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e kept laug;
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quot; ;alking about, o himself.
You art experimenting h minor kinds of miseries.
You encounter t every day -- not only miseries, you is more difficult to be ao be in misery.
It is not so difficult to experience t your are te t it is more difficult to experience t, quot;te and te from me too -- I am not even t.
quot; It is difficult to maintain tance o it.
to feel separate, a.
S become certain t te from us, it to stay t .
You on o remain aware in misery as well as in happiness.
One en brings misery upon o experience it.
t of all asceticism: it is an experiment to undergo voluntary pain.
For example, a man is on a fast.
By remaining rying to find out hunger has on his consciousness.
Ordinarily, a person est notion of w o day.
tal purpose of fasting is to experience t, quot; it is far away from me.
t.
quot; So by inducing arily, one is trying to knohere.
Ram is hungry.
I knoinuous knoil I reac he hunger -- where I no longer remain hungry -- even in hunger I no longer remain hungry.
Only tays .
I simply remain a knower.
ting becomes very profound; t does not mean merely remaining hungry.
Normally, one ing ty-four
eaten any food t day.
inues to fantasize about t t day and plans for it.
ting is meaningless.
t is merely abstaining from food.
tinction betaining from food and fasting, upvasa, is ting means residing closer and closer.
Closer to means coming closer to ting a distance from the body.
t imply going food.
Upvasa means residing closer and closer.
Closer to means closer to to the body.
t is also possible t a man may eat and yet remain in tate of fasting.
If, ing is taking place elseally separate from t, t is