The Food Body/ Larry

[Guest guest]

On Dec 19, 2005, at 2:32 AM, Nisargadatta wrote:

 

> The Food Body

>

> In a message dated 12/18/2005 3:01:14 PM Pacific Standard Time,

> pedsie4 writes:

>

>> P: Do you believe consciousness is an essence,

>> or it's as Maharaj calls it the product of

>> the food body?

>>

>> Larry: First, I have a problem with belief statements. A belief is

>> a guess

>> and I'd rather not guess.

>> I can see why he says that but the food body and the inner body, the

>> conscousness, are one body, and everybody's food body is part of the

>> same body on

>> all the levels of manifest existence. It's all quite mavelous and

>> strange: way

>> beyond words.

>

> Essence versus non-essence is just a way to talk about things.

>> There is no division, actually.

>

>

>

 

P: Very romantic of you, Larry. I'll let Maharaj himself

tell you what he thinks of the food body, consciousness,

and spirituality:

 

" The sum total of my spirituality now is nothing, even the

word 'nothing' is not there, so there is no spirituality left.

Suppose I do not like my body, or even the vital breath,

what can I do? The body is there, and the breath, and

therefore, this 'I amness' is there. They function by

themselves, why should I worry about it? It's having its

play, let it have it. So long as the knowingness, the I

amness is there that attraction will be there for others,

The knowingness is the outcome of the food body;

when this body is consumed, where is the I amness?

 

There is no such thing as spirituality; whatever is, is

only the worldly life, in the five-elemental play. You

are nothing better than vegetation. Just as grass is

growing, humans being are growing. Will anyone

accept this? Birth is a material aspect, If you are

yourself alone, that state will not be felt; but there is

a foreign element, only then the suffering starts.

On you, the original, this foreign element is imposed

that is why there is suffering.

 

You will not inquire into what you are. Because you

are intellectuals, you prepare delicacies out of your

intellect and you will go on eating that. Even in

spirituality you employ your intellect, you prepare so

many delicacies and you enjoy them.

 

Take a hint from what I say, that you experience the

world at all is the result of somebody's fun; now is

has become the source of misery. "

 

" Consciousness and the Absolute. " page 44.