CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE ABSOLUTE: NOV 8, 1980

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November 8, 1980 Page 9

 

Q: Why is it that we naturally seem to think of ourselves as separate

individuals?

M: Your thoughts about individuality are really not your own

thoughts; they are all collective thoughts. You think that you are

the one who has the thoughts; in fact thoughts arise in consciousness.

 

As our spiritual knowledge grows, our identification with an

individual body-mind diminishes, and our consciousness expands into

universal consciousness. The life force continues to act, but its

thoughts and actions are no longer limited to an individual. They

become the total manifestation. It is like the action of the wind –

the wind doesn't blow for any particular individual, but for the

total manifestation. 9

 

Q: As an individual can we go back to the source?

M: Not as an individual; the knowledge `I Am' must go back to its own

source.

Now, consciousness has identified with a form. Later, it understands

that it is not that form and goes further. In a few cases it may

reach the space, and very often, there it stops. In a very few cases,

it reaches its real source, beyond all conditioning.

 

It is difficult to give up that inclination of identifying the body

as the self. I am not talking to an individual, I am talking to the

consciousness. It is consciousness which must seek its source.

 

Out of that no-being state comes the being-ness. It comes as quietly

as twilight, with just a feel of `I am' and then suddenly the space

is there. In the space, movement starts with the air, the fire, the

water, and the earth. All these five elements are you only. Out of

your consciousness all this has happened. There is no individual.

There is only you, the total functioning is you, the consciousness is

you.

 

You are the consciousness, all the titles of the Gods are your names,

but by clinging to the body you hand yourself over to time and death –

you are imposing it on yourself.

 

I am the total universe. When I am the total universe I am in need of

nothing because I am everything. But I cramped myself into a small

thing, a body; I made myself a fragment and became needful. I need so

many things as a body.

 

In the absence of a body, do you, and did you, exist? Are you, and

were you, there or not? Attain that state which is and was prior to

the body. Your true nature is open and free, but you cover it up, you

give it various designs. END 10