CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE ABSOLUTE

[Guest guest]

February 9, 1981

 

 

 

Nisargadatta Maharaj: My present state is such that this consciousness and all

this physical suffering are unbearable. I am prepared to dispose of it right

now; this is the state of affairs. Nevertheless people come here and these

talks emanate out of the consciousness. I am addressing you as consciousness;

you are the Godly consciousness. I am not concerned with your bodily affairs.

But you listen from the body-mind standpoint; it is quite natural.

 

I am telling you about the consciousness. In my true state, if I had been aware

of consciousness at the moment the body formation was taking place, I would have

rejected it. But at that highest state such knowledge is not there and this

body formation and consciousness are both spontaneous.

 

Q: Maharaj, will you please explain how we can dive further into that

consciousness?

 

M: Who were your guides or Gurus?

 

Q: For the last ten years.

 

M: How long have you been following spirituality?

 

Q: Mostly I was reading. I had a Guru in Delhi.

 

M: Who is employing the body and the name given to it?

 

Q: That is what I want to discover.

 

M: You need not go in search of it. It will be spontaneous but you have to

wait. I had to wait such a long time to meet you.

 

Q: I will wait.

 

M: Now, understand the subtle difference, what are you and what do you

understand to be you? The body is not you, the name is not you. The body is

the food you have consumed, the taste of it is the knowledge "I Am" That is

Self, the feeling "I Am". That is the love to be.

 

How amazing, how incredible, it has no name, but you give many names to it. It

is the Self, the love to be. That love to be is all-pervading.

 

Heaven, hell counties, houses, these are all concepts. There were rock and

earth, a concept was employed and buildings were built. Before you

conceptualize anything, you are, even before the knowingness, you are.

 

You have only to apperceive this knowingness, the love to be, the Self.

 

Who will be listening to such dialogues? Only the Self in the body has the urge

to understand. People hasten to this place, traveling from distant countries,

leaving their families for the time being, because the Self wants to know

itself.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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