Pointers from Maharaj: Core of his teaching Page 192

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There is a basic fundamental question at this stage.

Who has come to this conclusion?

 

Who else can it be but `I'? `I' who am responsible for every kind of

manifestation, I who am every kind of manifested phenomenon, I who

was present a hundred years ago, I who was present before `time' was

conceived, I who am intemporality, I who am awareness not aware of

itself because in that, my true state of Wholeness, Unicity, there is

neither presence nor absence; absence of the presence of presence,

absence of the presence of absence is what-I-am (And every sentient

being can say this – not as himself but as `I')

Again:

 

1. Manifested existence is phenomenal, and phenomena being appearance

sensorially cognizable and time-bound is a vision, a dream, a

hallucination and therefore untrue. Unmanifested existence is

Absolute, intemporal, spaceless, not aware of existing, sensorially

not cognizable, eternal, therefore true. Who says this?

Consciousness, of course, trying to cognize itself and not succeeding

because cognizing (there is no cognizer as such) cannot cognize that

which itself is cognizing: an eye can not see itself although it sees

everything else. The seeker is the sought: this is the basic all

important truth.

 

2. I, unmanifested, am the total potentiality, the absolute absence

of the known and the knowable, the absolute presence of the unknown

and the unknowable. I, manifest, am the totality of all phenomena,

totality of the known in the inconceivablility of the unmanifested

unknown.

 

3. There can be only I – the eternal I – totally unconditioned,

without the slightest touch of any attribute, pure subjectivity. The

mere thought of `me' is immediate and spontaneous (but illusory)

bondage. Let the `me' disappear and, immediately and spontaneously,

you are I.

 

4. Phenomenally, `me' (and `you' and `he') is only an appearance in

consciousness.: how can an appearance be in bondage? Noumenally, how

can I – pure subjectivity – need any liberation? Liberation is only

being rid of the idea that there is any `one' who needs liberation.

 

5. How is one to know if one is making `progress' spiritually? Could

it be that the surest sign of `progress' is a lack of concern about

progress and an absence of anxiety about liberation in the wake of

clear apprehension? An instant apperception of the

total `functioning' of Nisarga (Nature) in which there is no place

for an autonomous entity. 193 END