Sep 25, 2026 · 32 min · 10 segments
This talk was originally given at Melbourne, Australia (May 30-31, 1980) True spiritual living begins by returning again and again to the calm center within, where the spine, heart, and spiritual…
Bring harmony into your life on all levels.
Whenever you feel brought out of that center, you become nervous.
Go back to that center again.
It reminds me of a fellow who came up to me one time in our dining room.
And he was slightly crazy and he was shouting at me.
And I tried to reason with him and he wouldn't listen to reason.
So I just was in myself and I just turned away and turned him off.
and just was eating.
There was nothing I could do for him, and I wasn't going to let him get my goat, so I just continued eating.
Somebody said later that that was even a better sermon than the sermon you just gave in the temple.
because to see an ability to be completely centered under such trying circumstances is a proof of how we should do it, much more than just words.
Try it.
If you want to do good for other people, you will find the best good you can do for them is simply to be yourself.
It reminds me of a lovely answer that Ramana Maharshi gave to somebody when somebody wanted to thank him.
He said, the best way you can thank me is to go within yourself.
He's only trying to get you to go within yourself.
People say, well, I want to find myself.
Well, the trouble is that they're doing everything but living for themselves.
The Guru's influence, his magnetic influence, helps you to become centered there.
Bring harmony into your life on all levels.
Whenever you feel brought out of that center, you become nervous.
Go back to that center again.
It reminds me of a fellow who came up to me one time in our dining room.
And he was slightly crazy and he was shouting at me.
And I tried to reason with him and he wouldn't listen to reason.
So I just was in myself and I just turned away and turned him off.
and just was eating.
There was nothing I could do for him, and I wasn't going to let him get my goat, so I just continued eating.
Somebody said later that that was even a better sermon than the sermon you just gave in the temple.
because to see an ability to be completely centered under such trying circumstances is a proof of how we should do it, much more than just words.
Try it.
If you want to do good for other people, you will find the best good you can do for them is simply to be yourself.
It reminds me of a lovely answer that Ramana Maharshi gave to somebody when somebody wanted to thank him.
He said, the best way you can thank me is to go within yourself.
He's only trying to get you to go within yourself.
People say, well, I want to find myself.
Well, the trouble is that they're doing everything but living for themselves.
The Guru's influence, his magnetic influence, helps you to become centered there.
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