why, why, oh why, oh why

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Q: Why did this consciousness arise?

 

Maharaj: You are both the question and the answer.

All your questions come from your identification with

the body. How can any questions relating to that

which was prior to the body and consciousness be

answered? There are yogis who have sat in meditation

for many, many years seeking answers to this question,

but even they haven't understood it. And yet you are

complaining.

 

Q: It is a great mysery.

 

Maharaji: It's a mystery only to the ignorant. To the one

not identified with the body, it is no longer a mystery.

 

 

from Consciousness and the Absolute

[Guest guest]

The Hindu text, The Avadhuta Gita, says: " In Self there is nothing to

learn, no verses to study. The Supreme and Free One, the Enlightened

One, absorbed in the consciousness of the Pure Being sings in his

delight of a pure heart, the highest truth, as a prattler, one who

speaks the nearly nonsensical. "

 

When questions appear as answers and answers are not sought, it is no

longer a mystery :-).

 

Love,

 

Tim

 

Nisargadatta, Xan <xanma@e...> wrote:

>

> Q: Why did this consciousness arise?

>

> Maharaj: You are both the question and the answer.

> All your questions come from your identification with

> the body. How can any questions relating to that

> which was prior to the body and consciousness be

> answered? There are yogis who have sat in meditation

> for many, many years seeking answers to this question,

> but even they haven't understood it. And yet you are

> complaining.

>

> Q: It is a great mysery.

>

> Maharaji: It's a mystery only to the ignorant. To the one

> not identified with the body, it is no longer a mystery.

>

>

> from Consciousness and the Absolute