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No Larry,

 

That is all romantic nonsense.

 

Consciousness is its content, without content no consciousnes. And

you are your content and I am my content and we don't look through

the same eyes and life ist not consciousness - thats all bs

 

Wake up from your science fiction romance, Larry

 

Werner

 

 

Nisargadatta , epston@a... wrote:

>

> In a message dated 12/18/2005 3:08:31 PM Pacific Standard Time,

> wwoehr@p... writes:

>

> > There is no consciousness which is the same. Every consciousness

is

> > unique and absolute personal. No single human shares the

> > consciousmess of or with another.

> >

> > You are your consciousness and I am mine, and both are total

> > different.

>

> Dear Werner,

>

> Personality is different, consciousness is the same. One

consciousness is

> looking out of all eyes, strange as it may seem. You see it your

way. I see it

> my way. Yet both ways connect to the same Life.

>

> Larry

>

>

>

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> Dear Werner,

>

> Personality is different, consciousness is the same. One

consciousness is

> looking out of all eyes, strange as it may seem. You see it your

way. I see it

> my way. Yet both ways connect to the same Life.

>

> Larry

 

This is laughable! It would mean that Life, as capitalized by Larry

for the purpose of imbuing it with some special meaning, is

responsible for seeing Itself in at least two differing and

contradictive ways: Larry's and Werner's. There is only one correct

way of seeing things: mine.

 

Silver

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> No Larry,

>

> That is all romantic nonsense.

>

> Consciousness is its content, without content no consciousnes. And

> you are your content and I am my content and we don't look through

> the same eyes and life ist not consciousness - thats all bs

>

> Wake up from your science fiction romance, Larry

>

> Werner

 

I am rarely aware of my own content. Lol. If it weren't for moments

of self and other-awareness, I wouldn't know that I exist! Since I

barely know my own content, how could I hope to know another's? I can

hardly see through my own eyes; for me to see through another's is

impossible.

 

Silver

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Nisargadatta , " s_i_l_v_e_r1069 " <silver-

1069@h...> wrote:

>

> > No Larry,

> >

> > That is all romantic nonsense.

> >

> > Consciousness is its content, without content no consciousnes.

And

> > you are your content and I am my content and we don't look

through

> > the same eyes and life ist not consciousness - thats all bs

> >

> > Wake up from your science fiction romance, Larry

> >

> > Werner

>

> I am rarely aware of my own content. Lol. If it weren't for

moments

> of self and other-awareness, I wouldn't know that I exist! Since I

> barely know my own content, how could I hope to know another's? I

can

> hardly see through my own eyes; for me to see through another's is

> impossible.

>

> Silver

>

consciousness has the quality of light, not of darkness.

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Nisargadatta , " bigwaaba " <bigwaaba> wrote:

>

> Nisargadatta , " s_i_l_v_e_r1069 " <silver-

> 1069@h...> wrote:

> >

> > > No Larry,

> > >

> > > That is all romantic nonsense.

> > >

> > > Consciousness is its content, without content no consciousnes.

> And

> > > you are your content and I am my content and we don't look

> through

> > > the same eyes and life ist not consciousness - thats all bs

> > >

> > > Wake up from your science fiction romance, Larry

> > >

> > > Werner

> >

> > I am rarely aware of my own content. Lol. If it weren't for

> moments

> > of self and other-awareness, I wouldn't know that I exist! Since

I

> > barely know my own content, how could I hope to know another's?

I

> can

> > hardly see through my own eyes; for me to see through another's

is

> > impossible.

> >

> > Silver

> >

> consciousness has the quality of light, not of darkness.

 

Right. Without light, I can't see. I'm blind when darkness

surrounds me. If you could see through my eyes right now, what am I

looking at? You don't know, do you? You're not conscious of

anything else but your own consciousness. What am I thinking about

right now? You don't know. You don't know what I'm feeling either

because my content is mine alone and yours is yours. Larry is saying

that we share the same content. He's saying that there is some kind

of supercontent possessing us and seeing everything that we see and

thinking our thoughts and feeling what we feel. It's absurd!

 

Silver

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Nisargadatta , " s_i_l_v_e_r1069 " <silver-

1069@h...> wrote:

>

> Nisargadatta , " bigwaaba " <bigwaaba>

wrote:

> >

> > Nisargadatta , " s_i_l_v_e_r1069 " <silver-

> > 1069@h...> wrote:

> > >

> > > > No Larry,

> > > >

> > > > That is all romantic nonsense.

> > > >

> > > > Consciousness is its content, without content no

consciousnes.

> > And

> > > > you are your content and I am my content and we don't look

> > through

> > > > the same eyes and life ist not consciousness - thats all bs

> > > >

> > > > Wake up from your science fiction romance, Larry

> > > >

> > > > Werner

> > >

> > > I am rarely aware of my own content. Lol. If it weren't for

> > moments

> > > of self and other-awareness, I wouldn't know that I exist!

Since

> I

> > > barely know my own content, how could I hope to know

another's?

> I

> > can

> > > hardly see through my own eyes; for me to see through another's

> is

> > > impossible.

> > >

> > > Silver

> > >

> > consciousness has the quality of light, not of darkness.

>

> Right. Without light, I can't see. I'm blind when darkness

> surrounds me. If you could see through my eyes right now, what am

I

> looking at? You don't know, do you? You're not conscious of

> anything else but your own consciousness. What am I thinking about

> right now? You don't know. You don't know what I'm feeling either

> because my content is mine alone and yours is yours. Larry is

saying

> that we share the same content. He's saying that there is some

kind

> of supercontent possessing us and seeing everything that we see and

> thinking our thoughts and feeling what we feel. It's absurd!

>

> Silver

 

 

maybe :)...but you seem to know what Larry is thinking?!? how the

hell is it possible?!?

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Maharaj in addition makes the next step and calls consciousness

a 'fever'. With that remark he deprives conciousness of any spiritual

quality.

 

Werner

 

 

Nisargadatta , " s_i_l_v_e_r1069 " <silver-

1069@h...> wrote:

>

> Nisargadatta , " bigwaaba " <bigwaaba>

wrote:

> >

> > Nisargadatta , " s_i_l_v_e_r1069 " <silver-

> > 1069@h...> wrote:

> > >

> > > > No Larry,

> > > >

> > > > That is all romantic nonsense.

> > > >

> > > > Consciousness is its content, without content no

consciousnes.

> > And

> > > > you are your content and I am my content and we don't look

> > through

> > > > the same eyes and life ist not consciousness - thats all bs

> > > >

> > > > Wake up from your science fiction romance, Larry

> > > >

> > > > Werner

> > >

> > > I am rarely aware of my own content. Lol. If it weren't for

> > moments

> > > of self and other-awareness, I wouldn't know that I exist!

Since

> I

> > > barely know my own content, how could I hope to know

another's?

> I

> > can

> > > hardly see through my own eyes; for me to see through another's

> is

> > > impossible.

> > >

> > > Silver

> > >

> > consciousness has the quality of light, not of darkness.

>

> Right. Without light, I can't see. I'm blind when darkness

> surrounds me. If you could see through my eyes right now, what am

I

> looking at? You don't know, do you? You're not conscious of

> anything else but your own consciousness. What am I thinking about

> right now? You don't know. You don't know what I'm feeling either

> because my content is mine alone and yours is yours. Larry is

saying

> that we share the same content. He's saying that there is some

kind

> of supercontent possessing us and seeing everything that we see and

> thinking our thoughts and feeling what we feel. It's absurd!

>

> Silver

> >

>

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Nisargadatta , " Werner Woehr " <wwoehr@p...> wrote:

>

> No Larry,

>

> That is all romantic nonsense.

>

> Consciousness is its content, without content no consciousnes. And

> you are your content and I am my content and we don't look through

> the same eyes and life ist not consciousness - thats all bs

>

> Wake up from your science fiction romance, Larry

>

> Werner

>

 

There is separation and connection at the same time. My physical body

is separate from the rest of the universe but at the same time a

seamless part of that same universe. There is not my body PLUS the

physical universe, there is the physical universe which INCLUDES my

own body. Consciousness may also be separate as an experience, just as

my body as an experience is separate. Some people say that they know

that there is only One Consciousness, but I myself do not experience

myself as one with the world as one consciousness. My experience (at

least up until now) is that I have a separate mind.

 

But let's look at what the content of my mind is. It is based on

genetical inheritence when I was born, a result of millions of years

of evolution. So my genetical build-up is perhaps unique, but has very

much in common with the rest of humanity. Then I have my social

conditioning and a sense of separate self, a " me " has been formed

since childhood up to this day. That conditioning ALL comes not from

me but from society. So the only thing that is a personal " me " is a

result of genetical inheritance interacting with society. Therefore

the " me " is as content only stuff from the society I live in and

genetical inheritance. Nothing of the content which I say is " me "

really belongs to me! It's all external stuff. I can perhaps say that

my personal free will is me, but even that is a result of society and

biological background. So what is me anymore? :-)

 

al.

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Divine Message of His Holiness Shri Datta Swami

 

Any human being cannot do any work just by will even after long concentration.

The same work happens as soon as the Lord wishes just once. This whole Universe

is created just by His one wish. The faith is a long time concentrated will

power. The will is common in both the Lord and human being. The will is a

characteristic of awareness. This awareness is common item in both the Lord and

the human being. Therefore, will is also a common item in both the Lord and

soul (human being). All these worlds are created just by one wish of the Lord.

But even if the soul wishes one crore times in a highly concentrated way called

“Faith”, even an atom is not created. When both are forms of awareness, why

this vast difference comes? Just the one wish of the Lord appears as the solid

Universe to all the souls! Even the highly concentrated will of a soul is not

appearing as materialized form to other souls. Such will is not even appearing

as imagination to other souls. It is appearing

as imagination only to that particular soul, which imagined so. In one house

the bulb is not glowing in-spite of putting on the switch several times. But in

another house, the bulb is glowing when just once its switch is put on. In both

the houses, same switches, same wires and same bulbs exist. But, the difference

is that in the first house, there is no current. In the second house, there is

current. Similarly in the awareness of soul, God (Parabrahman) does not exist.

In the awareness of the Lord, God exists. This awareness is called as Brahman,

because awareness, which is the first creation of God, is greatest among all the

items of creation. Brahman means anything, which is greatest among a category

of items.

 

The word Parabrahman means God or Creator, who is beyond Brahman. Due to the

power of God only, creation takes place. Mere awareness has no such power to

create this Universe. This awareness is the will or imagination of God. This

Universe appears always as imagination only to God. This Universe itself is an

ocean of awareness. The soul is a drop in it. The power of the ocean is far

greater than the power of the drop. Due to this only, this universe appears as

materialized solid to the soul. This whole universe is again a drop only in the

awareness created by God in the beginning, which is called as “Mula Prakruti” or

“Maha Maya”. God does not exist in the Universe. Therefore, this Universe

becomes a scene to the spectator-God. Scene must be different from the

spectator. The “Mula Prakruti” into which God entered and pervaded is called as

Lord (Eswara). This Lord is spectator and Universe is scene. Thus, both the

Scene and the outer cover of Brahman are forms of

awareness only. The soul is also a form of awareness. Soul – Universe

–Spectator become greater and greater as we pass on. God is neither in the

Universe nor is in the soul. Therefore, both these have no power of creation.

Spectatorship is the characteristic of the awareness. Therefore, even the soul

is a spectator. But the soul can see its own imaginary world as imagination and

the Universe as reality. It cannot see this Universe as imagination. For the

Lord only, this Universe including all the souls is an imagination.

 

The Lord knows and sees everything in the Universe. But the soul sees and

knows only a little in the Universe. Thus the spectatorship also differs in

both the cases. The soul can see and knows everything of its own imaginary

world only. Though, the Universe is entirely awareness, a part of it becomes

spectator in the form of souls and another part is inert which does not see or

know anything. This difference took place only by the will of the Lord.

Therefore, a soul cannot throw away this difference created by the Lord and

cannot treat both as one and the same awareness. The soul cannot say that the

whole Universe has spectatorship. Some claim that they have realized the entire

Universe as one awareness, which is totally against their own experience. Such

experience of difference is the will of the Lord and so they behave differently

for all practical purposes. No scholar talks with a stone! A stone cannot

preach you and remove your ignorance for all practical purposes.

Even the Lord views both the soul and inert matter differently as per their

status, but He views both as His imagination. But the soul cannot see both as

his imagination and the soul also views both differently like the Lord. If you

refer to the external form of the Lord only, which is awareness, both the

external form of Lord and the entire soul are one and the same. The difference

is that the Lord is God embraced by the awareness, where as the soul is mere

awareness. The Lord is the wire with current, where as the soul is the wire

without current.

 

Therefore, the soul cannot achieve anything in this world just by faith only.

Its external actions may achieve something in this world but not its mere

internal will. Even this external action becomes sometimes invalid, because the

field of its action is the world, which is without God. Some say that

everything is possible by self-confidence or faith. But this statement is

laudable only till it is not analysed! The wire without current cannot create

even a ray of light in the bulb. People believe that self-faith can achieve

anything and therefore, they conclude that the self itself is the Lord.

Anything is possible only to the Lord. If a soul wishes to make everything

possible, the only way is to catch the Lord and please Him. “Self-Faith’ means

the faith that is concentrated on the Lord, who came down as a self or as a

human being. For the sake of the convenience of the soul to achieve such goal,

the Lord comes down as a soul. The faith in such soul, to believe it as

the Lord is called as “Self-Faith”. All the power of God is present in such

human incarnation, because God and His power are beyond the spatial dimensions.

 

posted by: His servant

at the lotus feet of shri datta swami

www.universal-spirituality.org

 

 

Anna Ruiz <nli10u wrote:

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s_i_l_v_e_r1069

Nisargadatta

Monday, December 19, 2005 7:02 AM

Re: Consciousness is the Same

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Nisargadatta , prakki surya <dattapr2000>

wrote:

>

> Divine Message of His Holiness Shri Datta Swami

>

> Any human being cannot do any work just by will even after long

concentration. The same work happens as soon as the Lord wishes just

once. This whole Universe is created just by His one wish. The faith

is a long time concentrated will power. The will is common in both

the Lord and human being. The will is a characteristic of awareness.

This awareness is common item in both the Lord and the human being.

Therefore, will is also a common item in both the Lord and soul (human

being). All these worlds are created just by one wish of the Lord.

But even if the soul wishes one crore times in a highly concentrated

way called " Faith " , even an atom is not created. When both are forms

of awareness, why this vast difference comes? Just the one wish of

the Lord appears as the solid Universe to all the souls! Even the

highly concentrated will of a soul is not appearing as materialized

form to other souls. Such will is not even appearing as imagination

to other souls. It is appearing

> as imagination only to that particular soul, which imagined so. In

one house the bulb is not glowing in-spite of putting on the switch

several times. But in another house, the bulb is glowing when just

once its switch is put on. In both the houses, same switches, same

wires and same bulbs exist. But, the difference is that in the first

house, there is no current. In the second house, there is current.

Similarly in the awareness of soul, God (Parabrahman) does not exist.

In the awareness of the Lord, God exists. This awareness is called

as Brahman, because awareness, which is the first creation of God, is

greatest among all the items of creation. Brahman means anything,

which is greatest among a category of items.

>

> The word Parabrahman means God or Creator, who is beyond Brahman.

Due to the power of God only, creation takes place. Mere awareness

has no such power to create this Universe. This awareness is the will

or imagination of God. This Universe appears always as imagination

only to God. This Universe itself is an ocean of awareness. The soul

is a drop in it. The power of the ocean is far greater than the power

of the drop. Due to this only, this universe appears as materialized

solid to the soul. This whole universe is again a drop only in the

awareness created by God in the beginning, which is called as " Mula

Prakruti " or " Maha Maya " . God does not exist in the Universe.

Therefore, this Universe becomes a scene to the spectator-God. Scene

must be different from the spectator. The " Mula Prakruti " into which

God entered and pervaded is called as Lord (Eswara). This Lord is

spectator and Universe is scene. Thus, both the Scene and the outer

cover of Brahman are forms of

> awareness only. The soul is also a form of awareness. Soul –

Universe –Spectator become greater and greater as we pass on. God is

neither in the Universe nor is in the soul. Therefore, both these

have no power of creation. Spectatorship is the characteristic of the

awareness. Therefore, even the soul is a spectator. But the soul can

see its own imaginary world as imagination and the Universe as

reality. It cannot see this Universe as imagination. For the Lord

only, this Universe including all the souls is an imagination.

>

> The Lord knows and sees everything in the Universe. But the soul

sees and knows only a little in the Universe. Thus the spectatorship

also differs in both the cases. The soul can see and knows everything

of its own imaginary world only. Though, the Universe is entirely

awareness, a part of it becomes spectator in the form of souls and

another part is inert which does not see or know anything. This

difference took place only by the will of the Lord. Therefore, a soul

cannot throw away this difference created by the Lord and cannot treat

both as one and the same awareness. The soul cannot say that the

whole Universe has spectatorship. Some claim that they have realized

the entire Universe as one awareness, which is totally against their

own experience. Such experience of difference is the will of the Lord

and so they behave differently for all practical purposes. No scholar

talks with a stone! A stone cannot preach you and remove your

ignorance for all practical purposes.

> Even the Lord views both the soul and inert matter differently as

per their status, but He views both as His imagination. But the soul

cannot see both as his imagination and the soul also views both

differently like the Lord. If you refer to the external form of the

Lord only, which is awareness, both the external form of Lord and the

entire soul are one and the same. The difference is that the Lord is

God embraced by the awareness, where as the soul is mere awareness.

The Lord is the wire with current, where as the soul is the wire

without current.

>

> Therefore, the soul cannot achieve anything in this world just by

faith only. Its external actions may achieve something in this world

but not its mere internal will. Even this external action becomes

sometimes invalid, because the field of its action is the world, which

is without God. Some say that everything is possible by

self-confidence or faith. But this statement is laudable only till it

is not analysed! The wire without current cannot create even a ray of

light in the bulb. People believe that self-faith can achieve

anything and therefore, they conclude that the self itself is the

Lord. Anything is possible only to the Lord. If a soul wishes to

make everything possible, the only way is to catch the Lord and please

Him. " Self-Faith' means the faith that is concentrated on the Lord,

who came down as a self or as a human being. For the sake of the

convenience of the soul to achieve such goal, the Lord comes down as a

soul. The faith in such soul, to believe it as

> the Lord is called as " Self-Faith " . All the power of God is

present in such human incarnation, because God and His power are

beyond the spatial dimensions.

>

> posted by: His servant

> at the lotus feet of shri datta swami

> www.universal-spirituality.org

>

 

Nice message!

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" Werner Woehr " <wwoehr

Re: Consciousness is the Same

 

Maharaj in addition makes the next step and calls consciousness

a 'fever'. With that remark he deprives conciousness of any spiritual

quality.

 

Werner

 

 

 

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I admit that I'm not well versed on the particular teachings of Nisargadatta

(So many gurus, so little time), but I've received daily quotes for some

time now. Some teachers declare consciousness as all there is, which therefore

is what we are. This quote from Nisargadatta would seem to agree with what you

say here regarding consciousness:

 

 

" There can be no such thing as changeless consciousness.

Changelessness wipes out consciousness immediately. A man deprived of

outer and inner sensations blanks out, or goes beyond consciousness and

unconsciousness into the birthless and deathless state. "

 

 

This tells me that he defines consciousness as the human mind and the

conscious state of the human. Here's another quote:

 

 

In God-realization, separate consciousness is discarded and duality

is transcended in the abiding knowledge of identity with the

Infinite Reality. The world of shadows is at an end and the curtain

of illusion is for ever drawn. The distress of the pursuits of

limited consciousness is replaced by the tranquillity and bliss of

truth-consciousness and the restlessness of temporal existence is

swallowed up in the peace of eternity.

 

 

Here, he seems to distinguish between the " separate consciousness " of

humanity and the " truth-consciousness " that I and others simply call

consciousness.

I wonder if that's been the source of some confusion in our discussions

here. I sometimes refer to 'human consciousness' but I tend to avoid the term

since I don't see anything occurring outside of the one consciousness. Human

consciousness, then, is an illusion of consciousness itself.

 

Phil

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Re: Consciousness is the Same

 

 

But let's look at what the content of my mind is. It is based on

genetical inheritence when I was born, a result of millions of years

of evolution. So my genetical build-up is perhaps unique, but has very

much in common with the rest of humanity. Then I have my social

conditioning and a sense of separate self, a " me " has been formed

since childhood up to this day. That conditioning ALL comes not from

me but from society. So the only thing that is a personal " me " is a

result of genetical inheritance interacting with society. Therefore

the " me " is as content only stuff from the society I live in and

genetical inheritance. Nothing of the content which I say is " me "

really belongs to me! It's all external stuff. I can perhaps say that

my personal free will is me, but even that is a result of society and

biological background. So what is me anymore? :-)

 

al.

 

 

 

---------------

I see that as a very useful line of reasoning, AL. When you contemplate the

idea of free will or choice, as you suggest, these choices are all based on

prior conditioning, and they become what I call the choiceless choice. This is

only the illusion of choice, since there is only one particular choice that

will be made, given the conditioning up to that point, over which the human

has no control. It's not difficult to imagine that, given sufficient computing

power, a computer could be programmed with all that stuff you mentioned, and

would come to exactly the same choices you do.

 

This is consistent with the non-dual perspective that there really is no

individual human who has independent volition. This is frightening to the ego,

but the ego is also illusion. What we are is the consciousness which animates

the human mechanism, but does not think or make choices except within the

context of a human vehicle which has no volition. As such, the thinking and

choices have no real meaning except in that illusory context. (They don't

represent the Truth of Reality)

 

Phil

 

 

 

 

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Divine Message of His Holiness Shri Datta Swami

 

The divine knowledge consists of two parts

 

1) If you are in Pravrutti (path of justice) only, you can attain your self by

the self-realization. In this you will be fixed in the self and get detached

from the both subtle and gross bodies. By this all the bonds related to gross

body and related to feelings (Subtle body) are cut off and you will attain the

eternal peace. All your worries, anxiety, tensions, misery, mental pain,

dissatisfaction, confusion etc., will disappear forever. You will live with

perfect peace through out your life. Peace is your property, which is the

characteristic of your soul. You have to think that you are the pure awareness,

which is stand still (called as Atman or soul). When you are attached to the

gross body or subtle body (Mind), you have lost the peace. If you are attached

to the casual body (soul), you have gained your lost peace.

 

2) In Nivrutti (path of liberation) you attain the Lord who has come in the

human form for your sake to give the bliss. Bliss is only the characteristic of

Lord as said in Veda (Anando Brahma……). Veda also says that the Lord alone can

give bliss to the soul (Eshahyeva Anandayati……). Bliss is not characteristic of

the soul. Your property is only the golden chain and not the diamond necklace.

You should not think that peace is bliss. By your effort you can attain only

peace but not the bliss. You can get the bliss only by nearing yourself to

Sadguru who is the human incarnation. You can get the cool breeze when you are

near the sea on the shore. If you are in the house, you have avoided the hot

sun. By attaining the soul you have come to zero from minus, but that is not

plus. Zero is within yourself and bliss is from external agency. When you have

attained what you have, it is avoiding loss, which can give only peace but not

the bliss.

 

Thus, the divine knowledge of Sadguru gives you atleast peace, which is the

earth, if not the bliss, which is the sky. He will give you the knowledge of

Atman to give peace. This is essential requirement for anyone in this world. A

few blessed people can also get the bliss if they realise that the Sadguru is

the Lord Himself. Therefore, you must utilise the full freedom given to you in

this human birth and you must destroy all your sins permanently through Nivrutti

only. You should be very active to use this unlimited freedom within the limited

span of lifetime. When you leave this gross body and go to upper worlds you have

no freedom at all and those upper worlds hence are called as " Bhoga Loka " which

mean that they are the worlds in which the results are to be enjoyed without any

freedom. This earth is called as " Karma Loka " which means the world in which you

are given full freedom to do anything. You are given the opportunity to receive

the divine knowledge here and if you

practice it by determination, your entire fate is changed here and there also.

 

The sages did long penance and sat in the process of self-realization for

several ages. They obtained peace of the self but not bliss of the Brahman. Then

they realized and approached Lord Krishna as Gopikas for the bliss, which they

got in Brindavanam in the vicinity of the Lord (Sayujyam). You can smile or

laugh with bliss only by attaining the Lord in human form. You can get atleast a

shadow of the bliss by remembering the Lord. But without any external agency you

cannot get happiness or bliss. If you are peaceful and silent, no body will ask

you the reason but if you are laughing and dancing in bliss stating that there

is no external reason for it, it is unnatural and people will admit you in the

mental hospital.

 

posted by: His servant

at the lotus feet of shri datta swami

www.universal-spirituality.org

 

 

ADHHUB wrote:

I admit that I'm not well versed on the particular teachings of Nisargadatta

(So many gurus, so little time), but I've received daily quotes for some

time now. Some teachers declare consciousness as all there is, which therefore

is what we are. This quote from Nisargadatta would seem to agree with what you

say here regarding consciousness:

 

 

 

 

 

 

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