Priior To Consciousness

[Guest guest]

March 20, 1981

Maharaj: My personality, or individuality, is thrown to the winds; it is no

more there. What you are visiting is only that Duhkha Bhagavan, the God of

Sorrow. Bhagavan is this manifestation, but sorrow only. It is not involved in

thought or activities - it is just the manifestation. I am the total

functioning and whatever in the functioning, at the moment, has certain

significance that I am.

 

It is only by taking the aid of this consciousness, which is suffering,

that I am talking. This kind of experience happens only to a very rare one.

Don't ask anything, just listen.

 

This consciousness, this manifestation, this functioning, has no shape,

form or color.

 

Q: Would Maharaj explain more about Duhka Bhagavan?

 

Maharaj: Duhka mean pain, suffering, agony. Bhagavan mean not only God, it is

indicative of explosiveness, a flash..an explosive flash..world perception -

with the appearance of "I Amness."

 

When there is an explosion of fireworks there is a crashing sound, a flash

of light, and lighting up of the surrounding areas. Similarly the "I Am"

explodes into being and the whole perceptible universe is conjured up, but

consciousness, the "I Amness," gives rise to inadequacy, imperfection, and

therefore the beginning of sorrow, misery, etc., and the settling into body-mind

sense. From perfect to imperfect - from no-being to being. In the reverse

direction - from body-mind to beingness to Absolute - then the consciousness

state is Godly state.

 

Q: Why is there so much pain and unhappiness in this world?

 

M: Because you are always in search of happiness. Happiness and unhappiness

are interrelated. If you did not have unhappiness, how would you recognize

happiness?