photo Gregory Colbert
Somebody, anybody, will tell you that you are pure consciousness, not
a body-mind. Accept it as a possibility and investigate earnestly. You
may discover that it is so, that you are not a person bound in space and
time. Think of the difference it would make!
The personality (vyakti) is but a product of imagination. The self
(vyakta) is the victim of this imagination. It is the taking yourself to
be what you are not that binds you. The person cannot be said to exist
on its own rights; it is the self that believes there is a person and is
conscious of being it.
Your own self is your ultimate teacher (sadguru). The outer teacher
(guru) is merely a milestone. It is only your inner teacher that will
walk with you to the goal, for it is the goal.
You can observe the observation, but not the observer. You know you
are the ultimate observer by direct insight, not by a logical process
based on observation. You are what you are, but you know what you are
not. The self is known as being, the not-self is known as transient. But
in reality all is in the mind. The observed, observation and observer
are mental constructs. The self alone is.
The self is universal and its aims are universal. There is nothing personal about the self.
I am not an object in Consciousness but its source, its Witness, pure shapeless Awareness.
You are and I am. But only as points in consciousness; we are nothing apart from consciousness.
You are not the body. You are the immensity and infinity of consciousness.
The source of consciousness cannot be an object in consciousness. To
know the source is to be the source. When you realize that you are not
the person, but the pure and calm witness, and that fearless awareness
is your very being, you are the being. It is the source, the
inexhaustible Possibility.
Discard all you are not and go ever deeper. Just as a man digging a
well discards what is not water, until he reaches the water-bearing
strata, so must you discard what is not your own, till nothing is left
which you can disown. You will find that what is left is nothing which
the mind can hook on to. You are not even a human being. You just are - a
point of awareness, co-extensive with time and space and beyond both,
the ultimate cause, itself uncaused. If you ask me “Who are you?”, my
answer would be: “Nothing in particular. Yet, I am.”
I am not my body, nor do I need it. I am the witness only. I have no
shape of my own. You are so accustomed to think of yourself as bodies
having consciousness that you just cannot imagine consciousness as
having bodies. Once you realize that bodily existence is but a state of
mind, a movement in consciousness, that the ocean of consciousness is
infinite and eternal, and that, when in touch with consciousness, you
are the witness only, you will be able to withdraw beyond consciousness
altogether.
Do realize that it is not you who moves from dream to dream, but the
dreams flow before you, and you are the immutable witness. No happening
affects your real being - that is the absolute truth.
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