Consciousness and the Absolute

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Nisaragadatta February 5. 19081

 

Q: It is very difficult to give up this attraction to the bodily

identity.

M: You have to find out what this body is, then the job is done.

Initially, the body is very minute. The consciousness appears in the

body, and then the tiny body changes into a large one.

That causal body, which is very minute, needs to be known. By

meditation you can know it. The quality of that causal body takes on

the appearance of the consciousness and the form. In this world

there are many species, in all sizes; initially what was the size of

each variety?

At the point where you first feel knowingness, consciousness is

not static; it is a continuous state just like a wheel moving. The

center of the wheel, the axle, is not moving. As you proceed from

the center of the axle outwardly, the movement increases, does it not?

Similarly, the beginning of consciousness I like the center of a

wheel; that point is steady, constant. In a human being that is

the most constant principle. Since the day I was born until I am

dead, that consciousness principle is there at the center of the

wheel; that point is steady, constant.In a human being that is the

most constant principle. Since the day I was born until I am dead,

that consciousness principle is there at that center. As you merge

into the world the movement increases.

Watch that center point, watch that movement of consciousness.

Chaitanya and Chetana, that central, stationary point of the wheel

watches the movement of consciousness. The one that observes the

movement is almost stationary.

To bring about the action of the world-- the movement--

consciousness must descent. If there is no consciousness, there is

no worldly movement.

Similarly, you must become stabilized in a more stationary

position, near the center. When you leave that center point, the

movement takes over.