The Next Consciousness and the Absolute

[Guest guest]

March 12, 1981

 

 

 

Questioner: What arose first, "I Amness" or desire?

 

Maharaj: If the "I Amness" is not there, what else can there be? This

consciousness is in a state of flux, not stationary.

 

If the power to manifest itself and that knowingness {"I Amness"} has not

appeared, no identification can take place. When that "I Amness" appears, and

is accepted as real, it is conditioned, or confined to a certain identity.

 

Q: I have dropped my identity.

 

M: Who has dropped it?

 

Q: No one has dropped it. It dropped by itself. It was possible to observe

the capacity of the brain not to register anything.

 

M: If the non-reaction state were possible, consciousness would not arise.

 

Q: If consciousness is only the content of consciousness, then that knowledge

is dropped.

 

M: What is the necessity of its getting dropped? What was not, will not be.

That knowledge was not there earlier and is going to disappear.

 

There have been many teachings by the various saints who have appeared and

disappeared. In their talks here, where are the references to Christ, Rama,

Krishna, or others? Do we refer to them in our dialogue?

 

There have been so many saints, sages, and jnanis, and each one has been

enamored of a particular concept that he wanted the world to know about.

Ultimately the different religious were only individual concepts, which appealed

to the consciousness in a particular individual at a particular time.

 

Q: That is why we are here.

 

M: When you came was it not on account of your body-mind? Not only is the

body-mind unreal, but this manifest consciousness, this universe, is also

unreal. The " I Amness" is dream-like, ephemeral.

 

Even the feeling of having understood is likely to lead on into a sense of

illusion, because the individual thinks he has found something to impart to

others, but there is not individual.

 

It is so easy to get totally lost when juggling words, by attaching too

much importance to them. Just remember that the total functioning of the

manifest happens through the friction of the five elements and the talking which

takes place is a part of the total functioning. There is no question of anyone

seeking a particular benefit for himself as an individual teacher.

 

Man identifies with the gross form, he neither recognizes not identifies

with the manifest consciousness. All the activities go on because of the

consciousness, but no one really understands it.

 

When people come here they have many question and they think, after a

which, they know something, but when they finally know there will be no question

to ask.