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Post by Admin on Feb 1, 2020 18:19:07 GMT
Robert Adams Excerpt from: Satsang ‘This is it!’
There is really no past and no future. There never was a past, nothing ever happened. Yet most of you believe you are a body and you have gone through various experiences. But I tell you there are no experiences that you have gone through. There is no body that has ever existed.
Why do you want to make believe? You want to make believe that you are a human being, and you've had experiences in your life, of a various nature, you have a past, you feel guilty. You go through all kind of things in your mind. Why do you do this? You simply have to awaken to the fact that you are here. This is eternity. This is all there is. There's nothing else.
I really do not know what some of you are looking for. You're looking to become enlightened. No one ever became enlightened. No one has ever been self-realized. There is no such thing. Drop all your concepts, your preconceived ideas, your beliefs. Some of you here are searching for a better life. There is no better life. This is it! This is all you get. Yet when I say this is it, you think in your mind of your problems. You think of something that's wrong with you, or with the world or with the universe.
When I say this is it, you allow yourself to think. That's the first mistake you make. Allowing yourself to think, to analyze, trying to understand, this is a mistake. No one can understand, because there is nothing to understand. When I say this is it, I am referring to your true nature as absolute reality. This is it! I am not referring to the things you're thinking about. Those are all lies.
When we begin to think about man's inhumanity to man, the destruction of animal life for fun and for human consumption, the destruction of the rain forest, earthquakes, cataclysms. When we try to reconcile this with God, as it were, we can never do it. It doesn't make sense. How can God, whatever he is, or she is, or it is, allow all these dastardly things take place in this world? You become totally confused, disillusioned, when you try to reconcile these things.
Yet in truth there is absolutely nothing to reconcile. The picture I just painted does not exist. There is absolutely nothing happening in the universe. Due to the fact there is no universe. Just by understanding this, not with your mind, not by trying to understand, but by being, just by being. Not being this or being that, just by existing, you become totally free. For you are totally free!
There is no karma that binds you. There is no predestination that affects you in anyway. None of these things exist. There is no reincarnation. You may think this is a contradiction because I speak of these things once in a while. Remember, to whom do these things come? Who believes in reincarnation? Who believes in karma? Who believes they're being punished for their sins? The mind! Not you.
It is your mind that appears to have been programmed to believe all these lies. Therefore if you come to me and tell me you are suffering, I will tell you, well, this is only karma. This is something you're going through, it will pass. I have to say this to you because this is where you're coming from right now. But the truth is no one suffers, there's no karma, there's absolutely nothing that causes suffering or pain or anything else.
Where would it come from if there is only God? Where would all these things come from if there's only effortless pure awareness? Self-contained absolute reality, Brahman, which is all-pervading. There is no room for anything else. There's no room for your ideas about fears and junk that is going on in your head, nonsense. Nothing exists! Nothing is absolute reality, ultimate oneness, nirvana.
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Post by Admin on Feb 1, 2020 19:06:12 GMT
H.W.L. Poonja ‘Projection’
Only when you stop the projecting will you be happy. When the projection is finished then only the screen is left. This screen is the same before, during, and after the projections. When mind stops there is no projection, this is the blissful state.
The objects of the inner dialogues are only from the past and so this chatter must be stopped, it must be controlled. This dialogue is only memory and it has to be controlled. This self-control is with small ‘s’ and refers to controlling the mind, the thoughts of the mind. Self control is when your mind is not leaking anything perishable, when your mind touches nothing that fades. No clinging to the past, no thoughts, no expectations for any future. Keeping mind between past and future is mind control and this is your face.
This is not so easy. People have been trying to do this for so long. Five thousand years ago Arjuna asked Krishna how to control the mind which is as difficult to grasp as air. Krishna said: “By Abhyasa, practice, and Vairagya, non-attachment, you will control the mind. Vairagya is being non-attached to objects. Abhyasa is bringing the mind back from its objects and establishing it in me”. So sit quiet and watch the mind. It will want to go and enjoy the past experiences and enjoyments. Bring it back.
If you are aware of the thief it will not steal from you, but if you are not aware then the thief will not let you be happy. It will loot the property of peace. This happens everyday and we enjoy it. We actually make friends with the snake. Keep after this inner dialogue and it will stop, if you have strong determination. All these objects of the mind are only projections.
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Post by Admin on Feb 1, 2020 20:13:44 GMT
Jiddu . Krishnamurti Excerpt from: The Book of Life ‘Who is it that sees? Who is the watcher?’
The monkey in the tree feels hungry, and then the urge arises to take a fruit or a nut. Action comes first, and then the idea that you had better store it up. To put it in different words, does action come first, or the actor? Is there an actor without action? Do you understand?
This is what we are always asking ourselves: Who is it that sees? Who is the watcher? Is the thinker apart from his thoughts, the observer apart from the observed, the experiencer apart from the experience, the actor apart from the action? But if you really examine the process, very carefully, closely and intelligently, you will see that there is always action first, and that action with an end in view creates the actor. Do you follow? If action has an end in view, the gaining of that end brings about the actor.
If you think very clearly and without prejudice, without conformity, without trying to convince somebody, without an end in view, in that very thinking there is no thinker, there is only the thinking. It is only when you seek an end in your thinking that you become important, and not thought. Perhaps some of you have observed this.
It is really an important thing to find out, because from that we shall know how to act. If the thinker comes first, then the thinker is more important than thought, and all the philosophies, customs and activities of the present civilization are based on this assumption; but if thought comes first then thought is more important than the thinker.
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Post by Admin on Feb 2, 2020 16:20:07 GMT
Eckhart Tolle Excerpt from: The Power of Now ‘I AM THAT I AM’
Many misunderstandings and false beliefs about Christ will clear if you realize that there is no past or future in Christ. To say that Christ was or will be is a contradiction in terms. Jesus was. He was a man who lived two thousand years ago and realized divine presence, his true nature. And so he said: "Before Abraham was, I am." He did not say: "I already existed before Abraham was born." That would have meant that he was still within. the dimension of time and form identity. The words Iam used in a sentence that starts in the past tense indicate a radical shift, a discontinuity in the temporal dimension. It is a Zen-like statement of great profundity.
Jesus attempted to convey directly, not through discursive thought, the meaning of presence, of self realization. He had gone beyond the consciousness dimension governed by time, into the realm of the timeless. The dimension of eternity had come into this world. Eternity, of course, does not mean endless time, but no time. Thus, the man Jesus became Christ, a vehicle for pure consciousness. And what is God's self-definition in the Bible? Did God say "I have always been, and I always will be?" Of course not. That would have given reality to past and future. God said: "I AM THAT I AM." No time here, just presence.
The "second coming" of Christ is a transformation of human consciousness, a shift from time to presence, from thinking to pure consciousness, not the arrival of some man or woman. If "Christ" were to return tomorrow in some externalized form, what could he or she possibly say to you other than this: "I am the Truth. I am divine presence. I am eternal life. I am within you. I am here. I am Now."
Never personalize Christ. Don't make Christ into a form identity. Avatars, divine mothers, enlightened masters, the very few that are real, are not special as persons. Without a false self to uphold, defend, and feed, they are more simple, more ordinary than the ordinary man or woman. Anyone with a strong ego would regard them as insignificant or, more likely, not see them at all.
If you are drawn to an enlightened teacher, it is because there is already enough presence in you to recognize presence in another. There were many people who did not recognize Jesus or the Buddha, as there are and always have been many people who are drawn to false teachers. Egos are drawn to bigger egos. Darkness cannot recognize light. Only light can recognize light. So don't believe that the light is outside you or that it can only come through one particular form. If only your master is an incarnation of God, then who are you? Any kind of exclusivity is identification with form, and identification with form means ego, no matter how well disguised.
Use the master's presence to reflect your own identity beyond name and form back to you and to become more intensely present yourself. You will soon realize that there is no "mine" or "yours" in presence. Presence is one.
Group work can also be helpful for intensifying the light of your presence. A group of people coming together in a state of presence generates a collective energy field of great intensity. It not only raises the degree of presence of each member of the group but also helps to free the collective human consciousness from its current state ofmind dominance. This will make the state of presence increasingly more accessible to individuals.
However, unless at least one member of the group is already firmly established in it and thus can hold the energy frequency of that state, the egoic mind can easily reassert itself and sabotage the group's endeavors. Although group work is invaluable, it is not enough, and you must not come to depend on it. Nor must you come to depend on a teacher or a master, except during the transitional period, when you are learning the meaning and practice of presence.
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Post by Admin on Feb 2, 2020 22:47:35 GMT
Robert Adams Excerpt from: Satsang ‘No Thinking Allowed’
You have always been nothing and you will always be nothing. But as soon as you begin to talk you spoil it. As soon as you begin to analyze it, to try to figure it out, to scientifically come up with a plan of how the universe works you spoil it for it is beyond human understanding, beyond human comprehension.
Your human mind and your human thoughts are only here to destroy you; they are not your friends. No thought is your friend, not even a good thought. Some of you still believe you have to hang onto good thoughts. Good thoughts are lies just like bad thoughts. In order to have a good thought you have to know about bad thoughts otherwise why would you want to hang onto a good thought? You want to replace it and hold it, instead of a bad thought. All thoughts are lies. There has to be no thought whatsoever. No thinking allowed.
You have to be tired of going through the vicissitudes of life and experiencing good and bad, up and down, right and wrong. Becoming happy when things are going your way. Becoming miserable when they go the other way, then becoming happy again when things go your way again becoming miserable when they turn. When will you drop the whole thing? What does it take to make you forget all these things, to let go of all these things? What does it take to awaken? It takes desire to begin with. Desire to become something else and then dropping desire and just becoming. Dropping becoming and just being, dropping being and just...
We’re born into a world that tells us we have to make something out of ourselves, so we make complete idiots out of ourselves. We have to have gainful employment, we have to do this and we have to do that. So we do and we're happy as long as things are going our way. We're contented as long as things are going the way we think they should go. We've got perfect health and we've got perfect finances, and we've got perfect peace of mind and we have a perfect family and we have a perfect this and a perfect that. We feel good. But then things begin to change like they do.
Everything must change. The only thing permanent in life is change. Everything changes. We become upset, like the little bird we curse under our breath, we become angry, we become mean because things are not going our way. Then some- thing changes again and things go our way again, so we become happy once again. We sing, we dance, we get drunk, we go crazy. We do all kind of things, we party, then something happens, doctor tells us we've got cancer, we become bankrupt, there's a recession, we become terminated from our employment and we become miserable once again.
This story is repeated again and again and again. The time finally comes, for some of us, I say, some of us, because most people keep doing these things until they die. They never stop. They keep looking for good things to take the place of bad things until they die, as if that's the answer. But there are some of us, you can call this God's grace if you like. They've been touched by someone or by something within themselves and they feel that there is another universe. There is something else. There is something else that does not have pain or human happiness, no mental anguish, no good thoughts. There is something beyond all this and they make up their mind to vehemently find the something no matter what it takes.
This means they have to start giving up or emptying themselves of the old. For they have already been filled with illusion, wrong thinking, nonsense, ignorance, they can't hold any more. In other words, they cannot add to what's already full.
If you have a flask of water and you want to fill it with wine you have to empty the water first. And so it is with us. We're filled with all the foolishness, with all the preconceived ideas, with all the nonsense, with all the concepts. Unfortunately most people do not realize this. They think they are quite normal, (but they don't know that I'm the only one that's normal and they're all crazy I'm the only sane one. Don't believe that. The truth is I'm the crazy one and you're all considered sane, due to the fact I do not accept all this stuff and you do. The majority rules, as the majority of the people believe the same thing, then I'm the crazy one and they'll lock me up in the crazy house.)
Anyway, you can't be full of your nonsensical thinking and ideas and expect to become self-realized, expect to awaken, expect to become free. There is work you have to do. The work is to empty yourself out, totally and completely. When you empty yourself out, you will be free. There is nothing for you to fill up because reality is already there.
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Post by Admin on Feb 3, 2020 0:41:11 GMT
"The ego is a monkey catapulting through the jungle: Totally fascinated by the realm of the senses, it swings from one desire to the next, one conflict to the next, one self-centered idea to the next. If you threaten it, it actually fears for its life. Let this monkey go. Let the senses go. Let desires go. Let conflicts go. Let ideas go. Let the fiction of life and death go. Just remain in the center, watching. And then forget that you are there."
~ Lao Tzu
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Post by Admin on Feb 3, 2020 16:25:17 GMT
Rupert Spira ‘Substance of all experience’
Leave all those mental habits and patterns alone. The self that is apparently operating, that seems to know these patterns and that would ‘let go of them’ is itself simply one such pattern. These patterns of thinking and feeling have taken their shape, over the years, from the belief that we are a separate self, without our making any particular effort. In just the same way, as our experiential conviction that we are not a limited, located self deepens, so our thoughts, feelings and subsequent behaviour will slowly, effortlessly and naturally realign themselves with this new understanding.
In order to know our self we do not need to know the mind. No other knowledge than the knowledge that is present right now in this very moment is required to know our self. What does it mean to know our self? We are our self, so we are too close to our self to be able to know our self as an object. Our simply being our self is as close to knowing our self as we will ever come. We cannot get closer than that. In fact, being our self is the knowing of our self, but it is not the knowing of our self as an object. To say ‘I am’, (in other words to assert that we are present), we must know that ‘I am’. Being and knowing are, in fact, one single non-objective experience.
But we do not step outside of our self in order to know our own being. We simply are our self. That being of our self is the knowing of our self. This being/knowing is shining in all experience. This experiential understanding dissolves the idea that our self is not present here and now and that it is not known here and now. And when our desire to know or find ourselves as an object is withdrawn, we discover that our own self was and is present all along, shining quietly in the background, as it were, of all experience. As this becomes obvious we discover that it is not just the background but also the foreground. In other words, it is not just the witness but simultaneously the substance of all experience.
Completely relax the desire to find yourself as an object or to change your experience in any way. Relax into this present knowing of your own being. See that it is intimate, familiar and loving. See clearly that it is never not with you. It is shining here in this experience, knowing and loving its own being. It runs throughout all experience, closer than close, intimately one with all experience but untouched by it. As this intimate oneness, it is known as love. In its untouchable-ness it is known as peace and in its fullness it is known as happiness. In its openness and willingness to give itself to any possible shape (including the apparent veiling of its own being), it is known as freedom and, as the substance of all things, it is known as beauty. However, more simply it is known just as ‘I’ or ‘this’.
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Post by Admin on Feb 3, 2020 19:11:42 GMT
Adyashanti ‘Spiritual promiscuity’
Many seekers do not take full responsibility for their own liberation, but wait for one big, final spiritual experience which will catapult them fully into it. It is this search for the final liberating experience which gives rise to a rampant form of spiritual consumerism in which seekers go from one teacher to another, shopping for enlightenment as if shopping for sweets in a candy store.
This spiritual promiscuity is rapidly turning the search for enlightenment into a cult of experience seekers. And, while many people indeed have powerful experiences, in most cases these do not lead to the profound transformation of the individual, which is the expression of enlightenment.
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Post by Admin on Feb 4, 2020 14:34:04 GMT
Gangaji ‘Who one truly is.’
We have tried everything to get rid of suffering. We have gone everywhere to get rid of suffering. We have bought everything to get rid of it. We have ingested everything to get rid of it. Finally, when one has tried enough, there arises the possibility of spiritual maturity with the willingness to stop the futile attempt to get rid of it and, instead, to actually experience suffering. In that momentous instant, there is the realization of that which is beyond suffering, of that which is untouched by suffering. There is the realization of who one truly is."
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Post by Admin on Feb 5, 2020 16:19:22 GMT
Jiddu Krishnamurti Excerpt from: Think of these things ‘This matter of culture’
HAVE YOU EVER sat very quietly without any movement? You try it, sit really still, with your back straight, and observe what your mind is doing. Don`t try to control it, don't say it should not jump from one thought to another, from one interest to another, but just be aware of how your mind is jumping. Don't do anything about it, but watch it as from the banks of a river you watch the water flow by. In the flowing river there are so many things - fishes, leaves, dead animals - but it is always living, moving, and your mind is like that. It is everlastingly restless, flitting from one thing to another like a butterfly.
When you listen to a song, how do you listen to it? You may like the person who is singing, he may have a nice face, and you may follow the meaning of the words; but behind all that, when you listen to a song, you are listening to the tones and to the silence between the tones, are you not? In the same way, try sitting very quietly without fidgeting, without moving your hands or even your toes, and just watch your mind. It is great fun. If you try it as fun, as an amusing thing, you will find that the mind begins to settle down without any effort on your part to control it. There is then no censor, no judge, no evaluator; and when the mind is thus very quiet of itself, spontaneously still, you will discover what it is to be gay. Do you know what gaiety is? It is just to laugh, to take delight in anything or nothing, to know the joy of living, smiling, looking straight into the face of another without any sense of fear.
Have you ever really looked anybody in the face? Have you ever looked into the face of your teacher, of your parent, of the big official, of the servant, the poor coolie, and seen what happens? Most of us are afraid to look directly into the face of an- other; and others don't want us to look at them in that way, because they also are frightened. Nobody wants to reveal himself; we are all on guard, hiding behind various layers of misery, suffering, longing, hope, and there are very few who can look you straight in the face and smile. And it is very important to smile, to be happy; because, you see, without a song in one's heart life becomes very dull. One may go from temple to temple, from one husband or wife to another, or one may find a new teacher or guru; but if there is not this inward joy, life has very little meaning. And to find this inward joy is not easy, because most of us are only superficially discontented.
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Post by Admin on Feb 5, 2020 16:39:16 GMT
Nisargadatta Maharaj Excerpt from: I AM THAT ‘Causality’
It is the illusion of time that makes you talk of causality. When the past and the future are seen in the timeless now, as parts of a common pattern, the idea of cause-effect loses its validity and creative freedom takes its place.
The real world is beyond the mind's ken; we see it through the net of our desires, divided into pleasure and pain, right and wrong, inner and outer. To see the universe as it is, you must step beyond the net. It is not hard to do so, for the net is full of holes.
But, this source is not a cause and no cause is a source. Because of that, I say everything is uncaused. You may try to trace how a thing happens, but you cannot find out why a thing is as it is. A thing is as it is, because the universe is as it is.
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Post by Admin on Feb 5, 2020 20:32:02 GMT
~A Glimpse of Einstein's Harmonious Universe~ "I believe that I have cosmic religious feelings. I never could grasp how one could satisfy these feelings by praying to limited objects. The tree outside is life, a statue is dead. The whole of Nature is life, and life, as I observe it, rejects a God resembling man. Man has infinite dimensions and finds God in his conscience. has no dogma other than teaching man that the Universe is rational and that his highest destiny is to ponder it and co-create with its laws.
In the face of creation I feel very humble. It is as if a spirit is manifest infinitely superior to man's spirit. Through my pursuit in science I have known cosmic religious feelings. But I don't care to be called a mystic.
I like to experience the Universe as one harmonious whole. Every cell has life. Matter, too, has life; it is energy solidified. Our bodies are like prisons, and I look forward to be free, but I don't speculate on what will happen to me. I live here now, and my responsibility is in this world now. I deal with natural laws. This is my work here on earth.
The genuine scientist is not moved by praise or blame, nor does he preach. He unveils the Universe and people come eagerly, without being pushed, to behold a new revelation: the order, the harmony, the magnificence of creation!
And as man becomes conscious of the stupendous laws that govern the Universe in perfect harmony, he begins to realize how small he is. He sees the pettiness of human existence, with its ambitions and intrigues, its 'I am better than thou' creed.
This is the beginning of cosmic religion within him; fellowship and human service become his moral code. Without such moral foundations, we are hopelessly doomed.
The God Spinoza revered is my God, too: I meet Him everyday in the harmonious laws which govern the Universe. My religion is cosmic, and my God is too universal to concern himself with the intentions of every human being.
I do not accept a religion of fear; My God will not hold me responsible for the actions that necessity imposes. My God speaks to me through laws.
I believe in one thing—that only a life lived for others is a life worth living. We must begin with the heart of man—with his conscience—and the values of conscience can only be manifested by selfless service to mankind."
~Albert Einstein
The above quotes are excerpts from "Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man" (1983), based on interviews William Hermanns had with Einstein in 1930, 1943, 1948, and 1954.
creativesystemsthinking.wordpress.com/2014/02/16/how-einstein-saw-the-world/
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Post by Admin on Feb 8, 2020 17:54:18 GMT
The Paramount Importance of Self Attention by SADHU OM, as recorded by Michael James (Mountain Path: April-June 2012)
9th December 1977
Sadhu Om: We must be careful not to feed the 'I' in anyway. That is an important part of spiritual practice (sādhanā). At every twist and turn, we must be alert against the rising of this 'I'. To sit in the hall [Bhagavan's 'old hall' in Ramanasramam] is good, but it is also necessary to watch all the time that we do not feed 'I'.
We should not even think of becoming a guru or guiding others. Avoiding such ideas is good discipleship. We must always be humble and self-effacing. If we want fame or the good opinions of others, then we are no better than worldly people, because we are still thinking that happiness comes from things outside ourself.
How can an aspirant mix with worldly-minded people? Their thought-current is completely opposed to ours. If one feels increasingly out of place in this world, and if one has less and less liking to mix with worldly-minded people, that is a sign of progress.
True progress is not raising kundalini to here or there, but is just humility. To be constantly self-effacing in every way is a sure means to samādhi. Bhagavan told us to be quiet, but nowadays so-called 'yogis' and 'maharishis' are shouting so much. Bhagavan lived as a perfect example of the state of jñāna, but where can you see such an example among all the famous 'sages' today? Tinnai Swami [Tinnai Swami was a devotee of Bhagavan, and an article that I wrote about him was published on pp. 75-83 of the Aradhana 2004 issue of The Mountain Path.] is the nearest I have seen to what Bhagavan taught us: complete non-interference. To keep quiet and not to interfere is the best way of living in the world.
When an old woman cursed Bhagavan for roaming about the hill in the heat of the sun among all the thorny plants, asking him why he did not just keep quiet, he did not reply arrogantly, 'But I am a great maharishi', but merely thought, 'Yes, that is also good. Why not? To keep quiet is best'.
We should not want to have anything or to be anything. Great saints have prayed, 'Send me to heaven or hell. I do not even ask for liberation (moksa). Only let me always cling to you alone'.
What use is the good opinion of others? At most it will last only for the lifetime of this body.
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Post by Admin on Feb 9, 2020 0:31:53 GMT
"Look to the sky!
All the clouds come spontaneously from space into space. They themselves disappear into space. That is one thing; that you know. Then all the clouds that were here in the space yesterday, they do not remain in the sky. This morning there were a lot of clouds, but they have disappeared and now there is no trace of them. That shows you that all clouds are not Natural State (of the mind), but they all suddenly appear and stay a little bit. That is the first point: those which spontaneously appear and are temporary cannot cover space.
In a similar way, consciousness, suffering, miseries, emotions, ignorance - everything - are like clouds. Nature itself is like space, so (just as the clouds cannot cover space, so) those visions which appear temporarily cannot cover the Natural State (of the mind). That is an example to show you. Look again at phenomenal existence. All the enemies are not real enemies. There is no concrete enemy which you can find from the object side and friends are not real concrete, trustable friends. Because there is nothing concrete to be found from the object side, all enemies, friends, relatives - everything is the vision of delusion - so everything is only temporary or without inherent identity.
Everything is liberated to Nature. All phenomenal existence and visions have no essence; nothing exists concretely"
~ H.E. Yongdzin Lopon Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche ~
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Post by Admin on Feb 9, 2020 18:15:54 GMT
Nisargadatta Maharaj Excerpt from: Satsang ‘The entire manifestation is an appearance in this concept’
Maharaja: So long as you are interested in this manifest world you have no time to get to the root. The root is this consciousness which appeared when you were a child. The root of whatever activities you are now doing is that moment when you were a child. In that child, the most important quality - the chemical, the consciousness - took the photograph. From that moment you started gathering knowledge and on that your present activities are happening.
People are so interested in my words that no one really tries to find out what that child consciousness is. Only when you get established in the consciousness can you know that child consciousness. That is the only way.
Questioner: Child consciousness implies a retrogression, as compared to the man consciousness. When in that state there is no consideration of child or man consciousness, there is just being -there is no further given direction.
M. There is no difference in the child consciousness and the man consciousness.
Q. If the space that fills the small pot is the same as the space that fills the big pot, how to recognize the small pot?
M. The seed of the universe is dimensionless but, because of the body, the consciousness appears and identifies with the body but actually everything is manifest, all-pervasive consciousness. That "I love" is manifest. For the whole universe there is no question of profit or loss, only when the identification with the body is present does the question arise.
When you take food, who is eating? The "I Amness." The food also contains the "I Amness," so when you consume it, you retain your "I Amness." Though the "I Amness" is in the food, nobody identifies with the food - they say, "this is my lunch; I am not this," but when it is consumed by them and becomes part of the body they say, "I am the body" - that mistake they make.
Q: I desire to be in the state of a jnani.
M.- You have to know that knowledge "I Am."Jnani and knowledge are one.
Q: Just by being you have this knowledge?
M: You are already that, but you have to try to understand yourself.
Q You understand that by the very essence of your being, so there is no knowledge involved.
M.- At the moment you are identifying with the body, so you do not know that secret. You will come to know gradually, when you really become that.
Q. If there is only the sense of being in the "I Am, "where do concepts come in?
M: Because of the vital breath, the mind flow is there. Mind means words, so thoughts are there - they are the concepts. Look at your root, the child consciousness, and finish it off.
Q. The difficulty lies in the fact that all consciousness is identical, so how to get to the root?
M. This consciousness is a tree, but there was a seed go to the seed. The consciousness you have now is the same as the child consciousness; hold on to that, that is enough. So long as the consciousness is there everything is so important to you, but if that vanishes, then what is the worth of this whole world to you? Who is the knower of the seed? Give attention to how this "I Amness" has appeared - then you will know. Accept this identification only: that you are this manifest pure beingness, the very soul of the universe, of this life that you observe, and presently you are just wearing this bodily attire. Make a note of it; you have taken down so many things in life, just for fun, why don't you take this down also and see what happens? See what happens when you look at the moon and know that the moon is there provided you are there; because you are the moon is. This grand concept, this joy, you directly experience and enjoy.
Q. There must be some power which is responsible for this creation.
M. The power is the Self which each one has in his beingness - that power is time-bound. From the time that beingness comes it creates automatically until that beingness disappears. Earlier there was nothing - after there is nothing. It is only during the duration of the beingness that the world and creation is. This power is the faith in the primordial concept "I Am," and that is the concept which weaves the web of creation. The entire manifestation is an appearance in this concept.
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