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[Guest guest]

February 27, 1981

 

 

 

Q: Could Maharaj speak on the relationship between body and spirit?

 

Maharaj: You must get to know your own Self. This body is not your true

nature. The principle by which you know " I Am" is your true nature.

 

Q: What responsibility do I have towards other people?

 

M: You have built your responsibilities around the teachings, which you have

derived from the world, but what is that "you" who is accepting all the

responsibility? You must understand that first. You are identifying your self

as a body; that is not Self-knowledge.

 

Q: I don't always feel that I am the body; when I become still and concentrate,

I realize that there is more than just flesh and blood there. It is a new

realization for me.

 

M: Have you come to the conclusion that there is no difference between

different groups of people?

 

Q: Except that some people are more greedy and ambitious. I like to visit

foreign countries, meet various kinds of people with different customs.

 

M: Don't roam about; don't come here, either. Abide in quietude, peace, and

stability. Here we are not engaged in any buying or selling. That knowledge "I

Am" without concepts is evoked or stimulated by the consciousness and peace,

which emanate from that place.

 

Q: That is why it is valuable to be with Maharaj.

 

M: I am not able to speak much. Don't ask questions. If you want, you may go

elsewhere.

 

Q: I have been with Maharaj before and I have felt a profound effect from that

visit. I understood more.

 

M: Whatever the experiencer feels or thinks is all in the consciousness, and is

not real.

 

Q: It is difficult for me to express.

 

M: There is not individual looking at another individual; the sense of presence

is cognizing. Other than that, there is nothing. This state of consciousness

cognizing what appears in consciousness is being witnessed as a temporary state.

The alternate states of waking, sleeping, and the sense of presence are all

temporary states that have come upon me. I am not the states. They have all

come spontaneously and will so spontaneously. No one has any control over them.

Are any of these states your true nature?

 

Q: The sense of presence is what I feel I am.

 

M: Will that remain permanently? You must understand that truth is not

changeable. Truth is constant and eternal. Where as the combination of these

three states have come upon you and were not there earlier. Whatever is

temporary and time-bound cannot be the truth.

 

It is good, as far as it goes, that you have identified with this sense of

presence, but understand that even that is temporary and not your true nature.

The most important thing for you is the "I Am". Just be that and the necessary

guidance will come.