Bhagavan's answers to Rita De Acosta

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Era

Monday, September 19, 2005 9:56 PM

Re: Bhagavan's answers to Rita De Acosta

"Anna Ruiz" <nli10u@c...> wrote:> I have to ask: > > where would we be

if not here?> who would we be if not I Am?> > So what do individuality

and identity loss mean to no one > who has ever been born or died?> >

Love and Peace,> arAnna dear, O at GR noted, that you with all the

sufi-love-poet exterior might be a passive aggressive poster.I do

agree with her: you are stamping and trumping messages with ego which

need no reply.

Yup, I just might be anybody and nobody needs a reply.

ar

p.s. are we breathing?

> Era: Bhagavan's answers to Rita De Acosta> > > Question: Is

reincarnation a fact? > > Bhagavan: You are incarnated now, aren't

you? Then you will be so again. But as the body is illusion then the

illusion will repeat itself and keep on repeating itself until you

find the Real Self. > > Question: What is death and what is birth?

> > Bhagavan: Only the body has death and birth, and it [the body]

is illusion. There is, in Reality, neither birth nor death. > >

Question: How much time may elapse between death and Rebirth? > >

Bhagavan: Perhaps one is reborn within a year, three years or

thousands of years. Who can say? Anyway what is time? Time does not

exist.(see) > > Question: Why have we no memory of past lives? > >

Bhagavan: Memory is a faculty of the mind and part of the illusion.

Why do you want to remember other lives that are also illusions? If

you abide within the Self, there is no past or future and not even a

present since the Self is out of time--timeless. > > Question: Are

the world, the mind, ego and the body all the same thing? > >

Bhagavan: Yes. They are one and the same thing. The mind and the ego

are one thing, but there is no word to explain this. You see, the

world cannot exist without the mind, the mind cannot exist without

what we call the ego [itself, really] and the ego cannot exist

without a body. > > Question: Then when we leave this body, that is

when the ego leaves it, will it [the ego] immediately grasp another

body? > > Bhagavan: Oh, yes, it must. It cannot exist without a

body. > > Question: What sort of a body will it grasp then? > >

Bhagavan: Either a physical body or a subtle-mental-body. > >

Question: Do you call this present physical body the gross body? > >

Bhagavan: Only to distinguish it--to set it apart in conversation. It

is really a subtle-mental-body also. > > Question: What causes us to

be reborn? > > Bhagavan: Desires. Your unfulfilled desires bring you

back. And in each case--in each body--as your desires are fulfilled,

you create new ones. You must conquer desire to be absorbed into the

One and thus end rebirth. > > Question: Can sex change in rebirth?

> > Bhagavan: Oh, surely. We have all been both sexes many times. >

> Question: Is it possible to sin? > > Bhagavan: Having a body,

which creates illusion, is the only sin, and the body is our only

hell. But it is right that we observe moral laws. The discussion of

sin is too difficult for a few lines. > > Question: Does one who

has realized the Self lose the sense of "I"? > > Bhagavan:

Absolutely. > > Question: Then to you there is no difference

between yourself and myself, that man over there, my servant, are all

the same? > > Bhagavan: All are the same, including those monkeys. >

> Question: But the monkeys are not people. Are they not different?

> > Bhagavan: They are exactly the same as people. All creatures

are the same in One Consciousness. > > Question: Do we lose our

individuality when we merge into the Self? > > Bhagavan: There is

no individuality in the Self. The Self is One--Supreme. > >

Question: Then individuality and identity are lost? > > Bhagavan:

You don't retain them in deep sleep, do you? > > Question: But we

retain them from one birth to another, don't we? > > Bhagavan: Oh,

yes. The "I" thought [the ego] will recur again, only each time you

identify with it a different body and different surroundings around

the body. The effects of past acts [Karma] will continue to control

the new body just as they did the old one. It is Karma that has given

you this particular body and placed it in a particular family, race,

sex, surroundings and so forth. > > Bhagavan added, "These

questions are good, but tell de Acosta [he always called me de

Acosta] she must not become too intellectual about these things. It

is better just to meditate and have no thought. Let the mind rest

quietly on the Self in the cave of the Spiritual Heart. Soon this

will become natural and then there will be no need for questions. Do

not imagine that this means being inactive. Silence is the only real

activity." Then Guy added, "Bhagavan says to tell you that he sends

you his blessings."> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~> > Era> > .>

/join> >

> > > >

"Love itself is the actual form of God."> > Sri Ramana> > In

"Letters from Sri Ramanasramam" by Suri Nagamma >