Quotes from Consciousenss and the Absolute

[Guest guest]

M: Start with the body. From the body you get the knowledge of `I

am'. In this process you become more and more subtle. When you are in

a position to witness the knowledge `I am', you have reach the

highest. In this way you must try to understand, and the seeds of

knowledge will sprout in you.

 

When you come to the end of material world-knowledge, at that stage

you transcend the observer and the observed. That means that you are

in a true state of being-ness. Thereafter, you enter the state of

transcending being-ness, where the identities of the observer and

observed disappear.

 

Suppose somebody abuses you and you find out who it is. Is it the

body? It is not the body. Then what could it be? Finally you come to

the conclusion that it is spontaneously happening out of whatever

that body is. You will not attribute it to any individual. When your

individuality is dissolved, you will not see individuals anywhere, it

is just a functioning in consciousness. If it clicks in you, it is

very easy to understand. If it does not, it is most difficult. It is

very profound and very simple, if understood right. What I am saying

is not the general run of common spiritual knowledge.

 

When you reach a state when body is transcended, mind is transcended

and consciousness is also transcended; from then on all is merely

happening out of consciousness, which is the outcome of the body, and

there is no authority or doer-ship. When a sound is emanating out of

a body, it is not that somebody is talking, it is just words

emanating, just happening, not doing.

 

If you understand the basis thoroughly, it will lead you very far,

deep into spirituality.

 

The Absolute alone prevails. There is nothing but the Absolute. The

un-manifest manifested itself, that manifest state is Guru and it is

universal.

 

Who is the one who recognizes this body-mind? This `I Am-ness' which

recognizes the body-mind is without name and form, it is already

there.

 

June 27, 1981 Page 108

Consciousness and the Absolute