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supposing that I say to you each one of 00:00:00
supposing that I say to you each one of you is really the great self no the 00:00:04
brahmana and you say well all you've 00:00:11
said up to now makes me fairly 00:00:13
sympathetic to this intellectually but I 00:00:16
don't really feel it what must I do to 00:00:21
feel it really my answer to you is this 00:00:26
you asked me that question because you 00:00:28
don't want to feel it really you're 00:00:31
frightened of it and therefore what 00:00:34
you're going to do is you're going to 00:00:36
get a method of practice so that you can 00:00:39
put it off so that I can say well I can 00:00:45
be a long time on the way getting this 00:00:47
thing and then maybe I'll be worthy of 00:00:53
it after I have suffered enough see 00:00:57
because we are brought up in a social 00:00:59
scheme whereby we have to deserve what 00:01:04
we get and the price that one pays for 00:01:06
all good things is suffering but all of 00:01:11
that is precisely postponement because 00:01:16
one is afraid here and now to see it if 00:01:25
you have the nerve you know real nerve 00:01:29
you would see it right away only that 00:01:34
would be there when one feels you you 00:01:36
you you should have nerve like that but 00:01:38
that would be awful that would be that 00:01:41
wouldn't do at all because after all I'm 00:01:43
supposed to be poor little me and I'm 00:01:48
not really much of a muchness and I'm 00:01:52
playing the role of being poor little me 00:01:53
and therefore in order to be something 00:01:56
great like a Buddha or a Jeevan Mukta 00:02:00
one liberated in this life 00:02:04
I ought to suffer for it so you can 00:02:09
suffer for it there are all kinds of 00:02:11
ways invented for you to do this and you 00:02:15
can discipline yourself and you can gain 00:02:17
control of your mind and you can do all 00:02:21
sorts of extraordinary things I mean you 00:02:23
could drink water in through your rectum 00:02:25
and there's the truth of us fantastic 00:02:29
things but that's just like being able 00:02:33
to run the hundred yards in nine seconds 00:02:36
or push a peanut up Mount Tamalpais with 00:02:41
your nose or any other kind of 00:02:43
accomplishment you want to engage it 00:02:45
absolutely nothing to do with the 00:02:48
realization of the self the realization 00:02:52
of the self fundamentally depends on 00:02:55
coming off it you know the sort of when 00:02:58
we say to people who put on some kind of 00:03:00
an act as they all come and some people 00:03:03
can come off it they laugh and say they 00:03:06
suddenly realize you know they were 00:03:08
making fools of themselves and they 00:03:09
laugh at themselves and they come off it 00:03:11
so in exactly the same way the guru the 00:03:17
teacher is trying to make you come off 00:03:18
it now if he finds he can't make you 00:03:21
come up it is going to put you through 00:03:23
all these exercises so the truth at the 00:03:25
last time when you got enough discipline 00:03:28
enough suffering and enough frustration 00:03:31
you'll give it all up realize you were 00:03:34
there from the beginning and there was 00:03:35
nothing to realize but the Guru is very 00:03:39
clever this is all right if this is the 00:03:41
way you have to go this is where you 00:03:43
have to have you asked for it you came 00:03:47
to me I didn't invite you you see the 00:03:49
Guru says you came to me and said I want 00:03:51
to learn yoga well he said Yoga is Union 00:03:55
you here Tata Massey you know you're 00:03:57
that well now you do say I'm sorry I 00:03:59
don't understand that because I only get 00:04:01
it intellectually I don't 00:04:02
oh it says you're one of those ah ha see 00:04:08
ha I've got to satisfy you the customer 00:04:11
is always right 00:04:12
no I gotta give you all this work to do 00:04:15
because you can't see directly that this 00:04:18
is so but he's looking at you in a funny 00:04:21
way you see the year the Guru is always 00:04:23
saying to you you know what are you what 00:04:27
are you doing what's your game 00:04:31
imagine for example a father confessor 00:04:34
and you feel terribly guilty that you've 00:04:39
committed robberies and adulterers and 00:04:42
fornication and all kinds of arson and 00:04:46
injury to people and financial 00:04:48
shenanigans and you go to this man and 00:04:50
say I am a terrible sinner and then you 00:04:54
say to him well you don't seem to be 00:04:56
very shocked we said you haven't 00:04:58
confessed any serious sins he said what 00:05:02
do you mean by serious sin well I said 00:05:05
what do you think well no I 00:05:10
I just feel wrong I just feel there's 00:05:14
something in the basis of me that feels 00:05:16
that tells me that I am not what I ought 00:05:19
to be ah could it be that I am 00:05:23
spiritually proud that I am egocentric 00:05:28
no very usual this is quite ordinary sin 00:05:28
but he says you you you are guilty of something something really terrible the 00:05:37
real crime is that you won't admit your 00:05:42
God 00:05:44
that's false modesty 00:05:44
so the Guru challenges you see it challenges you if you raised the 00:05:54
president he doesn't go out and preach 00:05:57
in the streets say come on everybody you 00:06:00
ought to be converted he sits down under 00:06:03
a tree and waits and people start coming 00:06:09
around and they offer him propositions 00:06:11
he answers back and he challenges in any 00:06:18
way that he thinks is appropriate to 00:06:20
your situation now if you've got a sin 00:06:25
shell and your mask is easily dispatched 00:06:31
with 00:06:34
he simply uses a what we might call an 00:06:37
easy method if expense 00:06:41
listen fever they come up it don't 00:06:45
pretend you're this guy here I know who 00:06:48
you are and the guy sort of twinkles a 00:06:53
bit and says haha I guess you're right 00:06:57
but the people aren't like that they 00:07:02
have very thick shells and so he has to 00:07:06
invent ways of cracking 00:07:06