Maharaj Quote: Prior to words and feelings, you are.

[Guest guest]

" Excerpt from Consciousness

and the Absolute. " 2-7-81.

 

Questioner:

I am becoming more aware of my

" I Amness " as a product of the

food body.

 

 

Maharaj:

You must be that principle prior to the

emanation of the word, I.

 

Suppose I get a prick here -

that principle,

prior to the emanation of words,

knows there was a prick.

 

Prior to words and feelings,

you are.

 

 

 

Questioner:

How is it possible to know and feel

that Absolute?

 

Maharaj:

This knowingness, or understanding,

is in the realm of consciousness.

 

Whatever you say that you know

and feel is consciousness only.

 

The Absolute is beyond this.

 

 

 

Questioner:

In practice, how can we go further?

 

 

Maharaj:

Deal with the consciousness only.

 

Get to know it thoroughly.

 

That is all that can be done.

 

Later on, everything happens

spontaneously, doership goes.

 

Know the inside-out of

consciousness,

and recognize it as useless;

it is a fraud.

 

When you transcend it,

you will say, " I can manage

without this " . " This is imperfect. "

 

Therefore, meditate in order to

know the consciousness.

 

 

 

 

Questioner: I have never been

able to meditate.

 

When you were unaware of

this message of " I Am " ,

how did you function?

 

The questions I put,

nobody can answer.

 

All of you great scholars,

people with a lot of knowledge,

have gone into quietude.

 

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