>From Nisargadatta's Seeds of Consciousness -------------------------------------------------------------------- Q : Without consciousness, what remains ? M : The Absolute state out of which the five elements take shape or form; when the movement is frozen but the potential is present. That is Parabrahman; there is no movement.
Q : But there is nothing conscious about it ? M : The Absolute does not know itself. Without the aid of the food essence, body consciousness does not know itself. Nobody knows himself without the food essence body. Q: Maharaj is in the Absolute state. So is he not aware of himself ? M : I know that state forever. Q: But you said it did not know Itself . M : If that state alone prevails, it will not know Itself but when this body and beingness is available, it is known through them. Q: But when the body disappears ? M : No knowing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
