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away, farther and farther away, seeing it as separate, seeing it as a scene and yourself as the seer, and becoming more and more alert about the seer, and less and less alert about the scene.
Slowly slowly the emphasis shifts and your consciousness is freed from the seen and becomes available to the seer. That moment is the moment of victory, and that moment is also the moment of the entry of God in you. Peace and God come together You prepare for peace and God comes as a gift.
Just Around the Corner
Chapter #3
Chapter title: None
3 May 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7905035
ShortTitle: CORNER03
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Prem means love, Laurel is a symbol of two things; one is victory, the other is immortality. Love brings both: it brings victory, it brings immortality. Love is the only experience in which defeat is impossible because the very first requirement of being in love is to be surrendered. If a person is surrendered how can he be defeated? He has accepted defeat himself -- how can you defeat him? And that is love's secret of victory: it cannot be defeated.
And love is also the only experience in life which gives you some glimpse of immortality, of deathlessness -- only glimpses, but those glimpses are of tremendous importance. The whole of life will be changed through them.
It is through love that you feel that you are not just the body but something more. It is through love that you become aware of your spirit. It is through love that you become aware that time can be transcended, and time transcended is death conquered.
Prem means love, Sergio means to serve. Service can be without love; it can be just a duty, one has to fulfill it. One's heart is not in it; it is not one's joy. Maybe there is some motivation of some rewards later on, in this life or in the other, but the act of service in itself is joyless unless it arises out of love. Service should not be done according to religious commandments. It should not be made a virtue. It should be a consequence of a loving person, a natural fragrance of love; no effort should be made for
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