YOU LISTEN FROM BODY-MIND STANDPOINT.....C&A 2-9-81

[Guest guest]

Excerpt from:

" Consiousness and the Absolute "

 

 

 

 

My present state is such that

this consciousness and all this

physical suffering are unbearable.

 

I am prepared to dispose of it

right now; this is the state of affairs.

 

Nevertheless, people come here

and these talks emanate out of

the consciousness.

 

 

 

I am addressing you as consciousness.

 

You are the Godly consciousness.

 

 

 

I am not concerned with your

bodily affairs.

 

But you listen from the body-mind

standpoint.

 

It is quite natural.

 

 

 

 

I am telling you about

the consciousness.

 

In my true state,

if I had been aware of consciousness

at the moment the body formation was

taking place, I would have rejected it.

 

But at that highest state,

such knowledge is not there.

 

This body formation and consciousness

are both spontaneous.

 

 

 

 

Questioner:

Maharaj, will you please explain how we

can dive further into that consciousness?

 

Maharaj:

How long have you been following

spirituality?

 

 

 

Questioner:

For the last ten years.

 

Maharaj:

Who were your guides or gurus?

 

 

 

Questioner:

Mostly I was reading.

I had a guru in Delhi.

 

Maharaj:

Who is enjoying the body

and the name given to it?

 

 

 

Questioner:

That is what I want to discover.

 

Maharaj:

You need not go in search of it.

It will be spontaneous,

but you have to wait.

 

I had to wait such a long time

to meet you.

 

 

 

Questioner:

I will wait.

 

Maharaj:

Now, understand the subtle difference--

what are you, and what do you

understand to be you?

 

The body is not you.

The body is the food you have consumed.

 

The taste of it is the knowledge " I Am " .

That is Self, the feeling " I Am " ,

that is the " love to be " .

 

How amazing, how incredible,

it has no name,

but you give many names to it.

 

It is the Self, the love to be.

 

That " love to be " is all-pervading.

 

 

 

Heaven, hell, countries, houses,

these are all concepts.

 

There were rock and earth,

a concept was employed,

and buildings were built.

 

Before you conceptualize anything,

you are.

 

Even before knowingness,

you are.

 

 

 

You have only to apperceive this

knowingness, the love to be, the Self.

 

Who will be listening to such dialogues?

 

Only the Self in the body

has the urge to understand.

 

People hasten to this place,

traveling from distant countries,

leaving their families for the time being,

because the Self wants to know itself.

 

 

 

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