Satsang with Nome - The Self alone is - Question 6

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Another Q.: (asked about illness or injury)

 

N.: The body is subject to pleasures and pains. If we think that we

are the body, we suffer in those pleasures and pains. Our experience

becomes limited, and our own Bliss is veiled. If we know that we are

not the body, we don't suffer even if there be pain. If you know that

you are not the body and are detached from its pleasures and pains,

you don't have suffering, grief, and sorrow.

 

Q.: These are conditional on thinking of myself as a body?

 

N.: Thinking of oneself as the body and, therefore, contained within

or imprisoned within the experiences of the body. So, then, you think

that what happens to the body happens to you, but that is not true.

When we see that it is not true, we realize that the sufferings have

been needless. We were free the entire time.

 

Q.: So, therefore, it is not required.

 

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Not two,

Richard