
Maharaj: Truth is timeless and beyond description. Whoever lives in that, and whatever he does, can the ego challenge the Truth that exists forever? The Truth cannot be challenged by anyone.
Sometimes a great wave sweeps over me, and I feel that I should make everything pure. But when I try to attend to it, I know that nothing can be done to change the fundamental Truth.
I see that consciousness comes into being, and that consciousness becomes the ether, as well as the food itself, and both perish into nothingness; so how is it going to be changed?
What is happening here is-out of the foliage, the grass, and the vegetation, the essence is eaten and another consciousness appears through that. Consciousness is the essence of the food that has been digested, and along with the food, that consciousness will also disappear.
During this limited span of life many have studied scriptures, performed austerities, and meditated. Whatever came out of that as thought has filled thousands of books. But once the attention is fixed on the substratum of consciousness, there is nothing left.
The consciousness that has come out of the five elements, through the body, is the quality of beingness, the knowledge that “I Am/’ That state of beingness will perish.
I have realized that I am living even when many cosmoses have come into existence and have been dissolved. All this I see, I know, and I understand. Yes, I know that I was always, ever, and abiding. Whatever has happened, I am here, ever-present.
Questioner: I am very anxious about my life, not satisfied.
M: You are immortal, you are not going to die; but give up the present meaning which you attach to life. You have only one thing to do: care for others as much as you care for yourself. Behave as if they were all yours; that is all you can do. There is no necessity for following any particular path, everything is the same. Think of that which is the center of the cosmos; don't let your attention stray in any way from this knowledge of beingness, “I Am.”
Saints and Sages have assumed many prior lives, but those lives were limited, only for that particular period. All these beingnesses have appeared on ignorance and the whole consciousness is enjoying consciousness through ignorance, which has come out of ignorance. If you leave off the pride and the ego of that knowledge which you have got through ignorance, then everything is clear.
You have some experiences and you try to benefit from them, but remember that whatever is going to be of use to you ultimately is going to harm you. Wherever there is use, there is also dis-use in this world of duality.
Whatever you like is going to create harm for you. Whatever you like most is, in the end, going to be most harmful for you, even when it is Paramatman. Whatever appears on you as knowledge, and you try to understand it and you like it, is going to be a cause of very great sorrow for you.
When you come to the state of Parabrahman there are no desires, no likes or dislikes. That is Niskama Parabrahman.
Q: What is Niskama Parabrahman?
M: Because that Niskama [desireless] Parabrahman is, this manifestation has appeared and is doing what it pleases. Manifestation is Sakama [with desire], but the support of it is Niskama.
Q: If you want to reach that state, does it mean you also act like that—I don’t care what happens, let it happen?
M: If you want to discuss it through the medium of the mind you are welcome to think of any meaning whatsoever. But whatever is done has limits. It is all limited activity.
If you want this experience you must insist on your Self, your own Atma-prema [Self-love]. Don’t leave it for a moment. You insist. Do not pray to Gods or Goddesses, only see One. Keep on knowing that “I Am” and through that insistence you will know the state that you want to reach.