I do. Sent via BlackBerry from Vodafone -----Original Message----- From: "YouWho?" <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:33:26 To: Advaita-Zen<[email protected]> Subject: Re: Sattva
Marko, take what you read in forums with a big grain of salt. I don't know if you have that expression in your country, but it means don't believe everything you read. If you want to know what Nis said about such things, go to the source and understand and verify for yourself. He talks about this in "Prior to Consciousness" and "Consciousness and the Absolute." From Maharaj edited by Jean Dunn:Before this form came - what was I? That is what one truly is. That Absolute Parabrahman - these are only words which we have invented to name the Unmanifest, Unnameable. The eternal "I," absolutely unconditioned, timeless, spaceless Being, not aware of being (because there is no other). I am as I Am, as I always was, as I ever will be, eternally... The "I Am" explodes into being and the whole perceptible universe is conjured up, but consciousness, the "I Amness," gives rise to inadequacy, imperfection, and therefore the beginning of sorrow, misery, etc., and clinging to body-mind sense. From perfect to imperfect - from no-being to being. Go in the reverse direction - from body-mind to beingness (I Am)to Absolute - then the consciousness state is a Godly state... Before you think - you are. In the space all movement happens, for any appearance or any movement, the space must be there. For the question "Who am I" there is no reply, but you may reply any way you like, you can give it any name or title you like. People do not go to the root-meaning of whatever is heard or read, they just repeat, parrot-like. ------ What he is talking about is going from the Absolute (Space)to Consciousness(movement), to body/mind consciousness. And saying to go from body/mind consciousness to Beingness (I Am), and then to the Absolute. From That, Beingness or Consciousness (God Consciousness) is like an adornment on the Absolute. Who understands this without merely parroting the words?
