Jan’ 2016
In wakeful consciousness you can observe what you can see, touch, feel and think. But the observer, you, cannot observe itself, yourself. You can only know yourself by direct insight, and not by any observation, which can only observe that which is not the self-observing. Any part that you can observe, tangible or intangible, cannot be of yourself. Denied to observable boundary, “I know that I am” is the only true, unchallengeable statement you can make. You are what you are, and all you observe is not. The self is known as being, the not-self is known as transient.
In reality all is in the mind. The observed, observation and observer are mental constructs. The self-alone is. Realise that whatever idea you have of yourself is just a stream of events; that while all happens comes and goes, you alone are the changeless among the changeful, the self-evident among the inferred. Free the observed from the observer and abandon false identity in sacrifice to reality.
Eternal spirit dwells in all neither with nor without form – B’Gita Ch: 13
The perception of separateness of form yet bound and dependent is not real. Do not be misled by words – one word may convey several and even contradictory meanings. The ‘I’ that appears to pursue the pleasant and shuns the unpleasant is in error; the ‘I am’ that sees pleasure and pain as one, inseparable, sees rightly. The witness who appears to be enmeshed in what he perceives is the person; the witness who stands aloof, unmoved and untouched is the watch-tower of the real. It is the point at which awareness, inherent in the unmanifested, contacts the manifested. There can be no world without the witness; there can be no witness without the world.
I am no thing and yet everything, visible and invisible, I am cause but not bound by action – B’Gita Ch: 9
Without beginning or end, I am all without bound – B’Gita Ch: 10
The ‘I am’ and the ‘Self’ are neither one nor separate. Without one, the other cannot be. Yet they are not one. It is like the flower and its colour. Without flower – no colours, without colour – the flower remains unseen. Beyond is the light, which on contact with the flower creates the colour. Realize that your true nature is that of pure light only – pure awareness – and both the perceived and the perceiver come and go together. That which makes both possible and yet is neither is your real being, which means not being a ‘this’ or ‘that’, but pure awareness of being and not-being. When consciousness is turned on itself, awareness shines, and the feeling is of not knowing. When Awareness is turned outward, the knowable consciousness comes into being. To say: ‘I know myself’ is a contradiction in terms for what is ‘known’ cannot be ‘myself’. There is no separation between the mind that experiences, and that which is experienced, as the two are one. The mind insists in seeing duality where there is none… ‘That I may know myself’.
I am not bound by time, no beginning, middle or end – B’Gita Ch: 11
The Enlightened is not a person in your sense of the word, though he may appear a person to you. He is that infinite ocean of awareness in which all happens. He is also beyond all existence and cognition, pure bliss of being. There is nothing he feels separate from, hence he is all. No thing is he, so he is nothing. The same power that makes the fire burn and the water flow, the seeds sprout and the trees grow, makes him answer your questions. There is nothing personal about him, though the language and the style may appear personal. A person is a set pattern of desires, thoughts and resulting actions; there is no such pattern in His case. There is nothing he desires or fears – how can there be a pattern?
Spirit is timeless, indestructible, not borne nor dies, the sward cannot cut it’ – B’Gita Ch: 2
Universal self not bound by birth or death and source of all creative forces – cause/effect – B’Gita Ch: 8
Body of man and matter is the playground of the self – B’Gita Ch: 13
It may appear that you were born into the world that was there before your birth, but to be born means to create a world around yourself as the centre. But do you ever create yourself? Or did anyone create you? Everyone creates a world for himself and lives in it, imprisoned by one’s ignorance, of personally created boundaries. All we have to do is to deny reality to such boundaries. The seed of the world may appear to exist before the child is born but the seed actually exists with him who is the witness of birth and death, but is neither born nor dies. He alone is the seed of creation as well as its residue. Don’t ask the mind to confirm what is beyond the mind. Direct experience is the only valid confirmation.
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