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REALIZE WHAT YOU ARE:
else. If you compare, you will bring misery and pain to yourself. You are not like anybody else. Your vibrations are with you. If you seek yourself and go within yourself, then you will find you and experience your real nature.
For that we must practice the teaching inside. That requires peace, tranquillity, calmness. That is why you select some calm spot for meditation. Your inside movement will slowly settle down. When you take hot water and put tea in it, the tea settles as it brings color to the water. In the same way, the truth must settle. There is no need to be in a hurry to go to the world and make everybody spiritual. That is a kind of mania. You must practice first. How can you help anyone unless you grow and feel a change and then reveal it through your life? The life of the Master, the life of the teacher, becomes a direct experience. It is beyond words. You see the light, and you follow the message.
In meditation, these teachings go inside and permeate your consciousness; the consciousness which was covered and filled with worry, anxiety, hang-ups and problems from the past is freed. When you become calm, you take the teaching deeper and deeper. Then a process of churning takes place. That is introspection.
In introspection you watch yourself. Let your past come before you, and go on discarding it. You remain in the present. If the past wants to come, let it come and go before your eyes. It is erasing from the tape. When everything is erased, your tape is clean. You have to erase from your consciousness all those past blocks which are disturbing your dreams and your thoughts, causing your anxiety.
