Nisagadatta: Nobody is dying, because nobody was born.

[Guest guest]

January 4. 1981

 

 

 

Q: I was pondering what Maharaj said about all consciousness being the same

this morning, and for just a few seconds, it was as if everything was one and I

was behind it. Is this the aim?

 

 

 

M: That is not the aim, IT IS SO. It is there and it is only because of

identity with the body that what is, doesn't seem as if it is.

 

 

 

Please understand that there is only one thing to be understood, and that is

that you are the formless, timeless unborn. It is because of your

identification with the body as an entity that your consciousness, which is

universal consciousness, thinks that it is dying. Nobody is dying, because

nobody was born.

 

 

 

The millions of forms are the manifestation of consciousness. It is the

millions of forms, which get created and destroyed, but universal consciousness

itself is unborn and undying. Just imagine if all the millions of forms, which

have been created, were still here - how could other forms be created? It is

because consciousness is unborn and undying that the million of forms get

created and destroyed; it is a continuous process. Understand that what you are

in this unlimited universal consciousness. Only that in which consciousness

manifests itself is limited and is created and destroyed. The total potential

of consciousness remains. It is unlimited.

 

 

 

You are seeking knowledge from the standpoint of identification with the

body and what ever can be grasped by the mind. When this body machine is there,

the technique of using it is there, and that is what you are identifying with

now, but it is not your true identity. You have not control over it, it has

appeared and it will disappear.

 

 

 

I talk to you from the perspective of the universal consciousness and I know

that all bodies are the essence of food and that they will vanish.