NOBODY IS BOUND.......C&A 1-14-81

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Excerpt from Consciousness and the Absolute

 

 

Maharaj:

The Ultimate state, is that state,

in which nothing exists;

neither I, nor you, nor manifestation.

 

 

 

 

Questioner:

Can Maharaj describe the Ultimate State?

 

 

Maharaj:

Can I cut up my sleep

and make a design of it?

 

Disassociate yourself from your body,

and tell me something about that.

 

Can you describe it?

 

 

 

 

My talks are not meant

for normal human beings.

 

The normal person's

field of understanding,

does not go beyond his own body.

 

 

 

 

The one who identifies with the body,

is the consciousness itself.

 

It mistakenly assumes that it is the body,

and behaves as if its unlimited potential,

has been limited by this

one single phenomenon.

 

Therefore, with this identification,

whatever behavior the consciousness

adopts, will be limited by the body.

 

 

 

 

The one who understands

this ultimate meaning of life,

gets disassociated from the body,

and a transformation takes place.

 

 

 

 

The consciousness is universal.

Universal like the day,

universal like the night.

 

To that principle,

you cannot give a name or a title.

 

 

 

 

Who is the one, who knows.

that there was no day, no night?

 

The consciousness was not there.

 

 

 

 

Day and night,

remembering and forgetting,

the waking state and the deep sleep state,

are they one and the same thing?

 

Or are they separate?

 

 

 

 

The capacity of consciousness

is something astounding.

 

I didn't know I was.

 

Then suddenly I knew, I am.

 

This, I am ness, is the power of Maya.

 

 

 

 

Questioner:

Is the desire to be free wrong?

 

 

Maharaj:

There is nothing happening.

 

Nobody is bound.

 

Therefore there is no question

of liberation.

 

 

 

 

It is only,

when one thinks of himself

as an individual,

 

that he thinks of bondage

and liberation.

 

 

 

 

Whatever concepts you have

collected in this world,

are totally useless.

 

 

 

 

Understand that

the total manifestation

is the child of a barren woman;

 

but having understood this,

give full attention to your work,

and let that work be done

as efficiently as possible.

 

Take good care of this work

that you do in the world,

because it is an orphan.

 

 

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