Guest guest Posted November 1, 2002 Report Share Posted November 1, 2002 Maharaj: " Why should consciousness, which is inadequacy, which is sickness, be there at all? To a jnani, consciousness has not happened at all. If the consciousness tries to understand itself it gets stabilized in due course in the Absolute. And when the consciousness gets stabilized in the Absolute, it knows it's like a ghost, it's not real. It is not palpable. You did not know your own existence after you were born. Nine months in the womb and for sometime afterwards that " I am so and so " is absent. When you start recognizing your mother you also become aware of your own existence. That " I amness " comes sometime later. Mother teaches you, in ignorance, that you are the body and you begin to believe that. Your mind also stars slowly to develop. So right from the beginning, because of ignorance the Absolute doesn't know itself; and because of the body, it started knowing that it is-- I Am. Because of the ignorance you had to ask somebody, " who am I? otherwise you would not have asked anybody. Even so called incarnations such as Rama were like this, they had to be taught. The incarnations are just like you. The bondage with the body came because of wrong teaching, and the guru came and told you that you are not the body, and then you were liberated. That is why all these births are taking place. If you new the bondage you would have refused the birth. But because the I Amness was absent, you were trapped. " Here, in this last paragraph, Maharaj clearly states that before birth the Absolute has no notion of its own existence and, therefore, is powerless to refuse any birth. Pete HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs./ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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