Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

compassion and humility. For if this is the end result of
awakening, if you do this first, the awakening will
come faster.
Even while I am talking to you, some of you are
thinking about your body, you are thinking about the
mind, you are thinking about your work. This is what
keeps you back.
Destroy the thoughts through self-inquiry. Become
free. Do not fight. Do not fear. Observe, watch, look,
but have no opinions for or against. Some people think
if they act this way they will not be able to function in
the world. You will function. Always remember, there
is an appearance of the body, and the body came here
to do certain things, and it is going to do those things.
It has absolutely nothing to do with you.
Many times when I talk to you I have to keep from
laughing, (laughter) explaining all these things, talking
about all these things, when you are already free, and
you already know these things. Sometimes we are
pulled into the illusion; for there is really no thing.
When I talk of God we are speaking of nothingness.
God is nothing. And that nothing is you. We get more
deeply involved when we constantly study, when we
constantly read about so many spiritual topics, we get
more deeply involved in maya which prevents us from
waking up.