CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE ABSOLUTE: NOV 12, 1980

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November 12, 1980 Page 11

 

M: The `I Amness', the manifest Brahman, and Isvara are all only one;

ponder over this and realize it. This is a rate opportunity, one

where all has been explained in great detail, so take full advantage

of it.

 

You are the manifest Brahman. I have told you many times what your

true nature is, but, through force of habit, you again descend into

body identification. A stage has now arrived at which you must give

up this bodily identification. The bodily activities will continue

until the body drops off, but you should not identify with them.

 

Q: How are we to do it?

 

M: You can watch the body, so you are not the body. You can watch the

breath, so you are not the vital breath. In the same way, you are not

the consciousness; but you have to become one with the consciousness.

As you stabilize in the consciousness, dispassion for the body and

for the expressions through the body occurs spontaneously. It is

natural renunciation, not a deliberate one.

 

It does not mean that you should neglect your worldly duties; carry

these out with full zest.

 

Q: Shouldn't we rediscover the freedom of the little body from the

body?

M: Understand the source of child. The child is a product of the

sperm of the father and the ovum of the mother. Consciousness is

there in the child as it is in the parents; it is always the same

consciousness whether in the child or the adult. There is only one

consciousness. You must become one with and stabilize in that

consciousness, then you transcend it. That consciousness is your only

capital. Understand it.

 

To what extend do you know yourself?

 

Q: I have held the feet of Sat-guru, beyond that I don't know

anything.

 

M: You must do that, but you should understand the meaning of

the `feet of Sat-Guru'. Understand that, as movement begins with the

feet, so movement begins from no-knowing-ness to knowing-ness. When

the knowing-ness occurs, that is Sat-guru movement. Go to the source

of that movement where the `I Am-ness' begins. The effort of the one

who has arrested that movement will not go to waste. Holding the feet

of the Sat-guru is the borderline between knowing-ness and no-knowing-

ness.