The Next Consciousness and the Absolute

[Guest guest]

March 13, 1981

 

Maharaj: Everything happens out of our own Self. This consciousness is

spontaneously felt in the Self only. This "I" is not an individual. What is,

is the Absolute unmanifested. What appears, as if in a dream, is the

manifested, relative world, and this experience of the dreamlike state is the

same, an identical state, for everyone.

 

In this process of functioning that becomes manifest, if you accept

something as an individual event then it affects you as an individual. If you

do not take delivery as an individual but as total functioning, then you are

free of whatever is happening. The knowledge of the Self is this dream-like

feeling of "I Amness". By assuming a separate identity one taints that which is

taintless; that is the original sin.

 

Go to the very root: who are you, what are you? You are the product of the

five elements. Your feeling of "I Amness" emanates from the five elements.

Focus your attention at that point. What change should occur in you so that you

realize your Self? What change could happen to you? When you come here, you

must be expecting something to happen. What change do you expect in yourself so

that you may say, " I have now attained what I sought. I need not go to

Maharaj any more. With reference to what state are you speaking? What is that

state: In that dream-like state, I am not keeping a record of anyone coming

here, nor of any conversation among us.

 

 

 

 

 

March 21, 1981

 

 

 

Questioner: If someone understands the truth, does this have any effect on the

world at large?

 

Maharaj: The first thing that happens is that the individuality is lost, and

whatever happens then is seen as total functioning; the understanding of the

total functioning cannot be divided. There is not question of "I" or "you"

understanding something. It IS understanding.

 

This knowledge is not found in books. It is not intellectual knowledge.

Although this consciousness functions through millions of forms, it is one and

the same consciousness.

 

We have this conviction that I am, I exist, I'm alive. That conviction is

because of the consciousness, and consciousness is not aware of itself unless

the body is there, so what is the relationship? Consciousness is the taste of

the physical form. If the form is not there, the taste is not there. The body

is the essence of the physical form. If this is properly understood, is there

any individuality? This individuality is a process of manifestation

 

Q: Why does the consciousness want to preserve itself in a particular form?

 

M: When the consciousness identifies itself with a form, it is the nature of

this identity to want to continue as long as possible. Consciousness loves that

identification so much that is wants to continue.

 

Q: If this individuality is lost, will consciousness still want to continue?

 

M: Once consciousness has lost its individuality and has become on with the

universe, it will have not need to continue?