con't translations/Sages/Jnanis

[Guest guest]

Continuing.....

 

 

S: No, no..

 

S: Well that’s what he said in the book.

 

R: I know. There's no emotion in the Jnani. There is no anger or happiness,

human, unless he's putting on an act. Because the mind has been completely

transcended.

 

S: There are no bodies.

 

R: There are no bodies?

 

S: So he's acting.

 

R: Apparently.

 

S: He acted a lot.

 

R: He sure did

 

S: That couldn't be understood just as his samskara? I remember reading in

Tripura Rahasya, they were talking about three types of Jnanis. One type

completely destroys any kind of samskara. Another type, that hasn't

occurred, and that he draws from that from time to time to appear to be

human I suppose.

 

R: Yes, I recall that. But that's only for an interpretation of a book. But

you have to understand, in reality there's only one Jnani, not two or three

or four.

 

S: But I suppose the question really is then was Nisargadatta coming from

the level of the mind or was he a Jnani.

 

R: He was a Jnani.

 

S: So regardless of all the things we hear about him, I mean I heard at one

point he was really angry at this one woman because she was going to see

another teacher and he was trying to throw the table at her and yelling at

her, " Get out, get out, go and see him, don’t come back, " you know.

 

S: Did he miss with the table?

 

R: They do all those things. But it was all in fun.

 

S: Many things in I AM That can be misleading.

 

R: Yes they can.

 

S: If you don't read it the right way.

 

R: That's why I've told you many times, those books are dangerous to some

people.

 

S: Somebody said, an old teacher of mine, that Jesus never laughed. Is that

true?

 

R: He never laughed?

 

S: I don't believe it.

 

R: I wasn't there. I don't know.

 

S: But if you're a Jnani, and Jesus was the same, the consciousness would be

the same, would that permit... I've seen you laugh.

 

R: No, see what you do. As you develop yourself, you have some of your

personality left in your body.

 

S: You have what?

 

R: Some of your personality. That’s sort of human. That's still part of the

illusion, that appears to be there. So when you see a Jnani reacting in a

different way it has to do with their personality, which doesn't even exist.

But it appears to exist for your sake. None of these quirks exist. But they

appear to, for your sake.

 

S: So from the onlooker actually the Jnani looks like anyone else.

 

R: Yes, and they see in the Jnani what's in them.

 

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to be continued

[Guest guest]

Roberts Adams is a joy to read, and to hear.

 

Listening to his satsangs on tape, the Silence between the words is

truly the message.

 

 

Other's conception of what a Jnani should look like, and how they

should act is understandable. The funny thing is that there are no

rules in a game full of them. :-)

 

Paul