Consciousness and the Absolute include the last one also.

[Guest guest]

June 21, 1981

 

 

 

Maharaj: Any image you have of yourself is not true. True knowledge is to

abide in your own Self. Try to understand all this knowledge, which you are now

gathering. The so-called knowledge, which you are now gathering. The so-called

knowledge you get elsewhere talks only about ignorance; it cannot talk about the

Self, true knowledge. All of what is pursued by the mind it is not true

knowledge. True knowledge cannot be understood easily. If I had the experience

" I Am" before, would I care to enter the womb of my mother? Prior to entering

the womb I did not know myself, there was no knowledge of "I Amness" All

so-called knowledge is tainted by words, which is only ignorance. You, the

Absolute, watch the waking state, you know the consciousness, you know the

sleeping state; therefore, you are not that.

 

Among the millions of people who have come and gone, where am I counted

among them? There is not individuality connected with any of those forms, but I

have always been, and I am, the total functioning. Without me the functioning

cannot take place. I am the total functioning every moment, million of years

ago or now.

 

In spite of my clearly understanding the foregoing, the bodily suffering

has to be undergone because of the consciousness. The name of the consciousness

is suffering itself. The life of suffering is nearly over. Whatever this

principle is, together with the body and consciousness, it is experiencing all

the sufferings and knows itself that it is worth million of dollars, like a keg

of gold.

 

This principle, which has understood and realized what the suffering and the

consciousness are, is worth millions. I do not follow the spirituality of the

masses. In this space spirituality of the common type will not be doled out to

you. That Ultimate you can never be lost; what ever you have lost, you have

lost only the words. That Ultimate you knows or feels "I Am" without words.

Through this; I AM" comes the world knowledge. You are not in isolation; you

are part and parcel of the world knowledge.

 

Jivatman is the one who identifies with the body-mind as an individual

separate from the world. The Atman is only beingness, or the consciousness,

which is the world. The Ultimate principle, which knows this beingness, cannot

be named at all. It cannot be approached or conditioned by any words. That is

the Ultimate state.

 

I do not want meek and humble disciples, I want them to be powerful as I

am. I do not make disciples, I make Gurus.

 

I want you to jump in the test tube in the process of this investigation.