great stuff
On Jul 1, 7:08 am, roomsearching <[email protected]> wrote: > Nothing is living or dead > Yesterday, a sadhu came and sat in the Hall. He seemed > anxious to speak to Bhagavan, but hesitant. After some time, > he approached him and said, “Swami, it is said that the Self > (atma), is all-pervading. Does that mean that it is in a dead > body also?” > > “Oho! So that is what you want to know?” rejoined > Bhagavan. “And did the question occur to the dead body or > to you?” > “To me,” said the sadhu. > Bhagavan: “When you are asleep do you question > whether you exist or not? It is only after you wake up that > you say you exist. In the dream state also, the Self exists. > There is really no such thing as a dead or a living body. That > which does not move we call dead, and that which has > movement we call alive. In dreams you see any number of > bodies, living and dead, and they have no existence when > you wake up. In the same way this whole world, animate > and inanimate, is non-existent. Death means the dissolution > of the ego, and birth means the rebirth of the ego. There > are births and deaths, but they are of the ego; not of you. > You exist whether the sense of ego is there or not. You are > its source, but not the ego-sense. Deliverance (mukti) means > finding the origin of these births and deaths and demolishing > the ego-sense to its very roots. That is deliverance. It means > death with full awareness. If one dies thus, one is born again > simultaneously and in the same place with Aham sphurana > known as ‘Aham, Aham (I, I)’. One who is born thus, has no > doubts whatsoever.”
