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[Music] all life goes grinding around this wheel 00:00:03
and if you go up and you succeed and you 00:00:12
get to the top you have to come down 00:00:12
they don't see success in other words in the world as a method of liberation 00:00:20
because it implies failure so the idea 00:00:27
of liberation which is called moksha is 00:00:32
the ideal of hindu life wake up it's 00:00:36
agreed 00:00:36
and in time there is no hope in time everything is going to get worse in time 00:00:44
because as you know it does we all fall 00:00:48
apart in the end everything falls apart 00:00:52
institutions buildings Nations it all 00:00:55
crumbles and people say well that's an 00:00:59
awfully pessimistic philosophy well is 00:01:03
it I would rather say that the people 00:01:06
who have opened the filter of a 00:01:07
miserable people because they are like 00:01:10
donkeys chasing carrots that are dangled 00:01:13
before their noses from sticks attached 00:01:15
to their color and they pursue and they 00:01:18
pursue in vain always hoping that 00:01:21
tomorrow will be the great thing and 00:01:23
therefore incapable of enjoying 00:01:25
themselves today people who live for the 00:01:31
future never get there they're the sort 00:01:35
of people who spend their lives saving 00:01:37
for their old age and trying to teach 00:01:40
their children to do the same thing so 00:01:43
that when they retire at 65 00:01:46
you know they have false teeth and 00:01:48
wrinkles and prostate trouble and all 00:01:50
that sort of thing where were you going 00:01:52
what did you think it was all about 00:01:55
furthermore the fact that life is 00:01:58
transient is part of its liveliness the 00:02:03
poets in speaking of the transience of 00:02:06
the world always other their best poetry 00:02:08
our revels now are ended these are 00:02:12
actors as I foretold you are all spirits 00:02:14
and are melted into air and finding and 00:02:19
like the baseless fabric of this vision 00:02:21
the cloud-capped towers the gorgeous 00:02:23
palaces the solemn temples the great 00:02:26
earth itself I or witched inherited 00:02:28
resolved like this insubstantial pageant 00:02:31
faded leave not a rack behind we are 00:02:36
such stuff as dreams and later now that 00:02:39
we live with now Middle asleep 00:02:39
and said so well it doesn't seem so bad after all of it you see there's always 00:02:45
in the poetry of Evanescence a kind of 00:02:54
funny nostalgia moralists will say those 00:03:00
lovely lips which you so delight to kiss 00:03:02
today will in a few years rot and 00:03:05
disclose the grinning teeth of the skull 00:03:07
so what the skull says lying in the 00:03:15
grass chattering bins and water fly are 00:03:18
not merrier than I here among the 00:03:20
flowers I lie 00:03:22
laughing everlasting no I may not tell 00:03:26
the best surely friends I could have 00:03:28
guessed death was but the good Kings 00:03:31
jest 00:03:31
it was hid so careful and monks used to 00:03:36
keep skulls on their desks people 00:03:40
nowadays think that was very morbid I 00:03:43
went and visited a chapel in the Via 00:03:46
Veneto in Rome 00:03:47
where there's a crypt where all the 00:03:52
altar furnishings are made out of human 00:03:53
bones the altars of piles of skulls 00:03:57
there are rib bones arranged across the 00:04:01
ceiling like floral patterns with 00:04:03
vertebrae representing flowers and 00:04:07
they're all dead capuchin monks and 00:04:11
there's a funny little monk collecting 00:04:13
the admissions up at the top and he has 00:04:16
one of the funniest grins on his face I 00:04:18
see a long time I sit in you know on the 00:04:24
day of resurrection there's going to be 00:04:25
an awful lot of scuttling up this narrow 00:04:27
staircase people try to reassemble their 00:04:33
bones hope your father isn't that life 00:04:36
if metatarsals 00:04:37
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the whole idea you see is that 00:04:45
everything's falling apart 00:04:47
so don't try and stop it when you're 00:04:51
falling off a precipice it doesn't do 00:04:52
you any good to hang on hang on to a 00:04:54
rope what's falling with you see but 00:04:56
everything is doing that and so again 00:04:58
this is another case of our completely 00:05:00
wasting our energy in trying to prevent 00:05:03
the world from falling apart don't do it 00:05:07
then you'll be able to do something 00:05:08
interesting with the free energy so 00:05:12
that's moksha cuz when the Hindu says 00:05:17
everything is unreal the Westerner 00:05:20
reacts and says no no we can't treat 00:05:22
life as a dream it's serious it's real 00:05:25
it's for real I really wanted to move 00:05:25
this is in other words everything insofar as it's falling apart everything 00:05:36
is changing it is like smoke and we all 00:05:42
feel that smoke has a lesser degree of 00:05:44
reality than wood it's an image of the 00:05:48
evanescent of the ghostly so this idea 00:05:52
the whole world is this Mirage that 00:05:54
doesn't mean it's a bad thing it's only 00:05:57
bad if you cling to it if you try to 00:05:59
lean on it but if you don't lean on it 00:06:02
it's a grand illusion so the word Maya 00:06:04
and that means not only illusion but it 00:06:07
means art it means magic and it means 00:06:11
creative power so this is the big act 00:06:17
it's perhaps easier to feel the world in 00:06:21
that way in a tropical country where 00:06:26
death is very common and where you've 00:06:30
just watched things dissolve before your 00:06:32
eyes 00:06:32
and yet first start and grow again the 00:06:36
whole world is changing maybe easier to 00:06:40
think that way than in our environment 00:06:42
although when you're out in California 00:06:43
the human landscape changes so fast that 00:06:47
no no town is the same for two years any 00:06:53
mailing lists that you have changes one 00:06:57
third addresses for an 00:06:57
nothing stays quickly the hills are shadows and they flow from form to form 00:07:05
and nothing stands now this you see is 00:07:12
not a pessimistic attitude therefore at 00:07:13
all to be able to realize that this 00:07:15
world is simply a dream 00:07:17
a dancing play of smoke fastening yes 00:07:22
but don't lean on life is a bridge says 00:07:25
one of the Hindu sayings pass over it 00:07:27
but build no house at home and so 00:07:33
immediately you see that this is a thing 00:07:37
that often puzzles Westerners they 00:07:41
expected that anybody who's an ascetic 00:07:42
or a sage or something be rather 00:07:44
miserable in a glum face but on the 00:07:49
country you take this character who's 00:07:53
going around these days at Maharshi 00:07:54
Mahesh he's always laughing because he's 00:07:59
into it he looks on every side and there 00:08:02
is the face of the log of the divinity 00:08:05
in everybody in every direction and 00:08:06
everything playing at being new and you 00:08:12
can look down into a person's eyes way 00:08:14
way in and you see the self the eternal 00:08:19
divine and what is so funny when it puts 00:08:21
on an expression saying what me and the 00:08:28
Guru the teacher when people go to a 00:08:33
guru they get all sorts of funny ideas 00:08:35
oh he's looking right through he sees me 00:08:40
through and through he knows how awful I 00:08:42
am reads my most secret thoughts cause 00:08:45
he has a funny looking mister he isn't 00:08:50
even interested in secret for hots he's 00:08:53
looking straight at the Godhead in you 00:08:54
with a funny expression on his face with 00:08:57
his saying why you trying to kid me 00:08:57
come off it Shiva I know you are and therefore you see his role is to gently 00:09:09
humor you into waking up as to your true 00:09:19
nature now of course as i intimated 00:09:24
earlier the hindu is therefore saying 00:09:28
everybody is god and this is why when a 00:09:32
Hindu greets you he does this that is 00:09:37
the act of puja or worship to the 00:09:39
Godhead in you and our theologians get 00:09:46
rather worried about that because you 00:09:49
see the two conceptions of God are 00:09:51
different our conception is of the boss 00:09:55
man the king 00:09:57
theirs is of the cosmic centipede 00:10:00
through the many ARMs who does not have 00:10:03
to think how to make the world or rather 00:10:06
to act the world that would be an 00:10:10
insufferable nuisance you may think it 00:10:14
rather wonderful when some Thomas tries 00:10:16
to explain that God is fully aware of 00:10:19
everything that happens and in every 00:10:21
detail is willing each single vibration 00:10:24
of any mosquitoes wing but when you 00:10:29
really begin to think about it that 00:10:32
approaches intellectual elephantiasis 00:10:36
imagine the law of being aware of all 00:10:39
the prayers and having to listen to the 00:10:43
sort of prayers that go on overnight 00:10:43
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God heard the embattled nation shout God Strava England and god save the king god 00:10:54
this God that and God the other thing 00:10:59
but God said God I've got my work cut 00:11:00
out 00:11:01
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so therefore when somebody in India 00:11:09
suddenly announces that he's Bobby 00:11:12
nobody accuses in the blasphemy or being 00:11:15
insane 00:11:16
they say simply congratulations at last 00:11:18
we found out and they don't immediately 00:11:24
request a miracle as you see if we get 00:11:29
across someone who says I'm God or I'm 00:11:31
Jesus Christ they say what they said to 00:11:33
Jesus Christ in the first place 00:11:34
come on that these stones be made bread 00:11:37
there is not this idea of God the 00:11:40
technician but rather power of 00:11:44
omnipotence is not to be able to do 00:11:47
anything but to be doing all things 00:11:50
whatever it is that's going on and 00:11:55
spontaneously without having to think 00:11:57
about and the holy man is of course 00:12:02
called a salmon a shaman is a realized 00:12:10
man a man who knows the inner secret and 00:12:15
seen through the gate and he finds it by 00:12:18
going away alone into the forest and 00:12:18
cutting himself off from the tribe that is to say from social conditioning and 00:12:28
he goes maybe for a long period into the 00:12:32
forest he comes back he's found out 00:12:35
through years and he sure isn't who he 00:12:37
was told he was when you are born you 00:12:43
are born into a caste and your duty as a 00:12:47
green hostile or householder is to 00:12:49
fulfill your caste function and to bring 00:12:51
up a family when you've done that you go 00:12:56
back to the forest 00:12:59
back to the hunting couch and you drop 00:13:02
your roll and you become nobody a shaman 00:13:08
again 00:13:09
so if hindu calls one who does this a 00:13:12
shramana which is across the same word 00:13:15
as shaman a shaman is an immortal why 00:13:21
immortal because it's only the role 00:13:23
that's modeled the big front the persona 00:13:26
the one who you really are 00:13:28
the common man that is to say the man 00:13:31
who is common to us all which you could 00:13:34
call the son of man that's the real self 00:13:38
that's the guy who's putting on the big 00:13:40
air and of course he has no name nobody 00:13:47
can put the finger on because you can't 00:13:51
perhaps the tip of the finger with the 00:13:52
tip of the finger 00:13:52
so that means in practice then that when you hand over your vocation in life 00:14:01
which is called your swadharma that 00:14:06
means slark that's the same as the latin 00:14:08
sewers one's own parma means functioned 00:14:12
your own function or we would call your 00:14:15
vocation when you've completed it you 00:14:20
drop out and become nobody because 00:14:24
you're going to find out now who you 00:14:25
ridden off and you take on one of the 00:14:30
names of God Swami Ramananda Swami 00:14:33
this is Brahma who may go quite naked 00:14:37
like the she bite polina no clothes and 00:14:42
they just just go out and wander and 00:14:46
don't make any provision for anything 00:14:47
they literally take no thought for 00:14:49
tomorrow 00:14:50
what you shall eat what you feel drink 00:14:52
or wherewithal they shall be clothed but 00:14:55
you see people respect them they say 00:14:59
yeah we got to have those people up 00:15:00
there thought they are doing what human 00:15:03
being is ultimately supposed to do and 00:15:04
we shall do it in our time and so give 00:15:07
them some food but we can look at it all 00:15:14
and say what a mess why don't you do 00:15:19
something to yourself why don't you kill 00:15:22
the sacred cows that eat why don't you 00:15:24
clean up why do you permit all this 00:15:27
disease just try and see something from 00:15:31
another point of view for a friend just 00:15:35
look at it from another point of view 00:15:37
and they would smile at us and say you 00:15:41
really think it's as real as all right 00:15:41
have you never experienced what's on the inside of this game so trouble with you 00:15:48
Westerners is you never experience those 00:15:54
you will never got down for dilute of 00:15:57
reality and you don't know that the 00:15:59
state of pompous ease and so you're 00:16:02
frantically trying to patch everything 00:16:04
up and pin it all together and screw the 00:16:06
universe up so it's fixing you can never 00:16:08
do it 00:16:09
all it is it got wildly rushing around 00:16:12
and creating trouble 00:16:13
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