Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

course, you may do this by inquiring, "To whom does
the body come? Who has this body?" and remain in the
silence.
Many of us here this evening are making
tremendous progress. I have been talking to many of
you who are really getting there. Of course, I use all
these terms loosely.
There is nowhere to get. But I have to talk to you
this way to remind you to leave yourself alone. I know
some of you may be in pain sometimes, and you say,
"Well I want to live a life free of pain; therefore I have
to do things to myself so I do not feel that pain." This
is really a mistake. If you could only realize who has
the pain. To whom does the pain come? I have the
pain. Then who am I? If I have the pain, it means that
the person who is thinking these things does not have
the pain, for it is ‘I’ that has the pain. You are free of
pain, for you are not the ‘I-thought’. Remember the ‘I’
we are talking about now is the ‘I-thought’; it is the ‘I-
thought’ that has the pain and the experience of being
born, the experience of dying, and the experience of
having problems. This is the ‘I-thought’ that has these
things. Not you.
You have to vehemently make up your mind that
the only thing that matters to you is to become free,
liberated, and let go of all the other things that keep
you bound. This is why you have to work with love,