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Speaking from an in-person satsang in Dubai, Mohanji calls patterns "a dangerous friend we hate to part from," because the price we pay for them is our own freedom and our potential for liberation. Patterns don't end with a lifetime. They travel with the soul and return in a new body, in a new place, expressing themselves as the same desires, tendencies and repeating experiences. We are born because of our patterns, we live inside them, and we carry them out with us when we die.
He shows how a pattern is built: repetition creates familiarity, familiarity becomes comfort, and then we spend our whole life defending that comfort zone just to keep the pattern alive. Our likes, dislikes, prejudices, insecurities, addictions and even how people recognise us all grow from the same root. His way out has four steps: become aware the pattern is there, diagnose where it came from through contemplation rather than analysis, witness it without participating, and hold on to a higher purpose with discipline when familiarity pulls you back. The moment you stop being affected, the pattern begins to dissolve, because you have stopped watering that seed.
In the Q&A he says the road back to Parabrahma begins with accepting yourself as presence rather than personality, and asking not "who am I" but "what am I," until you rest in the energy that enlivens you. He advises not to fight patterns but to stay with your practice and let them drop when they drop. Suffering, he says, is resistance and therefore a choice, citing Mandela's refusal of revenge and Ramana Maharshi's pain without suffering. He also speaks on genuine surrender, on Hanuman coming to know Ram over time rather than believing blindly, on chanting being mostly internal, and on raising children according to their own orientation. Ownership, he concludes, is the highest illusion, because we are all here on a non-extendable tourist visa.