Next.. Consciousness and the Absolute

[Guest guest]

March 5, 1981

 

Maharaj: How did you get this "I Amness"? Did it come spontaneously, or did

you try for it? As the Absolute, you were free form all concepts, including the

primary concept "I Am", suddenly you were caught up in this "I Amness". Who did

it? Has it not happened spontaneously?

 

Questioner: Yes, that is true.

 

M: You did not have this concept " I Am" in the course of the nine month in the

womb. Understand this state of affairs; the concept "I Am" comes spontaneously

and goes spontaneously. Amazingly, when it appears, it is accepted as real.

All subsequent misconceptions arise from that feeling of reality in the " I

Amness". Try to stabilize in that primary concept "I Am". In order to lose

that and with it all other concepts. Why am I totally free? Because I have

understood the unreality of that " I Am".

 

I offer my salutation to all the prophets, creeds, religions, etc. I know

they are not real; they are only the play of this consciousness. The truth, the

Eternal, cannot be witnessed. It ever prevails.

 

In you true state there are no words, but you think yourself important and

you embrace many words. Poor human beings are caught between worldly life and

spiritual life. One in a million understand all this play of consciousness,

transcends it.

 

Q: What is death?

 

M: Death is also hearsay. Have you experienced death? Having followed the

course of spirituality, you have come to the end of personality and there is

snot more human being. There is only impersonal consciousness. In this realm

of consciousness all that is going on is dynamic playfulness, a process of

functioning. There is no differentiation in this process as to a person, and

entity, a community, a creed, a religion.

 

In this flash of your consciousness, all this play is going on. The play

will come to an end.

 

 

 

March 7, 1981

 

 

 

Questioner: In pursuing what Maharaj says, the result may be a type of

behavior, which will be considered peculiar in the world.

 

Maharaj: Whose behavior? And considered peculiar by whom? All this IS is the

essence of the five elements. By this apperception, the nature of the five

elements is not going to change. The essence of the five elements is this

momentary sense of presence, as compared to eternity.

 

You come here with a sense of love and regard for me, and you will benefit

to the extent of how you perceive me. If you continue to see me as an

individual, that will be the extent of your benefits; if you see me as I see

myself, and as I see you, that will be the further measure of your benefits.

The real state is that state which was prior to the arrival of consciousness.

Very few will have reached that state. Most of you will not want to go beyond

identification with and entity or a body.

 

This identification, which has been changing from infancy to your present

state, and which will continue to change in the course of time, is purely

seasonal.

 

You identify, with the body on the strength of hearsay. Your parents told

you that you were born on a certain date, and that this body is what you are.

So, based on hearsay, you formed your identity with a certain image. You may

think that now you have become jnanis and that you know your identity very well,

but most often this is a case of sensory deception. What ever your image of

yourself, it is nothing but a concept.

 

Just understand what you are, and carry on your daily life to the best of

you ability.

 

Q: Is daily puja {worship} being observed here?

 

M: Yes. Here the worshipper is the consciousness, and the object of worship

is also the consciousness.