Saturday, July 15, 2017

What holds space together? Consciousness


You don't have to worry. You don't have to fear. Why?
Because you live in eternity. You live in bliss.
You live in total joy and happiness.
You are immersed in consciousness, like space.
Space is immersed in consciousness.
And all the forms, like planets, galaxies, universes,
are superimpositions in space. 

And what holds space together? Consciousness.
You do not have to do anything to understand this.
You simply have to recognize it.
You do not have to pray, or meditate, or do mantras or japa.
There is nothing you have to do to recognize your reality,
that you're the ocean, you're consciousness.
You simply have to see it, and recognize it, and awaken.
That's all you have to do.
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Why is it so hard for most people?
Because you've been attached totally, solidly, to maya,
to ignorance, to the belief in two powers, belief in separation.

You feel in your ego that you're separate from the Self,
you're separate from your source. 

This is the only reason that you suffer.
If you knew who you were,
it would be virtually impossible for you to suffer in any way. 

But this is where it becomes paradoxical.
For again you may appear to be going through some experiences,
yet the enlightened one knows they're not going through anything. 

This is why when the disciples saw Jesus hanging on the cross,
they thought he was suffering.
But Jesus, the Christ, never suffered.
Yet Jesus, the man, appeared to be suffering,
by all of his disciples, by the Roman guards.

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We're seeing two different worlds.
We're seeing the world of the Jnani, or the world of the Sage,
or the world of the enlightened one, that is pure bliss,
absolute reality, pure awareness, pure intelligence,
I am that I am, ultimate reality. 

This is the world the Sage lives in all the time,
and nothing has ever happened to the Sage. 

Nothing can ever happen to the Sage,
due to the fact that the Sage has become eternity. 

The Sage is omnipresence, all-pervading.
Yet when the average person looks at Ramakrishna or Ramana Maharshi,
and others that seem to have died a horrible death from cancer
or what ever, they say and they cry,
"Why does this person have to suffer so much?
They were so good. They were so kind.
I can't understand this. If there's any universal justice,
why does this person have to suffer?"
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Who sees the suffering?
Only the deluded one, the one who is deluded, the ignorant one.
They see through the senses.
They see through the eyes, hear through the ears,
speak through the mouth, taste the agony,
smell the blood, whatever is going on. 

The senses are getting to you as a human being.
Because you believe you're human you have senses
to make you human.
But we know now you can transcend those senses,
totally and completely, and be in another world completely and totally. 

You can transcend the senses and be totally free of them,
totally, absolutely, and be in a completely different world.
And so there is a body that appears to be going through experiences,
but only to the person who sees through the senses.
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So to get back to the dream world, in the dream world,
when you go to sleep at night, you go through many, many experiences,
do many things, you may appear to be killed,
you may appear to become a king or a queen,
you may appear to have many children, a beautiful home. 

Or you may appear to be unemployed, a homeless person.
Yet when you awaken from that dream,
you'll laugh to yourself and say,
"Well thank God it was only a dream," and you forget about it.
This mortal dream world that you're in right now,
you must also forget about, and not identify with it.
This is the way you become free.
This is the way you awaken.
This doesn't mean that you will do nothing.
It means you will do whatever you're supposed to do,
but in your mind you will be doing absolutely nothing.
-Robert Adams - T197 - Why Should We Do Anything? -
5th November, 1992

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