Your expectation of something unique and dramatic, of some wonderful explosion, is merely

hindering and delaying your Self Realization. You are not to expect an explosion, for the
explosion has already happened - at the moment when you were born, when you realized
yourself as Being-Knowing-Feeling. There is only one mistake you are making: you take the
inner for the outer and the outer for the inner. What is in you, you take to be outside you and
what is outside, you take to be in you. The mind and feelings are external, but you take them to
be intimate. You believe the world to be objective, while it is entirely a projection of your
psyche. That is the basic confusion and no new explosion will set it right! You have to think
yourself out of it. There is no other way.

Nisargadatta Maharaj 🙏

John Wassenberg
2 hrs
From ~~~ Robert Adams Satsangs.

TOTALLY FREE, October 27th, 1991

Q: (Robert reads) Is it true that a vegetarian diet is more conducive

to making progress on the spiritual path?

A: This is a contradiction. Automatically if you're practicing

sadhana in the right way you will turn to vegetarianism. You will begin to

see that the eating of dead flesh is unnecessary. It will come by itself. You

will not be interested in killing cows or chickens or pigs or having them

killed for you by the butchers. This makes you are finer human being. It

makes you pure to an extent.

There are those people in zen teachings, in various yoga teachings

that do eat meat. Like the Tibetan monks or people in Tibet. Where the

weather is very very cold. Eskimos they have to eat blubber because the

temperature is very low and the weather is very cold so they have to eat

this to survive. Yet those people have never experienced the highest
truth. They have never become the Self.

There is really no self-realized being that eats meat. I mean a truly

self-realized being. There are many spiritual beings who practice high

forms of sadhana who eat meat. But a totally realized being avoids

meat. Their meals are very simple. They eat to survive. And the food

supply that they need is very little. Unless they're doing something to help someone or to show
someone something.

So the answer is again a truly self-realized being avoids meat, they

don't even think about it. They do not gravitate to those things. But

spiritual aspirants, even those who are high on the path may eat meat.

So I suggest you try to stay away from meat if you can.

When the old tendencies flare up again,

do not lose heart. Do not say,
‘When will this ever end? Will I ever be free?’
Take courage. Take the attitude:
‘This is an opportunity.
Thank you for yet another chance
to flush out whatever remains.
I stand firm in you, O Self Supreme.’

~ Mooji

Ketika kecenderungan lama menyala lagi,

jangan berkecil hati. Jangan bilang,
‘Kapan ini akan berakhir? Apakah saya akan bebas? "
Meneguhkan hati. Ambil sikap:
‘Ini adalah kesempatan.
Terima kasih atas kesempatan lain
untuk menyiram apa pun yang tersisa.
Saya berdiri teguh di dalam diri Anda, O Self Supreme. '

Anda tidak boleh berpandangan bahwa Anda hanya dapat belajar sesuatu dari orang yang memuji dan
menolong Anda, dan berhubungan sangat dekat dengan Anda. Ada banyak hal yang juga dapat Anda
pelajari dari musuh Anda.

ㅡ Ven. K. Sri Dhammananda ㅡ