yourself. If you know yourself, it will take care of the person. For your Self is that person. The greater you know yourself, the greater help the person will receive. For it is only One, and you are That. But when you separate yourself by saying this person is doing this and I’m trying to stop this person, there is duality. And things will get progressively worse. But if you know who you are, then what will happen to this person is what is supposed to happen. I know that’s hard. Sometimes you want to grab the person and shake them, and you want to interfere and do something for them. Yet if we could only remember that everything is in its right place and see who we are, that would take care of everything.
We’ve never done things like this before. We’ve always taken action. And sometimes the action seems to work. For we’ve halted a certain situation that appears to be terrible, going in terrible directions, and we’ve put a stop to it. This is only temporary. Whatever the person has to go through, they will go through, one way or the other. The only relief is to awaken. Consequently, when you awaken, you will see things differently. And this is how you help the person.
Robert, what causes a person to display self-righteous anger to defend another person or a cause? Can you explain?
It’s all ego. What else? Only the ego is self-righteous. Only the ego goes for causes. But if you understand what I was talking about today, if you understand slightly how this universe works, you will see that going for causes is not the solution. It appears to be a solution, but it is a temporary solution. Go back in retrospect and see how many justifiable causes there have been in this world since the beginning of time. There have always been causes, righteous causes. Causes
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for peace anu justice. Has the world become any better? Take a look at this world. And yet, the people who are fighting for these causes are necessary. This is their dharma, to do what they’re doing, I suppose.
But for the people who come to meetings like this, you have been in this type of teaching for many incarnations. This is why you are able to comprehend something of what I’m talking to you about. The average person on the street has no interest in anything like this. The average activist has nothing to do with things like this. They would have no interest. But you are here. Therefore there is something in your Heart that wants to unfold and become Self-realized and become free.
If I think it enables me to sit in Silence before going to work in the morning, should I actively seek to be transferred closer to home? Or, should I just work on “Who am I?” and trust that right action will take place and my job will be where it’s supposed to be, and I should just meekly go where I’m told.
We don’t want to be meek, and we don’t want to be self- righteous. We want tobe the Self, period. Therefore, if you can slow down your mind by allowing it to rest in the Self to an extent, by removing thoughts, feelings, attitudes, and going to a higher plateau by inquiring, “Who am I? To whom do these things come?” then you’ll be safe.
But if you see that you cannot do this yet, if you’re afraid you’ll get fired from your job, you won’t have any money, or go to the poorhouse, you’ll becomea homeless person, then by all means you have to do what you have to do. So you have two choices. Either discover who you are, what your true natureis, by understanding that there is a Power that takes care of you, the Power that knows the way, that will always love you and
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