BEAUTY OF THE EGOLESS BEING
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Know and enjoy
When our brahmacharis take photographs and bring them to me, I will sit there for two to three hours and enjoy the photographs. People ask me, 'What is this Swamiji? You are enjoying your own photographs!' I tell them: because I don't take my body for granted, I don't think it is me. If you think it is you, you can't enjoy. You will have guilt. I don't think this body is me. Just like you all look at it objectively, I also sit and look at this objectively. When you are completely relaxed, the whole thing will be joyful.
In the same way, even the discourses, people ask me before the start of the session, 'What are you going to speak about Swamiji?' I tell them: who knows? I am also going to listen, come let us listen together! That is all the truth is. Understand: I am also sitting and listening, like you all. That is why I am enjoying, I am not tired.
I am just enjoying, day in and day out, in the last four years of my public life, 4700 hours I have spoken. Average - 1000 hours per year. I am speaking because I am also enjoying. I am also sitting and listening! Only a person who does not have ego that the body or the mind or the name is his, can enjoy that. If you think it is yours, you can't enjoy. Anything you think is yours, you have lost the freedom to enjoy.
Paramahamsa
Transcend the Mind - Shiva Sutras
20 Apr 2007, Ohio, USA
