Consciousness and the Absolute.. 13 left after this one

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June 11, 1981

 

 

 

Maharaj: What do you know about your body? What is it and what are you? Body

is the form or shape. The taste of the food body is the knowledge "I Am". What

is your identity, which you feel or experience in this body? Your words are all

right but are you the words?

 

You are wearing the clothes - but are you the clothes? There is no permanent

form. The body continuously changes. So long as you identify yourself with the

body, you will not have satisfaction. This is the space, I am not the space.

You must have the firm conviction about you own Self. You must have that deep

urge to know yourself. Grace is always there. Your first conviction, that "you

are", which is prior to words, to that you have given the form of a body. Give

up this bodily identity. Prior to words you are, just be that.

 

Q: How can I be that?

 

M: What ever you are, don't give it any shape or design, that is all. If you

are, then everything else is. Worshipping books and being devoted to books will

lead you nowhere. Be you Self. Be devoted to you Self, worship only that.

Worship the knowledge "I Am" as a God, as your guru. Do you see the image of

your self in the mirror first, or do you know you are prior to that? Which is

first? If you are not can you see you image in the mirror? Give up trying to

evaluate the real I or the counterfeit I, but associate the I with the Brahman,

I am the Brahman. Whatever you have heard is good enough for you. No further

listening to any such knowledge is necessary. What ever you have listened to so

far is good enough for you if you imbibe that and abide in it. Nothing more

will be available to you. You are the Brahman in totality, nothing more.

Unfortunately you have conditioned you Self to believe that you, the Brahman,

are the body. Now you know you are not the body. Why are you over whelmed by

that counterfeit bodily identity " I"?

 

You have a lot of knowledge but it pertains to the practical world. So far

you have not got the knowledge of the Self. I will not talk about the worldly

knowledge. It does not end here.

 

This is the world. The world is covered by the space. The knowledge of

space is there. The space is contained in the knowledge "I Am" and prior to "I

Am" is chidakash. Chidakash {"I Amness"} is the source of the universe.

Chidakash is the root of the mind space. There can't be any knowledge of I am

like this or I am like that; you cannot be like this or like that. Because of

the chidakash, mahakash {the great space} is there. The space of the world is

there because of the space of the mind, or prior to mind. One space is covered

by more subtle and more expansive space. At the base of that space is the

knowledge "I Am". If one abides in the chidakash knowledge, one will realize

that one has no birth and no death.