GOD IS LIFE-ENERGY (CHAITANYA)
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Ram
Dec 4, 2008, 6:05:57 PM12/4/08
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GOD IS LIFE-ENERGY (CHAITANYA)
The real God is Sat-Chit-Ananda (Being, Consciousness, and Bliss). The
Consciousness in the body is God. It is that "Awareness," which
protects the body from accident, from a horse, or a serpent, etc.,
that is God. This has become evident. We must know what we are. In
this body, that which says "I," is not really anyone. All of this is
only misunderstanding and confusion. We have assumed conceptually that
we are a body, but if you take a search throughout the body, there is
neither "you" nor "I" in it. The sense of "you" and "me" is not there
in "That." We see all of the five elements but these are all created
from the Life-Energy, Chaitanya. All is this only that Life-Energy.
One who has understood that only "One Thing" is Real, is liberated
from birth and death. Beard, moustache, and hair on the head, are all
only hair. Name, form, shape etc. are all false. Once you know this
Life-Energy, all is fulfilled. In all the innumerable forms, God is
the only
One, everywhere. By analysis of the five elements, you are shown what
this Life-Energy is. By explaining the meaning of the great statement,
"You Are That," you have been told that you are Brahman. In "Original
Being," the ego (Ahankar), is the wind.
Surrendering to the Guru should be without any attachment. This must
be explained. Without attachment here means, without being
intimidated, without any other person's personal greatness exercising
any kind of pressure, or anything or anyone else putting pressure on
us. That is, it cannot be that such pressure exists, but that person
does not actively use it. It must be that the pressure is not
existent. There is not a single pressure upon our own True Being.
Therefore, neither now nor anytime in the future is there anything, or
anybody which puts any pressure upon, or competes with our True Being
for importance. We should be convinced about this. What prevents us or
pressures us at all times and everywhere in various forms is our own
confusion or misunderstanding. There is no other distortion at all.
The surrender should be like this, without any attachment.
By taking a thoughtful look at things (Vichara) the sense of
separateness disappears, and when even the stance as Consciousness
goes, there remains only Chaitanya. Then, only a natural
disinterestedness (Nivritti) remains. When the speaker disappears,
that state is called Unmani, or the "No-Mind" state. When there is no
accused, who is there to pay the fine? Nobody calls his belly as a
toilet. For whom is the threefold Karma (the past, the present and the
active) in effect? Why should one who is the King pay any penalty? Who
can fine the one who is the King? How can the inanimate physical body
have any past Karma? The body is Brahman, and the Self (Atman) is
Brahman. By "Absolute Knowledge," or Vidnyana, Knowledge has been
nullified. The meditator disappeared with the meditation. The "me,"
the entity who meditates, has become extinct along with the
meditation. The "me," which is the cause of worldly life, has gone
with that life.
That life which has disappeared has come with all its glory again, but
it has now become Brahman. All appearances are nothing but Brahman.
The one who dies is dead because he was a "non-entity." The one "who
was not," has died. No sin remains on the face of the earth. That
which has no bondage was having bondage, and that bondage is no more.
God does not have any bondage or freedom. Those who are servants of
the Guru, who is the liberator of the downtrodden, also liberate
others. They do not remain servants, they remain as Brahman.
- Shri Siddharameshwar Maharaj from a talk in "Master of Self-
Realization"
September 26, 1935
The real God is Sat-Chit-Ananda (Being, Consciousness, and Bliss). The
Consciousness in the body is God. It is that "Awareness," which
protects the body from accident, from a horse, or a serpent, etc.,
that is God. This has become evident. We must know what we are. In
this body, that which says "I," is not really anyone. All of this is
only misunderstanding and confusion. We have assumed conceptually that
we are a body, but if you take a search throughout the body, there is
neither "you" nor "I" in it. The sense of "you" and "me" is not there
in "That." We see all of the five elements but these are all created
from the Life-Energy, Chaitanya. All is this only that Life-Energy.
One who has understood that only "One Thing" is Real, is liberated
from birth and death. Beard, moustache, and hair on the head, are all
only hair. Name, form, shape etc. are all false. Once you know this
Life-Energy, all is fulfilled. In all the innumerable forms, God is
the only
One, everywhere. By analysis of the five elements, you are shown what
this Life-Energy is. By explaining the meaning of the great statement,
"You Are That," you have been told that you are Brahman. In "Original
Being," the ego (Ahankar), is the wind.
Surrendering to the Guru should be without any attachment. This must
be explained. Without attachment here means, without being
intimidated, without any other person's personal greatness exercising
any kind of pressure, or anything or anyone else putting pressure on
us. That is, it cannot be that such pressure exists, but that person
does not actively use it. It must be that the pressure is not
existent. There is not a single pressure upon our own True Being.
Therefore, neither now nor anytime in the future is there anything, or
anybody which puts any pressure upon, or competes with our True Being
for importance. We should be convinced about this. What prevents us or
pressures us at all times and everywhere in various forms is our own
confusion or misunderstanding. There is no other distortion at all.
The surrender should be like this, without any attachment.
By taking a thoughtful look at things (Vichara) the sense of
separateness disappears, and when even the stance as Consciousness
goes, there remains only Chaitanya. Then, only a natural
disinterestedness (Nivritti) remains. When the speaker disappears,
that state is called Unmani, or the "No-Mind" state. When there is no
accused, who is there to pay the fine? Nobody calls his belly as a
toilet. For whom is the threefold Karma (the past, the present and the
active) in effect? Why should one who is the King pay any penalty? Who
can fine the one who is the King? How can the inanimate physical body
have any past Karma? The body is Brahman, and the Self (Atman) is
Brahman. By "Absolute Knowledge," or Vidnyana, Knowledge has been
nullified. The meditator disappeared with the meditation. The "me,"
the entity who meditates, has become extinct along with the
meditation. The "me," which is the cause of worldly life, has gone
with that life.
That life which has disappeared has come with all its glory again, but
it has now become Brahman. All appearances are nothing but Brahman.
The one who dies is dead because he was a "non-entity." The one "who
was not," has died. No sin remains on the face of the earth. That
which has no bondage was having bondage, and that bondage is no more.
God does not have any bondage or freedom. Those who are servants of
the Guru, who is the liberator of the downtrodden, also liberate
others. They do not remain servants, they remain as Brahman.
- Shri Siddharameshwar Maharaj from a talk in "Master of Self-
Realization"
September 26, 1935
Ram
Dec 4, 2008, 6:09:50 PM12/4/08
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From: Richard
This is a more appropriate title than this chapter
was given in the previous book.
'Natural disinterestedness', I associate with listlessness
but I'm sure that's not the intent. Maybe someone can
clarify this phrase.
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From: Mahakali
Hi
Can you explain a bit more about this please?
"All appearances are nothing but Brahman. The one who dies is dead
because he was a "non-entity." The one "who was not," has died."
born in the first place, thus, they cannot die. The one "who was not"
was never born either, how can he die?
Kali
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From: Richard
What has died is the incorrect concept that the
appearances are other than Brahman.
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