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Post by justlikeyou on Mar 20, 2024 13:54:24 GMT -5
Questioner: Kindly tell us how you realized.
Maharaj: I met my Guru when I was 34 and realized by 37.
Q: What happened? What was the change?
M: Pleasure and pain lost their sway over me. I was free from desire and fear. I found myself full, needing nothing. I saw that in the ocean of pure awareness, on the surface of the universal consciousness, the numberless waves of the phenomenal worlds arise and subside beginninglessly and endlessly. As consciousness, they are all me. As events they are all mine. There is a mysterious power that looks after them. That power is awareness, Self, Life, God, whatever name you give it. It is the foundation, the ultimate support of all that is, just like gold is the basis for all gold jewelry. And it is so intimately ours! Abstract the name and shape from the jewelry and the gold becomes obvious. Be free of name and form and of the desires and fears they create, then what remains?
Q: Nothingness.
M: Yes, the void remains. But the void is full to the brim. It is the eternal potential as consciousness
is the eternal actual.
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"The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that
is love." -Nisargadatta
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Post by justlikeyou on May 14, 2024 20:14:01 GMT -5
Q: Is the 'I am' the witness? Is the witness real or unreal?
M: The witness that is enmeshed in what he perceives is the person;
the witness who stands aloof, unmoved and untouched, is the watch-tower of the real,
the point at which awareness, inherent in the unmanifested, contacts the manifested.
There can be no universe without the witness, there can be no witness without the universe.
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Post by justlikeyou on May 15, 2024 18:20:20 GMT -5
Q: In your mind, or also in other minds?
M: There is only one mind.
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Post by justlikeyou on May 16, 2024 20:51:49 GMT -5
Q: I can understand that the person is a mental construct, a collective noun for a set of memories and habits. But, he to whom the person happens, the witnessing centre, is it mental too? M: The personal needs a base, a body to identify oneself with, just as a colour needs a surface to appear on. The seeing of the colour is independent of the colour -- it is the same whatever the colour. One needs an eye to see a colour. The colours are many, the eye is single. The personal is like the light in the colour and also in the eye, yet simple, single, indivisible and unperceivable, except in its manifestations. Not unknowable, but unperceivable, un-objectival, inseparable. Neither material nor mental, neither objective nor subjective, it is the root of matter and the source of consciousness. Beyond mere living and dying, it is the all-inclusive, all-exclusive Life, in which birth is death and death is birth. Q: The Absolute or Life you talk about, is it real, or a mere theory to cover up our ignorance? M: Both. To the mind, a theory; in itself -- a reality. It is reality in its spontaneous and total rejection of the false. Just as light destroys darkness by its very presence, so does the absolute destroy imagination. To see that all knowledge is a form of ignorance is itself a movement of reality. The witness is not a person. The person comes into being when there is a basis for it, an organism, a body. In it the absolute is reflected as awareness. Pure awareness becomes self-awareness. When there is a self, self-awareness is the witness. When there is no self to witness, there is no witnessing either. It is all very simple; it is the presence of the person that complicates. See that there is no such thing as a permanently separate person and all becomes clear. Awareness -- mind -- matter -- they are one reality in its two aspects as immovable and movable, and the three attributes of inertia, energy and harmony. |
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Post by justlikeyou on May 18, 2024 8:37:09 GMT -5
Q: Can there be awareness without an object of awareness?
M: Awareness with an object we called witnessing. When there is also self identification with the object, caused by desire or fear, such a state is called a person. In reality there is only one state; when distorted by self-identification it is called a person, when coloured with the sense of being, it is the witness; when colourless and limitless, it is called the Supreme.
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Post by justlikeyou on May 18, 2024 19:38:29 GMT -5
M: Your world is mind-made, subjective, enclosed within the mind, fragmentary, temporary,
personal, hanging on the thread of memory.
Q: So is yours?
M: Oh no. I live in a world of realities, while yours is of imagination. Your world is personal, private,
unshareable, intimately your own. Nobody can enter it, see as you see, hear as you hear, feel your
emotions and think your thoughts. In your world you are truly alone, enclosed in your ever-changing
dream, which you take for life. My world is an open world, common to all, accessible to all. In my
world there is community, insight, love, real quality; the individual is the total, the totality -- in the
individual. All are one and the One is all.
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Post by justlikeyou on May 20, 2024 20:02:52 GMT -5
Q: How can I make out who is a real saint and who is not?
M: You cannot, unless you have a clear insight into the heart of man. Appearances are deceptive.
To see clearly, your mind must be pure and unattached. Unless you know yourself well, how can
you know another? And when you know yourself -- you are the other.
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Post by Reefs on May 21, 2024 8:52:32 GMT -5
Q: How can I make out who is a real saint and who is not? M: You cannot, unless you have a clear insight into the heart of man. Appearances are deceptive. To see clearly, your mind must be pure and unattached. Unless you know yourself well, how can
you know another? And when you know yourself -- you are the other.Bingo! |
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Post by someNOTHING! on May 21, 2024 14:40:01 GMT -5
Q: How can I make out who is a real saint and who is not? M: You cannot, unless you have a clear insight into the heart of man. Appearances are deceptive. To see clearly, your mind must be pure and unattached. Unless you know yourself well, how can you know another? And when you know yourself -- you are the other.  |
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Post by laughter on May 21, 2024 18:33:35 GMT -5
Q: How can I make out who is a real saint and who is not? M: You cannot, unless you have a clear insight into the heart of man. Appearances are deceptive. To see clearly, your mind must be pure and unattached. Unless you know yourself well, how can
you know another? And when you know yourself -- you are the other.Bingo! |
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Post by justlikeyou on May 23, 2024 9:15:12 GMT -5
From "Consciousness and the Absolute"
(8 months before his death)
Questioner: I was pondering what Maharaj said about all consciousness being the same this morning, and for just a few seconds, it was as if everything was one and I was behind it. Is this the aim?
Maharaj: That is not the aim, IT IS SO. It is there and it is only because of identity with the body that what is, doesn't seem as if it is. Please understand that there is only one thing to be understood, and that is that you are the formless, timeless unborn. It is because of your identification with the body as an entity that your consciousness, which is universal consciousness, thinks that it is dying. Nobody is dying, because nobody was born.
The millions of forms are the manifestation of consciousness. It is the millions of forms which get created and destroyed, but universal consciousness itself is unborn and undying. Just imagine if all the millions of forms which have been created were still here - how could other forms be created? It is because consciousness is unborn and undying that the millions of forms get created and destroyed; it is a continuous process. Understand that what you are is this unlimited universal consciousness. Only that in which consciousness manifests itself is limited and is created and destroyed. The total potential of consciousness remains. It is unlimited.
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Post by justlikeyou on May 23, 2024 21:26:55 GMT -5
Questioner: When we are busy with our worldly jobs, what should we keep in mind?
Maharaj: Because the "I Am" principle is there, it is moving all over. To recognize it, you put on various uniforms in order to give it an identity, but that principle is already there, and because of that principle you are engaging in various activities. Unless you wear the uniform (the body) you will not be able to conduct any activities.This knowledge is meant for the Isvara principle, which is presently caught up in the illusion that it is the body-mind. You have accepted the identity of the uniform and that identity becomes your ego. Isvara is the manifest principle by which all activities are carried on. It has no form - the forms are given because of the five elemental play. Now, that principle gets completely lost in the uniform and is recognized by the uniform only. You have the fear of death because you fear losing your identity, the body. Since the uniform is available to you, by all means use it, but understand that you are not the uniform.
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Post by sharon on May 24, 2024 2:31:17 GMT -5
Questioner: When we are busy with our worldly jobs, what should we keep in mind? Maharaj: Because the "I Am" principle is there, it is moving all over. To recognize it, you put on various uniforms in order to give it an identity, but that principle is already there, and because of that principle you are engaging in various activities. Unless you wear the uniform (the body) you will not be able to conduct any activities.This knowledge is meant for the Isvara principle, which is presently caught up in the illusion that it is the body-mind. You have accepted the identity of the uniform and that identity becomes your ego. Isvara is the manifest principle by which all activities are carried on. It has no form - the forms are given because of the five elemental play. Now, that principle gets completely lost in the uniform and is recognized by the uniform only. You have the fear of death because you fear losing your identity, the body. Since the uniform is available to you, by all means use it, but understand that you are not the uniform. Amma is not a uniform. |
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Post by stardustpilgrim on May 24, 2024 9:17:49 GMT -5
Questioner: When we are busy with our worldly jobs, what should we keep in mind? Maharaj: Because the "I Am" principle is there, it is moving all over. To recognize it, you put on various uniforms in order to give it an identity, but that principle is already there, and because of that principle you are engaging in various activities. Unless you wear the uniform (the body) you will not be able to conduct any activities.This knowledge is meant for the Isvara principle, which is presently caught up in the illusion that it is the body-mind. You have accepted the identity of the uniform and that identity becomes your ego. Isvara is the manifest principle by which all activities are carried on. It has no form - the forms are given because of the five elemental play. Now, that principle gets completely lost in the uniform and is recognized by the uniform only. You have the fear of death because you fear losing your identity, the body. Since the uniform is available to you, by all means use it, but understand that you are not the uniform. Amma is not a uniform. ? Sri Mātā Amritānandamayī, often known as Amma, is an Indian Hindu spiritual leader, guru and humanitarian, who is revered as 'the hugging saint' by her followers. ? A mother amma noun /ˈʌmɑː/ /ˈʌmɑː/ (Indian English) (especially as a form of address) a mother ? |
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Post by sharon on May 24, 2024 12:33:01 GMT -5
? Sri Mātā Amritānandamayī, often known as Amma, is an Indian Hindu spiritual leader, guru and humanitarian, who is revered as 'the hugging saint' by her followers. ? A mother amma noun /ˈʌmɑː/ /ˈʌmɑː/ (Indian English) (especially as a form of address) a mother ? Amma that can be Googled is a uniform. But yeah, culturally the word is Asian in origin. |
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