Consciousness and the Absolute

[Guest guest]

June 25, 1981

 

 

 

Maharaj: I am inspired to talk but I have no energy. But whatever I say will

be so profound that very few people will understand. To start with, everything

happens in the space of the cosmos, and it results in concrete actions of the

worldly space. All this happens spontaneously. There is no author or doership

there.

 

At world level, various bodies are formed and at body level, we encounter

the attraction of the body; first of all our own body, then attraction of the

other bodies. Whatever happens in this concrete world, the instrument and the

aids come from the space. The raw material comes from the space. The space is

there prior to the light. When the light is collected together, it reflects as

the sun. Since all this is difficult to understand, the best course suggested

is to do bhajans!

 

Determination of good or bad is made only through words. Words, or sound,

are expression of the space. Only at word level does one thinks something good

or bad will happen; when one identifies with space, it is the end of good and

bad. First of all you identify something as being good or bad for yourself.

Then, in an effort to acquire good or to get rid of the bad, you have invented a

God. - then you worship such God and do bhajans and you pray to that God for

something good to happen to you.

 

 

 

June 27, 1981

 

Questioner: What is meditation?

 

Maharaj: To be one with THAT because of which we know we exist is meditation.

There are a number of names, which have been given to Gods. All of them

represent the same thing --- they represent this knowledge that one is, this

beingness, consciousness. This knowledge does not refer to an individual, but

to the sense of presence as a whole. Instead of accepting this knowledge as a

total functioning, one wants to cut up the knowledge into bits and pieces,

taking a part for himself, based on some concept. Any knowledge based on a

concept is not true knowledge.

 

There is no such thing as an entity. Now you know that you are awake

because, you are here and you have that knowledge.

 

There is nothing else other than knowledge, no entity.

 

When you are dwelling in this consciousness you see that you are not doing

anything, it is all happening spontaneously. The is no question of your trying

to do anything. You cannot try to be you Self, because you are your Self.

 

Q: I am concerned about my family. I want them to have spiritual propensities

and get awakened spiritually. I try to feed them this knowledge.

 

M: If they are deserving, they will receive whatever has been fed.