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REALIZE WHAT YOU ARE:
and then theywent completely crazy. They all began taking off their clothes and walking about naked in the streets.
After one or two days the king decided to make an appearance before the people and tell them not to worry, that a solution would soon be found to their problems. And so he set the time and appeared on the balcony with his minister. But when the people saw him, they all began to shout at him. They talked among themselves and decided that the king must be crazy because he was still wearing his clothes. Then they decided that they should lock both the king and his minister away in a safe place until they regained their sanity and were again able to govern intelligently. When the king heard this he knew what he had to do. Both he and his minister quickly removed their clothes and threw them away. The people all began to cheer and applaud, and they settled down to listen to the speech of their king.
The same thing has happened to you. You have been conditioned for manyyears to think that you are weak and worthless inside. Instead of seeing joy in life through your own eyes, you have accepted the negative vision of others.
If your mind believes that you are worthless, then no one else can convince you that you are priceless. Now we have all taken a step toward meditation to understand what we really are, to leave these old concepts of guilt and sin behind. Once we get a glimpse of our real Self, then our lives will be changed and we can free ourselves from the conditioning of others. We will see that life is worth living.
With the help of meditation, we learn and grow from each experience in life, from happy incidents and painful events, from richness and poverty, from gaining a place in
