The Next Consciousness and the Absolute

[Guest guest]

March 24, 1981

 

 

 

Maharaj: If you sit here quietly, being one with the knowledge "I am", then you

are not concerned with the world or what goes on in the world. It is only when

the consciousness starts operating and there are various movement in the

consciousness that the behavior in the world takes place. When I am not

conscious of the existence of the body, experiences are not registered.

 

Just as the universe is contained in consciousness, so too this physical

body is merely and appearance in consciousness. No amount of effort can make

you understand this; only the deepest apperception of this in consciousness will

make that experience happen by itself.

 

Anyone in that condition, where the consciousness is present but the

registration of the existence of the body is not, even in that state the

conditions in the body change constantly. All of this is an appearance in

consciousness; therefore consciousness has to suffer all of the changing

conditions.

 

In that state any number of events happen, but all that is really happening

is a total functioning against the background of this void which, in reality, is

really consciousness, apart from that no one can exist.

 

When you are very quiet, you have arrived at the basis of everything. That

is the deep, dark blue state in which there are millions of stars and planets.

When you are in that state, you have no awareness of your existence.