More Consciousness and the Absolute

[Guest guest]

April 6, 1981

 

 

 

Questioner: While I am sitting here, putting questions to you, I feel at peace.

Is it not a landmark, showing progress?

 

Maharaj: What are you talking about? You are talking from the kindergarten

level. I am not going to address you as a student of the mumuksha class; I am

going to address the class of sadhaka. How long have you been practicing

spirituality?

 

Q: Since childhood, because my family has been practicing spirituality for

generation; therefore, I have a hobby of spirituality.

 

M: Very good. Nevertheless, you are still at the kindergarten level. The only

solution is for to give up your identity with the body-mind.

 

Q: I know all of this intellectually, but I am not experiencing it, so I came

for satsang.

 

M: What do you mean by satsang? This is merely a conventional spiritual

jargon. Now you go from here with the firm conviction that "I am Brahman,

without any shape, form or design, and without any mental inclination. I am the

manifest consciousness." When you realize that you are formless, there is not

caste or creed for you, there are no concepts left.

 

The mumukshu is in kindergarten, spirituality inclined, but identifying

with the body-mind. The sadhaka is one who has did-identified with the

body-mind. A Siddha is one who has stabilized in the knowledge " I Am" and in

the process, has transcended it. In this journey you know very well where you

are.

 

M: {speaking to another person} this young man's mother was on her deathbed,

but I said with conviction that she was not going to die. This was some years

back and today, she is still alive. His mother was so convinced that she was

going to die that she had purchased the particular flowers, which she liked for

her funeral. I ordered her to get up and go and prepare tea for me.

 

At the time, my attitude was that "I Am the Brahman"; today that attitude

is discarded. I had the firm conviction then that what ever I tackled would

take shape, would happen. At this very place many things happened. Bhajans

have been going on here since 1932. I was the first tenant in the Vanmali

building.

 

{There was more talk of other miracles which has happened there. There

were a lot of miracles that happened around Maharaj, but her never cared to

speak about the par or the future.}

 

M: People would come here hoping to get their problems solved, and when I would

ask why they had come, they would simply state their problems. I would tell

them, " The very fact that you have come here means that you problem is bound

to be solved. You can go." Now all of you are coming; who is drawing you here?

It is your own beingness. You are attracted to this place because of a certain

quality in you. You are stabilizing in the highest state. It is not a worldly

attraction, which brings you here. Neither you nor anybody else knows anything

about this attraction. The attraction for you is to be in you eternal. Dwelling

place that is you home. When that attraction is there you come here.

 

Q: Scientists have been talking of the "black hole" into which everything is

ht universe finally goes.

 

M: You are that Absolute, you swallow the entire universe.