All the glories will come with mere dwelling on the feeling ‘I am’. It is the simple that is certain, not the complicated. Somehow, people do not trust the simple, the easy, the always available. Why not give an honest trial to what I say? It may look very small and insignificant, but it is like a seed that grows into a mighty tree. Give yourself a chance.
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I was taught to give attention to my sense of ‘I am’ and I found it supremely effective. Therefore, I can speak of it with full
confidence. But often people come with bodies, brains and minds so mishandled, perverted and weak that the state of formless attention is beyond them. In such cases some simpler token of earnestness (like repeating a ‘mantra’) is appropriate. After all it is the earnestness that is indispensable, the crucial factor. ‘Sadhana’ is only a vessel and it must be filled to be brim with earnestness, which is but love in action. For nothing can be done without love.
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Delve deeply into the sense ‘I am’ and you surely discover that the perceiving center is universal, as universal as the light that
illumines the world. All that happens in the universe happens to
you, the silent witness. On the other hand, whatever is done, is
done by you, the universal and inexhaustible energy.
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Theoretically you always have a chance for self-realization. In
practice a situation must arise, when all the factors necessary for self-realization are present. This need not discourage you. Your dwelling on the fact of ‘I am’ will soon create another chance. For attitude attracts opportunity. All you know is second-hand. Only ‘I am’ is first-hand and needs no proofs. Stay with it.
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You have to go within. Whatever great things have happened in
nature, however powerful, still they disappear right here. These
situations appear and disappear. This is actually abstract, what is solid here is the knowledge ’I am’. The seen and seeing, disappear. I tell this only to those who are prepared to listen. Whatever appears is bound to disappear.
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The greatest appearance is the knowledge ‘I am’. It is invisible
before the birth and after the death of the body, and while it is
visible it is a solid thing. Many great sages have appeared and
disappeared because of the powerful seed ‘I am’.
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The knowledge ‘I am’ is time bound,all your knowledge sprouts
from the concept that you are. This infinitesimal seed contains the universe. You miss the point; you do not understand me properly. This principle ‘I am’ I am telling you about again and again. All questions will be over once you solve the riddle of ‘I am’.
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The knowledge ‘I am’ is the soul of the entire world. The witness of the knowledge ‘I am’ is prior to the knowledge ‘I am’. Try to understand yourself as you are,do not add any qualifications.
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The ‘I am’ is the sum total of everything you perceive. It appears spontaneously and disappears, it has no dwelling place. It is like a dream world. Do not try to be something, even a spiritual person. You are the manifested. The tree is already there in the seed. Such is the ‘I am’. Just see it as it is.
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You are separate from ‘I am’. ‘I am’ is itself an illusion. The
knowledge ‘I am’ and the world are tricks of Maya. There is no
substance in them. There are no words actually; you speak words for your satisfaction.
86 The ‘I am ness’ is pulsating ‘I am, I am’. The feeling of ‘I am ness’ is there because of the essence of the food body and vital breath, when these are gone the pulsation of‘I am ness’ will not be there. Being ness goes into no-being ness.
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Because of the knowledge ‘I am’ we conduct all activities. In the morning when you wake up you get the first guaranty, that
conviction of ‘I am’. Then because you are not in a position to
sustain or tolerate that ‘I am ness’you bestir yourself. You get up and move around here and there and the activity starts.
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That attention of ‘I am ness’ is always there in the waking state, but we are not alert to watch it. There is no other attention to be followed. Be attentive to that attention ‘I am’.
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Deal with the knowledge ‘I am’. This‘I am ness’ is there first, isn’t it? – Primary. That ‘I’ must be there before you receive this sickness of ‘samskara’ (obstacles). Initially you have to understand that the knowledge ‘I am’ is a product of the food essence. When you know that you are, the world also is.
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The Guru, God, and your own knowledge – these three are one. If you know that, you become quiet. Guru means knowledge and knowledge means ‘I am’. The ‘I am ness’ is itself the Guru.
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That state in which you were before you acquired this knowledge ‘I am’ is the real state. Only after you got this knowledge you identified with the body-mind. Whatever you have acquired, including the body-mind, that will go, and it is useless, and that is that. But your original state, before you acquired the body, is the Truth, is the Real state, and it will remain.
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The beginning and the end of this understanding is the knowledge ‘I am’. The beginning of concepts started with the primary concept ‘I am’. Having wandered through all the concepts, and rejected them, you have to get rid of this last or the first concept.
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To start with you have to be in that being ness or ‘I am’ without the body sense. You feel that you are the body now but when you abide in that being ness you will know then how you are without the body sense. But don’t forget, at the same time; that body and the vital breath are very necessary. Once you understand these three entities correctly (body, vital breath and the message ‘I am’), then you are apart.
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This knowledge ‘I am’ comes to you after your body is born, after that the body of childhood grows on its own and becomes old. What remains in the end is only one thing ‘I am’. So all through life you have to remember to investigate who is this ‘I am’. Otherwise birth and death will have no meaning for your
being ness, because that being ness will also be dissolved after the death of the body.
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To understand more clearly take the example of the dream world. You are in deep sleep and suddenly you feel ‘I am’ and that ‘I am ness’ creates a dream world. Similarly this manifest world is created by that ‘I am ness’. You will realize this later in the search for truth. The last progress will be for you to transcend this ‘I am ness’ and get stabilized in the ultimate.
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The knowledge ‘I am’ is the first ignorance and whatever
knowledge you acquire with it is ignorance. Go back to the source of your ignorance.
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Whatever is called God or Self is because there is the being ness, the feeling that ‘I am’. That is the fundamental principle, the basis of all your knowledge, but you are identifying yourself with the body.
98
With greatest interest you get absorbed in your Self. By giving
attention only to your ‘I’ consciousness you can reach it. Without giving attention to the body but to the sense ‘I am’.
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The consciousness that has come out of the five elements, through the body, is the quality of being ness, the knowledge that ‘I am’. That state of being ness will perish. 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 the knowledge of being ness, ‘I am’. Keep on knowing that ‘I am’ and through this insistence you will know the state you want to reach.
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Before this knowledge ‘I am’ appeared on you, you were
absolutely unattached. As soon as this knowledge dawned on you, you became attached to everything around you. Only that false ‘I’ is attached. Everything is just happening and that false ‘I’ is taking the credit for doing things.
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All this conceptual cycle is created by you because you have the
concept ‘I am’, which you must eradicate yourself. When you are in deep sleep is there any experience of pleasure and pain or birth and death? What does that mean? It means that the concept ‘I am’ has vanished.
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You must meditate on that ‘I am’ without holding on to the body and mind. As you nursed at your mother’s breast when you were a baby, so must you nurse at this‘I am’, the knowledge of your being ness. Remember and meditate on this also ‘I have no fear, I am beyond fear’. I am telling you that this fear will gradually lessen and will go completely, because I say so. The medicine for that fear is my word.
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The Absolute state does not know itself, but the Absolute is offered and opportunity to understand itself through the food product, the ‘I am’. The very core of all atoms is permeated by that knowledge ‘I am’. Embrace all the atoms of the universe with the feeling that all of them have come inside using the form of the knowledge ‘I am’.
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You are so used to support of concepts that when your concepts
leave you, although it is your true state, you get frightened and try to cling to them again. This is the meeting point of that immanent principle and the Eternal, the borderland. Why is the intellect puzzled here? That being ness which you are experiencing is melting away. When the concept of ‘I am’ goes, intellect also goes. So the intellect gets that frightening experience of ‘I am going’.
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When you become one with that knowledge you will realize that
the knowledge ‘I am’ is the very Guru of the universe. Don’t make use of anything except the knowledge ‘I am’. Forget everything else. Consider a magnificent tree with many branches and leaves. Go to the root and not the branches.
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The ‘I am’ connotes the three states, waking, dream and deep
sleep. ‘I am’ means that you are these three states, when these are gone the memory is also gone.
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The appearance of the primary concept ‘I am’ is the beginning of duality. I started counting with myself, before this counting starts. That has no number. That is the Absolute. With that little movement ‘I am’ this counting started.
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What you must witness is not your thoughts but the consciousness ‘I am’. Everything is an expression of the ‘I am,’ but you are not that; you are prior to the ‘I am’.
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There is the true Awareness, from which comes consciousness,
which is your feeling ‘I am’, be one with your consciousness and that is all that you can do, the Ultimate must come to you. You can only watch what happens – there is nothing you can do to get it.
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The Guru is the same all-pervading consciousness ‘I am’. The Sat Guru has gone beyond all these concepts, including the primary concept ‘I am’.
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There is no proprietor behind that feeling of awareness. It only is, it is beyond description, and words cannot be of any use. That is the permanent state and this manifestation is only its movement. Nobody becomes a ‘Parabrahman’, nobody ‘can’ become a ‘Parabrahman’: It is. Before the knowledge ‘I am’ appeared on you, that is ‘Parabrahman’. If you revert properly, the consciousness ‘I am’, will disappear, then there is no movement.
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When you feel that you are separate from the feeling ‘I am’ isn’t there something or someone who knows that there is a difference? Find out, are you separate unknowingly?
Are we all here because of our volition to be born or has this
knowings appeared in us unknowingly? This being ness has
come to you without your knowledge, but you are using it
according to your own volition. I want to sentence that individuality to death. Is it not justice that I pronounce this sentence? So think carefully. The individuality must go. ‘Parabrahman’ is purest justice and Truth.
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There are various types of charity, but the greatest charity is the renunciation of the knowledge ‘I am’when you give that up you escape birth and death. Waking state represents activity; deep sleep represents peace, quiet. When these two are present it means ‘I am’ is there, but you the Absolute are neither the waking state, deep sleep nor the ‘I amness’.
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What else is there except the touch of ‘I am’? Why do you worry about discovering Maya and Brahmaand all that? Understand what this principle ‘I am’ is and you are finished. That ‘I am’ is in bondage because of concepts.
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I want to take you to that ‘I am’ concept which is the last outpost of illusion and get rid of it. Understand the quality of these concepts.
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What capital is available to you? Only the ‘I am’, it is a product of this five-elemental food essence. First you become the
consciousness, and then you realize that you are the manifestation.
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The Bhagavad-Gita says that we have five senses of knowledge;
these are very subtle. More subtle than the senses is the mind,
subtler than the mind is the intelligence, and subtler than these is the vital breath. And yet more subtle is ‘He’, the being ness, the ‘I am’.
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You know you are sitting here. Be attentive to that knowledge
only. Just be in your being ness. That knowings ‘I am’ has
created the entire universe. Hold on to that; nothing has to be done. Once you recognize that principle it becomes tranquil. Become one with that and all your needs will be satisfied.
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I have been very open, very explicit. I’ve been telling you that you are not the body, you are that knowledge only and that vital breath is your conveyance, a tool by which you carry out your activities, and the knowledge ‘I am’ is very subtle. Because of your knowledge, you are and world is.
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Don’t get involved in anything, stay in the consciousness ‘I am’
and don’t go on a intellectual binge again. Consciousness indicates to the consciousness, expounds the knowledge; but you will not dwell there, you embrace the body. The knowledge ‘I am’ tells the knowledge about itself to the ‘I am’ only.
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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.
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Maya is the primary source of illusion. At that point, love for the Self begins: ‘I am’, the love to be. Its expression is all this
manifestation.
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After deep sleep, as soon as consciousness dawns on you of ‘I am’ – that is the witness. Before that moment you did not know that you are, there was no witness, no knowledge of ‘I am’.
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As long as you identify with the body-mind you are conditioned.
Once you stabilize in the knowledge ‘I am’ unconditionally you
are the manifest ‘I am ness’ – no more an individual. In the
manifested state of ‘I am ness’ there is no question of your doing, because you are no more an individual. Whatever happens, happens in your consciousness. Whatever happens through this, you also know it will happen, but there is no question of doing or being anything.
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In the womb that knowings is ignorant of its existence, the ‘I
am’ is not present but the ‘I am’ principle is started there. All
things happen unknowingly, but even to understand that is very
difficult, it is beyond our comprehension.
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