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Question: My vision is deteriorating, and the doctors are saying that in 10 years I may go blind. I am really worried. Hanuman: The demand to let go will serve us all very well when each of us finds ourselves on our deathbed. It won’t be uncharted territory; we will be ready. All the letting…

Question: I wish to be peaceful and sit silently and be free. And sometimes that’s the case, and sometimes it seems I’m so lost in thinking. Hanuman: See now, just as we are speaking, who is it that is wishing, who is it that is getting lost in thought? See this. Question: The mind is…

Question: I haven’t met you before, and I would dearly love to hear what it was like for you at the dawning of your Awakening. Could you see it coming, or did it spring on you out of this nowhere? Hanuman: I was in Haridwar in April of 1990. It was my first meeting with…

Hanuman: Contentment appears so rare. I am not speaking about contentment that is dependent on any particular condition or circumstance. Unconditional contentment is an expression of our natural state. Contentment is simply the heartful, easy, effortless acceptance of what is, just as it is, not needing this moment to somehow be different. Without the contraction…

Question: Sometimes I hear of people awakening in the presence of the Master, and then later declaring: ‘I have lost it.’ I wonder if people can become Self-realized, awake, and then lose it. Hanuman: There are different ways to answer that question, as I understand it. There seems to be these obscuring tendencies of mind…

Question: When Papaji was asked if a person needs a teacher, he said: ‘Yes,’ and also that there is no teacher. My question is, because you did have a true teacher, do you think it’s really necessary? Does one come to a point where you can’t experience more truth because you don’t have a teacher?…

Question: I am in a relationship that isn’t working, but I stay because I’m afraid of being alone. Hanuman: The fear of being alone drives human beings to the most outrageous kinds of things! [Laughter]. I would say, heartfully, if somehow you can be free of the fear of being alone, you will find it…

Question: I came to satsang for the first time last month and fell immediately into silence. I was amazed and thankful and so surprised. Then this feeling of silence and peace went away, and I cannot seem to find it again. Hanuman: Where have you been looking? Question: It’s so noisy in my head. I…

Question: Sometimes I get so weary, so afraid that I feel like just running away and curling up. And I don’t want to be so afraid. Hanuman: What about just allowing the fear to be, without demanding that it go? What about allowing a simple spaciousness where fear can display? And what about the possibility…

Question: Will you please tell me what your Master told you about freedom? Hanuman: [Laughs] That’s all I am doing. Nothing else is happening here other than that. He said: ‘You are That!’ He said: ‘Look and see for your own Self.’ He said: ‘When a man of authority tells you that a rope is…