Consciousness and the Absolute

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Nisaragadatta; January 30, 1981 PM

 

M: A real spiritual seeker ponders over these things all the time.

When I have no body, what am I?

What is the Ultimate Reality?

The Absolute state cannot be explained by words. Words are

only pointers. You are the absolute, unchanging. Consciousness, or

knowingness ,is homogeneous and one only. When you are in that state

of consciousness, it is all one, all the same, only the expressions

are different.

Everything which gets consumed, exhausted, is unreal. Your

knowingness will, in due course, be consumed, will disappear, so it

cannot be real; but you can't just dismiss it, you must understand it

fully.

Presently there are an infinite number of items in your

association with this world because you have the association of the

vital breath. Suppose that vital breath goes. What will happen then

to all your associations with the world?

This knowledge which has been expounded will not go the waste,

many people have taken advantage of it. The time will come when they

will be enlightened also and then they will expound knowledge.

A jnani's state remains the same with or without the body.

You should meditate, you should not lose what you have learned.

When one disidentifies with the body, one transcends not only

the body but consciousness as well, since consciousness is a product

of the body. The consciousness no longer says, "I AM, I AM.