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Kingdom of Happiness - Jiddu Krishnamurti · The Kybalion

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  Speaker 1: Preface of the Kingdom of Happiness. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  Speaker 1: Kingdom of Happiness by Jidu Krishnamurti forward. I have been
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  Speaker 1: asked to write a foreward to the following pages. Frankly,
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  Speaker 1: they do not need it, but perhaps some sort of
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  Speaker 1: explanation is necessary for their appearance. They are talks given
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  Speaker 1: to certain friends of mine at the castle of Irida
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  Speaker 1: alman Holland. The castle is of the early eighteenth century
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  Speaker 1: style of building, and it is supposed to be one
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  Speaker 1: of the best specimens of that period. It certainly is
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  Speaker 1: one of the most beautiful places that I know. Everything
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  Speaker 1: in the castle is of that period and is in
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  Speaker 1: perfect condition. The goblins are wonderful, and they give an
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  Speaker 1: atmosphere of ancient dignity and beauty. Great trees two or
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  Speaker 1: three hundred years old surround the castle, and their mighty
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  Speaker 1: tops disappear into the clouds, and there you can hear
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  Speaker 1: strange whisperings. The place is full of charm and happiness,
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  Speaker 1: and my talks naturally turned on that eternal subject J. Krishnamurti.
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  Speaker 1: Note I may add to the above that the conditions
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  Speaker 1: described were the most favorable possible for the presence of
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  Speaker 1: the world teacher's influence. Krishnaji was surrounded by a small
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  Speaker 1: group of eager students, believing in his inspiration and joyously
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  Speaker 1: welcoming the presence of the Lord. Readers will recognize the
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  Speaker 1: depth of wisdom, the striking originality, the exquisite diction of
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  Speaker 1: this really wonderful book. The wise will prize it, the
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  Speaker 1: otherwise will do as they please. Annie Bissant, end of preface,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter one of The Kingdom of Happiness by Jidu Cris.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. The voice
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  Speaker 1: of Intuition. I want, if I can, to put before
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  Speaker 1: you certain ideas which you should cultivate, and which would
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  Speaker 1: give you a definite and intelligent conception of true spiritual life.
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  Speaker 1: I think all of you realize that to create as
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  Speaker 1: you must create if you would live, there must be
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  Speaker 1: struggle and discontent, and in guiding these to their fruition,
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  Speaker 1: you must cultivate your own point of view, your own tendencies,
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  Speaker 1: your own abilities. And for this I desire to arouse
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  Speaker 1: in each that voice, that tyrant, the only true guide
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  Speaker 1: that will help you to create. Most of you prefer
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  Speaker 1: it is a much easier way to copy. Most of
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  Speaker 1: you like to follow. Most of you find it much
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  Speaker 1: easier not to cultivate your own tendencies, your own qualities,
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  Speaker 1: your own natures, but rather to follow blindly. Think you
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  Speaker 1: will agree with me that it is fatal for the
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  Speaker 1: development of the voice. The noblest guide each of us
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  Speaker 1: has is this voice, this tyrant, this intuition. And it
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  Speaker 1: is in cultivating and ennobling and imperfecting this that we
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  Speaker 1: arrive at the goal, our own goal. In cultivating this
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  Speaker 1: voice till it becomes the one tyrant, the one voice
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  Speaker 1: which we obey, we must find out our goal and
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  Speaker 1: work unceasingly for its attainment. Now, what is this goal
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  Speaker 1: to me? It is this, I want to attain the
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  Speaker 1: ultimate truth. I want to reach a state where I
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  Speaker 1: know for myself that I have conquered, that I have attained,
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  Speaker 1: that I am the embodiment of that truth. So that
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  Speaker 1: all the little struggles, the little turmoils, the little disturbances
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  Speaker 1: of life, though they have their value, do not upset me,
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  Speaker 1: do not cloud the vision of the truth, and in
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  Speaker 1: this truth I attain at the same time what I desire,
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  Speaker 1: the peace, the perfect tranquility of mind and of emotions.
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  Speaker 1: This is the goal for me. The first essential is
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  Speaker 1: the strengthening of this voice in each of us, which
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  Speaker 1: asserts itself from time to time, and in cultivating and
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  Speaker 1: in ennobling the intuition, we must learn to think and
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  Speaker 1: act for ourselves. The cultivation of this voice of intuition
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  Speaker 1: means a life according to its edicts. Imitation has nothing
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  Speaker 1: to do with the beautiful Art consists not in the
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  Speaker 1: copy of nature as it is, but in the nobleness
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  Speaker 1: of the symbol of that nature which it represents. So
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  Speaker 1: each one of us has to be an artist, an
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  Speaker 1: artist who creates for himself because he has been thrilled
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  Speaker 1: by a glimpse of the vision. You will find that
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  Speaker 1: true and great artists, true and great teachers have not
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  Speaker 1: the sense of exclusiveness they embody. All things are part
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  Speaker 1: of all things. We must be varied in order to
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  Speaker 1: produce the perfect thing. A garden full of roses, however beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: becomes monotonous. You may have the most perfect roses of
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  Speaker 1: many types and colors, but if they are all roses,
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  Speaker 1: the garden lacks a sense of beauty. There is a
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  Speaker 1: tendency in each one of us to become like the others.
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  Speaker 1: We all desire to conform to a certain type and
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  Speaker 1: make ourselves fit into molds not of our own making.
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  Speaker 1: This is fatal to the development of perfect intuition. And
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  Speaker 1: yet we must never forget that we shall all meet
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  Speaker 1: in the kingdom of happiness. We have a tendency, all
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  Speaker 1: through our nationalism or forms of worship, to think that
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  Speaker 1: we are different from other people. We treat the world
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  Speaker 1: as outside of us, and we become exclusive in our outlook.
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  Speaker 1: We shall be destroying instead of creating. If we have
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  Speaker 1: such a limited vision, such narrow ideas. I want, if
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  Speaker 1: I can to rouse in each one of you, this
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  Speaker 1: voice that shall guide you along the line you want
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  Speaker 1: to follow. That is your own life, the path of
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  Speaker 1: your own making. And as long as you obey that voice,
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  Speaker 1: that intuition, you cannot err. It is in trying to
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  Speaker 1: follow the orders, the ideas, the visions of others that
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  Speaker 1: you go wrong. I can point out my ideal of truth,
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  Speaker 1: the perfect piece of loving kindness, but you must struggle
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  Speaker 1: and arrive at it for yourselves. I can lay down
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  Speaker 1: the principles of truth, but through your own voice. Through
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  Speaker 1: the obeying of that voice, you must develop your own intuition,
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  Speaker 1: your own ideas, and so you will come to the
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  Speaker 1: goal where we shall all meet. This is for me
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  Speaker 1: the big thing in life. I do not want to
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  Speaker 1: obey anybody. It doesn't matter who he is, so long
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  Speaker 1: as I do not feel he is right. I do
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  Speaker 1: not want to hide behind the screen which veils the truth.
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  Speaker 1: I do not want to have beliefs to which I
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  Speaker 1: cannot respond and to which I cannot give my soul
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  Speaker 1: and my heart and my whole being. Instead of being
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  Speaker 1: the ordinary and the mediocre, you will listen to this voice,
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  Speaker 1: cultivate this intuition, and so discover new avenues of life
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  Speaker 1: instead of being swept aimlessly along the path of another.
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  Speaker 1: In realizing this ideal, as I said, you must develop
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  Speaker 1: your intuition. A perfect harmony of emotions and of mind
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  Speaker 1: is essential so that intuition, the voice of your true self,
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  Speaker 1: can express itself. Intuition is the whisper of the soul.
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  Speaker 1: Intuition is the guiding word in our life. The more
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  Speaker 1: we harmonize our strong feelings in keen mind by perfecting
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  Speaker 1: and purifying them. The more likely we are to hear
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  Speaker 1: that voice, the intuition which is common to all, the
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  Speaker 1: intuition which is of humanity and not of one particular individual.
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  Speaker 1: You must have strong feelings, whether of love, of intense happiness,
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  Speaker 1: of real kindness. A person who has no feelings at
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  Speaker 1: all is useless, whereas if he has strong feelings, even
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  Speaker 1: if they be of the wrong kind, he can always
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  Speaker 1: train them to become refined and perfect. It is the
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  Speaker 1: person who is hard and indifferent that cannot create, destroy
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  Speaker 1: or construct. You will find that a great destroyer is
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  Speaker 1: never a small person. There is something wonderful about him.
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  Speaker 1: A great lover is never mediocre or small. The more
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  Speaker 1: feelings you have, the better. But at the same time
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  Speaker 1: you must learn control, because emotions are like weeds, and
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  Speaker 1: unless you restrain them, they will spoil the garden. If
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  Speaker 1: you have weak emotions, but give them nourishment day by day,
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  Speaker 1: they will strengthen and grow. The idea that we should
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  Speaker 1: have no feelings and emotions is absurd and unspiritual. The
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  Speaker 1: more you are bubbling over with feelings, the better, But
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  Speaker 1: you will find you have to control them, and if
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  Speaker 1: you do not, you suffer. If you do not control them,
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  Speaker 1: you are going farther away from your intuition. You are
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  Speaker 1: wandering away on the bypaths instead of walking on the
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  Speaker 1: main road towards your goal. Have tremendous feelings, sport yourselves
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  Speaker 1: with them. Do not be negative, but go out and
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  Speaker 1: be adventurous. I feel this so strongly because we all
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  Speaker 1: tend to become of one type. We all want to
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  Speaker 1: think along the same lines. We all want to flock
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  Speaker 1: around the same person. We all fear that if we
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  Speaker 1: do not belong to this movement or to that, we
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  Speaker 1: shall not advance. What is advancement, It is your own happiness.
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  Speaker 1: Advancement is only a word. I would rather be happy
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  Speaker 1: than gain all the petty satisfaction that the world can give.
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  Speaker 1: What does it matter to which religion you belong, what
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  Speaker 1: glories you bear, so long as you feel really happy
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  Speaker 1: and can keep your goal absolutely clear and undimmed. Imagine
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  Speaker 1: for the moment the Lord Buddha and his disciples. They
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  Speaker 1: were the great exceptions of their age. They all had
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  Speaker 1: one master, one goal, one ideal, and that was He.
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  Speaker 1: And yet they had every one of them the spark
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  Speaker 1: of genius. They were not mediocre because they followed him,
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  Speaker 1: who was the exception, the flower of humanity. And such
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  Speaker 1: examples must we all become. End of Chapter one, Chapter
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  Speaker 1: two of the Kingdom of Happiness by Jidu Krishnamurdi. This
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Interest and Enthusiasm.
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  Speaker 1: I would like to impress upon you the importance of
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  Speaker 1: taking interest in life, because without interest, you cannot do anything.
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  Speaker 1: You must be intensely interested. I'm interested in all things
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  Speaker 1: because all life around me gives me understanding. There is
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  Speaker 1: nothing else for me in life but to find truth,
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  Speaker 1: to find happiness, to find peace and tranquility. To be
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  Speaker 1: really interested, you must have your mind and emotions alive
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  Speaker 1: all day long, active, not dormant. I would I could
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  Speaker 1: give you some of the interest I feel, so that
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  Speaker 1: you could awaken that interest in yourselves. For if you
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  Speaker 1: have not that interest, that desire to find, that longing
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  Speaker 1: to attain, that inclination to set aside everything to reach
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  Speaker 1: the ultimate, you will not be able to learn to sacrifice.
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  Speaker 1: That interest only comes if you are truly civilized to
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  Speaker 1: the savage, who is entering the first stage of life,
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  Speaker 1: to whom everything is new, who is accumulating karma, who
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  Speaker 1: is learning to suffer, who is beginning to create. To
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  Speaker 1: that savage, there is only one narrow interest in life.
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  Speaker 1: He wants to acquire to experience, to taste everything physical.
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  Speaker 1: Whereas the civilized and cultured person, through the evolution of
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  Speaker 1: many lives and through his past karma has stored up knowledge, experience, intuition,
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  Speaker 1: and power of discrimination. He is all the time discarding
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  Speaker 1: the things that are not important, and to him, this
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  Speaker 1: is the only way to awaken interest in the desire
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  Speaker 1: to find truth. Now to you and me, that interest
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  Speaker 1: must be in its essence as thrilling and vital as
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  Speaker 1: it is to the barbarian who is just beginning to
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  Speaker 1: taste the pleasures and sensations of life. But you have
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  Speaker 1: set yourselves on a different path, possessing new desires, because
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  Speaker 1: you have already passed through the stage of the savage,
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  Speaker 1: to whom the physical, everyday happenings of life are all engrossing.
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  Speaker 1: He is still creating karma for himself, whereas you should
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  Speaker 1: be freeing yourselves from it. You should be strengthening your
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  Speaker 1: will and guiding your desires so that you can learn
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  Speaker 1: to follow the tyrant voice. The only way to hear
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  Speaker 1: and to follow that voice. Your guide for all time
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  Speaker 1: is through enthusiasm. If you have this enthusiasm, you will
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  Speaker 1: find that your intuition, that voice which we are eager
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  Speaker 1: to hear, will become your master, the one authority in
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  Speaker 1: your lives. To awaken the interest, you must watch. You
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  Speaker 1: must learn to think. You must learn to use your imagination.
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  Speaker 1: You must learn to suffer without actually going through all
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  Speaker 1: the processes of ordinary suffering. I will give you an example.
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  Speaker 1: The other day, in my imagination, I went out for
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  Speaker 1: a walk with my brother. We went along a narrow path,
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  Speaker 1: and all the time I was aware that my own
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  Speaker 1: shadow was darker than his. I pondered a while over this.
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  Speaker 1: I realized that my consciousness was more centered within myself
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  Speaker 1: than in my brother. It was like looking through two glasses,
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  Speaker 1: one darker than the other, and the darker one was myself.
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  Speaker 1: But I wanted the two shadows to reflect alike. And
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  Speaker 1: after a little while the difference disappeared, so that I
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  Speaker 1: was able to identify myself my personality with my brother.
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  Speaker 1: And then I lay down in the garden in imagination
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  Speaker 1: and was looking at a blade of grass. You know
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  Speaker 1: how grass when it first springs up grows absolutely tight
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  Speaker 1: in a sheath, and a little while after it divides
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  Speaker 1: into two or three blades. I felt myself to be
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  Speaker 1: that grass which had not yet divided into separate blades.
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  Speaker 1: Then I could feel the grass pushing through from under
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  Speaker 1: the earth, the sap rising in it, and the blades separating,
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  Speaker 1: and I was myself each blade. When I came back,
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  Speaker 1: I said to myself, I do not want anything more
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  Speaker 1: in my life than to have the capacity to lose
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  Speaker 1: the sense of separate self, because then I am able
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  Speaker 1: to forget the eye and identify myself with the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the world, with every kingdom, vegetable, animal and human.
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  Speaker 1: I am then nearer the truth, nearer that perfection. It
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  Speaker 1: is the separate self. It is this narrowing down of
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  Speaker 1: the self, this division which self creates, that stands in
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  Speaker 1: the way to have imagination and interest. As I have said,
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  Speaker 1: you must keep your mind on the alert. You must
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  Speaker 1: watch each other, learn from each other. You must grope
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  Speaker 1: till your interest is awakened, till your enthusiasm is clear
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  Speaker 1: and defined and not weak and vague, till the flame
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  Speaker 1: of genius burns within you. To me, the genius is
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  Speaker 1: the person who sees his goal, whose enthusiasm is ever alive,
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  Speaker 1: who walks steadily towards that goal, who struggles all the
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  Speaker 1: time to keep the vision undimmed, who is never submerged
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  Speaker 1: by the petty things of life, by family and worldly troubles,
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  Speaker 1: but who is all the time pushing them aside and
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  Speaker 1: trying to keep that vision ever before him, clear and pure.
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  Speaker 1: Whereas the ordinary man, the bourgeois, is small by the world,
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  Speaker 1: he does not see the vision, but succumbs to his environment,
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  Speaker 1: and so loses the power over life. In striving to
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  Speaker 1: attain the goal, you ought to forget the turmoils of
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  Speaker 1: the world. You ought to acquire that interest which drives
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  Speaker 1: you ever onwards, gives you vitality, mental and moral. If
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  Speaker 1: you are going to create, if you are going to
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  Speaker 1: help the world, not just a few, but the whole world,
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  Speaker 1: you must get that vision, fill yourself with that vision.
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  Speaker 1: And when you have filled yourself with it, when you
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  Speaker 1: are part of it, when it is your own, when
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  Speaker 1: you know the truth for yourself, then you can bring
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  Speaker 1: others to it. That is what you have to do,
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  Speaker 1: and that is the desire that must be awakened within you.
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  Speaker 1: Not that you may become gods in your own circles,
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  Speaker 1: but that you may give others this vision that alone
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  Speaker 1: matters in life. The teacher is for all. He is
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  Speaker 1: the world lover, and he will never be satisfied in
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  Speaker 1: giving his knowledge and love to a few. He comes
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  Speaker 1: for every one. He longs to awaken the beauty and
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  Speaker 1: happiness of life and all. And the more there are
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  Speaker 1: of us who understand that attitude, who have something to give,
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  Speaker 1: who have struggled, who have lit the candle of genius
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  Speaker 1: in ourselves, the better shall we be able to understand,
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  Speaker 1: to follow, and to serve. I was speaking about the
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  Speaker 1: Buddha and his disciples, And as I told you, those
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  Speaker 1: disciples could not have been ordinary people. They were the exceptions,
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  Speaker 1: like the tremendous pine trees in the forest, giving out
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  Speaker 1: real love for those who wanted shelter at great heights.
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  Speaker 1: Because they understood the great Master, because they breathed the
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  Speaker 1: same perfumed air and lived in his world, they were
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  Speaker 1: able to give to the world part of that eternal beauty.
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  Speaker 1: That is what we have to be Pines on the
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  Speaker 1: mountain tops, not the ordinary bushes of the plains, because
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  Speaker 1: there are thousands of them. But yet we must be
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  Speaker 1: bushes as well, for you can only be a great
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  Speaker 1: pine if you know what it is to be a
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  Speaker 1: small creeper or a weed in the garden. This is
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  Speaker 1: what I mean when I say we must take interest
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  Speaker 1: in life. We must live every moment of the day.
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  Speaker 1: I was reading the Bible yesterday and came to a phrase,
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  Speaker 1: My son, if thou comest to serve God, prepare thy
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  Speaker 1: soul for temptation. Your soul, your body, everything must be
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  Speaker 1: alive for temptation of the right kind, so that it
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  Speaker 1: gives you delight to serve and to give. That is
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  Speaker 1: why you must be cultured. I cannot possibly imagine a
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  Speaker 1: real giant being uncultured uncouth. I do not speak of
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  Speaker 1: a giant in body, but of a giant in emotions
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  Speaker 1: and in mind. You can only hear that voice, its
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  Speaker 1: clear tones, its commanding authority. If you have this culture,
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  Speaker 1: this interest, this enthusiasm. That is the reason why I
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  Speaker 1: always like to urge. Though we must pay attention to
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  Speaker 1: the physical aspects of life, to beauty, to tidiness, and
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  Speaker 1: to well being, that it is far more important than
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  Speaker 1: all these to have emotional and mental culture. You may
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  Speaker 1: dress your body as beautifully as you like, But as
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  Speaker 1: long as your mind and your emotions are uncivilized, you
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  Speaker 1: will not be able to hear that voice. I do
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  Speaker 1: not mean that you should not dress nicely, tidily, and
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  Speaker 1: really beautifully. But what is of more importance is to
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  Speaker 1: get this perfect refinement and sense of culture, both mental
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  Speaker 1: and emotional. There is nothing in the world more gratifying, satisfying,
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  Speaker 1: more delightful than this sense of nobility. And I wish
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  Speaker 1: I could give you the interest to acquire that nobility,
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  Speaker 1: that insistent demand of your soul. Wherever you are, whether
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  Speaker 1: in schools or on platforms or in ordinary life, if
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  Speaker 1: you have that attitude of mind, if you have an
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  Speaker 1: ear that is striving to hear the voice, it does
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  Speaker 1: not much matter what you are, to, what class, what type,
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  Speaker 1: what temperament you belong or what religion you adore. After all,
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  Speaker 1: these distinctions and divisions are only marks of the passing world.
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  Speaker 1: I do not need anybody to tell me what I am.
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  Speaker 1: As long as I know that I am free, happy, straight,
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  Speaker 1: I do not need the authority of others. It is
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  Speaker 1: those of you who are still uncertain, still striving for
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  Speaker 1: the little things of life, that need the authority and
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  Speaker 1: blessings of others, thereby setting up a new orthodox. As
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  Speaker 1: long as you walk with a clear vision, as long
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  Speaker 1: as you hear that voice which is universal, and obey
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  Speaker 1: that voice, it does not matter what anyone in the
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  Speaker 1: world may say, for you are right when you are
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  Speaker 1: obeying the highest More and more I want to awaken
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  Speaker 1: this desire in you to see for yourself those things
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  Speaker 1: that are hidden from your eyes, so that once you
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  Speaker 1: have seen, once you have felt, you can go outside
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  Speaker 1: and tear the veils from the eyes of others. It
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  Speaker 1: is no good merely giving them petty satisfactions, little thoughts,
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  Speaker 1: and little doctrines. Each one of you has to become
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  Speaker 1: such a messenger, such an example. It is much more
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  Speaker 1: important than you realize that you should have this craving
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  Speaker 1: to see for yourselves, to hear for yourselves, and not
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  Speaker 1: be content with what others declare. First you must have
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  Speaker 1: the noble craving. Then you will satisfy it, and you
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  Speaker 1: will expand and enlarge your souls. Each one of us
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  Speaker 1: is the center of his own circle, all the time
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  Speaker 1: thinking about himself, but he should think of himself creatively.
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  Speaker 1: We should forget as far as we can our little
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  Speaker 1: selves and feel that we are all one. Though I
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  Speaker 1: may have a brown body and black hair, I must
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  Speaker 1: be part of you and you must be part of me,
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  Speaker 1: for that is the only way to live, To lose
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  Speaker 1: ourselves in worlds of others and yet retain our own vision.
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  Speaker 1: End of chapter two, Chapter three of The Kingdom of
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  Speaker 1: Happiness by Jidu Krishnamurdi. This LibriVox recording is in the
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  Speaker 1: public domain Personality. In trying to realize truth, the old happiness,
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  Speaker 1: we should bear in mind that the motive must not
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  Speaker 1: be personal satisfaction nor personal enjoyment, but the desire to
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  Speaker 1: serve and to help. You should not have the idea
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  Speaker 1: that to serve and to help is the lot of
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  Speaker 1: the small, the narrow minded, the bourgeois, that by serving
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  Speaker 1: you should become machines, that you should ever obey someone else.
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  Speaker 1: In realizing the perfection of truth, you are gaining real happiness,
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  Speaker 1: and you serve because you cannot help serving. I have
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  Speaker 1: seen the vision for myself, and now no one can
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  Speaker 1: shatter it or take it away from me. Because it
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  Speaker 1: is a part of my soul, part of my body,
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  Speaker 1: part of my very being. It has become unalterable, and
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  Speaker 1: the more I change. The more permanent it becomes, you
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  Speaker 1: can only see it. You can only absorb the truth
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  Speaker 1: and become part of the truth. If you've learned to
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  Speaker 1: become impersonal in the sense that you lose your own self,
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  Speaker 1: your own personal point of view, which is small, and
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  Speaker 1: identify yourself with eternal truth. Personality, of course, each one
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  Speaker 1: of us must have. You should not get rid of personality.
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  Speaker 1: But you need not be personal. The more you evolve,
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  Speaker 1: the nearer to the truth you come, the greater your
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  Speaker 1: personality will be, and the more flower like your soul
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  Speaker 1: will become. But the further you are from the truth,
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  Speaker 1: the more personal you will be. While you are attaining
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  Speaker 1: this truth, you will develop your own personality, express your
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  Speaker 1: own tendencies to gain the impersonal attitude. The first elementary
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  Speaker 1: thing that you have to struggle against is self satisfaction.
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  Speaker 1: You must revolt against being satisfied with yourself. If you
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  Speaker 1: succeed in the world or achieve a spiritual distinction, there
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  Speaker 1: is at once a tendancy to be satisfied with what
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  Speaker 1: you have done and to glory in it. If you
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  Speaker 1: go on submitting yourselves to that satisfaction, you will not
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  Speaker 1: advance nor march. Towards your goal. You cannot get near
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  Speaker 1: to the truth until you have learned to be above
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  Speaker 1: sorrows and pleasures. You suffer if you are personal, if
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  Speaker 1: you are self satisfied, if you are contented with your
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  Speaker 1: little selves. But as long as you keep that vision
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  Speaker 1: constantly in front of you, as long as you are
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  Speaker 1: all the time tearing away the veil you create around it,
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  Speaker 1: you can never be self satisfied. You know how people,
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  Speaker 1: when they have succeeded in little things, bear on their
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  Speaker 1: faces and appearance of contentment, as though they had done
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  Speaker 1: some tremendous work. And gradually that physical satisfaction spreads to
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  Speaker 1: the soul, and so they stagnate. If you want to
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  Speaker 1: arrive at this goal, if you want to have truth
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  Speaker 1: with you, you must not stop to worship at little
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  Speaker 1: shrines and little truths. You need not go and worship
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  Speaker 1: at little altars all your lives. When the great temple
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  Speaker 1: of worship is there. You are halting. You are wasting
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  Speaker 1: your time at these shrines instead of being driven to
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  Speaker 1: worship at the one altar of truth ceaselessly to keep
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  Speaker 1: pace with the demands of evolution. And if you believe
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  Speaker 1: in the teacher of humanity. You are also beyond all altars,
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  Speaker 1: dogmas and doctrines, and see the truth through all the
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  Speaker 1: screens that hide the vision. End of chapter three, Chapter
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  Speaker 1: four of the Kingdom of Happiness by Jidu Krishnamurti. This
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain. The Temple of
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  Speaker 1: the Heart. We have been talking about the idea of
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  Speaker 1: truth and how to attain that truth and that happiness.
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  Speaker 1: I want to impress on you that truth, though abstract,
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  Speaker 1: is to me the embodiment of my particular teacher, the
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  Speaker 1: embodiment of my lover. If you went into a temple
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  Speaker 1: and saw the bare walls and the pillars, and nothing
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  Speaker 1: but the mere outward shell, it would seem cold and lifeless.
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  Speaker 1: For even though there is a certain sense of esthetic
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  Speaker 1: beauty and gorgeousness in a temple, you also need the
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  Speaker 1: image of your creation. Each one of us has a temple,
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  Speaker 1: but we must create the image, the idle, the beauty
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  Speaker 1: around which we can develop our love and devotion. For
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  Speaker 1: if we keep the temple empty, as most of us do,
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  Speaker 1: we cannot create. It is by adoration, by love, by
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  Speaker 1: devotion that we create. That we make the temple living,
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  Speaker 1: and that temple to me is the heart. If you
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  Speaker 1: place him, who is the embodiment of love and truth,
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  Speaker 1: in your heart, if you create him there with your
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  Speaker 1: own hands, your own mind, your your own emotions, that heart,
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  Speaker 1: instead of being cold and abstract and far away, becomes
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  Speaker 1: real and living and radiant, such as the truth. And
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  Speaker 1: we must realize that this temple, without the vitality, without
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  Speaker 1: the life, without the energizing influence that this image gives,
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  Speaker 1: becomes hard, becomes cold and joyless. Whereas if you have
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  Speaker 1: him there, you become part of him, you become himself.
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  Speaker 1: You are the outer temple, and burning inside you is
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  Speaker 1: the eternal, this Holy of holies, into which you can
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  Speaker 1: go and worship at your ease, away from the world,
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  Speaker 1: away from all the turmoils and all the troubles. But
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  Speaker 1: you have to beautify the temple first. You have to
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  Speaker 1: make that temple, which is the physical body, perfect, strong,
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  Speaker 1: and really beautiful. Every gesture, every movement, every action, whether
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  Speaker 1: in time of welfare or in time of sol tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: at every hour, every moment of the day, must be
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  Speaker 1: refined and beautiful and must represent the temple in which
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  Speaker 1: eternity abides. Therefore, you must have this body absolutely clean, beautiful, radiant,
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  Speaker 1: so that he who is in your hearts can show
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  Speaker 1: himself through your physical expressions. I do not think you
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  Speaker 1: sufficiently realize that with culture of mind and of emotion
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  Speaker 1: there takes place refinement of the body. Without culture and refinement,
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  Speaker 1: the body becomes crude, ugly, and does not represent an
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  Speaker 1: outward expression him whom you have within the First thing
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  Speaker 1: you must bear in mind is that to possess him
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  Speaker 1: in your hearts, you must have a suitable tabernacle, a
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  Speaker 1: suitable abode. And then with that physical beauty, with that
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  Speaker 1: emotional and mental nobility, you will attain serious joyousness. Most
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  Speaker 1: of us, if we become come serious, lose the sense
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  Speaker 1: of joyousness. Seriousness, which is without joy, without delight, is
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  Speaker 1: artificial in most cases, and so must be avoided. If
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  Speaker 1: you cultivate seriousness with joy, which springs up because you
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  Speaker 1: have him in your heart as part of yourself, then
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  Speaker 1: that seriousness takes on a delight instead of turning to
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  Speaker 1: morbidity and clumsy expressions. When you see him, you must
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  Speaker 1: see him out of joy and not out of seriousness.
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  Speaker 1: You can only approach him when you are really happy,
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  Speaker 1: when you are really enlightened when you are really delighted,
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  Speaker 1: not through the seriousness of religiosity and a gloomy idea
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  Speaker 1: of spirituality, when you are really alive with joy, with happiness.
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  Speaker 1: He dwells in the temple of your heart. Yesterday I
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  Speaker 1: went out for a walk by myself. I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: regain my original joyousness, which for a mine moment I
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  Speaker 1: had lost. I struggled to get to a certain height
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  Speaker 1: emotionally and mentally, and I could not get there. I
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  Speaker 1: could not attain that altitude, that emotional and mental height,
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  Speaker 1: by merely struggling. I longed to reach my Guru, my lover,
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  Speaker 1: my genius, my source of happiness. And as once before
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  Speaker 1: in India, I saw him not when I was struggling
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  Speaker 1: or trying to get near him, but when I was
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  Speaker 1: natural and there was inside me a bubbling spring of happiness.
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  Speaker 1: I saw him fill the sky, the blades of grass.
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  Speaker 1: I saw him in the whole length of the tree.
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  Speaker 1: I saw him in the pebble. I saw him everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: I saw him in myself, and so my temple was full,
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  Speaker 1: my Holy of holies was complete. I was he and
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  Speaker 1: he was myself, and that was the truth for me.
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  Speaker 1: The truth as an abstract thing is of no value
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  Speaker 1: you until it gives you that intense personal joy and devotion,
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  Speaker 1: and the desire to create, not only within yourself, but
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  Speaker 1: to create around you. As the birds sing of their
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  Speaker 1: own accord, at their own ease, of their own fulheartedness,
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  Speaker 1: so must truth come and fill your temple of its
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  Speaker 1: own accord. But you must supply the material. You must
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  Speaker 1: supply the circumstances. You must supply the marble out of
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  Speaker 1: which to carve the image. And that marble must be joy,
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  Speaker 1: intense happiness, serious joyousness. Be serious, not with long faces,
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  Speaker 1: not grotesquely, but serious, with joyousness. Have that seriousness which
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  Speaker 1: gives you excitement, excitement to play, excitement to be noble,
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  Speaker 1: excitement to be happy. And you must create such an
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  Speaker 1: image in your hearts. You must make your house his temple.
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  Speaker 1: Every day I have a different vision of my truth.
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  Speaker 1: When you are on the top of a mountain, there
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  Speaker 1: stretches before you a higher range, invisible from the plains.
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  Speaker 1: By climbing that range, you think you will at last
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  Speaker 1: reach the summit, whence you will behold all things. But
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  Speaker 1: this is not so, For when you have climbed it,
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  Speaker 1: there is still another higher range hiding the complete vision.
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  Speaker 1: So it is with truth there must be constant change,
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  Speaker 1: constant alteration of your vision. When you have that desire,
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  Speaker 1: that capacity to fill yourself with His genius, his strength,
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  Speaker 1: his nobility, then you yourself become noble and learn to
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  Speaker 1: reflect His divine originality in him. Are all the sources
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  Speaker 1: of originality, all the sources of beauty, all the sources
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  Speaker 1: of creation, and attempts to be original, beautiful, creative are
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  Speaker 1: of little avail if we have not the understanding in
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  Speaker 1: the capacity to touch the source of things. While you
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  Speaker 1: have green fields and fair skies and quietness. You should
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  Speaker 1: place this graven image in your hearts, which you have
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  Speaker 1: created out of your own minds, with your own hands.
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  Speaker 1: I desire to force open the doors of the temple
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  Speaker 1: in each one of you, and let in the sunshine,
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  Speaker 1: which will help you to destroy that which is ugly,
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  Speaker 1: to create a new and to rebuild. For that is
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  Speaker 1: the only way by which you will attain that truth,
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  Speaker 1: the only way He will keep that eternity in your temple.
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  Speaker 1: And when he comes to each one of you, as
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  Speaker 1: he so often does come, he will abide with you
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  Speaker 1: only if you have the capacity to enshrine him in
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: the temple of your heart. If you have the wisdom
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  Speaker 1: to live with him and not lose the fruit of
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: many sorrows and ecstasies, How joyous and happy you will
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  Speaker 1: be if you have the desire to worship at that shrine,
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  Speaker 1: at that altar, and forget everything else. Yesterday, for a
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: moment I thought I had lost him, and I could
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  Speaker 1: not breathe, I could not move. All the doors and
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  Speaker 1: windows of my temple were shut, and I was in darkness.
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  Speaker 1: I had to struggle to open them and search for him.
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  Speaker 1: When I found him and felt the reality of his presence,
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  Speaker 1: then all was once again peace and light and joy.
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  Speaker 1: After cloud and rain and storm, there comes a ray
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  Speaker 1: of sunshine. All nature bursts forth to meet that ray.
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  Speaker 1: So did I feel yesterday. Once you realize this beauty,
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  Speaker 1: this nobility, this eternal happiness which comes when you have
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  Speaker 1: felt this truth in your heart, the whole world becomes
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: for you the Holy of holies. You live and breathe
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: and look from there, and every little thing, every little action,
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: every little thought, falls into its proper place, and you
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: get the true refinement, the true restraint, the true enlightenment,
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  Speaker 1: that is the only way you will acquire the spark
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  Speaker 1: of genius. That is the only way you will be happy.
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  Speaker 1: If you have this serious joyousness, the sense of well being, spiritual, moral,
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  Speaker 1: and intellectual, then you will see the glory, and every
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  Speaker 1: one of you will have that light, that purity, that
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: sense of nobility and greatness, which nothing in the world
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  Speaker 1: can disturb. Everything breathes his glory, and all that which
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  Speaker 1: is ignoble withers away and dies. You can have no
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: conception of your loss if you do not go to
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: the source of things. Only at the source will you
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  Speaker 1: know the beginning and the end. And what is much
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  Speaker 1: more important, you will be there with him. You will
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  Speaker 1: be part of him, and thus you yourself will become
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  Speaker 1: the source for thousands of others. So I want to
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  Speaker 1: keep before you this idea of a temple and of
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  Speaker 1: the image with it. Wherever you are, whether you are
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  Speaker 1: in a room or in a street, whether you are
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  Speaker 1: playing or at work, you will be unruffled and have
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  Speaker 1: that solemn poise, for He is always with you. What
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: does it matter to the God within if there is
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  Speaker 1: strife or struggle outside the temple, As long as you
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  Speaker 1: are tranquil, as long as you are worshiping and encouraging
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  Speaker 1: others to worship. As long as you are making others happy,
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  Speaker 1: what does anything else matter. All forms of outward worship,
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: all interpreters of God, cease to affect you. As long
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: as you have that glory, you will be happy. When
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: you have drunk at that source, you will be a genius,
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: You will create, You will make others happy. And for
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  Speaker 1: that we exist. End of Chapter four five of the
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  Speaker 1: Kingdom of Happiness by Jidu Krishnamurti. This LibriVox recording is
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  Speaker 1: in the public domain the river and the ocean. On
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: a day when there is mile upon mile of blue
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: sky and there are innumerable shadows, the only thing to
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: talk about is the Kingdom of happiness, and of how
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: while we have the physical attractions and the physical beauty
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  Speaker 1: all around us, we may also have this spiritual happiness,
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  Speaker 1: that kingdom of happiness within us. The only possible way
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: to possess that kingdom is to forget yourselves and to
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: identify your souls with the eternal. We all have this
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: intense belief. To some it is more than belief that
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: a time must come, as I think it will come,
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  Speaker 1: when that voice to which we have been listening, that voice,
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  Speaker 1: whose command we have obeyed, will urge us to give
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: up all and follow him. That is going to happen
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: to each one of us that order, That command will
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: come to each one in varied forms, under different aspects,
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: under different conditions, but it is bound to come. And
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: when it comes, in what attitude of mind, in what
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: emotional condition shall we respond? How shall we give up
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  Speaker 1: and follow? What will it mean to us? I have
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  Speaker 1: thought out for myself what it will involve to me.
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  Speaker 1: It seems that to give up the physical, the ordinary
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  Speaker 1: physical comforts, physical well being, wealth, family relations, will be
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: comparatively easy. What will be much more difficult, and much
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: more serious, and much more worth giving up, much more
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  Speaker 1: sacred and holy, will be to give up my separate
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: self and identify myself with him. Identifying yourself with him
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: means that you must set aside your own predilections, your
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: own prejudices, your own particular inclinations, and all such things.
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  Speaker 1: It is much more difficult, and yet that is what
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  Speaker 1: you will have to do. You will have to forget
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  Speaker 1: what you are and become like him. Have you ever
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  Speaker 1: noticed how a small hill will hide a whole range
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  Speaker 1: of snowy mountains, so that you think that the little
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  Speaker 1: hill is the whole view, and forget the tremendous vista
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  Speaker 1: stretching far away, mile upon mile behind it. It is
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  Speaker 1: exactly the same with us. We think that by giving
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  Speaker 1: up little things we have succeeded. Little things do not matter.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: We need not give up little things. It is like
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: standing in front of the little hill. We must go
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: beyond that little hill to see the giant peaks. It
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: is no good clinging to your own particular line, your
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: own particular attitude, your own particular form of devotion or worship.
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: The stars sparkle brilliant and beautiful before the moon comes out,
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: and then they all give way and go into the
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  Speaker 1: background before the one Queen, the one ruler of the sky.
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  Speaker 1: So must you all for him who is our ruler.
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  Speaker 1: It does not mean that you must throw away your individuality,
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  Speaker 1: but that you must become like him. And you can
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  Speaker 1: only do that if you are able to look at
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: everything in life from his point of view. To an
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  Speaker 1: artist who looks at a cloud, or the skies or
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  Speaker 1: a tree, these have a different meaning. He looks at
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: them from the point of view of how he will
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: paint them of how he can reproduce them as a
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: symbol to the world, not necessarily by copying them, but
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  Speaker 1: by sharing with others what he has perceived in them.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: That is exactly what you have to do. You have
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  Speaker 1: to destroy all the things that bind you and climb
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  Speaker 1: to that altitude where you become a part of Him.
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: And from there you should look at yourself and at
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: the world. It is no good always surrounding yourself with
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: particular delights of your own. You must go up to
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: that height and from there direct your minds and emotions
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: and physical bodies. And that is the only way in
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: which you will be able to follow him. How many
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: of you, I wonder, will really understand, really follow when
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: the moment actually comes, the moment when you hear that
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: voice which you recognize as the absolute authority whose command
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: is final. I wonder how many of you, even though
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: you may obey, will mingle yourselves with him as a
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: drop of water that disappears in the sea, a river
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  Speaker 1: that flows into the vast ocean. You are all much
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  Speaker 1: too narrowly individualistic. You have your own particular God, your
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: own particular delight, your own particular way of speech, way
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: of thought, way of expression. To follow does not mean
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: that you should blindly accept, but to follow means that
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  Speaker 1: you must keep your eyes open and your hearts clear,
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  Speaker 1: free from all prejudices, all preconceived ideas, and so be
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  Speaker 1: able to lose yourselves in the eternal. That is the
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  Speaker 1: only way in which you should follow, the only way
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  Speaker 1: in which which you can possibly create. If you live
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  Speaker 1: in that eternity, at that stupendous height, you become a genius.
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  Speaker 1: You become that which each one of you really longs
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  Speaker 1: to be, and then you will be happy. It is
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  Speaker 1: in forgetting the separate self, in destroying that self, in
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  Speaker 1: mingling with the universe, that you can find happiness. And
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  Speaker 1: when you make distinctions by talking about particular groups, particular temperaments,
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  Speaker 1: particular types, you are wandering away from reality, not realizing
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  Speaker 1: that these are but marks of distinction, mere indications of
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  Speaker 1: your special environment. They do not solve the problem. The
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  Speaker 1: only solution is in the forgetting of the separate self.
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  Speaker 1: In becoming part of the eternal. Follow the eternal, which
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: is perpetual, immutable, not the fleeting in the momentary. You
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: will obtain a true perspective of your purpose. If you
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: realize that you must give suitable opportunities on the physical
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  Speaker 1: for the education of the soul. We always talk about
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  Speaker 1: educating the physical, but forget the education of the superphysical.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: The ego desires to evolve and attain perfection, and here
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  Speaker 1: on the physical, if you have in view the longing
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  Speaker 1: of the soul, you the lower mind, will realize when
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  Speaker 1: and how you must yield to the cravings of the
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  Speaker 1: greater self. You ought to develop that habit of living
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: in the Kingdom of Happiness, because I do not think
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  Speaker 1: you sufficiently realized how expansive it is, how this kingdom
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: stretches mile after mile if you once enter its borders.
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  Speaker 1: I do not think you understand that happiness, real happiness,
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  Speaker 1: is above all things in the world, physical or spiritual.
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  Speaker 1: It is the only state worth entering, the only kingdom
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  Speaker 1: worth conquering and possessing. And I would take you all
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  Speaker 1: into that kingdom and let you see the beauty of
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  Speaker 1: it for yourselves, because once you have seen it, you
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  Speaker 1: will not abandon it. You will no longer desire the transient,
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  Speaker 1: changeable things. I'm sure that more and more, as time
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  Speaker 1: goes on, it will be borne in on you that
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  Speaker 1: this is the only truth worth having. The only truth
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  Speaker 1: worth giving. You must also have culture, a culture which
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: comes from breeding. Culture of the ordinary attainments in the physical,
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  Speaker 1: the culture of consideration, of happiness, of that intense, serious joyousness.
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  Speaker 1: If you can have the culture from all these things
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  Speaker 1: in bibit make it part of your nature. You will
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  Speaker 1: then become his real followers. Without culture, without refinement, you
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  Speaker 1: cannot become part of the more refined and the more
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  Speaker 1: cultured which is he. Nor can you stand with him
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  Speaker 1: and cooperate intelligently and enthusiastically with him. A man who
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: is an artist, who is creating, who is suffering, who stumbles,
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  Speaker 1: will be nearer to him than the one who is
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: merely satisfied and worships at his own particular altar. You
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  Speaker 1: must be such an artist and co operate with him
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  Speaker 1: and give to the world what each one of you
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  Speaker 1: really understands. And when you are in that state you
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  Speaker 1: have no idea how the sense of loneliness, the sense
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  Speaker 1: of depression, all those things which hinder us, which kill
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  Speaker 1: our spirit, which weaken our sense of well being, disappear.
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  Speaker 1: And when you are part of that one kingdom that
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  Speaker 1: matters in life, when you are with that life, that
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: lasts through the ages and eons. You forget whether you
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: are lonely, whether you are depressed, whether you are great
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: or successful. What most of you fear is loneliness, lack
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: of love, and personal friendship for each other. Those things,
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  Speaker 1: though they are pleasant for the moment, though they have
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: their value, you do not miss because you have companionship
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  Speaker 1: with the eternal. Every tree, every bird, every blade of grass,
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  Speaker 1: every shadow gives you something which is worth more than
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  Speaker 1: the passing physical satisfactions, for it is part of the eternal.
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  Speaker 1: That is why you must have your life centered there
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  Speaker 1: and thus gain your outlook from the Eternal. End of
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: chapter five, chapter six of The Kingdom of Happiness by
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  Speaker 1: Jidu Krishnamurti. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: The value of experience. I want to talk about that voice,
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  Speaker 1: that tyrant that you must train, and whose authority is
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  Speaker 1: the only command you must obey. As you begin to evolve,
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: you will naturally meet problems, come against difficulties which must
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  Speaker 1: be solved by yourself. You have to become like a
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  Speaker 1: tree which stands innumerable storms and knows its own strength,
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  Speaker 1: its own delight in the protection it gives, and which
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  Speaker 1: nothing in the world, no wind, or earthly or heavenly
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  Speaker 1: can uproot. It is as firm as a rock. As
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: you see a rock remaining unmoved, although the waves of
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: the ocean dash around it. So do you see this
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  Speaker 1: tree standing firm giving shelter to thousands of birds because
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  Speaker 1: it is well rooted, deeply grown. That is what you
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  Speaker 1: have to be. The only authority you recognize, the only
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  Speaker 1: command you allow, must be the voice of that intuition
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  Speaker 1: which is unalterable, which nothing in the world can shake.
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: In this way, you gradually develop that sense of beauty,
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  Speaker 1: which is of your own creation, which increases as time
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  Speaker 1: goes on and gives you joy. That is the only
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: authority that any civilized, cultured, and spiritual person can recognize,
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: not the authority of another, not the spiritual label of another,
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: For you can only recognize that which you feel from within.
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: We have been discussing how to develop that voice, that
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: unyielding tyrant, and we have examined one or two ideas.
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: I want to put before you another idea. If you
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  Speaker 1: desire to recognize such a voice, you must have revolution.
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  Speaker 1: You must have anarchy within you. You must have discontentment.
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  Speaker 1: You must be in a whirlpool mentally and emotionally, and
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: the center of the whirlpool must become stronger and stronger,
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  Speaker 1: so that the little things of life are thrown out,
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  Speaker 1: and only the strength of purpose remains. Out the chaos
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  Speaker 1: within you, you must give birth to the dancing star.
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: That discontentment which gives birth the true contentment must be
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  Speaker 1: encouraged and not set aside and subjugated and killed out.
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: The more you question and demand, the greater will be
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  Speaker 1: the strength of your whirlpool. The greater the shattering, the
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: greater the strength of your desire to discover the truth.
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: You have to create a whirlpool in your mind and
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: in your emotions, a whirlpool of mere sentimentality and excitement,
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  Speaker 1: but a whirlpool that forces aside and destroys the unimportant,
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: a whirlpool that centers around a single purpose, and it
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: whirls round and round with greater speed and gathers greater energy,
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: and out of that energy, the true genius, the dancing
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  Speaker 1: star of your creation, will be born. How are you
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  Speaker 1: going to gain this divine discontentment? You cannot acquire this
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  Speaker 1: discontentment by merely listening to others. They can but provide
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  Speaker 1: the scaffolding which helps you to climb and to build.
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: But you must carry your own bricks and your own mortar.
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  Speaker 1: You must yourself be the builder. For this, you must
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: go through your own experiences. And that is why mere
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: innocence is not spiritual. The man who knows great sorrows,
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: great ecstasies, great devotion, great bursts of adoration, or of anger,
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  Speaker 1: can become a truly spiritual person because he is all
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: the time seeking, all the time asking. In order to
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: become spiritual, to live happily and to serve, you must
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: have a soul prepared for temptation. Experience is essential. People
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  Speaker 1: who are childishly innocent tend to be petty and narrow
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  Speaker 1: and jealous, and it is against such trivial things that
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  Speaker 1: we must fight. These do not tend to give great
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  Speaker 1: and true experiences. You do not want the innocency of
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: a child who has had no experience, who does not
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  Speaker 1: know what it is to suffer, what it is to
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: be in turmoil of emotion, what it is to suffer
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: mentally a child but prattles and uses pretty words and babbles.
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: You must be like the man who has suffered, who knows,
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  Speaker 1: who has built such a man you must be. You
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  Speaker 1: must have your own thrill of life, and not the
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: thrill of another. Nor does it mean that you you
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  Speaker 1: must rush into absurd experiences, absurd expressions of your feelings.
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: Ordinary pleasures, pain, sorrows, and joys must be your experiences.
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  Speaker 1: Out of these you must build. They are your channels,
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  Speaker 1: your rivers, on which you must sail to the vast ocean,
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  Speaker 1: where you lose your own experience, your own identity, and
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: become a drop in that ocean. But you must have
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: vessels in which you can go. You must be able
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: to sail, You must be able to row. You must
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: have all the accumulation of experiences behind you. You must
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: be thrilled at the idea of new experiences of the
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: right kind. You must have this divine discontent, this chaos,
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: which shall give birth to the dancing star. Most people
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: are self satisfied and contented with their own little lives,
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: and thereby create for themselves the narrow world of mediocrity.
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: And if you would be different, you must find yourself,
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: give birth to your true sad, follow your own path,
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: keep in view your own goal, the goal which is happiness,
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  Speaker 1: which is truth. Like a fisherman who goes from pond
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  Speaker 1: to pond, from river to river, from ocean to ocean,
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: fishing gathering experiences. Not being satisfied with one little fish
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  Speaker 1: or with one enormous fish. You must desire to gather
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: and keep the various types, colors, and expressions of divinity
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  Speaker 1: in all the oceans of life. You must hear for
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: yourselves that call, that voice which only comes through experience,
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: through thought, through feeling. You do not want pictures, You
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: do not want ceremonies, You do not want anything in life.
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: If you have this one thing, this adventurous divine longing
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  Speaker 1: in the bird as it flies in the blue sky,
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: the shimmer of light on its wing, in the solitary tree,
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  Speaker 1: the quiet meadows, and the little stream that wanders by
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  Speaker 1: in the flower, there dwells divinity. They are all the
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  Speaker 1: truth of life. They are all the real expressions of spirituality.
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: Because when you recognize truth in those little things of
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  Speaker 1: every day life, and lose yourself in their beauty, you
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  Speaker 1: will have acquired that eternal truth. You will then live
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  Speaker 1: in that kingdom of happiness. When you have acquired this,
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: you will be able to give it to others. The
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: person who has it not and who yet is trying
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: to convince others is a hypocrite. But the person who
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: has it in however small a degree, will speak with certainty,
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: with knowledge, with authority. You will speak with authority because
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: you know what it means to feel with the universe
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: and with humanity, with all who suffer, with all who
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: are happy. You will create and make others create their
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: own ideas, their own conceptions of life. That will give
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: a different tone to your existence, a different joy, a
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: different thrill. Then all the outward forms and expressions will
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: have no value, because you are at the eternal source
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  Speaker 1: of all things, and you can only get there if
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: you have this chaos, this discontentment, this perpetual longing. One
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: vision of the eternal does not satisfy. One vision opens
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: up another, and so it goes on through life after life.
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: Evolution does not suddenly begin at a certain moment, nor
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: stop in a given moment, nor after one life. It
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: is an endless road, and the person who enjoys walking
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: does not stop to worship at little shrines, small conventionalities,
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: outward forms, and altars of supposed greatness. Otherwise evolution becomes
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: a long drawn suffering. If he sees in the distance,
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: the temple of his own creation, the image of his
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: own making, which he has created through suffering, through happiness,
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: through the beauty of life. Then he is walking perpetually
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: in the kingdom of happiness. You must be either one
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: thing or the other. Either you must be a genius,
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: a creator, a destroyer, or an ordinary weed in the
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: middle of the stream that is buffeted about from side
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: to side. You must be the main current of life,
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: the main force of life, because you live in him
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: and have your being in him. The beauty, which is truth,
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: which in its turn is He whom you all long for,
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: he whom you adore, he whose image you create in
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: your hearts, becomes a part of you because you have
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: striven towards Him and have found him. Such a conception
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: gives the inspiration to exist, the inspiration to breathe, to think,
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: and to feel. But if you are contented and self satisfied,
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: you lose the great adventurous thrill of spirituality. Instead of helping,
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: you become mere followers, instead of being creators, you are
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: mere waste products of life. I wish you could see.
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you do. For every one of us. Seasoned
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: moments of ecstasy and happiness, the importance of maintaining this standard,
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: this culture, and of living in this Kingdom of happiness.
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: If you are there, dwelling safely in that kingdom, you
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: can wander forth and create more vitally, more dangerously, more
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: nobly than anyone else, because you can always withdraw into
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: that kingdom. It gives you a sense of thrill, of vitality,
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: of being great, not only for yourself, but in helping others,
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: and in destroying things which do not matter, and in
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: creating the things which are eternal. Instead of being giants
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: of ignorance, you must be creative giants. At the present time,
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: we are all seeking, groping, questioning, while the solution of
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: all these things lies under every common stone, and all
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: things that live and move, and all things animate and inanimate.
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: If you are really enlightened, you can go out and
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  Speaker 1: become messengers of that kingdom. I have drunk at the source,
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  Speaker 1: and I long to bring every one of you to it.
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: And when you have delighted and sported in the shades
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  Speaker 1: of eternity, you will want to bring others to it also.
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: End of chapter six Chapter seven of The Kingdom of
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  Speaker 1: Happiness by Jidu Krishnamurti. This LibriVox recording is in the
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  Speaker 1: public domain, in the company of great men. I want
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: again to impress upon you that taking an interest in
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: the excellency of the Kingdom of Happiness is of the
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: utmost importance. One can see by your words, by the
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  Speaker 1: way you talk, whether you are living in that kingdom
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  Speaker 1: or not. I have watched you and myself to see
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: whether we live continuously in that kingdom. By our attitude,
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  Speaker 1: and by the conduct of our life, and by the
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: desires that surge up, we can judge and discover how
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: far away we are from that abode of reality, or
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: how far within it we live. If you are striving
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: to live in that kingdom, you conquer with ease your
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: special troubles, You forget your special burdens, your special peculiarities,
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  Speaker 1: and you adopt the sorrows and sufferings of the world.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: When you live in that kingdom, you cannot separate yourself
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: from your daily actions, in your thought, in your work,
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: in everything that you do. You are living in that kingdom.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: Hence you translate that kingdom into your own actions. You
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: can see how different are those people who have caught
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: even a fleeting glimpse of that kingdom, how happy, how
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: really balanced, neither too emotional nor too intellectual. You can
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: see by their attitude, by their whole atmosphere, that they
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: know what it means to live in that kingdom. It
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: would be a thousand pities if we live there only
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: at rare moments, only when we are meditating, only when
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: we are alone. You can only live in that kingdom
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  Speaker 1: if your whole being throbs with happiness. You must express
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: this happiness in all your feelings, in all the things
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: that you do daily. Not just live in that kingdom
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: for a few brief moments like a little insect, and
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: then vanish for the rest of the day to be
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: born again on the morrow. This is what most of
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: you are doing. A word will betray the whole of
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: your mind, the whole trend of your outlook. I feel
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: it so important that you must be really serious and
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: joyous instead of struggling in vain and making vast useless efforts.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: You must not have the idea that some privileged people
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  Speaker 1: alone are in that kingdom and the rest are not.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: As long as there is any one who is struggling,
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: who has nobility of thought and emotions, and be assured
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: that he is living in that kingdom. We must transform
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  Speaker 1: this center at ere day and the world at large
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: into a veritable kingdom of happiness. And you must help,
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  Speaker 1: because you are living in it, because you are creating it.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: And you must give your capacities, your sufferings, your happiness
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: and pleasures and joys. You must give the material with
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: which we can build. Every one of you must help,
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  Speaker 1: not one individual alone. That is why you must be great.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: That is why you must live and breathe only in
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: that kingdom of happiness. Every barrier, all pettiness in our
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: outlook must be destroyed. You do not know how thrilling
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: it is, and how pleasurable, and how exciting it is,
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: much more so than any cinema performance than any game
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: in the world. Imagine for a moment that we are
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: all gods. Then we could all sit around a table
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: with him. Think what we could do do, Think what
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: it would mean if we were like the Buddha and
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: his disciples. He was a super genius, the greatest of humans,
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: and his disciples were also geniuses. They were the great
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: men of their day. And you can imagine the delicious air,
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: the atmosphere which those men, those gods must have created.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: Then go to the other extreme and think of all
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: the personifications of evil in the world. Think of the
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: time they would have They would be attempting to annihilate
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: and confuse the work of the gods. Whereas it is
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: those like us who are between the two extremes who
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: form the major portion of the world. When you have
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: a precious vase or jewel, you must find as safe
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: in which you can guard it. And when he comes,
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: as he does, come, when he is with us, as
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: he is with us, we must be the great men,
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: and each one of us must struggle to reach the
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: height of perfection. And then if we are gathered together,
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: you can imagine the intense delight of that association, For
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: we shall be companions with nobility, with great artists, great creators,
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: with the divinity that is well balanced in perfect physical bodies.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: There is nothing more wonderful in the world than living
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: with great men, with great ideas, with men who are
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: the principles themselves and not merely the outward shell of
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: some inner reality. It is the person who has not
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: tasted happiness, who has not suffered, who has not had
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  Speaker 1: many experiences, that cannot be companion with great men, nor
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  Speaker 1: even with great sinners. Such an individual can never help,
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  Speaker 1: neither can he give nor enjoy that happiness which is lasting.
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  Speaker 1: Such an individual can never know the difference between the beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: the refined, and the course the vulgar, and where judgment
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  Speaker 1: has no value, for he is neither a creator nor
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  Speaker 1: a destroyer. He is merely carried along by the whims
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  Speaker 1: and fancies of the world of mediocrity. Because you desire
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  Speaker 1: not to belong to this world of mediocrity, you must
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  Speaker 1: bear in mind that all that you think and feel
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  Speaker 1: matters vitally. For this reason, you must develop a fine
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  Speaker 1: physical body, with refined emotions and cultured mind, because if
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  Speaker 1: you have not a perfect body, mind, and emotions, you
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  Speaker 1: will disfigure the beauty and disturb the harmony of the
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  Speaker 1: whole company of great men. You might be wise in
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  Speaker 1: your words, but your outward expression, your personality, betrays your
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  Speaker 1: inner development, which is not perfect. You must also have
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: perfect cleanliness, perfect health, and you can see the importance
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  Speaker 1: of this. You can see why you must have clean
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  Speaker 1: and healthy bodies, why you must take care of them
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  Speaker 1: as you take care of a most precious jewel. It
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: is the same with your emotions and your thoughts, ugly
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  Speaker 1: thoughts and ugly feelings. Though you may not expose them
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  Speaker 1: outwardly to your friends or your neighbors, yet they will
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  Speaker 1: betray themselves in your looks, in your sayings, in your attitude,
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  Speaker 1: in your outlook on life. I interest myself very often
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: in looking at people's faces, their gestures, their general deportment,
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  Speaker 1: and I can usually distinguish the type to which each
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  Speaker 1: one belongs. I know these superficial things may be deceptive
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  Speaker 1: that one cannot always judge truly, but they generally betray
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  Speaker 1: the inner character. You must therefore perfect the body, the emotions,
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  Speaker 1: and the mind before you can attain and live eternally
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  Speaker 1: in that kingdom of happiness. You must not conform without reason,
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  Speaker 1: without understanding, and fit yourself into molds. Can you imagine
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: the sea, that mass of animation and turmoil. Ever fitting
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: into a form, it will break all forms. Nothing can
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  Speaker 1: hold it, nothing can bind it. We all want to
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  Speaker 1: fit into forms because it is so much easier, so
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  Speaker 1: much more comfortable, means so much less struggle to those
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  Speaker 1: of us who are not enslaved by forms, who are
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  Speaker 1: living in this happiness, in this kingdom that has no boundaries.
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  Speaker 1: To them. The thing of value, the thing of beauty,
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  Speaker 1: is this boundless, limitless expanse. You must realize that if
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  Speaker 1: you would really live in the presence of great men,
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  Speaker 1: you must develop an outlook which cannot be bound, which
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  Speaker 1: cannot be limited. You will realize in what great ecstasy
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  Speaker 1: you can live in, what balanced ecstasy if you constantly
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: imagine that you are always living in that kingdom, and
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  Speaker 1: that you are with great men. How many of you
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  Speaker 1: are capable of being with a great man, with a
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  Speaker 1: great genius, with him who is the embodiment of this
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  Speaker 1: kingdom of happiness, Very very few, indeed, And you can
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  Speaker 1: see the anguish, the pain it must cause such a
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  Speaker 1: person that there should be only two or three companions
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: instead of the entire world with him, working with him,
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  Speaker 1: delighting with him. I want also to talk about affection,
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: because I do not think you realize what force, what vitality,
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  Speaker 1: true affection, well balanced affection gives. I'm using the word
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  Speaker 1: balanced because you generally find that those who possess tremendous
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  Speaker 1: feelings of affection are without strength, without control, without poise.
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  Speaker 1: These feelings are like water, which, if poured out too freely,
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  Speaker 1: inundates and overflows and has no lasting effect. That is
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  Speaker 1: why you must have balance. If you have well balanced affection,
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  Speaker 1: not sentimentality, not mere gush, but that eternal thing which
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  Speaker 1: we call love, then you begin to lose the separate self.
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  Speaker 1: Each one of you must have felt that affection which bubbles,
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  Speaker 1: which expands, which is ever growing, and it becomes wider
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  Speaker 1: and wider, so that you feel this love not only
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  Speaker 1: for a special few, but for the whole neighborhood. Such
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  Speaker 1: an affection makes you forget annihilate that self, which is
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  Speaker 1: the root of all sorrow. That is why a person
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  Speaker 1: who has not that immense love becomes personal, talks, interferes, gossips,
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  Speaker 1: does all those small things which a great man, a
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  Speaker 1: real god, will not dream of doing. The moment you
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  Speaker 1: forget yourself, the self which is in each one of you,
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  Speaker 1: and identify that with the great self of the world,
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: then you are living in that kingdom. Then you want
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: to bring the whole world to live with you. At present,
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  Speaker 1: it may be said about each one of you that
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  Speaker 1: you are making a feverish a tempt, rather than that
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: you have accomplished a deed. You are still struggling and struggling,
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  Speaker 1: But you have not attained. You do not risk, you
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  Speaker 1: do not dare, and you do not plunge into the ocean.
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  Speaker 1: But you are like the child at the sea who
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: hesitatingly puts a foot into the water and draws it
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  Speaker 1: back immediately at the first chilling touch of the cold sea.
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: If you slip, never mind, you will rise up again.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: If you swim, you will get there. But you must
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  Speaker 1: not hesitate all day long as to whether you should
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: attempt to reach the further shore. You must take the
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: plunge because your voice urges you. And if you do
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: not hear that voice, you should be metaphorically sore all
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: the day. You should have not a single moment of peace,
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: of tranquility, of happiness. If that voice does not urge
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  Speaker 1: you onwards, you should go towards a source of things.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: And when once you reach that source, you become the God,
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  Speaker 1: the superman, the Master, the Buddha, the Christ and other
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: great teachers of the world went to the source of life,
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: they became the master artists. Once knowing the nature and
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  Speaker 1: the supreme greatness of the source, they became themselves that source,
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  Speaker 1: the path, and the embodiment of wisdom and love. This
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: should be our purpose. You cannot all be the Buddha
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  Speaker 1: or the Christ, but you can all have the same dreams,
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: the longings, the desires, the aspirations. When once you have
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  Speaker 1: realized the glory of their kingdom, then you can work
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: out for yourself along what particular line of creation you
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: will express your vision of that eternal glory. Then you
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: will be the greatest of writers, or the greatest of artists,
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: or the greatest of scientists. Then you will have the
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: tongue of the learned. There lies the thrill of spiritual
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  Speaker 1: the only ambition in the world that it is worthwhile possessing.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: You must be independent, not only emotionally and intellectually, but
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  Speaker 1: also of all physical entanglements. This is the only way
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: to attain the greatest happiness, by gaining complete liberty and
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: thought in emotions and in all things physical. This is
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  Speaker 1: the only way to live in the Kingdom of Happiness.
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  Speaker 1: End of chapter seven, Chapter eight of The Kingdom of
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  Speaker 1: Happiness by Jeju Krishnamurti. This LibriVox recording is in the
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  Speaker 1: public domain. Mind, the creator mind, is the essence of divinity.
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  Speaker 1: But it is quite obvious that mind can either create
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: or destroy that it controls and guides the emotion, the
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: impetus that drives us on to our goal. The mind
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  Speaker 1: can and must find for itself the truth, and must
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  Speaker 1: learn to live for itself in that kingdom of happiness.
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: Without the trained mind and a native intelligence, you cannot
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: come near to your goal. You can also see that
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: it is the mind that makes things narrow, that longs
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: for forms, that desires to fill those forms. It is
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: the mind that always tends to be concrete, and against
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: that characteristic of the mind, you must guard yourselves. We
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: often feel that what we do is right, that our
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: particular path is the only path, that our particular temple,
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  Speaker 1: our particular altar, our particular ceremony, our particular form of worship,
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  Speaker 1: and our particular creation of the outward form can alone
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  Speaker 1: be the true one, and that through that channel alone
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  Speaker 1: can the Divine express himself in outward life. We say,
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: in effect, you are wrong, But if you follow me,
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: if you do as I do, think as I think,
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  Speaker 1: then you will be right. That is what you you
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: are all thinking. That is the real stumbling block for
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  Speaker 1: each one of you who is attempting to enter the kingdom,
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: For here there is no such narrow uniformity. Here, anyone
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  Speaker 1: who is struggling, who is living a noble life, who
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  Speaker 1: is really beautiful by nature, in mind and in emotion,
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  Speaker 1: can be one withal, and is one withal. The sense
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  Speaker 1: of unity is what matters most in life. That is
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  Speaker 1: the only food you can give to the hungry, the
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: only solution to all the problems of life. The intolerant
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: idea that you must be wrong if you are independent,
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: but right if you follow me my special intuition, my
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: special master, my special deity, is contrary to spiritual progress.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: As long as there is enthusiasm, the spark of divine discontent,
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  Speaker 1: the longing for happiness, the longing to escape from the
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  Speaker 1: maya of life. It does not matter if you belong
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  Speaker 1: to any religion or to none, to any sect, class, color,
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  Speaker 1: or to any faith, because then you are on the
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: true road leading to that kingdom. This is the only
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  Speaker 1: idea you must bear in mind always. You can only
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  Speaker 1: enter this kingdom if you are living a noble life,
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  Speaker 1: and you can only become a citizen of that kingdom
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  Speaker 1: if you are struggling against narrowness, against the spirit of exclusion.
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: It is for this purpose you must have a mind
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  Speaker 1: that is clear and clean and includes all things because
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  Speaker 1: if you have such a mind, you will have equally
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: noble happy emotions. Whereas if you are exclusive and desirous
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: to shut out everyone else because you think you are different,
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  Speaker 1: which is but the assertion of self, then you shall
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: not enter into the kingdom of happiness. If you know
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: that some person is suffering, if you know that he
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: is going through difficult times, that he is not happy
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: with himself, that he is struggling, the only shade under
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: which he can rest, The only comfort that you can
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: give is this happiness that you have tasted, this delight
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  Speaker 1: that you have experienced in finding the things which are eternal.
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  Speaker 1: I wish I could give you this happiness so that you,
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  Speaker 1: in your turn, could give it to others, could make
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  Speaker 1: others feel its immense reality. I wish I could lead
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: you to that kingdom of happiness, because only when you
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: have entered that kingdom, have lived in that domain, can
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: you feed the hungry, appease the suffering, and give balm
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: to the wounded soul. You must live there your own life,
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: obey your own voice, find your own master, your own
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  Speaker 1: breath of life. This is the only ambition worth having.
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  Speaker 1: Then you can be of the world and give to
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  Speaker 1: the world because you are full, because your soul and
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: your body, your whole mind and emotions are full of
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: that eternity, and you can give without the least hesitation,
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  Speaker 1: without holding back at all. The more you grow, the
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: more you must cultivate the spirit. You cannot be happy
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: until you make others happy. And you can only make
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  Speaker 1: others happy if you have entered that kingdom, if you
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: have obeyed, if you have caught the whisper of that
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: voice which is eternal, and that way only you can
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: lead people, and that way only you can give them happiness,
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: and encourage the struggle after nobility, encourage them to listen
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: to their own murmurings of divinity. In struggling, they will suffer,
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: But all suffering, all struggles, are a part of the
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: process towards the deed accomplished, and that deed is the
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: finding of happiness. This is the true breath from the
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: mountains that makes you intoxicated with eternity, that gives you
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  Speaker 1: the immense strength to stand alone. The tree on the
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: summit of a mountain must naturally be much stronger than
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: the tree in the plains. It must be because it
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: gets all all the breezes of the world. Its roots
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: are deeper because it must withstand mighty winds. It must
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: be much more dignified, much more noble, because it is
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: near heaven, it catches the first rays of dawn, it
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: is nearer the stars. It should be exactly the same
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  Speaker 1: with you, if you would enter that region of absoluteness.
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  Speaker 1: You must have deeper roots because you are near to
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: the gods, and deeper agonies of growth, because you see
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  Speaker 1: the first rays of the sun. And when you are
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: at that height, you will realize the illusion, the maya,
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: the uselessness of the things which are not lasting, which
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: are not perpetual. The idea of such a solitary tree,
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: always living in the fresh air of the mountains, getting
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: stronger and stronger day by day, which can only fall
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: when the mountain ceases to stand. Such an idea as
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: this gives me strength. That is the spirit which He
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: will give us. That is the spirit which we must
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: possess to understand him. That is the only happiness, the
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: only conviction worth having. That is the only way by
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: which we can hold him in our hearts. That is
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: the only way and which we can follow him. Because
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: we do not think and feel, we are different because
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: we do not belong to narrow sex, because we have
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: drunk at the fountain of reality, because we have been
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: there and have the capacity to reach the heavens, we
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: desire all others to come and taste the same blasting happiness.
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: This is the only truth which anyone who is intelligent,
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: who is happy, or who is suffering, can accept and
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: must accept. If you can only have that personal knowledge,
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: you will become like the tree which lasts through eternity,
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: under whose shelter men can rest. A tree which only
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: grows in that kingdom must grow wings, new wings every
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: day to fly to that height. And you can only
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: grow new wings if you are all the time soaring, expanding, growing, struggling.
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: That means you must change every day. You must throw
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: off all those things which clog, which bind, which restrain,
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: which do not give you absolute freedom, which bind you
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: to the illusion of life. That is the only way
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: to grow, to have fresh energies, fresh delights, And only
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: with new wings can you soar into the heights. You
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: must be falling in love all the time. Everything that lives,
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: everything that moves or does not move, should give you
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: a fresh impetus to love more. As you desire everyone
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: to dwell in that kingdom. You want to bring everything
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: around you into that kingdom. And when every one of
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: you can spread this kingdom of happiness, you will then
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: realize that out forms have no intrinsic importance, and that
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: your only real value lies in bringing others into that kingdom.
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: That is why I wish I could give you a
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: part or the whole of that happiness which I have found.
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: Having once tasted this, I can taste it again. Having
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: once realized this, I can always realize it again. But
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: the person who has not tasted it, who does not
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: know the richness of it, the beauty of it, can
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: never realize the fullness and the glory of life. When
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 1: once he has tasted this, he will never be satisfied
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 1: with transient things. That is why I want to give you.
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: That is why I should like to make you taste,
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: make you breathe my happiness, make you live in my kingdom.
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: For this reason, you must wake up. You must open
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 1: all the windows and all the doors of your souls
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: and issue forth in search of the only reality in life. Life.
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  Speaker 1: You must not lose yourselves in feverish and vain attempts
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: in corridors in darkened alleys, but must seek out the
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: places of light, the abode of truth, the Kingdom of Happiness,
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: And there each one of you must dwell in that
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: state of ecstasy, of tremendous joyousness. Having lost the one
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: thing that keeps you down, the self, you find the
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: only source of inspiration, the only beauty that you need,
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: and the only truth worth clinging to, worth possessing, worth
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: struggling for, worth sacrificing everything to attain. You must have
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: that ambition. I cannot find a better word for it.
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: You must have that intense desire to enter that kingdom.
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: And then whatever your actions may be, they will bear
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: the mark of eternity. And wherever you may be, you
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: are the emblem of that kingdom. End of eight Chapter
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  Speaker 1: nine of The Kingdom of Happiness by Jidu Krishnamurti. This
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain, the altar of
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: the world. It must be quite clear to all of
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: you that the only goal that we should have is
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: the attainment of the inward conviction of a truth that
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: cannot be shaken or doubted. This truth cannot be imposed
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: upon you. You must attain it for yourself, and you
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: can only arrive at it if you awaken and listen
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: to that inner voice. All action, all thought, all ideas
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: must originate from the truth which you have discovered and
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: understood for yourself. Such truth cannot be shared, cannot be
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: handed over to another. Every great teacher has insisted upon
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 1: this fact, that you must find the truth for yourself,
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: and that after having understood it, you must live according
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: to that truth. Then you are your self the embodiment
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: of that truth, as well as the preacher, the signpost
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: on the road to eternal happiness. To understand this idea,
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: you must live according to its edicts. You must have
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: desires that are worthy of the truth. You must have
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: the impetus to grow in your natural environment. As a
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: flower grows beautifully and naturally, and while it is in
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 1: the stage of the bud, it surely knows its fulfillment
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: that one day it will see the sunshine, that it
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: will give forth scent to the world. So must each
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: one of you, during that period of growth think and
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  Speaker 1: meditate on that light and truth which will come the
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  Speaker 1: moment you are fully blossomed. You can have that sunshine,
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  Speaker 1: that energy, that delight, only if you listen to that
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  Speaker 1: voice and not blindly accept the authority the tradition of another.
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  Speaker 1: These must be set aside. In other words, you must
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  Speaker 1: be a lawgiver unto yourself. You must live according to
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  Speaker 1: your own ideas, your own intuitions, which are the outcome
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  Speaker 1: of experiences in this and other lives. There is only
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  Speaker 1: one law, only one nirvana, only one kingdom of happiness,
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  Speaker 1: only one essence. And if you understand this thoroughly, you
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  Speaker 1: will act on this understanding. The more you develop, the
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  Speaker 1: more you think, the more you suffer. The nearer you
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  Speaker 1: should get to that essence, to that oneness, to that
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  Speaker 1: eternal truth. You are bound to have these doubts, questionings,
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  Speaker 1: and a great turmoil within until you hear for yourself,
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  Speaker 1: grasp for yourself this truth. While we are trying to understand,
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  Speaker 1: we must have the conscience not of fools, but of
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  Speaker 1: wise men. We should have the conscience of those who
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  Speaker 1: have seen the vision of the nobler side of life,
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  Speaker 1: and not of small and ignorant people with their ideas
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  Speaker 1: and conceptions. And if you would escape from this little conscience,
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  Speaker 1: these weak whisperings of that voice, you must thoroughly understand
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  Speaker 1: what the kingdom of happiness means, what the law means,
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  Speaker 1: what the truth means. As the rain falls in the
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  Speaker 1: earth and nourishes every kind of tree, every species of plant,
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  Speaker 1: and every flower, so does this one essence run through
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  Speaker 1: everything without variance. The hands of the potter mold clay
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  Speaker 1: and give shape to vessels useful and beautiful. Some to
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  Speaker 1: hold flowers, rice curds. Others are vessels of impurity. But
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  Speaker 1: all these are made by the same hands, made of
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  Speaker 1: the same clay, are the product of the same wheel
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  Speaker 1: which whirls round and round an essence. We are the same,
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  Speaker 1: but in the world of form we are different. And
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  Speaker 1: according to that difference does our understanding of the truth vary.
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  Speaker 1: The bigger you are, the more you have suffered, the
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  Speaker 1: more you have enjoyed, the nearer you are to that
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  Speaker 1: oneness of this essence. This is the only law, the
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  Speaker 1: only aim, that can guide you to the kingdom of happiness.
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  Speaker 1: It is the recognition of the same essence and things
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  Speaker 1: all different in outward form, and living in the light
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  Speaker 1: of this knowledge that can alone bring lasting happiness. It
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  Speaker 1: takes some time to have such a realization, and to
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  Speaker 1: understand the truth. You must train your will, You must
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  Speaker 1: use your mind because it is the will the mind
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  Speaker 1: which guides. It can guide you along the right path
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  Speaker 1: or the wrong path. It can guide you away from personality,
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  Speaker 1: away from prejudices, away from all the petty little things
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  Speaker 1: which make you separate, or it can make you cling
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  Speaker 1: to the thought that you are different from others. If
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  Speaker 1: you have the mind that discriminates, which has learned through
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  Speaker 1: many experiences and sacrifices, to distinguish between the real and
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  Speaker 1: the unreal, the permanent and the transient, you can then
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  Speaker 1: be guided by that one law. You can then walk
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  Speaker 1: along that one solitary path. Then you cease to make
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  Speaker 1: useless experiments because you have learned to sacrifice everything for
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 1: this one happiness. You must learn to sacrifice yourself, your predilections,
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  Speaker 1: your prejudices, your narrow, selfish affections, your worldly bonds, in
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  Speaker 1: order to walk on this path that leads to happiness.
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  Speaker 1: You do not tread that path because of my assurance,
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  Speaker 1: nor because of the labels that I may offer you,
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  Speaker 1: nor because you take shelter under the authority of another.
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  Speaker 1: You tread it because it is your own desire, your
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  Speaker 1: own longing, your own wish to search out the truth.
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  Speaker 1: You grow as the flower grows naturally beautifully, because it
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  Speaker 1: is in its own nature to unfold and to be happy.
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  Speaker 1: You can only find the truth if you use your will,
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  Speaker 1: the will that you have trained, that you have carefully
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  Speaker 1: watched and guided, that you have fed with proper nourishment.
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  Speaker 1: And until you have such a will, you will find
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  Speaker 1: that instead of succeeding, instead of deeds accomplished, you are
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  Speaker 1: still but making feverish attempts. Instead of surmounting, you are
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  Speaker 1: still creating barriers. Instead of shouting from the mountaintops, you
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  Speaker 1: are still crying in the valleys. Everyone in the world
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  Speaker 1: must recognize that there is but one law, one aim,
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  Speaker 1: one truth, one kingdom of happiness, and that you can
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  Speaker 1: enter it only if you live according to that law,
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  Speaker 1: which is the recognition of the oneness of life, of
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  Speaker 1: the one essence in all things. Such a conception, at
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  Speaker 1: least for me, gives a tremendous sense that nothing really matters.
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  Speaker 1: It gives me a sense of absolutely certainty, which certainty
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  Speaker 1: brings a sense of absolute peace within which cannot be shaken,
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  Speaker 1: which cannot be taken away by anybody else, which cannot
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  Speaker 1: be thrown down by my passing. Unhappiness passing, suffering, which
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  Speaker 1: cannot cease because I lose the affection of another, or
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  Speaker 1: the estimation of the crowd, because it is my own flower,
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  Speaker 1: my own creation, my own treasure, which nobody in the
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  Speaker 1: world can take away. When once you have this peace,
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  Speaker 1: you have power. You can do what you want. You
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  Speaker 1: can remain on the mountaintop, whether you are alone or
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  Speaker 1: surrounded by all the world, because you have gone through
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  Speaker 1: the experiences, the sufferings, the pleasures, and the joys. And
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  Speaker 1: when once you have this peace, this power, you become real.
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  Speaker 1: And wherever you may be, you are all the time
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  Speaker 1: living in that kingdom. Have you ever seen in a
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  Speaker 1: power station gigantic dynamos generating electricity and the great wheels.
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  Speaker 1: They are comparatively silent, but yet you know that all
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  Speaker 1: the time they are generating energy, immense power. You must
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  Speaker 1: be such a dynamo of power, dignified and balanced. And
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  Speaker 1: you will be that only if you realize that one
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  Speaker 1: essence of life, that unity and escape from this maya
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  Speaker 1: this unreality. Thus you obtain purposefulness, without which none of
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  Speaker 1: us can be happy, none of us can evolve. You
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  Speaker 1: must have purpose in life, interest in life. Most of
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  Speaker 1: us live in a house of many barriers, indifferent whether
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  Speaker 1: we go forth to see the source of light or
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  Speaker 1: remain satisfied by its mere reflection. If you have this purpose,
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  Speaker 1: it gives you determination, It gives you will, and you
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  Speaker 1: arrive at your goal having found yourself. Nobody can thwart you,
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  Speaker 1: nobody can put you aside, nobody can create barriers. And
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  Speaker 1: having arrived by yourself at your destination, your alter, your temple,
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  Speaker 1: whether there be other worshipers or not, you can worship
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  Speaker 1: with greater glory, with greater enthusiasm. Once you have cultivated
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  Speaker 1: these capacities, you will find that other qualities equally important
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  Speaker 1: for the understanding of life will naturally assert themselves. Patience,
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  Speaker 1: which gives you a sense of mental well being, restraint
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  Speaker 1: and poise so necessary for the outward expression of your
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  Speaker 1: understanding of the truth. And cooperative independence. You must be independent.
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  Speaker 1: You must be free mentally and emotionally and physically, and
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  Speaker 1: yet learn to cooperate, because we are all walking along
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  Speaker 1: the same path to the same goal, obeying the same
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  Speaker 1: law and the same voice. When once you have recognized
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  Speaker 1: this law, which is universal, the one life in all things,
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  Speaker 1: then you will live with true friendliness and affection for all.
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  Speaker 1: Only then is it possible to realize the happiness or
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  Speaker 1: the sorrows of others. Those of us who are seeking
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  Speaker 1: this kingdom must not be bound by traditions old or recent,
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  Speaker 1: but must live a new life because we have understood
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  Speaker 1: the purpose of life. Those who come here, who come
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  Speaker 1: here to live and work, who come here to learn,
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  Speaker 1: to suffer if they have not suffered before, who come
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  Speaker 1: here to seek the pleasures the happiness of Divinity, must
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  Speaker 1: be inspired by this one law. Must all enter this
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  Speaker 1: one kingdom of happiness. We must be inspired by the
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  Speaker 1: same hope, the same freshness. Though we may have clouds,
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  Speaker 1: though we may be shut out for the moment from
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  Speaker 1: the sun. This place must give forth a new creative energy,
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  Speaker 1: new ideas of life, ancient and forgotten solutions of our
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  Speaker 1: modern problems, a purer breath of life, whose fraiseagrance shall
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  Speaker 1: intoxicate the world. You must all enter into that kingdom
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  Speaker 1: of happiness and drink at the same source, and worship
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  Speaker 1: at the same altar. Because He whom we worship is
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  Speaker 1: our altar, Because he is the source of all things.
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  Speaker 1: He is above arguments, above discussions, above personal ambitions, above
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  Speaker 1: personal struggles. He is our self. As long as you
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  Speaker 1: recognize that law, and as long as you are struggling
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  Speaker 1: and there is nobility in that struggle, you will then
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  Speaker 1: bring a new understanding to life, a new impetus, and
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  Speaker 1: happiness to those who are in sorrow. That is why
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  Speaker 1: you must come here, to gain strength, to build, to
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  Speaker 1: still the wounds of your life, and the moment they
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  Speaker 1: are stilled, the moment you are pacified, the moment you
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  Speaker 1: have that peace, you can give it to others. This
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  Speaker 1: is not the place to seek new labels to satisfy
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  Speaker 1: personal vanities. This must be the place where each should
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  Speaker 1: live as dangerous as he can, as forcefully as he can,
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  Speaker 1: as adventurously as he can. According to this eternal law,
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  Speaker 1: you must not make of this place a wilderness of
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  Speaker 1: false ideals, or yourselves into tame beings. You must not
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  Speaker 1: create little gods and worship at little shrines. This you
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  Speaker 1: can do elsewhere. This is not what is wanted here.
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  Speaker 1: This is the wrong kind of worship, the wrong kind
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  Speaker 1: of attitude, the wrong kind of devotion. When once you
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  Speaker 1: have drunk at this source, you do not want to
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  Speaker 1: drink anywhere else. When once you have worshiped here, you
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  Speaker 1: do not want to worship anything else in the world.
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  Speaker 1: Who wants to worship by the light of one candle
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  Speaker 1: when he can have the sun. But that is just
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  Speaker 1: what you are doing all day long, justifying the small
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 1: worship in small houses, in small cells. Here we are
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  Speaker 1: trying to build the greater altar where all humanity can worship.
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  Speaker 1: I feel more and more that you must find this
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  Speaker 1: for yourself. It must be part of you. I can preach,
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  Speaker 1: I can talk, I can shout, I can feel. I
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  Speaker 1: can feel the thrill of happiness of this kingdom. For myself.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps I can kindle a little enthusiasm in you. But
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  Speaker 1: you must make the effort. You must have the true
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  Speaker 1: and lasting ambition, the ambition to arrive at your goal,
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  Speaker 1: to enter this kingdom of happiness, where there is beauty
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  Speaker 1: which gives you real joy, where there is the only
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  Speaker 1: truth worth seeking, where there is the law by which
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  Speaker 1: alone you can live. You must be free to grow,
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  Speaker 1: free to feel, free to strive. It is no good
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  Speaker 1: my drinking and my eating to keep you healthy, and
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  Speaker 1: that way the world could be saved. Tomorrow. I could
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  Speaker 1: fill myself with all the best foods in the world,
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  Speaker 1: but it is you who must nourish your own soul
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  Speaker 1: must give the proper conditions, the proper environment, the proper
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  Speaker 1: adventures to that soul to enable it to advance, to
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  Speaker 1: live greatly. Each one of you must find, if you
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  Speaker 1: have not already found your own voice, your own ray
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  Speaker 1: of the sun, you must have this turmoil, this longing,
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  Speaker 1: and this ambition when you have found it. I assure you,
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  Speaker 1: whether you are living in a castle or whether you
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  Speaker 1: are going naked with a begging bowl, it will make
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  Speaker 1: no difference, because you will have found the one thing
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  Speaker 1: by which you can live forever, and then only will
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  Speaker 1: you be able to make others feel and live happily.
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  Speaker 1: End of chapter nine, Chapter ten of The Kingdom of
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  Speaker 1: Happiness by Gidu krish Namurti. This LibriVox recording is in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain. Sacrifice at the Altar. If you have
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  Speaker 1: followed me with interest, I think it must have dawned
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  Speaker 1: on you, and you must have realized that to enter
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  Speaker 1: this abode of happiness, you must be free from all
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  Speaker 1: those things that fetter, that keep you down to the earth,
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  Speaker 1: to the sorrows, to the pleasures, and to the various turmoils,
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  Speaker 1: and that to escape from them and to be liberated
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  Speaker 1: means enlightenment, the attainment of nirvana, the obeying of that
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  Speaker 1: one law, and the entering into that one and absolute
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  Speaker 1: kingdom of happiness. It means also that you must be
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  Speaker 1: free of karma. It means that in the past, over
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  Speaker 1: which now you have no control, you may have committed
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  Speaker 1: errors and so called sins, made bad judgments which have
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  Speaker 1: brought in their wake the fetters and sorrows which karma
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  Speaker 1: always brings. But over the present and the future you
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  Speaker 1: have power. You can control the future by the present,
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  Speaker 1: and thus eliminate the illusion of time and space. You
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  Speaker 1: who are trying to understand, who are trying to reach
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  Speaker 1: this abode, who are trying to be part of this
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  Speaker 1: realm where there is eternal happiness, must realize that neither
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  Speaker 1: in the present nor in the future should you accumulate
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  Speaker 1: more karma, should you create new barriers between yourself and
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  Speaker 1: your goal. That means that you must watch. You must
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  Speaker 1: be full of self recollection, full of solemn and joyful
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  Speaker 1: examination of yourself, so that whatever your feelings, whatever your thoughts,
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  Speaker 1: whatever your deeds, they may in no way bar your
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  Speaker 1: entrance to that kingdom. The gates of that kingdom are
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  Speaker 1: not shut for there are no real gates to that kingdom,
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  Speaker 1: no barriers. It is you who create the barriers, the gates,
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  Speaker 1: and the gate keeper. You can only control karma by
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  Speaker 1: careful thought, by introspection, by examination of all the little
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  Speaker 1: things of life, of all your thoughts and your happiness
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  Speaker 1: and the pleasures of your daily life. Introspection does not
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  Speaker 1: mean morbidity or self centereddness, or being engrossed in yourself
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  Speaker 1: and excluding everyone else. This faculty should help you to
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  Speaker 1: cultivate and encourage you to grow your mental, emotional, and
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  Speaker 1: physical bodies according to the one supreme desire. Like a
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  Speaker 1: vine whose instinct is to grow in all directions instead
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 1: of along one particular path, you will tend more and
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 1: more to wander unless, like a wise gardener, you control
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 1: your mind in your heart as he would control the vine. Introspection,
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  Speaker 1: as I said, must not tend towards morbidity or depression.
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  Speaker 1: This faculty should be used with absolute impersonal feeling, like
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  Speaker 1: a student who goes through his daily routine to achieve
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  Speaker 1: his end. Without introspection. Without this solemn questioning and cross examination,
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  Speaker 1: you do not build character. And without character without qualities
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 1: well developed to their fullest extent, logically and systematically, you
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  Speaker 1: will be like dea would without life, without the inherent
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  Speaker 1: qualities that are necessary for those who wish to follow,
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 1: to create, to live nobly. Each one of you must
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 1: be capable of offering something at the altar. Each one of
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 1: you must bring flowers in your basket when you come
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 1: to the temple, flowers fully blossomed, giving out their delicious fragrance,
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  Speaker 1: beauteous and dignified. When you arrive with such flowers at
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 1: the altar, then you will be acceptable men. If you
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  Speaker 1: arrive with a basket but with no flowers, and are
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 1: willing merely to adore in a sentimental fashion. Without divine
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 1: capacities well developed, you will be useless. You must have
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 1: something to give. You cannot merely say I have given myself.
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 1: Every one of us can say that, because we possess
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 1: very little to give. It is like a man who
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  Speaker 1: has nothing that says I give up the world. But
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 1: if a man of experience, if a man who has
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 1: understood and conquered the world, if such a man gives
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 1: up his riches, his glories, then his renunciation has value
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 1: because he has experienced, he has suffered, and his giving
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 1: up becomes an example to all. When the man who
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  Speaker 1: has no roses in his garden says, I give up
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  Speaker 1: all that I possess, it has but little value because
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  Speaker 1: his devotion and his intelligence are backward, And when such
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  Speaker 1: a person offers to give up, there is no beauty
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 1: in his gesture. Whereas if a man of intelligence, of devotion,
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 1: energy and power gives up everything and follows his ideal,
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  Speaker 1: that man will be acceptable. Though you may not have
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 1: great capacities, may not have great intelligence, or be full
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 1: of devotion, or have immense energy, you can at least
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 1: offer a formed character, a definite deed, a flower which
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 1: you have cultivated in your own garden, which you have
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  Speaker 1: kept alive through troublesome times. When you come to the
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 1: altar with such a gift, however small it is, it
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 1: is a value because it means that you have learned
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  Speaker 1: to give those things that are acceptable, that are worthy,
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  Speaker 1: that are dignified. And as I said before, a time
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  Speaker 1: must come. A time will come when that voice, that
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 1: tyrant will tell you to give up everything and follow.
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 1: And for that time you must be prepared. You must
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  Speaker 1: have your garden well weeded and cultivated, and its flowers
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 1: ready to be plucked, then you can give of your devotion,
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 1: of your intelligence with greater certainty, with greater knowledge, that
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  Speaker 1: it will be used, because you have trained it, because
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  Speaker 1: you have cultivated it, because you know what are its capacities.
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  Speaker 1: And you, yourself, are then the master of these things.
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  Speaker 1: And when you make a sacrifice, if it can be
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  Speaker 1: called a sacrifice, because you are a following your own delight,
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  Speaker 1: your own happiness, and in that there is no sacrifice.
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 1: When you come with these flowers to the temple, then
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 1: the high priest of that temple, who is your own
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  Speaker 1: inner voice, your own ruler, your own lawgiver, will take
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 1: these and will use them, nourish them and make them
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 1: more beautiful, and breathe on them and give them divinity.
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 1: While you are still wandering and groping. It is essential
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 1: that you should be all the time forming this character,
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  Speaker 1: that you should be ripening this fruit, so that when
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  Speaker 1: the time comes it may be plucked, it may give
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  Speaker 1: nourishment and delight to others. For this reason, it is
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  Speaker 1: that self recollectedness, that constant watchfulness, constant wakefulness, is so necessary.
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  Speaker 1: We must not go to sleep, but we can dream.
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  Speaker 1: We must keep awake, but we can have our own
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  Speaker 1: quiet visions. The more you are watching, the more you
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  Speaker 1: are alert, the better you you can fight the little
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  Speaker 1: things that create karma, that bind you to this wheel
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  Speaker 1: of birth and death, to this turmoil, to this everlasting
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  Speaker 1: something that gives sorrow. By throwing off all these things,
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  Speaker 1: you can live in that kingdom. And you can only
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  Speaker 1: do it if you have the mind well trained and cultivated,
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  Speaker 1: the emotions well nourished and refined, and a body that
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  Speaker 1: is well subjugated. This self recollection, this introspection, this examination
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  Speaker 1: of all things small or big, must be done every day,
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  Speaker 1: and so you must meditate, You must think, you must
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  Speaker 1: ponder in order that every day those little barriers, little weaknesses,
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  Speaker 1: may disappear, and thus through meditation you can create. It
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 1: is the same with emotion. You must purify it, make
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  Speaker 1: it impersonal, make it strong, and remove from it any
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  Speaker 1: tinge of pettiness, of selfishness, of jealousy, of little angers,
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  Speaker 1: and all little disturbances that grow into great barriers. Your
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  Speaker 1: mind and your emotions must function with perfect ease. And
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  Speaker 1: when you have such a mind and such emotions, it
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  Speaker 1: is very easy to control your body. It is very
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  Speaker 1: easy to detach yourself from the bodily desires, wants, sufferings,
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  Speaker 1: and to treat it as you would treat a beautiful garment,
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  Speaker 1: if you will pardon my talking about a personal affair.
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  Speaker 1: I remember when I was at Uti in the nilgurries
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  Speaker 1: in India. I was experimenting with myself, not very successfully
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  Speaker 1: at first, trying to discover how I could detach myself
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  Speaker 1: and see the body as it is. I had been
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 1: experimenting with it for two or three days, it may
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  Speaker 1: have been a week, and I found that for a
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 1: certain length of time I could quite easily be away
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  Speaker 1: from the body and look at it. I was standing
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  Speaker 1: beside my bed, and there was the body on the bed,
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  Speaker 1: a most extraordinary feeling. And from that day there has
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 1: been a distinct sense of detachment of division between the
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  Speaker 1: ruler and the rules, so that the body, though it
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  Speaker 1: has its cravings, its desires to wander forth and to
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 1: live and enjoy separately for itself, does not in any
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 1: way interfere with the true self. And that is why
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 1: you must train all your bodies, mental, emotional and physical,
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  Speaker 1: to have an independent existence of their own, and yet
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  Speaker 1: to be cooperative, so that the mind can say to
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  Speaker 1: the emotions, you shall feel such and such a thing,
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  Speaker 1: and you shall go so far and no further, and
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  Speaker 1: the same demands the emotions can make of the body.
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  Speaker 1: So you are three different beings, and you have much
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 1: more fun. There is a much more adventurous spirit in
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 1: this knowledge. Instead of being one person, you are three
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  Speaker 1: separate beings, so that you have the point of view
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  Speaker 1: of three, the karma of three, the interests of three,
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  Speaker 1: the delights of three. You thus learn to become part
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 1: of the world, part of the whole system, instead of
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  Speaker 1: being one particular individual, so that you lose yourself, your
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 1: three selves in the innumerable millions of selves. They are
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  Speaker 1: all struggling along the same lines, though expressing themselves in
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 1: different ways. And if you can experience this delight, if
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  Speaker 1: you can train all these three beings, you will be
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  Speaker 1: free from many of the fetters of your karma. You
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  Speaker 1: will find that you are liberated, that you can wander
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  Speaker 1: away from all things, that you can enter and abide
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  Speaker 1: forever in that kingdom. It gives you a different understanding,
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 1: different delights, a different breath of life. You want to
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 1: taste the sorrows of experience. You want to imbibe, you
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  Speaker 1: want to learn, You want to observe. You want to
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  Speaker 1: do all things and yet be free from the fetters
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  Speaker 1: which they bring in their wake. You are an outside observer,
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 1: using discrimination, weighing, back, balancing, and judging. And if you
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  Speaker 1: are able to do that all day long and every second,
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 1: not with too much seriousness, not with a lack of humor,
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  Speaker 1: you will find that the gates of this abode are open,
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  Speaker 1: and that you can wander in and out, that you
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  Speaker 1: can sit down and worship where and when you like.
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  Speaker 1: And that is the only pleasure in life, the only
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  Speaker 1: delight that an intelligent man can possibly have. For after all,
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  Speaker 1: an intelligent man can never be satisfied for very long
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  Speaker 1: with the world. He must have something beyond. He must
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 1: have dreams, he must have visions, he must have great longings.
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 1: And though very few of us are really intelligent, though
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 1: very few of us have this sense of adventure, of
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 1: longing to discover something new, we can always create it.
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  Speaker 1: We can always break down the barriers and open the
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 1: shutters which keep away the light, which hide away the truth.
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 1: And then we can take a delight, a real pleasure,
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 1: in dreaming, in having great visions, because those dreams and
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 1: those visions are the truth. They are the realities. They
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 1: are the nourishment, and by that alone we can live.
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 1: By that alone we can survive. We must have dreams,
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 1: We must have visions, however practical, however direct, we may be.
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  Speaker 1: We must have this mysticism, this life hidden away from all.
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 1: We must have our own canvas on which we are
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 1: painting a picture that we are improving and altering through eternity,
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  Speaker 1: which always gives us the satisfaction of creating, of renewing,
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  Speaker 1: of doing what we really desire to do, and which
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  Speaker 1: guards us against that terrible thing, self satisfaction, that sense
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 1: of always remaining in the same circle, in the same fold.
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  Speaker 1: That is the only truth that any one of us
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  Speaker 1: need to possess. Once we have entered, once we have seen,
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  Speaker 1: once we have dreamed, we can always go back and
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  Speaker 1: live in our kingdom. End of chapter ten, Chapter eleven
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  Speaker 1: of The Kingdom of Happiness by Jidu Krishnamurti. This LibriVox
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  Speaker 1: recording is in the public domain. The enchanted Garden, I
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 1: wish I could make you enter the Kingdom of Happiness,
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  Speaker 1: live in that reality, breathe that air of immense purity,
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  Speaker 1: and make you enjoy yourself, delight yourself in that kingdom.
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  Speaker 1: I wish I can make you enter into my heart
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  Speaker 1: and my mind and make you see things as they are,
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  Speaker 1: make you feel the world as it is, and live
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  Speaker 1: with me in all those things which are really lasting
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  Speaker 1: and permanent. I do not want you, or ask you,
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  Speaker 1: or urge you, or in any way force you to
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  Speaker 1: wander into unknown fields, to delight in things which are
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 1: not known, which are not experienced, which are not remembered.
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  Speaker 1: It is because because you yourself know of this eternal abode,
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  Speaker 1: of this truth, of these realities. It is because you
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  Speaker 1: have yourself visited the kingdom, lived in it, reveled in it,
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  Speaker 1: delighted in it, that I want you to remain in
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  Speaker 1: that kingdom, that world which is real, to wander in it,
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 1: and then come back into this world, which is unreal,
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 1: which is transient, to live here constantly in the real.
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 1: Most of us go out into the true kingdom, the reality,
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  Speaker 1: as though it were something strange, as though we were
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  Speaker 1: entering into something unknown, whereas this world of sense is
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 1: the unknown, the passing, the trivial, the thing that does
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  Speaker 1: not matter in the least. If once you have entered,
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  Speaker 1: if once you have breathed that freshness, the quietness, the
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 1: tranquility of this kingdom. Then those things which are real,
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  Speaker 1: those things which are the breath of life, those things
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  Speaker 1: that matter, can never be forgotten. You can never doubt,
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  Speaker 1: you can never suffer again. It is only then you
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  Speaker 1: can know that you are not blindly following the footsteps
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  Speaker 1: of another. It is only then that you are following
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  Speaker 1: the absolute, the eternal. It is only then that you
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  Speaker 1: are one with him who has his being in all things.
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  Speaker 1: It is only then that you can persuade, can have
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  Speaker 1: the tongue of the learned, the heart of the wise
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  Speaker 1: and the compassionate. It is only then that you can
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 1: make people really know what it means to escape from sorrow,
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  Speaker 1: from all those trivial things by which they are harrowed
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 1: and ground down in their daily lives. That is why
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 1: you must find yourself. That is why you must listen
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 1: to that voice, why you must suffer and learn by
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 1: every little thing in daily life. For when you have
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 1: found yourself, you have found him, and he becomes part
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 1: of you, becomes one with you. He is where you are,
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 1: and not a separate entity, a separate being living in
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 1: solitary radiance. Where you are there he is, and where
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 1: I am there he is, and where any one has
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 1: lived and delighted in that kingdom, he is with him.
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  Speaker 1: Because you have found yourself, you have found the true self.
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  Speaker 1: And once you have found him, you can always return
• 1:54:24
  Speaker 1: to the source. You have then the key to all knowledge.
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 1: You have always the power to be part of the
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 1: eternal compassion, the eternal source of all things. I wish
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 1: I had the power to make you look at things,
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 1: feel things for yourself. Yesterday I was sitting on the
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  Speaker 1: avenue in front of this castle. You know how the
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 1: trees here grow, some short, some tall, and how together
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 1: they form a cave around about the trunks. And there
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  Speaker 1: I saw my glory, my happiness, everything that to me
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  Speaker 1: is real, the source, the life of all trees, of
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 1: all lives things. When once you can see him, live
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 1: in him, and have your being in him, you are
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 1: then eternally in that garden, and not an outsider looking
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  Speaker 1: at a few tree trunks, a few roses, a few flowers.
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  Speaker 1: There are two types of people, those who are in
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 1: this garden, where there is lusciousness, freshness, beauty, the tranquility,
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  Speaker 1: and the gentle murmur of a thousand voices, where the
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 1: whole air is alive with the sense of eternal beauty,
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 1: where there is the sense of power, the sense of peace,
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 1: and of astonishing strength and reality. The other type are
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  Speaker 1: those who are outside this garden, merely looking at the
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 1: tree tops, the few stray flowers, where there are hardly
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 1: any shadows, where there is thin foliage, and a few
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 1: dead branches of last season. Once you have entered this garden,
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  Speaker 1: you can give others the key and persuade them to
• 1:55:57
  Speaker 1: enter for themselves. You can make them realize that this garden,
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 1: this kingdom, has no barriers, though it may have a
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 1: superficial wall made by human thoughts and human feelings. Once
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  Speaker 1: you are inside it, you are no longer looking at
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  Speaker 1: the inside world from the outside, but are looking at
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  Speaker 1: the outside world from the truth, from the source of
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 1: all things, from the true Self. Once you have this key,
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 1: you can always go outside, look at the thin foliage,
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 1: see the dead branches, the remains of last season's withered flowers.
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 1: You can always then go outside and have experience, for
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 1: you have entered that garden and have found there the
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 1: true knowledge, the true happiness. That is why had I
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  Speaker 1: the power, I would drag you all in by force
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 1: or by any other means, because when once you have
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  Speaker 1: looked into the garden and caught but a fleeting vision,
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  Speaker 1: you will never be satisfied by the outside of effective things.
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  Speaker 1: You will always want to go back, always want to
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 1: have that vision enlarged, glorified, and extended. You will have
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 1: a thousand arrors haunting you if you are outside the
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 1: moment you enter this abode of the eternal, those terrors,
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 1: those things that do not matter, those doubts, those worries,
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 1: those passing sufferings will all vanish away, because then you
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 1: will be living in the hidden world where only a few,
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 1: only the real sufferers, the real seekers after knowledge, the
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 1: real believers, the real searchers live Into that world. You
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  Speaker 1: must go because that is the only world that is lasting,
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 1: because it is the only world where you can find truth.
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 1: In other worlds, you were bound to create sorrows, superstitions, dogmas,
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 1: and all the unrealities that each one of us creates.
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 1: In that world, you cease to exist as an individ
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 1: You are part of everything, part of the smallest leaf
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  Speaker 1: and of the tallest and greatest tree, because you are
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 1: part of him, and it is his garden, it is
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 1: his abode, it is his kingdom. It is where we
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 1: must all live. Where I live, We must be thrilled
• 1:58:17
  Speaker 1: by the same voice. You can see how much more inspiring, desirable,
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 1: and adventurous that world is in comparison with this world.
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 1: But to attain it you must train yourself. You must
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 1: have that voice so attuned, so purified, so incessant, that
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  Speaker 1: it urges you on and on till you enter this kingdom,
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  Speaker 1: this garden, this beauty spot of the world, of all
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 1: the worlds. Because it is my abode, because it is
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 1: my source. I would I could make you live with me.
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 1: I would I could share with each one of you
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 1: what I have found. When once you have tasted it
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 1: for yourself, as I have tasted it for my self,
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 1: you can never completely lose it, but will always find
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 1: it again. If you have not searched for it, struggled
• 1:59:07
  Speaker 1: to attain, you cannot know what it means, cannot know
• 1:59:10
  Speaker 1: the power of it, the stimulating ambitions, the ecstasy, the intoxication.
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 1: But it is not mere sentiment, mere emotion. But it
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 1: is the very truth. It is the very essence of
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 1: all things. And that is why it is so vital,
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 1: so real. That is why if you would do great
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 1: things if you would create greatly and live nobly, you
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 1: must enter that kingdom, live in that garden, enjoy the
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 1: shades of that garden, and the scent of many flowers,
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 1: and the murmurings of many bees. To live in that
• 1:59:44
  Speaker 1: garden means that you live greatly, you live nobly, to
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 1: the height of your perfection. And whatever is done greatly
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 1: and lasting must be done from that abode, must start
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 1: from that source, must have its origin in that kingdom.
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  Speaker 1: All trials, attempts, and deeds fail when they are not lasting,
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  Speaker 1: when they are transient and changeable. Whereas if everything that
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  Speaker 1: you do bears the seal of this kingdom, it will
• 2:00:13
  Speaker 1: be acceptable to all men, to all gods, to all
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 1: the kingdoms of nature, because this kingdom is the realm
• 2:00:22
  Speaker 1: of gods, the realm of ideals, the source of all feelings,
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  Speaker 1: of all actions. You must know for yourself why you
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 1: seek this garden, this abode, And once you know that,
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  Speaker 1: you need not struggle to cling to it. It will
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  Speaker 1: never leave you. You need not fear that it will
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  Speaker 1: escape you, that it will vanish away through your foolish actions,
• 2:00:45
  Speaker 1: small desires, and little worries, like a beautiful image or
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 1: a lovely vision. It always comes back in moments of
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 1: tranquility or of great uncertainty. You will always have this
• 2:00:58
  Speaker 1: as your background. You can always retire to that garden.
• 2:01:02
  Speaker 1: You can always escape from this unreal world. You must
• 2:01:06
  Speaker 1: find yourself. You must make this voice thunder out. You
• 2:01:10
  Speaker 1: must have a thousand tears, must have innumerable questionings until
• 2:01:15
  Speaker 1: you find that voice. Till then there must be no peace,
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 1: no tranquility, no contentment, no happiness. All other things are unreal.
• 2:01:26
  Speaker 1: This is the greatest of ideals, the essence of intelligence.
• 2:01:32
  Speaker 1: Have you ever seen how the pools and still waters
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 1: under perfectly clear skies reflect every little shadow, every bird
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 1: that passes by, and every cloud that is driven by
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 1: the gentle breeze. Suddenly a little insect comes by and
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 1: disturbs the stillness of the water, and that vision is gone.
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 1: That little insect on the surface of the water disturbs
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 1: the whole beauty of the world. And then it disappears,
• 2:01:59
  Speaker 1: and once more there is the tranquility, the calm, the
• 2:02:02
  Speaker 1: perfect purity of reflection. You must remove that little insect.
• 2:02:08
  Speaker 1: It must be ruthlessly slain. It is the separate self.
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 1: As long as you can reflect with the certainty, with
• 2:02:16
  Speaker 1: the knowledge that your reflection is as perfect as the
• 2:02:19
  Speaker 1: Kingdom itself. As long as you can be that reflection itself,
• 2:02:24
  Speaker 1: no little insect, no passing wind, can ruffle the still
• 2:02:28
  Speaker 1: waters of your life. You can only reflect the purity
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 1: of that kingdom. When you have found your true self,
• 2:02:35
  Speaker 1: when you live eternally in your kingdom, and have him
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 1: as your eternal companion, then you have in you that
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 1: absolute peace, the peace that gives enormous strength and power,
• 2:02:47
  Speaker 1: because you have found yourself, because you have lived with
• 2:02:51
  Speaker 1: those things that are permanent, that are eternal, that are
• 2:02:54
  Speaker 1: worth possessing. I wish I could stir you to actions,
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 1: so that you must create. You must dream, you must perceive,
• 2:03:03
  Speaker 1: you must live. But you must bestir yourself. You must
• 2:03:07
  Speaker 1: apply the whip yourself. And you can only feel the
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 1: sting of that whip when you hear that voice. That
• 2:03:14
  Speaker 1: voice is ever calling, ever insistent, And the greater the
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 1: thundering of the voice, the greater will be the nobility
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 1: of your actions. The greater will be your strength, and
• 2:03:25
  Speaker 1: the greater your desire to enter into that garden, that
• 2:03:29
  Speaker 1: kingdom of happiness. End of chapter eleven, Chapter twelve of
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  Speaker 1: the Kingdom of Happiness by Jidu Krishnamurti. This LibriVox recording
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  Speaker 1: is in the public domain, the eternal companion. As thunder
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 1: is born of power, threat and mystery, so is the
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 1: voice of truth in a strong man. As the voice
• 2:03:55
  Speaker 1: of thunder is thrown from mountain to mountain, and as
• 2:03:58
  Speaker 1: each mountain catches it and returns it to the other,
• 2:04:02
  Speaker 1: so is the voice of him, our ruler, our lawgiver,
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  Speaker 1: our guide and friend in the man who is following
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  Speaker 1: the absolute truth, the truth of his own creation. Like
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  Speaker 1: the mountain, so full of unified strength, so full of power,
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  Speaker 1: so full of dignity, of that sense of majesty, So
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  Speaker 1: is the man who has found himself, who has created
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  Speaker 1: his own ideal, who is striding towards his own goal.
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  Speaker 1: Such a man is worthy, such a man is acceptable.
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  Speaker 1: Such a man must be the leader of men. Must create,
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  Speaker 1: must renew and give strength to those who are weak,
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  Speaker 1: to those that are in the valley, to those that
• 2:04:41
  Speaker 1: are in the plains where the thunder is not so powerful,
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  Speaker 1: as in those mountains, where the strong man only can
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  Speaker 1: enjoy and really appreciate the sense of tremendous awe. But
• 2:04:53
  Speaker 1: a weak man, a man of the plains. To him
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  Speaker 1: the sense of beauty. The voice of thunder will not
• 2:04:59
  Speaker 1: convey the same meaning. The strong man must be the leader,
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  Speaker 1: must be the joyous one, because to him that voice,
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  Speaker 1: that beauty, that power, and that strength mean the end
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  Speaker 1: of the search and the beginning of a new life.
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  Speaker 1: Such a strong man must be as joyous as those
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  Speaker 1: tree tops, those delicate branches, those few leaves that are
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  Speaker 1: the playthings of the passing winds, those leaves that are
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  Speaker 1: the delight of the sun, and those leaves that dance
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  Speaker 1: in ecstasy, in that brilliancy because they are near heaven.
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  Speaker 1: There is in them no struggle, no fatigue, though full
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  Speaker 1: of vital power. Yet they are yielding and know not
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  Speaker 1: what it means to resist. They are unconscious of the
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  Speaker 1: roots that give them strength, that keep them alive, that
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 1: grow deep down into the earth, that struggle and grow continuously,
• 2:05:53
  Speaker 1: and that have great agonies because they have to nourish
• 2:05:56
  Speaker 1: such great heights. Such strength, such power to struggle, such
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  Speaker 1: power to give energy for creation, is the kingdom of happiness.
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  Speaker 1: If a man would find such strength and at the
• 2:06:08
  Speaker 1: same time such joyousness, such struggle, and at the same
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  Speaker 1: time such ecstasy in life such growth and at the
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  Speaker 1: same time the perfect form. Such a man will find
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  Speaker 1: that he has within him an eternal companion. Such a
• 2:06:24
  Speaker 1: man will find that wherever he is, wherever he lives,
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  Speaker 1: wherever he breathes, he is not alone. That loneliness does
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  Speaker 1: not know him, nor does any extreme, but that he
• 2:06:36
  Speaker 1: is walking joyously in that middle path that leads to
• 2:06:40
  Speaker 1: the Kingdom of heaven. Then he will find, as so
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  Speaker 1: many Indians who love Shri Krishna have found, that because
• 2:06:48
  Speaker 1: they wanted him to be their companion, because they had
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  Speaker 1: in their hearts an eternal longing to be with him,
• 2:06:54
  Speaker 1: he appeared to each one of them. He was their companion,
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  Speaker 1: their delight, their oblivion, And he appeared different according to
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  Speaker 1: the evolution of each, according to the evolution of the
• 2:07:04
  Speaker 1: mind and of the heart of each. He was what
• 2:07:07
  Speaker 1: they made him. He was what they wanted him to be,
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  Speaker 1: either the God or a simple friend, either the great
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 1: dancer or a lazy companion, either the great creator or
• 2:07:20
  Speaker 1: a feeble destroyer. His outward form depended on the minds
• 2:07:25
  Speaker 1: of those who longed, and on the hearts of those
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 1: who had suffered and found a new breath in life.
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  Speaker 1: Such must be the case with each one of us
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  Speaker 1: who are seeking him, the embodiment of the Kingdom of happiness.
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  Speaker 1: He appears to us as we want him to appear.
• 2:07:42
  Speaker 1: He is as we are, He is as we make
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  Speaker 1: him to be. That is the reason that so long
• 2:07:47
  Speaker 1: as there is this longing, this desire to be with him,
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  Speaker 1: this desire to know him, to exalt in him. So
• 2:07:54
  Speaker 1: long as there is this desire, it does not matter
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  Speaker 1: what our stage of evolution may be. This is the
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  Speaker 1: only vital truth in life, For he is the embodiment
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  Speaker 1: of all. And as long as we understand in our
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 1: heart the essence of this truth in its simplicity, we
• 2:08:12
  Speaker 1: are with him eternally. But first there must be that desire,
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 1: that tremendous longing, that intense burning, till we find that
• 2:08:22
  Speaker 1: garden where we can create our own image of Him
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 1: who is eternal. For some months past I have searched
• 2:08:29
  Speaker 1: for him in all things. I have always desired to
• 2:08:32
  Speaker 1: see things through him. My eyes must be his eyes,
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 1: and I must see all things, whether they be small
• 2:08:37
  Speaker 1: or big, whether they be dead or alive, through him.
• 2:08:42
  Speaker 1: That desire has been growing in intensity. That desire has
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 1: become my breath, and like so many ancient Indians, so
• 2:08:50
  Speaker 1: many mystics the world over who really longed for truth,
• 2:08:53
  Speaker 1: who really searched and suffered and found him. Like them,
• 2:08:58
  Speaker 1: I found him, and ever since then I have lived
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 1: in that garden of many roses, many scents, and being
• 2:09:05
  Speaker 1: in ecstasy, I breathed that scented air, the only air
• 2:09:09
  Speaker 1: that makes me grow, gives me power, gives me strength
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  Speaker 1: and vitality to my mind, my heart, to my very being.
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  Speaker 1: And possessing such strength I can only give and not withhold.
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  Speaker 1: A few days ago I went for a stroll, and
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  Speaker 1: while I walked, I walked with him, who is my
• 2:09:30
  Speaker 1: eternal companion. I walked awhile and I sat down under
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  Speaker 1: a tree, not thinking of anything but this one thing.
• 2:09:38
  Speaker 1: And I looked, and there he was in front of me, sitting.
• 2:09:42
  Speaker 1: And then I saw how nature worships him. The trees
• 2:09:46
  Speaker 1: and the little blades of grass, and the wind that
• 2:09:49
  Speaker 1: blew all were worshiping him. And as I looked, and
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 1: as my soul gathered in strength and ecstasy, and as
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 1: my body thrilled, forever I was away where I was
• 2:10:01
  Speaker 1: like him, there was no difference. I was part of him.
• 2:10:05
  Speaker 1: I cannot distinguish a different entity. I could not disassociate
• 2:10:09
  Speaker 1: myself from the eternal, And as I breed the same
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 1: air as he, I understood and know what it means
• 2:10:16
  Speaker 1: to live in that Kingdom of happiness, to live in
• 2:10:18
  Speaker 1: play under the shadows in that garden. I knew what
• 2:10:22
  Speaker 1: it means to look at the flowers and at the
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 1: other travelers on the road. Everything became part of him,
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 1: because all those who seek, all those who suffer, all
• 2:10:31
  Speaker 1: those who are happy, are eternally His, and being in him,
• 2:10:37
  Speaker 1: I understood. And that is why all of us who
• 2:10:40
  Speaker 1: have that tremendous sense of longing after truth, must realize
• 2:10:44
  Speaker 1: that without him, the embodiment of truth, we do not understand.
• 2:10:49
  Speaker 1: Without him, we do not conquer the self. And we
• 2:10:52
  Speaker 1: must have Him in the center of our being, for
• 2:10:55
  Speaker 1: then we can go away from the center, like the
• 2:10:57
  Speaker 1: sparks that rush forth from the flame. While I was
• 2:11:01
  Speaker 1: in that state, nothing extraordinary, nothing abnormal or supernatural. While
• 2:11:07
  Speaker 1: I was in that supreme ecstasy, I found that there
• 2:11:10
  Speaker 1: were no hidden barriers between myself and the Kingdom of Happiness.
• 2:11:15
  Speaker 1: I had removed all the veils that hide the Holy
• 2:11:18
  Speaker 1: of holies. I had entered that garden and had torn
• 2:11:21
  Speaker 1: aside the veils that hide and distort and cover up
• 2:11:25
  Speaker 1: that image, that perfection. And if you would follow, realizing
• 2:11:29
  Speaker 1: that following does not mean blindness, then let us walk
• 2:11:33
  Speaker 1: together and be companions. Together. I will show you that
• 2:11:37
  Speaker 1: fair vision of that enchanted garden, that kingdom of happiness
• 2:11:41
  Speaker 1: that abode where there is eternity, that temple where there
• 2:11:44
  Speaker 1: is the Holy of holies. But you must have the
• 2:11:48
  Speaker 1: eyes to see. You must have the mind well cultivated, refined,
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 1: and capable of great judgment. Your heart must be full
• 2:11:55
  Speaker 1: of that vast love, that impersonal love, that love which
• 2:11:59
  Speaker 1: knows no no barriers, no distinctions, no prejudices. And you
• 2:12:03
  Speaker 1: must have the strength to work to step high or
• 2:12:07
  Speaker 1: step low, either to climb the tremendous heights or to
• 2:12:10
  Speaker 1: walk in the hot plains. And you must have a
• 2:12:13
  Speaker 1: soul prepared for temptation. You must have many terrors, you
• 2:12:19
  Speaker 1: must have no contentment, and above all, you must have
• 2:12:23
  Speaker 1: that greatness which comes a vast experience to appreciate the
• 2:12:27
  Speaker 1: beauty of life in that garden. And if you will
• 2:12:30
  Speaker 1: follow me to that garden, if you will search for
• 2:12:33
  Speaker 1: the truth in that garden, you will find the simple truth. There.
• 2:12:38
  Speaker 1: You will find the purest, the sweetest, the noblest nectar
• 2:12:42
  Speaker 1: of the gods. This is the only truth, the only
• 2:12:46
  Speaker 1: altar at which you must worship, and that is the
• 2:12:49
  Speaker 1: conclusion of the whole matter. The simplest truth can only
• 2:12:53
  Speaker 1: be attained through vast experience, can only come through ecstasy
• 2:12:57
  Speaker 1: of love, through immense devotion, and you will find in
• 2:13:01
  Speaker 1: it the only refuge where you can shelter from all
• 2:13:04
  Speaker 1: rains and hot days, from all struggles, sorrows, and pain.
• 2:13:09
  Speaker 1: And once you have found it, there is no question
• 2:13:11
  Speaker 1: of doubting or even hesitating, because you are then the master.
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  Speaker 1: You are then the ideal of thousands, the helper of many,
• 2:13:19
  Speaker 1: and you are then the sign post of those that
• 2:13:22
  Speaker 1: grope for those that do not see, that are still
• 2:13:25
  Speaker 1: struggling in the darkness. And once we can walk together
• 2:13:29
  Speaker 1: on that path of eternal peace that leads to the
• 2:13:32
  Speaker 1: Kingdom of happiness, then there is no question of separation,
• 2:13:36
  Speaker 1: no question of loneliness, no doubt of attainment, that attainment
• 2:13:41
  Speaker 1: which is perfection, which is enlightenment, Because then you are
• 2:13:45
  Speaker 1: the embodiment of all those things which each one of
• 2:13:48
  Speaker 1: you seeks. And when you walk on that road and
• 2:13:52
  Speaker 1: sport yourselves in that eternal garden, when you can shelter
• 2:13:55
  Speaker 1: yourself in the shades away from the sun. Then we
• 2:13:59
  Speaker 1: are all friends. Then we are all eternal companions. Then
• 2:14:03
  Speaker 1: we are all creating in the image of Him who
• 2:14:06
  Speaker 1: is the holy of holies. And when once you have
• 2:14:10
  Speaker 1: drunk this nectar, this elixir of life, it keeps you
• 2:14:13
  Speaker 1: eternally young. Though you may have had vast experiences, though
• 2:14:19
  Speaker 1: you may have shed many tears, have suffered greatly, there
• 2:14:23
  Speaker 1: is inside you this bubbling spring well that keeps you
• 2:14:27
  Speaker 1: eternally full, eternally young and joyous, like the dancing star
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  Speaker 1: in a dark night, because you know all and the self,
• 2:14:37
  Speaker 1: which is the destroyer of truth, the perverter of truth,
• 2:14:41
  Speaker 1: is annihilated. And so you must all, if you would
• 2:14:45
  Speaker 1: follow me, you must all walk to that gate, that
• 2:14:48
  Speaker 1: gait that keeps you away from that eternal garden. And
• 2:14:51
  Speaker 1: there you will find the many keys, and each one
• 2:14:54
  Speaker 1: of you can take a key and enter. But you
• 2:14:56
  Speaker 1: must have that immense delight, that immense pleasure. But before
• 2:15:00
  Speaker 1: you can enter that kingdom of happiness, and then you
• 2:15:03
  Speaker 1: will realize that you are the master, and that the
• 2:15:06
  Speaker 1: weal of birth and death has ceased. There you will
• 2:15:11
  Speaker 1: find the eternal refuge, the eternal truth, and there you
• 2:15:15
  Speaker 1: will lose the identity of your separate self. And there
• 2:15:19
  Speaker 1: you will create new worlds, new kingdoms, new abodes for others.
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  Speaker 1: End of Chapter twelve read by Scottie Smith. End of
• 2:15:32
  Speaker 1: the Kingdom of Happiness by Jidu Krishnamurti