CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE ABSOLUTE: JUL 29, 1980

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Q: Why did this consciousness arise?

M: You are both the question and the answer. All your questions come

from your identification with the body. How can any question relation

to that which was prior to the body and consciousness be answered?

There are yogis who have sat in meditation for many, many years

seeking answers to this question, but even they haven't understood

it. And yet you are complaining. 7

 

Q: It is a great mystery.

M: It's a mystery only to the ignorant. To the one not identified

with the body, it is no longer a mystery. 7

Q: Maharaj cannot convey it to us?

M: I keep telling you but you don't listen.

Q: Does Maharaj see us as individuals?

M: There are no individuals; there are only food bodies with the

knowledge `I am'. There is no difference between an ant, a human

being, and Isvara; they are of the same quality. The body of an ant

is small, an elephant's is large. The strength is different, because

of size, but the life-force is the same. For knowledge the body is

necessary.

 

Q: How did Maharaj get the name Nisargadatta?

M: At one time I was composing poems. It flow out continuously until

my guru cautioned me, " you are enjoying composing these poems too

much; give them up! "

 

What was he driving at? His objective was for me to merge in the

Absolute state instead of reveling in my being-ness. 7

 

This was the way I realized knowledge, not through mental

manipulation. My guru said: " this is so, and for me, it was finished!

If you continue in the realm of intellect you will become entangle

and lost in more and more concepts. 8

 

Consciousness is time flowing continuously. But I, the Absolute, will

not have its company eternally, because consciousness is time bound.

When this being-ness goes, the Absolute will not know `I Am " .

Appearance and disappearance, birth and death, these are the

qualities of being-ness; they are not your qualities. You have

urinated and odor is coming from that-are you that odor? 8

 

Q: No, I am not.

M: This being-ness is like that urine. Can you be that being-ness? 8

Q: Absolutely not!

M: You required no more sadhana. For you, the words of the Guru are

final.