how love can love.

When this (points to head) emulates, synthesizes love. It's a very different kind of love. In that love, you and I should really know each other. We should know each other's names. We should know each other's hobbies. We should know what you like, what I like. We should at least have, we should be friends. But don't you know that even though one part of us is completely different. You look completely different than I do. You think different than I do. On the temporary side, we are all different.

But on the permanent side, it's the same. There's no difference. From the permanent side, I know you really well. Really well. Because I know me. Because I know me, I know you. Because you're the same. And you're the same, and you're the same. Everybody is the same. Because I have felt that thing that is permanent. The love that needs to emanate in my life is from that permanent thing, not from the temporary thing.

The love from the temporary thing is absurd. It's bizarre. Like, you know, you should be this way, and you should do this, and you should do this. And I didn't like when you did this, and I hated when you did that. Come on, get off the track. You know? We became friends. If I didn't show up on your birthday, you send me an invitation. I don't show up on it. I don't like it. You didn't come to my birthday? What kind of a friend are you? The beauty of being involved with the love that comes from the permanent place is you don't have to show up at anybody's birthday, and you still love them. It's cheaper.

So, of course. I know you. You know, and maybe one day when you will know yourself, you will know me too. It's very simple. It really is extremely, extremely simple. It's not that complicated. We make it complicated. It's true. You know, your question is very logical. How can you love me? You don't even know me. How can you love me? So what do I love in you? What should I love in you? What is that can even be loved? You know, you can only love something that will return your love in proportion. Otherwise you can't love. What is worthy of returning your love in proportion? It is the permanent. That can. It is something real. It is something unchanging. It is not dependent upon whether I buy you a dress or you buy me a tie. It's not dependent on that. That's the love that's immortal. That is the love that's eternal. That is the love that will remain even after you and I are gone.

I will give you the gift of Knowledge. But I must prepare a place where you can secure this gift of Knowledge. Where the dance needs to happen, the stage has got too many things in it. Things are on it. And what we have to do is we have to create a space where you can dance with your heart. Where you can dance with the divine that's inside of you. And that's all it is. That's all preparing for Knowledge is. It's maybe oversimplified, but it is basically just that. To create the platform where you can dance the dance with the divine. It's so simple. So beautiful. Shedding. Lifting the loads. So much is loaded on these shoulders. So much. And so much that is unnecessary. Just lift it and lift it and lift it and lift it. You know, for some people, the load on their shoulders, the load that they have been carrying of their ideas and concepts and everything else is so much. So incredible. That it has numbed, numbed their shoulders. They no more feel the pain. But they know of the load. I cannot say give your load to me. I don't want it. You don't want it. I don't want it. But I can say to you. That without all that load, you will still be. Stronger than ever. More beautiful than ever. Because you will emanate the light that is within you.

A lot of people in this life are like that. They look at themselves in the mirror and it's like, "Oh my God, I'm alive. What am I supposed to do?" You are the miracle. And unless you can begin to understand that miracle, you will never see any other miracle. The miracle worker is working so many miracles in your life, in your existence, that go beyond the realm of any dream whatsoever even you could possibly ever dream of. So, wake up. Wake up. Do you want your dreams fulfilled in your dream or when you are awake? Because if your dreams are fulfilled in your dreams, then they still stay a dream. But their fulfillment has to be when you are awake. So wake up and realize that one of the most fundamental, fundamental requests has been fulfilled. The capacity to enjoy has been placed inside of you.

If wishes come true, I'd make one for you that you never feel afraid, If we could unlock, all the love in our hearts, we'd drown all the fears away.

I hold the glass of water in the middle of a desert in front of a man who is dying of thirst or is very desperate of thirst. He is asking me if I have Coca-Cola. I have a cold glass of water. Can you dare? Can you have enough courage to take a sip? Or are you going to refuse it because you are so locked up in your dreams and ideals, ideas of how it should be, what I should have, what I shouldn't have, what I should feel, what I shouldn't feel, what I think is God, what I think is truth. No two people, no two people have yet, in my, in my lifetime, defined truth the same way.

Its easy to feel alone sometimes, I???. But somehow I know there's a real connection stirring so deep inside of me.

Where does my perspective come from? My perspective doesn't come because I read a book. My perspective doesn't come from because I sit down and I conjure up these ideas. If somebody asked me what are you going to talk about, I didn't know. I didn't even know what I was going to talk about when I was climbing these stairs back there. Really. But it comes from that simple admiration and appreciation, one step at a time. One step at a time. I want to gather. I want to fulfill myself every day with the beauty. At first, it is true, it was, where is it? Where is it? Where is it? At first it really was, "Oh my God, you know, so where is this incredible beauty everybody talks about?" Then become a beggar. Bad word for some people. Wonderful word. Works amiably well. Become a beggar. And you'll get so much beauty thrown your way you won't even have any container possible to take it all up. But that's what you have to become. Become a receiver. A receiver. Become an acceptor. Become a human being.

It's a real love that keeps us together sweet understanding in our hearts

Be fresh. As fresh as every day is. Do you know sun shines on sinners as well? I don't know if you knew that. Actually, it doesn't really seem to care. Every evening, the whole process of eraser begins. And everything is erased. And everything is put aside. And everything is left. And everything goes quiet. And everything becomes very simple. Very simple. And then in the morning, like it has for centuries, centuries, the sun broke the horizon. And it's shown upon this whole earth in bits and pieces, but the whole earth as though nothing had ever happened.

Have you ever seen a sunrise? I have. I have from, well, one time I saw it from 45,000 feet. It's absolutely amazing. It's an amazing sight. At 45,000 feet, you're so high that you will see the sunrise way before anybody on the ground. Way before. So you look down and it's dark. Completely black. You can see all the city lights wherever. And the sun comes. And it renews. And the process unfolds. Brand new every day. Every single day. Sun carries it, nothing from yesterday. The night put everything to sleep. And once again, a new day has begun. A new day has begun. And everything in this creator's creation begins. And it is a symphony in itself. It is a miracle in itself. It's a wonder in itself. It's a beauty in itself. It's a magic in itself.

And then, the humans awaken. And the little ones, little ones, they awaken the same way as the rest of the nature does. Renewed. Anxious. Eager. All the fights of yesterday have been forgotten. Now, you were all little once. I know it. I mean, some people would make you believe that they were never little, they were born like this. Full of jealousy, fear, anxiety, anger, and everything. But I know that once, you too were just like that. And when you were that young, you had no concepts. You didn't need them. You didn't need them. You really knew what fun was all about. This one kid that I was talking about a couple of days ago, or yesterday or something, he can play with a garden hose for hours. Could you? No. Two years would be like, this is a garden hose. This is for watering only. You will have million voices in you. In you. Taunting you. Saying, what if anybody saw you doing this? They will think you're crazy. You shouldn't really be doing this.

There are other more important, important things to do. But this little kid, okay, I understand, you don't want to grow up playing with a garden hose. Neither would I. But this little kid does not know what a garden hose is. Does not know the definition of H2O. Doesn't know about Los Angeles reservoirs. Doesn't know about the drought. Doesn't know goods and bads. He knows only one thing. This is fun. How good it feels when that water touches his hand. How good it feels to see that water splash. And you see the mother. You see the mother. Freaking, freaking out. Oh my God. I just changed his clothes. And the baby? Heh. Everything is great. Everything is wonderful. Tell the baby, you know, MX went down. American Express stocks went down. Heh. This is it. This is it.

Now, I don't mean to tell you that you should play with a garden hose. But I do mean to tell you that once upon a time you had such dedication for enjoyment. You had such a fervor for life. You had such an excitement for existence. And you had no concepts. And you still existed. You still took a breath. Your heart still pumped. Your body still went about doing its business. You smiled. You laughed. You cried. You laughed. You smiled. You cried. And you laughed. It was so simple. It was so simple. It's time to cry. Because I don't feel comfortable. Why? It's time to laugh. I think this is funny. And laugh.

You think human beings can do that? No. Somebody comes up to the little kid. Take away one thing that they like. They go, I'm crying. Give him something else. Oh, you're good. You're fine. No, not as human beings. We, through, this is what we have learned. We have not learned how to forgive. But we have learned how not to forgive. We have not learned how to be in the moment. We have learned the great revenge. Now I'm going to get this guy. I'm going to make this guy feel bad. So, you're crying. Wake up. So, luxuries. Because you think you're going to live forever. So you're luxuriating. Totally luxuriating in this fantasy of oh, this is okay.

One day it will all change, but it's okay. No. Wake up now. Accept that moment. Accept that challenge. Accept that beauty in your life. That's what it's really all about. Somewhere, you have grown up. You're well-educated. You know many things. This is fine. There's nothing wrong with that. But somewhere, there is heart of a child.

it's a Real Love you should not forget that. Find their hearts. Though there's an ocean of difference between us. Somehow I know we'll never part.

May I receive Knowledge?

How long have you been listening?

Fifteen years.

(whistles) Fifteen years. Ha! What happened?

I just know I'm here now.

But what happened? Fifteen years you've been listening. What caused it to transpire? What happened? What transpired for you to want it now?

In all these fifteen years, you always have been alive for me.

Oh, yeah. I was alive too. For me. For fifteen years. More than that. No, I'm interested in, you know, why now? I mean, fifteen years you've been waiting. What's the button that got pushed that you want Knowledge now? I'm not saying that's wrong. I just want to know.

It's just like there is room within me to receive Knowledge.

Okay. Yeah, everybody has their own season. This is completely understood. You know, some trees bear fruit now, some then, some then, some then. It's true. There's a saying, it goes, it doesn't matter how much water you give a tree, it'll only bear fruit when the season comes. So I understand that part of it. Yes.

I ask you Maharaji already if you wanted to give me Knowledge. And at that time you said that you could, but I felt that I was not ready at that time. And then you said, I don't care if I'm cold or not. I'm coming here and I want to ask if you could please give me Knowledge. I really don't know what else to do in this world. I have travelled her. I have nothing more to say anymore because I feel very empty and very… All goes away and I see these worlds. Okay, she's outside this world. Stay there, but I want to know what is inside. Please help me, teach me.

You feel empty? Really empty?

You cannot imagine.

I can imagine. I have a very good imagination. But you know, you're not completely empty yet. You could be more empty. There is a stage of being empty when no more words fall on the tongues. No more ideas. When you realize that emptiness is not so bad. When you understand that emptiness is a nature. Nature of things. Not caused. But it is from that stage of emptiness that now exist the possibilities of a process of being born inside. Because you realize, you feel, there is the hope. There is the joy. There is the understanding. There is the clarity. And all that, when you begin to understand just that simplicity, then everything that's empty converts itself into hope. And then from the hope, not from the concepts, from the hope, that place, when the emptiness has been turned into hope, that is as empty as you're going to get. No more. Because it's empty, empty, empty, empty, empty, empty, empty, empty, and then, no more empty, then everything starts to turn. And then it's hope, hope, hope, hope, hope, hope. And then it's so simple. Like what you really are. Very simple. That I really am. Yes, we have our facade, we have our ideas, we have our little bit here, little bit there, but when all that is just… No, we won't do it ourselves. We won't do it ourselves. Somebody says, remove that mask. No. This is my mask, I want to keep it on. But then empty, empty, empty, empty, empty, empty, and then it's like, nobody to impress, but me, you. Nobody to talk to, but you. Then, then you come into a different domain. Yes? Yeah.

I heard about Knowledge for the first time 13 years ago.

13, 15… We're getting vintage here.

And I'm very happy to have met you and I thank you for so many things that you've taught me. You've shown me my pride and I want to ask you for Knowledge.

I mean, you know, by the way I should clarify one thing, the experience of Knowledge is not kabang, kaboom, kabang, kabang, bang! It's not.

Some people, I think, think exactly that. You walk into that room and then you'll be given the first techniques and it'll be… Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba Boom… You know, and… It's not. It wasn't even like that for the people who told you it's like that. Hey, you gotta be truthful about it. You know, for me, when I received Knowledge, it was like too much. It was like, I was playing outside and the next thing you know, well, your father wants you, okay? Come into the living room. You want Knowledge? Yeah, sure. Okay, here it is. Okay, here's the first technique, second technique, third technique. Enjoy it. It was one of the shortest Knowledge sessions that I think ever can be done.

I mean, now, in my life, I feel this incredible appreciation for it.

Now, in my life, I can definitely say it is a bit like kaboom-kabam-kabam, you know? Because it's like, the kabam-kaboom-kabam is not coming from Knowledge, but it's coming because I'm slamming all the doors behind me as I'm walking into my own self. So, I don't know what your ideas are about Knowledge. I mean, in 13 years, I would reckon you would have, by now, a collection of every single one that was ever made. Umm. But that's, you know, it's very, very simple. It's a very simple experience.

Well, I don't expect to come out tomorrow and find a miracle.

I know it's a path. I know it's a process. I know that it's knowing. I know that it's Knowledge

Well, a miracle, it is. A miracle it is. A Miracle it is but it's a very different kind of miracle. It's a miracle because you have touched, you have seen, you have felt, something inside of you, if you were open. If you could be in that moment, if you could be present in that moment, if you could really be you then more inside you would be able to go. Yes.

My name is Mariam ??? and I've been listening to your teachings for a year and a half now and they've been very good for me in my private life. I've learned a lot and now I want to ask you to give me Knowledge.

What have you learned?

To see life in a simpler way.

And what do you think Knowledge is going to bring you?

Well since I don't have the experience, I don't know.

What would you like it to bring you?

Peace. Peace.

Well, what is peace?

Well for me, it's feeling good about oneself

But you feel good about yourself, no?

Since I've been listening to you. Yes,

So then then then you don't need Knowledge, do you? Ha ha ha ha ha.

Well, I think I do need it. I Feel from inside that I need it.

Yeah. Knowledge does Knowledge bring peace?

I Really don't know what Knowledge brings.

Uh-huh. That's better That's a lot better That's where you have to be. I Don't know. Honestly, I don't know. Not, I don't know because Maharaji said so. Don't play games. You don't have to play games with me. I Am your friend, but I'm a very strange friend. Very strange, I will never come to your house. I will probably not even know your name. Okay, I will not borrow your lawnmower. I Will never invite you to dinner. And I will never go to dinner at your house. So I'm very strange friend, the kind of strange friend you don't have to play games with. You don't have to play games with me, you can fool me, sure it's easy easy. But tomorrow or day after tomorrow whichever Knowledge session you will end up in I will get the last laugh. Ha-ha-ha he tried to fool me. So I don't want to get the last laugh, that's not my objective. Yeah, I Have explained to you so simply, so beautifully, everything, it is no kaboom kabam kabim. It's simple, it takes a lot of trust. You have to be void of expectations. That it is not easy to do. I only ask it for two and a half hours, approximately two and a half, three hours. Well half an hour if it is between breaks in and starting up, so it's about two and a half hours. And I ask you that you, you be you, that's all I'm asking. Does Knowledge work? I don't have any questions in my mind. I don't have any doubt about it There are there are people here who just received Knowledge this morning. Apparently, they had some experience. I don't know if it was good or bad, but they had some experience. Simple. Now they can look back in retrospect and say they're sitting there going "Yeah. Yeah listen to him. He's not all that crazy"

But. you know. they-This is, but for you, for you, for your benefit, for your benefit. I have nothing to gain, nothing to gain. Now you why don't you ask me, do I have to give you Knowledge? No, I don't. (aside) It's okay, you can you can sit down, you don't have to stand up, you can sit down. (end aside) Do I have to give you Knowledge? No. What would happen if I packed my bags and went to a remote little cottage on a lake somewhere far away where nobody can come. Would that be okay with me? Yes? Will I be happy? You betcha. I'm doing this because I want to not because I have to, big difference, big difference. I'm not obliged, so you know I'm not obliged. So. So, no games, please I don't like them you don't and you won't like them either at the end of the day, anyways you would like Knowledge? You will practice it. You'll be committed to it. What about being committed to the aspirant process? Will you still remain an aspirant? Yes.

Hello, my name is Leandro Arroyo and I want to ask you for Knowledge

Okay.

Every time I've heard about you or seen you or listen to you I Felt something that I don't know how to describe. I'm feeling it right now actually, but I'm a little more nervous.

Well, then how long have you been listening for?

I heard about you some nine or ten years ago, but I was a minor at that time.

You're still a minor. We're all still a minor somewhere that's what we have to get to a place where you never grow up. The great wonderful never never land. You just can't let Captain Hook get to you, put his hook on you. That's all. You feel committed to practicing.

Hmm yes

That's Yes, yeah He didn't say it that enthusiastically. You're adding to his enthusiasm. She adds that oh, yes, he says no, she goes yeah, yeah, he said yeah. She was this morning listening to that old song from One Foundation as it was a One Foundation. No, it wasn't One Foundation, I think it was older than that. Spread this Knowledge to every land She was listening to that so she's working on it. You know "Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's ready he's ready." Okay.

Song: If wishes come true I'd make one for you that you never feel afraid If we could unlock all the love in our hearts. We drown all the fear away It's easy to feel alone sometimes We try and fit in But somehow I know there's a real connection stirring so deep inside It's a real love that keeps us together connection Keeps us together sweet understanding Between us

never part

So, just once again we have a chance to hear, hear about this life, hear about this Knowledge. And for me, human beings need to regain the power to observe. We need to look around us and we need to understand certain things that are going on. You know, it is true that if there is five houses in a row and the house in the center is on fire and you're watering the two houses to the left of it and two houses to the right of it, but not the house that is on fire, then maybe you are preventing fire from spreading to the two houses to the left of it and two houses to the right of it. But it's not going to do any good to the house that is on fire. It will burn. Because if you want to extinguish the fire on that particular house, you must water that particular house.

So what do I mean by this analogy? Well, look around. I was thinking about this today. What balance have we achieved? What have we all on the face of this earth? I'm not excluding anybody or trying to include just one set of group in particular. I'm talking about every human being on the face of this earth. We have intrinsically held on to certain values. We have said we should be all educated. Well, to tell you the truth, more people are educated now on the face of this earth than ever before. But there is more ignorance now than ever before. So you have to wonder, how can this be? On one hand, more educated people, I mean more degrees certainly, more people informed, even if they didn't have formal education, definitely more people informed about different issues. But proportionally, the ignorance has grown leaps and bounds.

More gold has been excavated than ever before. More money has been printed than ever before. More riches exist, I mean more metal, more diamonds, more pearls, more gold has been dug from the bosom of this earth, extracted from this earth than ever before. But there is more poverty than ever before. How can this be the dilemma? And yet we continue on the same road. We do not change our vectors. We do not change our directions. We continue in the same direction with same hopes and nothing changes. People all around the world have stories to tell you. How this is bad, how this is so bad, how this is terrible. I mean, I was in England and you hear how the economy is terrible, pound is going down, things are not so good. Then you go to Rome, it's terrible, the economy is not so good. Then you come to Spain, same saga, same story. And then you can go to every individual and you can say, okay tell me your problems. And somebody has lost a child, somebody has lost a husband, somebody has lost a wife, somebody has lost a job, somebody is too poor, somebody is too rich, somebody has told too many lies, somebody hasn't told enough lies.

In this world you get in trouble if you don't tell enough lies. The truth has become relative to which country you live in. It's one of those things, if everybody is corrupt then it's okay. If only a few people are corrupt and other ones aren't corrupt then there's a big problem. And the problem may not be the ones that are corrupt, the problem may be the ones with those that are not corrupt. They may be the ones being penalized. I mean it's strange, it's absurd, it's bizarre. Education grows, ignorance grows. So what does that tell you? What does that tell me? Something is not happening that should be happening. Our sorrows, our lamenting have all been expressed before. Somebody before you has repeated, has said the same thing you are saying today. Oh this is terrible, oh this is horrible, oh I wish this didn't happen, oh how am I going to feed my family? I mean you're not the only one. It is true that when your problem strikes you, it seems like you are the only one being singled out. But that's not true. There are people hundreds of miles away from you going through the same trouble.

And yet, what if you were to stop today and say okay let's take a look at what have we as human beings accomplished? Yes, you could make a long list. You could say well space shuttle, satellites, we have gone to great depths of the ocean, great heights in space, we have created watches that can tell times in a hundredth of a second that the human eye cannot even read. Maybe we can even predict a little bit, forecasting. Now no more like the old sailors who were completely at the whim of the storms, at the whim of the wind. It's not like that anymore. Now you can walk into a met office, a meteorological office, sit down with the guy and he'll tell you exactly what the next 48 hour prognosis is. You can have a satellite picture. You can find out to within just a few meters of where you are on the face of this earth at any given time. You do not need a compass anymore. You don't even need to know which way east is. You don't even need to know which way north is.

So we have made these incredible strides. What has been the overall effect? Overall nothing. The fact that people have cellular phones, everywhere they go they've got a phone, doesn't mean they know what to talk about. Is human being ultimately any happier? I'm not saying we should throw away the technology. Don't do that. But what I'm saying is wasn't the intention of all this technology to make the human being more happy? To improve the quality of life? And so far the quality of life is concerned. Quality of life is concerned. Technology has missed its mark. It's not there. People are fighting, people are bickering, people are lamenting. Now they have newspapers that are broadcasted over satellites. No, the bus has not been prevented from going off the cliff. That's not been done. Nor a committee has been ever replaced to find the fault with the bus driver. That has not been done. The only thing that has been done is more people instantly know about the bus going off the cliff. That's all. That's all that's been done. Now everybody knows how bad it is. Not just a few people, but everybody.

Because quality of life, what is quality of life? Quality. What is this joy? What is true happiness? Not happiness. Happiness has to be redefined. Because the poor, you know, people trying to come into East Germany, to them happiness, I mean West Germany, it's like, well I guess it's just Germany now, happiness is to come to Germany. So they pack their bags, they sell everything, they go to Germany, only to be thrown rocks at. That cannot be happiness. Getting a rock thrown at you cannot be defined as happiness.

What is happiness? What dictates happiness? How do you know when you are happy? What part of you actually feels happy? Is it your brain? Your thoughts? Do you feel happiness in your thoughts? Because if you feel happiness in your thoughts, you feel happy one second, and not happy another second, and maybe happy another second, and maybe unhappy another second. Because if your happiness is contingent upon your thoughts, as your thoughts change, which happens to be probably 100 for every microsecond, so will your happiness. So what is happiness? Where does this belong? Be content now. Find that beauty now. Find your humanness that you have lost now. Find it. Live. Exist. Breathe. It's not fear that we need to live by, but joy. But hope.

I mean, think about it. A long time ago, in the ocean, a couple of thousand miles away from America, in the west, there was nothing there. Nothing. Nothing. Just ocean, ocean, ocean, ocean, ocean. Then one day, at the bottom of the ocean, the bottom of the earth shook, and spewed out a little bit, not much, a little bit of molten lava. And then, nothing happened. Nothing. And then, once more, maybe after thousands of years had gone by, the earth shook again, and some more lava. And thousands of years went by, and more. And then thousands of years went by, and more. And thousands of years went by, and some more. And thousands of years went by, and some more. And then, one day, all this lava, all this rock, broke the surface of the water. Not in one year. Not even in 10,000 years. I'm talking about millions. But this thing kept happening, happening. And then, through all its struggle, through all its fury, there it was. Nothing on it. Nothing could grow on it. Nothing on it. Just lava. And it cooled, and the waves came, and slowly, they began to shake. And that rock was taken and converted into soil. Thousands and thousands and thousands of years we're talking about. Not a bad of an idea. And then, through thousands of miles of journey, some little seed came and planted itself. Some little bird came and probably died there. And through it all, there it is. This incredible, magnificent island called Hawaii. It didn't happen overnight. And it took a long time. A long time of perseverance. A long time of shaping. A long time of success and defeat. I mean, everything that came to Hawaii was totally by accident. But today, there it is. Magnificent. Incredible.

Inside of you, in your ocean, also, maybe it's barren, but way, way, way deep within, inside of you, something shakes and something rumbles. And every time that something shakes and that something rumbles and something cries out, something wants to be born. Something wants to exist. And in your ocean of wilderness, maybe there is no hope. Maybe there is no reason. Maybe there is no kindness. Maybe there is no joy. Maybe there is no reason for happiness. But deep, deep, deep, deep within, inside of you, undeniably, something still wishes to be born. And you must allow this joy to come forward. You must allow this hope to exist. Otherwise, you will be no different than a flash on the face of this earth. Come and go. The very fact that your pain and your hope and your dream is no different than the ones that have walked this earth before you, tells you that you are walking on the same path as everybody else. You are in the same place. They didn't go anywhere. Neither will you. They were stuck. So are you. Through your thoughts, through your imaginations, you create joy. You create your own ladder. You create your own games. And you win your own game. Because perhaps you have forgotten how to play the real game. So now, you must create your own game.

What is the real game? The real game. The game in which the heart is entertained. The game in which the human being is entertained. In the game where you, you will win. And this is, to me, so much of what we have. We know a lot, but we know nothing. We have accumulated much Knowledge, but without the Knowledge, our ignorance soars high. Without the sun, no matter how much light you artificially create, the darkness will come. Momentary, perhaps, you can take it away. But as soon as that power goes off, it will be dark. Isn't it opposite? At night, you need to create light. You need bulbs. You need candles. You need lamps to create a little bit of light. But what do you have to do in the day to keep the light out? Believe me, anybody who has tried to have a dark room, it takes a lot. Because that light is so much present. There is so abundance of it, that even a hairline space left between the window and the room will fill up. If anybody has tried to make a dark room so to make pictures, you will know. One little pinhole, one little abrasion on that paper, and the light will come through. Which one are you trying to do in your life? Are you not working incredibly hard to be happy? Isn't ultimately anybody's aim and destination to be content? And yet, look how hard we have to work on it. And it's like trying to bring light bulbs in and one little power goes out, one little cord breaks, one little outlet goes, one little fuse blows, one little circuit breaker blows, and it's like pitch dark again. And then you have to work again, get all the lamps in, get all the light bulbs in, get everything going.

But when you have found the source of that joy, of that happiness, you will have one hell of a job trying to keep it up. Because it will permeate.

Every corner, every fiber of your being. Now, everything you do, it's like, will I make it? Will I make it? Will it happen? Will it happen? The safety systems you have to have.

I mean, just think about it. In some countries, the rate of inflation is so incredible, it's so incredible that if a 20-year-old man decides to put away money for his pension plan, he can pretty much count on whatever he puts away at 20 will be worth nothing by the time he actually needs it. I mean, some places, I can't, I mean, I can't believe these figures, you know, I was always thought 100% was the end, but some places, running an inflation rate of 150%, that means he will have 50%, I mean, 50% less, all gone, plus 50% less than what he started with. Yet, yet, we will all do it. We will all gladly, I'm putting away something for nothing, or I'm putting away nothing for something. It doesn't matter, because at the end of the day, it will pretty much be nothing. Hey, look, system is gone completely, but nobody is going to say it. It is like the emperor with no clothes. Everybody has to join the party. No, no, no, it's okay. I mean, just think of it. More lawyers now, more injustice.

More doctors now, more diseases. I mean, before, somebody died, somebody died, you know? Somebody died because they were old, it was easy, it was like, what's the big deal? That's what happens to really old people, you know? I mean, there's even a song written by one of the saints that, you know, the hairs have started to turn white, the eyes have become cloudy, can't remember a thing. Seems normal to me, but not anymore. Now they have a name for it. Now it's an official disease. I mean, everything. And what used to be, I mean, people used to go in dignity. It's time to go, it's time to go. Nothing you can do about it. Now, no. A person is dead, but not really. They can keep a dead person alive. They can plug this tube and they can plug that tube and they can keep the heart going and they can keep the kidneys going and the person is dead, but they're not dead because... So now, when do you die? You don't. You die, but you don't die. I mean, before there were doctors, you were born and you died. Now it's all confusing. When is the human being supposed to be dignified in all of this game? When is the dignity supposed to return? When can you, you really be you? Not a label, not a number, not a tag. Feels so, it's such an indignified thing. You come somewhere, you pull out your little passport and try to show the person. That's it. It's the end of your dignity. Because even cows have it better. Cows, what they do is they take this part of the cow and they put a chip in it. So every time the cow goes in and out, it doesn't have to show a passport. It automatically registers. No end to these games.

But you are alive. By an incredible miracle, by an incredible , by an incredible gift, by an incredible kindness, you came to be. By the most profound miracle, you took your breath. And the day, the moment, the second you took your breath, you changed. You came out, you were pink, you were blue, you took your breath, next thing, your color changed. What an incredible miracle. No buttons had to be pushed. Better than a computer. Better than anything, automatically. And for you to eat, your food preceded you. Hunger in this world, they say. When there is more food in this world today than there ever was. And look at you. How well you were taken care of. As you came, your food came with you. Everything you needed. The milk, the perfect sustenance that your body needed. I mean, actually, a lot of people don't know this, but may as well tell you since you want to be educated. The first thing that the baby needs is cholesterol, not milk. Okay? And as soon as the baby drinks this, it cleans out all the insides so that now it can begin to drink the proper milk. Everything has to be reset. And it just so happens that the first thing produced by the mother's body is just that. Not too much, not too little, just the right amount. Immediately followed. Immediately followed by. More accurate than a doctor's dose. The greatest therapeutic assistance already provided. And by that, you were born. By that, you exist.

And there you are. The most incredible miracle. People look for miracles. What do they want? This is so stupid. So stupid. They want water coming out of the rocks. I can do that for $20. For 20 bucks, all you need is a little solar panel, a little 2 volt, 3 volt, 4 volt, little motor with a little pump. That's it. And if you've got city water available, then that's, you just hook it right up. Put a little hole. And it'll come out. That's a miracle? That's stupid. That happens all over the place. I mean, that's no miracle. But that's the miracle people want. What kind of miracle is that? What is the real miracle? What is the real miracle? This life is the real miracle. This gift is the real miracle. This breath is the real miracle. To be awakened is the real miracle. To give the blind the sight. Who are the blind? Who are the blind? Us, with eyes. We are the blind. And we're the ones who need the sight. Because we're the ones who are not seeing what we need to see. We merely have eyes and we pretend we can see, but we cannot see.

We are the crippled. Who are the crippled? We, with two functioning legs. We are the crippled. And we have never walked. We have been sitting where we were placed. This is your life. This is your function. This is your job. This is your duty. This is everything. And we have never walked. But for somebody to make those crippled walk and say no. Move. Go. Walk. Walk in this beautiful pavilion of light. We are the deaf. Because we have ears, but we do not hear. We are the deaf. And the deaf shall hear. Yes. The deaf need to hear. Hear about this life. Because we do not. Hear the music. Hear that joy. Hear that feeling. Hear that beauty that resides within every human being. So that's how simple it is. It really is simple. To awaken. To open. To accept. To see. To cherish. To know. To discard the ignorance and receive that Knowledge which can allow you to know. Because you need to know. Well anyways, enough said. Take care. Enjoy this life. Enjoy this gift. And I hope I'll see you soon. Thank you very much and good night.