CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE ABSOLUTE

[Guest guest]

February 13, 1981

 

 

 

Q: I have so many questions to ask that it is chaotic.

 

Maharaj: Your questions are regarding the concepts of others. Ask questions

only regarding yourself.

 

Q: I don't know my Self, how can I reach that point, how can I come to that?

 

M: The fact that you don not know your Self is very appropriate; you are not

the body, not the name of the body, therefore how can you know your Self?

 

Q: How can I experience my Self?

 

M: It is because of the body that you do not see your Self?

 

Q: Perhaps because "I Am".

 

M: I am leading you in that direction. You are; because you are, your world is.

You are lost in the names and titles imprinted on that world. Give up the habit

of labeling whatever you are. Be what you were prior to the label or title, be

that.

 

Q: Is it intuitive, not of the mind?

 

M: Don't employ the mind, do nothing.

 

Q: Should you not be aware?

 

M: That awareness will be there provided you are. You must give up all you have

read and heard, and just be. Don't be carried away by concepts. Truth is

eternal; whatever you can grasp is unreal. Even your experience that you are is

not your true nature. You, as the Absolute are not this "I Amness", but

presently you have to abide in your " I Amness.

 

Q: I feel afraid.

 

M: Because you have assumed something as " I Am", which actually you are not,

that is why you are afraid. Suppose you find a diamond ring on the road and you

pocket it. Since it is not yours, a fear overcomes you. When you put on an

identity that is not yours you are afraid. When you are the pure " I Amness"

only, there is not fear. Presently you are this " I Am, but his " I Am; is not

the truth. Whatever you are prior to the appearance of " I Am" is your true

nature.