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Now, Let's pay attention to the following.

Have you noticed that running after success distances you from yourselves?

Have you paid attention to that?

We live in a time that glorifies efficiency and productivity.

And of course, from a very early age,

we are taught that a fulfilled life depends on the goals we achieve.

Our worth is based on our accomplishments.

Enlightenment is an existential experience unattainable through effort or the mere accumulation of knowledge.

It is an inherent state, accessible at every moment without the need for methodological processes.

Often, enlightenment is misinterpreted as an almost unattainable ideal waiting at the end of an arduous path of self-improvement and intense practice.

Subhuti asked the Buddha: 

Honored throughout the world, 

in the future, will there be beings who, 

upon hearing these teachings, 

will have true confidence in them?

The Buddha replied: 

Subhuti, do not speak like that. 

Two thousand five hundred years after the 

passing away of the Tathagata, 

there will be beings who, having practiced 

the rules of morality and, therefore, 

being possessed of merit, will hear these statements 

and understand their truth. 

You should know that such beings 

have planted their root of merit 

not only under one, two, three, 

four or five Buddhas, 

but under innumerable Buddhas. 

When such beings, upon hearing 

these statements, awaken even 

for a moment of pure and clear confidence, 

the Tathagata will see them and recognize 

their immeasurable amount of merit.

In the Bhagavad Gita, chapter 15, verse 15, Krishna say,
"sarvasya cāhaṁ hṛdi sanniviṣṭo
mattaḥ smṛtir jñānam apohanaṁ ca
vedaiś ca sarvair aham eva vedyo
vedānta-kṛd veda-vid eva cāham"

Krishna say that I am seated in everyone's heart. From me arise the remembrance, smriti, the knowledge, jnanam, and forgetfulness, apohanam. Krishna say, I am the knower of the Vedas, the compiler of the Vedanta. And by all the Vedas, I am to be known.

We talk about different aspects or subjects that we see inside this verse.
But in this opportunity, I want to focus in, These three terms, smriti, remembrance, jnanam, knowledge, apohanam, forgetfulness.
Krishna say that he sit in everyone's heart is not far away.

Prabhuji answers the question: "Dear Prabhuji, Can you please share with us your most significant experiences on your path?"
Prabhuji: "...No doubt, The most significant experiences in my path were three. I will share with you the first one." 

Prabhuji talks about the method of teaching of Socrates, the dialectica, and how it relates to the master-disciple relationship. "...Because Socrates understood that the main enemy of wisdom is to think that you know...." 

Prabhuji answers the question: "Prabhuji, I find it very difficult to recognize consciousness, and I often feel frustrated and even depressed because I feel that my efforts are in vain. Could you please give me some advice?"

Prabhuji answers the question: "For many years now I have been searching for the self. But although sometimes it seems to me that I have realized it, then it escapes. And I remain the same. The search makes me a nervous and even frustrated seeker. I don't feel that the search for the self brings me happiness. What advice could you give me?"

Prabhuji answers the question: "I am not a person of faith. I would like you to give me a definition or a logic concept of what is God."

Prabhuji talks about the question - "What this life consists of?" 

Prabhuji talks about how Enlightenment is portrayed in the Torah - the Bible. 

“…Self inquiry is about a question, who am I - as Ramana Maharishi presented the question… but any answer will be wrong… people who walk that path of zen will say this is a kind of koan question, like what is the sound of one hand clapping?… "

"The identification with a form or a body, leads us to what is called the corporal concept of life… we identify ourselves with the body, with a specific form… however, I am not another preacher who say we are not the body, but spiritual souls... we are the body, but not ONLY the body...." 

Prabhuji talks about the importance of Hatha Yoga in spiritual life, how he learned personally from big masters like His Holiness Sri Swami Vishnu Devananda, disciple of His Holiness Sri Swami Sivananda, Bapoji, disciple of His Holiness Sri Mastaram Babaji, Madhana Mohan and many others. 

Watch the video lecture here: https://youtu.be/ogUaA654D38

- This is our second meeting on the subject of this Koan. If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him. ...and at the end of our previous lecture, we talk about objects. What is, what is an object?...

Prabhuji is asked what is the meaning of the koan: "if you meet the buddha on the road, kill him"