Csonsciousness and the Absolute

[Guest guest]

April 22, 1981

 

 

 

Maharaj: The whole universe is experienced in the consciousness "I Am". If

that is not there, what else can ever exist? This consciousness is beating a

drum; everyone is carried away by the noise of the drum. Who looks for the

drummer: Who is sounding and beating the drum: It is so amazing that no one

casts even a glance at this speck of consciousness.

 

Questioner: When I stabilize in consciousness, is that meditation?

 

M: Who is stabilizing? Is it not the consciousness itself? This one

{referring to Jean Dunn} has understood her nature. It is all due to her faith

in the Guru. Everything that has any concern with me is sacred to her. Unless

you have such faith in the Guru, you do not attain faith in your Self. Some

people go about to this swami and that swami, for what? To lick their

leftovers. If they lick their own leftovers, how much better it would be.

 

Stuck to your own consciousness, remain in that. All the burden of you

concepts you should fuse into your consciousness, but do not use you

consciousness to build up the edifices of concepts.

 

Q: Habit is a great force which makes one stray, isn't it?

 

M: The habit of considering Self as the body has influenced everybody too much.

The knowledge "I Am" is your Guru, be in it.

 

Who is the one who sings the bhajans? It is the intellect of that Guru-who

are you, an intruder? Of course, the action of the whole world depends on this

intellect, but when this intellect reaches its apex, it gets merged into

Parabrahman.

 

You all go on writing a diary of you own concepts-I tell you, finally, it

is utterly useless. It will only serve as an instrument of bondage.

 

 

 

June 5, 1981

 

 

 

Maharaj: you now know that you are. How has this happened, because of what do

you know that you are? You have to go to the source. One hundred years earlier

you did not know you own existence. You had no problems at that time. Now,

because of this knowingness, all the problems have started. This "I Amness" has

appeared because of the body, so what knowledge do we have about the body and

what knowledge of this " I -ness"?

 

Questioner: When the body falls, when the person is dead, do the memory and the

consciousness remain?

 

M: Both the memory and consciousness are the quality of the food body. When

the body in not present, there is no question of their remaining. The "I

Amness" is a quality of the food body, but that is not the nature of the true

Self.

 

Q: What is turiya?

 

M: Turiya means that only you remain: nothing else remains. So long as you

know that you are, everything is.

 

Find out what you are and you will get all the answers; find out the source of

the body and the source of this "I Amness". If you find this out you will know

what you are.

 

Whatever changes is not your Self: this body is continuously changing. It

was not there, it appeared and it will disappear. It is not you. Find out what

you are.

 

The important thing is the consciousness. You must give your full

attention to the consciousness itself. That is the process of meditation; then

all the secrets will be revealed to you by the consciousness. The consciousness

likes that Self-love. If you are interested in the consciousness only, you will

come to know it. If you are interested in the world, then it means you are not

interested in the consciousness. If you are interested only in the

consciousness, then the consciousness will unmask all the secrets and then you

will know what you are. This "you" will know who you are, but awareness means

pure consciousness and there is no "I" there.

 

Watching yourself, that itself is meditation. To keep only consciousness,

without mixing it with anything, that is knowledge without words, that you ARE.

Thoughts will be there, but they will be weaker and weaker, so only the feeling

of " I Amness" will remain: just consciousness, without any activity. Watching

your activities is on a lower level, like watching anger, etc., that is

identification with the body-mind.

 

Q: Does Maharaj feel his body?

 

M: I come to know that everything is through the consciousness. Just as I see

you I look at this body but I am apart from it. I am not identified with the

body.

 

Consciousness Is not male of female, it is like light. Light also means

heat. When the temperature goes down, the doctor will say that the patient is

no more.

 

Q: What about reincarnation?

 

M: Even this birth is false. The quality of "I Amness" is because of the body.

You don't know whether you exist or not in deep sleep; you don't know you are,

that is all. You were not born at all; only the announcement of your existence

is there. You existed even prior to you birth; your existence is eternal, but

the knowledge that you existed came about when you were a few years old.

 

Just worry about this birth. Why worry about reincarnation? Think whether

this birth is correct.