September 27, 1979


Maharaj: When I feel that they have sufficient knowledge on which they can continue their own search I tell them to leave. You have allowed that knowledge to sink within your consciousness, but that knowledge will require complete rest. This would be available to you in an ashram. There are several good ones in India. 

Questioner: The only ashram I want to be in is the island of the heart. 

M: You have achieved it, but it is not necessary that you should be physically present here. Ycm have that island in your possession. I tell you in a very simple way, in a few words, what you should receive, and if you really try to imbibe it, it’s over. 

For the newcomers there is no rooM: I have such a small place. 

Q: Suppose one wanted to stay for devotional purposes? 

M: Provided we have the room. Once you catch hold of that principle which moves about in various disguises there is an end of illusion. This principle, this consciousness, you will see as a snake, then as a buffalo, then as something else. Once you catch hold of the principle you understand. 

We are only concerned with that; don’t worry about Mahatmas, only this being. Find out that principle. Don’t get carried away by the word-ly knowledge. Imbibe the meaning of what I have told you. Go to that Source. 

Q: When one actively becomes a witness, quietly observes all that is going on, it does take concentration and it does affect the brain in itself; so you get tired after a while. Similarly, in meditation I cannot stay in the “I Am” stage for longer than thirty or forty minutes. Then the brain seems to vibrate and I have to return back to the normal condition. Will this get better or are there any steps to be taken to get rid of the strain on the brain? 

M: Why are you dabbling in this? You know that you are sitting here, I know that you are sitting here. Who wit- nesses that you are sitting? 

Q: The “l Am.” 

M: Consciousness is sitting, who witnesses sitting? I know you are sitting here, you know that you are sitting; it is completely open, yet very mysterious at the same time. Don't put in special efforts to witness, just be in a relaxed condition. You are studying your mind movements at mind level. 

Q: Yes, that's what I am doing. 

M: You are practicing witnessing, you are not being the witness. There is no special effort to be made; it just takes place. About concentration: it is something like running around trying to take a photograph of the government of Bombay. Can you take a photograph of the government? 

Q: It is difficult to perceive the all. 

M: The same government can put handcuffs on you. 

Q: Why do I have the feeling after I come down from meditation that there has been some activity and strain on the brain? 

M: That “you" that goes into meditation and comes down—describe him. Why do you follow these exercises? Give them up. Just be relaxed in your natural state; that is the highest state. The lower state is concentration and meditation. 

Don't get involved in anything, stay in the consciousness. 

Consciousness indicates to the consciousness, expounds the knowledge; but you will not dwell there, you embrace this body. The knowledge “I Am" tells the knowledge about itself to the “I Am" only. There is no question of others. Keep quiet, for nobody is there. All quiet on the front. 

Q: About the purification of the mind—what will be taking place? 

M: Repeat the mantra that was given; from that the mind gets purified. 

Q: Should the mantra be said in conjunction with inhaling and exhaling? 

M: Rhythmic, yes. It is the same breath that is going on all the time, but you combine it with the mantra, that’s all. 

You sit here, and I talk for some time, and then I tell you to go. Just as a mother takes care of a child; then after some time she tells it to go and play outside. It is not that the mother does not want the child; she loves the child. The Guru expounds knowledge to the disciple and takes him out of the body-mind sense, and then asks him to fend for himself. 

This beingness is the child of that no-beingness, Absolute state; when the beingness understands the beingness, it attains no-being. Then it does not bother about what happens to this beingness. First you get rid of this world, then you get rid of beingness. 

Actually this is the natural state, but we cling to the body and all the trouble starts. When you do not experience the body there are no desires or needs, but when you think you are the body you want to satisfy your desires, thinking that then you will have peace. There is no peace in the body identity. 

Q: If one's occupation is being a writer, who does the writing? 

M: The chemical, the “I Am" consciousness; it is all a play of consciousness. 

Q: Maharaj has stated that when the time is propitious an explosion occurs within the mind that is directly antecedent to the experience of pure being. Could he enlarge on that? 

M: It is the floodgates of Truth opening. Having cut off the rope, he broke the shell open. The family normally keeps a clay pot to hold buttermilk and butter. The pot is the shell and is hung from the ceiling by ropes. Having thrown open the door, he cut off the rope [the shackles], broke open the shell [the body], threw out the buttermilk and swallowed the butter [the essence], the knowledge “I Am.” After that what is there? Neither “I” nor “you.” 

Q: Maharaj also says that there is an incident which provokes this mechanism and that it has to be recognized or it will go by and you will have to wait for another incident. 

M: Don't worry about that incident prior to the explosion or about anything. You are worrying because of the intellect, but you have only to continue in that “I Am” with faith; you have nothing else to do. You are likely to miss that incident if you try to use your intellect. Just let it happen. Hold on to the feeling “I Am,” don’t pollute that state by holding on to the body sense. 

Q: Maharaj has said that if one dwells on the type of information needed, all the information will flow from it. How does this work? 

M: Chemical does it. 

Q: Can one enhance that activity in any way? 

M: You are enhancing it by coming here. 

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