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creation of the world world of appearances
He (man) cannot envisage the possibility that THAT which has always been eternally present does not need a form
in order to be present - visible or invisible, material or immaterial - because he cannot give up the idea of a
separate entity as a 'me'.
His instinct of eternal presence is indeed true but his intellect cannot give up its conditioned reflex to personalize
that eternal principle. The result is that he sees the eternal principle as a 'me', leaving the existing body on
death but continuing to 'exist' phenomenally somewhere else.
Ramesh Balsekar
Can you look at that thing you call 'I'? It is very elusive. Look at it now, feel it, touch it, and tell me. How
do you look at it? And what is the thing that is looking at what you call 'I'? This is the crux of the whole problem:
the one that is looking at what you call 'I' is the 'I'. It is creating an illusory division of itself into subject
and object, and through this division it is continuing. This is the divisive nature that is operating in you, in
your consciousness. Continuity of its existence is all that interests it. As long as you want to understand that
'you' or to change that 'you' into something spiritual, into something holy, beautiful or marvelous, that 'you'
will continue. If you do not want to do anything about it, it is not there, it's gone.
U.G.
Our world is 'word-built'...constructed by our cultural beliefs. What we call reality is learned.
Michael Talbot
There is a very beautiful Sufi story that is rather relevant to what the sentient being really is. A banquet is
being given in honour of the King. All guests are assembled, seated according to rank, and only one chair remains
vacant, awaiting the arrival of the King. At this point a raggedly dressed Sufi walks in and occupies the chair
reserved for the King. The chief minister is extremely upset, and approaching the Sufi he asks:' How dare you sit
in that chair reserved for the King? Are you an important minister?'
Sufi: No, I am not an important minister, I am more than that.
Chief Minister: Are you the king?
Sufi: No, I am not the king. I am more than that.
Chief Minister: Are you the Prophet?
Sufi: No, I am not the Prophet. I am more than that.
Chief Minister: Are you God?
Sufi: No, I am not God. I am more than that.
C.M. (Horrified): How can you say that? There is nothing more than God.
Sufi: I am that "Nothing".
In the Bhagavadgita...Lord Krishna, does very clearly mention the "nothingness" (prior to the arising
of consciousness simultaneously with the concept of space-time, and the concurrent phenomenal manifestation) as
the true nature of man, though the 'nothingness' is reallv the fullness of plenum in the noumenal state. But in
His ...compassion for the individual who is vainly seeking to conceive the inconceivable, Lord Krishna is prepared
to make the compromise of dealing with the individual within the framework of the conceptual phenomenality AS IF
the individual exists.
Ramesh Balsekar
I speak with all tongues and with every ear do I hear.
Though, strange as it is, I have neither a tongue nor an ear.
Iraqui
...consider this. Look at your hand. Now look at the light streaming from the lamp beside you. And at the dog resting
at your feet. You are not merely made of the same things. You are the same thing . One thing.
M. Talbot
Q: What is the lower Self? What is the higher Self?
P.: There is no lower or higher in the Self.
Papaji
The soul will find her happiness in self perception.
Eckhart
Free Will versus Determination
Q: Is everything in my life, for example the moment and method of my death, predetermined? What freedom of choice
and action do I have in my life? Is the moment of Enlightenment pre-determined, or could it happen at any time?
P: All the activities that the body performs are predetermined. The only freedom you have is to choose not to identify
with the body that is performing the actions. Enlightenment does not happen in time. It happens when time stops.
Papaji
... the term 'observer' should be replaced by the term 'participator'. This replacement would point out the radical
new role of consciousness in physics. ...subjective and objective reality sort of create each other.
May the universe in some strange sense be 'brought into being' by the participation of those who participate?
John Wheeler
'I am' Itself is God. The seeking itself is God. In seeking you discover that you are neither body nor mind, but
the love of the self in you for the self in all. The two are one. The consciousness in you and the consciousness
in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
