West LA Weekly Satsang July 19 2017

Reality is one.

"Knowing the truth is not knowing about some truths separate from your Self. Knowing the
truth is knowing that your Self is one with the very Source of your being.

MICHAEL: You can't find the truth because You ARE the Truth.

Always remember, the quieter the Self-truth-knowing the more powerful and the deeper is the
knowing. Self-truth-knowing is the love felt as the knowing and expressed as the result of the
knowing.

In its purest form, Self-truth-knowing is not something you know about your Self; self-truth-
knowing is the knowing that you are the Self. Thus viewed, you do not really think about or really
know the truth, you are yourself the truth. Correctly viewed, you—your Self-- are the God-
power, Itself, in action. You are the Self-truth knowing—and the Self-truth-knowing is you!”

-W. Norman Cooper

Human love and spiritual love are but different views of the one Love.

-W. Norman Cooper

You insist on eating fresh food, yet you are perfectly happy "chewing" on stale thoughts!

-Michael Jeffreys

How can silence be explained in words?

-Ramana Maharshi

Q: Is there one thought that is "higher" than all others?

MICHAEL: Yes. The one that is on only God.

 West LA Weekly Satsang July 19 2017 pg 2

Instead of thinking and doing, listen and feel. -Michael Jeffreys

Brahman as pure Existence

"What we normally do is we think that 'things' exist.

So the glass exists, the paper exists (holds up sheet of paper), this body exists (gestures to
his body)... there are 'things' (gestures around him) which exist.

What Advaita Vedanta does is reverse this.

Instead of saying that 'things' exist, they say that, why not look at it this way:

There is an ocean of existence all around us. And all that we consider existing things are
waves in that ocean.

Look at this entire universe of your experience as an ocean of existence. Not theoretical, not
abstract, not philosophical, actually. Just see. We are experiencing existence all the time.

Think of it not as 'things' having existence, but existence appearing as things.

Think of the ocean not as waves with water in them, but with water appearing as waves."

-Swami Sarvapriyananda (from his youtube video, INFINITE EXISTENCE)

Language functions in a dualistic world. -Swami Sarvapriyananda

Reality has no opposite, no parts, no separation, no beginning and no end, and thus cannot be
defined. Since the human mind's world is that of definitions, what you and I are, Reality itself, can
never be defined. Yet, paradoxically, it's all that ever truly IS. -Michael Jeffreys