Nisaragadatta January 4, 1981

[Guest guest]

Q: I was pondering what Maharaj said about all consciousness being

the same this morning, and for just a few seconds, it was as if

everything was one and I was behind it. It this the aim?

 

N: That is not the aim, IT IS SO. It is there and it is only

because of identity with the body that what is, doesn't seem as if it

is.

Please understand that there is only one thing to be understood,

and that is that you are the formless, timeless unborn. It is

because of your identification with the body as an entity that your

consciousness, which is universal consciousness. thinks that it is

dying. Nobody is dying, because nobody was born.

The millions of forms are the manifestation of consciousness.

It is the millions of forms which get created and destroyed, but

universal consciousness itself is unborn and undying..Just imagine if

all the millions of forms which have been created were still here-

how could other forms be created? It is because consciousness is

unborn and undying that the millions of forms get created and

destroyed; it is a continuous process. Understand that what you are

is this unlimited universal consciousness. Only that in which

consciousness manifests itself is limited and is created and

destroyed. The total potential of consciousness remains. It is

unlimited.

You are seeking knowledge from the standpoint of identification

with the body and whatever can be grasped by the mind. When this

body machine is there, the technique of using it is there, and that

is what you are identifying with now, bit it is not you true

identity. You have no control over it, I has appeared and it will

disappear.

I talk to you from the perspective oF the universal

consciousness and I know that all bodies are the essence of food and

that they will vanish.