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Today, I want to share with
you a story from the Upanishads. Now,

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before I get started, I want
to give you fair warning. In

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this particular one, it uses the
word God, and particularly uses the word

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God in the masculine form. I
don't want you to get too caught up

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in those words. You can replace
the word God with universal energy or life

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force, or whatever you prefer to
call God. Whether it's masculine or feminine,

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it doesn't matter. In fact,
in my belief system is kind of

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one and the same, So you
can interchange anytime you hear me say him

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or he, change it to she
or her if it makes you feel better.

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But listen to the words the message
that's trying to get across, because

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when I first read it, it
took me a minute, but when it

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hit me, it literally almost brought
me to tears because it just makes so

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much sense. It's something that I
keep forgetting. So here's how it goes.

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What is the cause of the cosmos? From where do we come?

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Where should we find peace? At
last? Where power governs a duality of

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pleasure and pain by which we are
driven time, nature, necessity, accident

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elements, energy, intelligence. None
of these can be the first because they

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are effects whose only purpose is to
help the self rise above pleasure and pain.

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In the depth of meditation, sages
saw within themselves. The Lord of

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Love dwells in the heart of every
creature, deep in the heart of all,

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He dwells hidden behind the Law's energy
in inertia. He is one.

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He it is who rules over time, space, and causality. The world

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is the wheel of God, turning
around and around, with all living creatures

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upon its rim. The world is
the river of God, flowing from him

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and flowing back to Him. On
this ever revolving wheel of life. The

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individual self goes round and round through
life after life, believing itself to be

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a separate creature, until it sees
its identity within the Lord of Love and

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attains immortality in the indie visible whole. He is the eternal reality and the

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ground of existence. Those who perceive
him in every creature merge in him and

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are released from the weal of birth
and death. The Lord of Love holds

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in his hand the world, composed
of the changing in, the changeless,

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the manifest, and the unmanifest,
and separate self, not yet aware of

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the Lord, goes after pleasure only
to become bound more and more. When

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it sees a lord, there comes
an end to its bondage. Conscious spirit

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and unconscious matter both have existed since
the dawn of time, with Maya appearing

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to connect them, misrepresenting joy is
outside of us. When all these three

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are seen as one, the Self
reveals his universal form and serves as an

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instrument of the divine will. All
this change in the world are the senses,

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But changeless is the supreme Lord of
Love. Meditate on him, be

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absorbed in it him. Wake up
from this dream of separateness. No God

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in all illusions will fall away,
no longer identifying yourself with the body.

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Go beyond birth and death. All
your desires will be fulfilled in Him who

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is one without second. Know him
to be enshrined in your heart always.

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Truly, there's nothing more in life
to know. Meditate and realize that this

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world is filled with the presence of
God. So in essence, what I'm

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getting from that is that we have
forgotten that we are just part of God.

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And that's where we are stuck in
this wheel of birth and death,

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birth and death and birth and death. And the minute that we become cognizant

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of the fact that we are one
with God. When we wake up to

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the realization of who we truly are, well, maybe that's when we stop

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having to keep coming back and learning
lessons again and again the wheel of reincarnation.

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Maybe we're just doing that until we
realize who we are, at which

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point then we get to stop and
be happy with who we are. And

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that is to say the all.
I don't know that just rings in me,

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touches me, makes me feel something. Do you feel the same?

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these things don't resonate with you,
we'd love to hear your take on it.

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Why or why not? Because all
we know is how it makes us

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feel, and we're really curious because
we know that our realities are different.

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