CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE ABSOLUTE: November 24, 1980

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November 24, 1980 Page 17

 

Q: If there is no difference between what is prior to birth and what

is after death there is no difference, is there any reason for

attempting to learn who we are now? Isn't it all the same?

M: The light coming from the sun and the sun itself - is there any

difference?

Q: The only difference is what happens in the middle?

M: Whatever happens between birth and death is also an expression of

the consciousness only. Even in the realm of consciousness you pass

the time entertaining various concepts; what else are you doing?

 

Q: Is Maharaj playing with various concepts?

M: Consciousness is not private property, it is universal.

Q: Though we understand this, sometimes it seems confined to a body.

 

M: You are trying to understand with the intellect; just be. When I

tell you that you are that dynamic, manifest knowledge, you are

everything. What else do you want?

 

Q: I am aware that I came here because Maharaj gives me the mirror,

but this time he is showing me that I am my own mirror.

 

M: That is why you should not stay for long.

Q: After we leave here, what are we to do?

 

M: It is up to you. If you abide in consciousness everything will be

happening spontaneously. If you are still at body-mind level, you

will think that you are doing something. If you really abide in what

I say, you become one with your Self. Then people will be serving

you, they will fall at your feet. Whatever is necessary for you will

happen. Activities are bound to happen. Consciousness can never

remain inactive, it will always be busy – that is its nature. When

you come here, you have certain expectations, certain aspirations,

but after listening to my talks you lose all that.

 

Q: Even when I have an intuitive understanding of this, what is this

reluctant to give up all that I am not?

 

M: You have not stabilized firmly in that understanding. Your

conviction should be such that no question at all should arise in

future about that. For example, a person is dead and has been

cremated, it is all over, is there nay question about that? Like

that, it will be all over.

 

Q: What effort do I need to make toward that?

 

M: Effortless, just be.

When the consciousness fully understands the consciousness, will it

embrace the body as itself? It is in totality; it is not going to

pick out a fragment of the manifestation and say, `I am this'.

 

The consciousness expresses itself as does a light. This five

elements play is the manifestation of consciousness, the effulgence

of consciousness only. The play of the five elements will finally

merge into the consciousness, because it is an outcome of the

consciousness.