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Now we’re up to the 70th. It is written here that, “Illusions deceive. Colors circumscribe. Even divisibles are indivisible.” […] What the Master meant here is that it doesn’t matter what we see with our eyes, whether it is physical or invisible. They’re all illusions. And even these illusions are also illusions, because there is no such thing in the Universe as visible and invisible, divisible and indivisible. These theories, these illusions belong to the dual world of maya. […]
Now, we go to number 71. Now, He tells you how to deal with desires. Ah, desires we all have, and we have plenty, even spare [desires]. We can spare some to give to someone else. Should he sit next door, we can infest him or her with some of our surplus desires. So now, how to deal with it? I told you many thousand ways already, but He has one more extra here: “When some desire comes, consider it.” Consider it even. Don’t even run away from it. […] Consider what it is: “Alright, I know, you’re coming. You want me to go and find a girl, alright. OK. Now, stop!” That’s it. Just tell the mind to stop all this nonsense. We don’t want to listen to him. And then sometimes he will feel very shy, embarrassed, and then he’ll quit, he’ll stop. He feels it’s so nonsensical, whatever he wants. Because today you give him this, tomorrow he wants another thing, and tomorrow you give him another thing, then he wants another thing. It never stops. So just tell him, “Stop today.” […]
