WHATEVER HAS HAPPENED HAS HAPPENED. PRAY TO GOD,
“PLEASE ERASE ALL MY SLATE. LET ME BE A NEW PERSON.
THAT IS CONSCIOUS BEING.

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      That transformation is what we need. If for nothing else, at least for joyfulness, at least for the bliss’s sake—anandam—awaken. And then you will not mind your ego dropping dead, I tell you. You will say, “Thank God! Why was I holding onto it in the first place?” Then when you look at the ego, it’s not there. It vanishes. You are your joyful Self, the Spirit. You are your own God, a Realized Soul. Who cares then for that blind ego? It just vanishes. It’s nowhere, a shadow. It merges back into you. You have seen how, when the sun shines directly overhead, your shadow merges in you. That Enlightenment is symbolically like the sun—full with Light, full with Radiance, full with Illumination, full with Shakti (Energy) and never sleeping. If the sun goes to sleep, where shall we be? It is always awake. That is spiritual.

REMEMBER, HUMAN BEINGS, this is your Goal: to Awaken, to Know, to be Illuminated. But if you want to be naughty boys, reactionary and so on, then you will have troubles and suffering. Then diseases come, worries come, jealousies come, tug of wars come, and reactions. Day in and day out, keep practices on. Suggest to yourself, “I have to be Awakened, a Buddha,” until you come out of your slumber of unconsciousness. When this happens you will actually see it, that hazy unconsciousness that has been with us since births and which we make live through whatever actions we do. When that drops off, you are totally transformed. You are a Conscious Being, Awakened.

      See how many of you will do it. Potentially anybody can. And that will free you of all deficiencies, worries, problems, weaknesses and ignorance. This needs a lot of practice. Sit in meditation. Try to melt. Surrender the mind to the Lord. You may even tell Him: “God, whether I like it or not, I really want to surrender. I don’t like to surrender only because by habit I have cherished this ego for a long time. That is why it has become so dear to me. I understand intellectually that to surrender is the best thing, but it takes time to do that. Have patience with me, God. I’m not done yet.” God always has patience. If He didn’t have patience, by this time He would have put us back into our original elements!
      Pray to the Lord, “God, at least before I leave this body, please awaken me. I don’t want to waste this human birth.” Can you do that? Because whatever else you achieve in this human life, you are going to leave here when you pass away. Will you take anything with you? Your body? A telephone? You can’t take anything! Even if we achieve a hundred things successfully, we are not going to take anything with us. But if you are Awakened, if you are Illumined, Enlightened, your Awakening goes with you. You are Liberated. You do not lose anything. You do not need the body. You will be in Light. You will be the Spirit. You will fly away as a flame of Light. You won’t miss anything. Then you have achieved the purpose of human birth. Pray to the Lord day and night: “Let me finish the game in this birth. Awaken me, Lord.” Asato Ma Sadgamaya/Tamaso Ma Jyotir Gamaya/Mrityor Ma Amritam Gamaya, “From untruth lead me to the Truth/From darkness lead me to the Light/From mortality lead me to Immortality.” Some prayers and some of your own practices together can make it. You do what you can do; the rest you pray.
 



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