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We must become one

We explore the nature of sleep, dreams, and the sense of self. In sleep, we seem to be nothing, yet impulses like hunger or the need to urinate arise. We also speak and think while sleeping. In dreams, the "I" travels to distant places and experiences events, like dying, only to awaken and find it was not real. There is a separation: the body sleeps here, but the self is elsewhere. A story is told of one who went into the forest, fasted, and saw a dog with bread. He reached for it, but found nothing. He then had a realization, opened his eyes, and saw all was well. The instruction is to make yourself. When with others and speaking, if it is not good, go and sleep elsewhere. The core problem is we cannot remove this sense of self. We must become one. Do bhajan and use the mālā. That practice continues within your body, and we all come into one.

"Night and day, what do we want? Only at night, in sleeping, this and that."

"Make thyself, make yourself."

Filming location: Jadan, Rajasthan, India

Do you know, we are always telling you—telling the English, the Indians, and others—that if you observe at any time... Of course, we go to sleep, we get up, we take care of our bodies. Then we see what we do, what we are doing, what we can do, like eating something. So this impulse also goes out for eating. It comes in the brain very much. It comes very quickly from there to this part. And then this also arises: "I am hungry, I am thirsty," and so on. Night and day, what do we want? Only at night, in sleeping, this and that. Also, we are sleeping very deeply, and in the middle of the night, while we are sleeping, something tells someone in our body, "I should go to urinate." So first is that I am very good, we have no problems, no pain, etc. And then we can say, "I sleep very peacefully, very nicely." When we do like this, though we are sleeping very well, there is something. So, either we are thinking and we are speaking in the sleeping. Now, that is very good. No one can do it for you. This we do ourselves. And what is that? "I was sleeping." And when I was sleeping, and when there is sleep, and sleep is there, then I am nothing. And that comes to, in my, I am myself. But my, this self, if you think that myself, then still, you are not asleep. No sleep. You think that, "Oh, I will put..." Nice, and this and that, that this is not right. It is nothing, but when you come very deep, sometimes then it is, "I am sleeping," or "I’m in the bodies," or something here. Then I go out from our body, we go out, and there is a two. One is that, "I am not here, I am..." Somewhere else, maybe in Africa, you are in Canada, you are in Australia, in New Zealand, etc. I’m sleeping here, but I’m in Australia. So how has it gone there? And someone is sleeping with us here or there, so what do they do? They are sleeping very nicely there. It is very nice, but you are not here. How long? Australia, New Zealand, Canadians are here immediately. We are somewhere, maybe that’s very nice. You have some friend, your father, my mother, my cow, or other thing, anything, or something which is not good. You are out from me, and there I am not good. I am very nothing. I am very anyone. I can do. I have no one. I think I will die, or I am gone die. And then, in this, I am dying there. And then you open your eyes: I was not dying. I... I am here, or someone dies, and to whom does it come first? Your mother or your father, your brothers, my friends, etc. We can bring this ourselves. So there was something. It is said that he was something like God or something very, and then... They were fasting, fighting, fighting so, fighting this and this and that. So this person was like, "All else, for all, all is for him." But what happens? They all were dying. And this great one, maybe... what? What is? Who is that? He’s gone at night. He went into the forest and sat on one big tree in the tree the whole night. I go somewhere and see all, and again somewhere in the forest on this side. He could not eat anything now. Two, three days, four days, and then he was really very angry of eating and water. And then when he went there, it comes one dog, and he’s looking in that, and dog comes, and he got very nice some roti in that side. She went there over. The water, so, what was he staying there and that looking? And he sees himself, and he has it in his mouth, and he said, "Oh, I will take one more." So he said, so the mouth went out, and where is there nothing? Like that, he was very out there, and he came here, "What can I do? What will I do?" And then suddenly, something happened. He opened, he died, he was... he’s okay. All are good with us, all my friends, and by everything, my "I" is. And so, how did myself only in thinking, in sleeping? And beside, somebody, your person, family, or someone is sleeping here, and they don’t understand anything, and he is also. Like this, but it is gone far, and then how we say it? Open our soul: "Oh, I am here, everything is very good." So, in this way, in our body, yours, mine, all, but who? How is it going? Speaking, what is this? So, all giving us anything, yes, it’s good, it’s okay, very good or bad or this, but it is only from the speaking, that’s only, or thinking—thinking and speaking. And in that, what can I do then? Bābājī, Mahāprabhujī, Bhagavān. One day, he told me, "Do you get sleep?" He said, "Yes, Bābājī, so what should I do?" Why should I do this? I said I will go and sleep. He was sleeping. I asked him where he was sleeping. Sometimes it happens that a dog comes, and the dog doesn’t come. So Bābājī said, Mahātmā Nanājī Bābājī said, "Take this garland and say the garland." While doing the garland, you will fall asleep. And Bābājī used to do this while sleeping. So it means that I want to have this day and night. I will be in that world. Then it is my thought that I will go to God on that. So in this, think yourself, we will tell you we will do this and that and there, but it is nothing. Here we said, "Okay and okay," but it is not okay. We tell, "Please and good," and this we are giving. But still, not that. Make thyself, make yourself. And in that, when you are with someone, near somebody, and speaking, and this, and that, this is not a good man, a dry body. You can go. Don’t, please don’t be here. Go sleep a little at the other point, like this. Is something a problem? And this problem is we cannot take off. So, everyone, each of us, you know about my—you are my brothers and sisters. You are my, and I think you, that you, you think me also is my, not very much, but something. So, from the country from where I have come, how long? But I attack you, or I go to Harry Flint, and from there I come. He comes here. Swāmījī is here, or I am. When I come, I said, "Oh, I am here with you. How happy I am! This is I am." How we will do? And so that is. The one, only one, I want. What is that? What could I want? What did I say? What you told? You don’t want? Follow śānti, peace. Will cool. So it is like this. For example, we make like this, and now it is light, completely light. Or when this goes, this then dark. And it is already in that, so that is that. Us? Today you will sleep, you will think about yesterday, you will think tomorrow, and with your friend there. And we have to become one, one in my end. So he is good, he is good... He all, you will be like just like this. Then we will have like a light or whatever, so we know we try. But of course, someone has what one is. Others, it is like this, and that’s why. We make the bhajan, bhajan we say, bhajan. So bhajan is one, and another is also they say, they do good, they say good. But now, once we do mālā, and mālā is inside, and in this say bhajan, so that whether it is there or not, but in your body like this. And that keeps going, and we all come in one. One in what? All.

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The text contains hyperlinks in bold to three authoritative books on yoga, written by humans, to clarify the context of the lecture:

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