WHAT CONSCIOUSNESS IS
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Consciousness is not located
until it is utterly set free from identification with
separateness, with egoity, with the knot of
self-contraction, the knot of the body-mind. * The fundamental process is the
process in consciousness. It begins with basic
understanding, or insight into the self, and then becomes
surrender and self-transcendence.
WHAT CONSCIOUSNESS
IS Intrinsic and Perfectly egoless
Self-Consciousness Always Already Standing Free, 1. DEVOTEE: Beloved Adi Da, a
few weeks ago, in meditation, I felt that I was standing in
the position of attention itself. I was regarding an Image
of Your Person-and Your bodily (human) Divine Form was
Attractive Beyond words. I felt an impulse to turn to You
more deeply, Beyond attention. In that moment, ordinary
bodily awareness returned. My question is: Can a person
standing in the position of attention be aware of attention
itself, feel the limit of it, and intuit Your Divine
Position Beyond attention? Or is the awareness of attention
only possible because You have Drawn Your devotee,
momentarily, into the Witness-Position of Consciousness,
Beyond attention itself? AVATAR ADI DA SAMRAJ: What
you have just described has nothing to do with the
Witness-Position – or Consciousness Itself. You have not
described anything but the functioning of attention. The
true Witness-Position Is Consciousness Itself, Always
Already Prior to attention – and Prior to all other contents
of the body-mind “self’. At face value, your description
suggests an in-depth “experience” in which the bare,
causal-“root” position of the body-mind complex became the
basis for your observing My Form (and any other conditions
you were aware of at the time). Such an “experience” is
simply an in-depth “experience” in the context of the
body-mind-complex – and, especially, in the context of its
“root” (or causal) position, which is, fundamentally, the
position of attention. Main
points Witness-Position is
Consciousness Prior to Attention, ego and
body-mind. In-depth experience or
any experience is in the ‘root’ of attention (causal)
ego.
The Witness-Consciousness (or, the
Intrinsic and Always Already Prior Self-State That Is
Consciousness Itself) Is Prior to all. gross, subtle, and
causal conditions. It Is Prior to attention. The
Witness-Consciousness is not an active observer. It is not
the discriminating mind. It is not the thinking mind. It is
not the etheric body. It is not the gross sensations that
define physical awareness. Main points
Witness-Consciousness –
Always Prior Self-State, Consciousness
Itself. Witness-Consciousness
is NOT active observer. Not discriminating,
thinking mind, not etheric feeling body not in gross
physical awareness not in the right-side of the
heart.
No matter what arises – gross,
subtle, or causal – you, Beyond egoity, are the Mere (or
inherently actionless, and Intrinsically egoless)
Witness-Consciousness (or Consciousness Itself). Not the
observer, not attention – the Mere Witness-Consciousness
(Itself). You are Prior to all conditional states and all
conditional “experiences”. As the Witness-Consciousness, you
have no inherent connection to (or dependence upon) any
conditions whatsoever. Main points
referenced in other material The primary error of
human beings is that they get deluded by their own energies.
They submit Consciousness to Energy. They have this idea
that Energy and Consciousness are the same thing, perhaps.
But basically their life involves submitting themselves as
Consciousness to Energy, to motion, to impulses, instead of
realizing what Consciousness itself is and perhaps finding
Energy to be the same thing ultimately. They pay no
attention to consciousness itself and just submit themselves
as consciousness to the play of energies. And there is
nothing Enlightening about that, you see. The spiritual process
that I consider with you is ultimately a matter of
identifying with consciousness and realizing its Status, so
that, having realized that, the objective states of
existence, or all the forms of ‘Energy, may become
recognizable not merely as Energy but as
Consciousness.
The True Awakening to the “Perfect
Practice” of the Reality Way of Adidam (or Adidam
Ruchiradam) is founded in the by-My-Divine
Avataric-Transcendental-Spiritual–Given Awakening to the
Witness-Position – and that transition occurs in the context
of the full Yogic and Transcendental Spiritual process that
I have Described in My Reality-Teaching. Only in That
Awakening to the Witness Position (and, thereby, to the
“Perfect Practice” of the Reality-Way of Adidam) is there
practice Beyond the exercise of attention (and, indeed,
Beyond the exercise of an conditional apparatus whether
causal, subtle, or gross). Main
Points Only Grace Given
Actionless
Consciousness, Witness Consciousness, not the observer.
No inherent connection
or dependence on conditions. Beyond the exercise of
attention
The “experience” you describe was
simply a temporary deepening of conditional awareness, not
the Awakening to the Witness Consciousness. In such a
circumstance of “experience” – or in any other circumstance
– your practice is to responsively turn the faculties of the
body-mind-“self” to Me, and (thereby) to forget the contents
of the faculties. Gross, subtle, and causal contents are all
forgotten, in the sheerly responsive act of turning to
Me. Main points and
references in other material Temporary deepening of
conditional awareness can ‘appear’ to be Awakening to the
Witness-Consciousness. Until there is the
Realization of identification with consciousness and the
ultimate Realization of its actual Status, there is no
Realization that Energy and consciousness are identical.
That, of course, is what there is ultimately to Realize.
When Energy becomes recognizable as Consciousness, then the
entire Realm of Nature vanishes, It is outshines by
Consciousness itself. That is the secret of the seventh
stage of life. But it is not possible to recognize Energy as
consciousness until we identify with consciousness and
Realize its Status. Therefore, no amount of surrendering to
Energy is going to Enlighten us.
There is no greater bondage than
attention. Attention is the “root”-ego. Attention is the
feeling of separateness, the feeling of relatedness, the
feeling of otherness, and the feeling of “difference”. All
of those feelings are inherent in attention itself.
Attention is the causal bondage (or “root”-bondage)-and
there is no Awakening to the Witness-Consciousness until
attention itself, with all associated presumptions and
feelings, is transcended in the Prior Condition of
Consciousness Itself. Main points and
references in other material Attention
(relationship, separateness, otherness, difference, object
consciousness) is the “root-position” of ego. There is no Awakening
(Only by Grace) until attention (with all associated
presumptions and feelings is transcended in the Prior
Condition of Consciousness Itself. And since the nature of
consciousness is the Divine only perfect intuitive
absorption is possible and YOU can’t do THAT. Only that
which IS can ‘do’ that! Which must absorb your limited
consciousness into that which is. The subtle nature of
the surrender is activiated. And since the nature of
consciousness is the Divine only perfect intutitve
absorption is possible. and YOU can’t do THAT.
Only that which is can ‘do’ that! Which must absorb your
limited conscousiness into that which is. Then when that occurs
there is only open eyes. The Root of Body and
Mind Is in the Heart
When the Witness-Consciousness is
truly Realized, there is no doubt about it. The Realization
does not happen for just a moment. True Awakening to the
Witness-Consciousness is permanent. True Awakening to the
Witness-Consciousness is Un-conditional and Non-conditional.
True Awakening to the Witness-Consciousness is not an
“experience” that merely comes and goes. Main points and
references in other material True Awakening into
Consciousness is PERMANENT. True Awakening is
Un-Conditional and Non-Conditional. True Awakening is not an
experiences that comes and goes. It is not that only those
who are in the seventh stage are enlightened. Those who are
in the previous stages of practice are at times entered into
the disposition of enlightenment and at other times they are
not. They phase in that Realization, and their realization
of the Radiant Transcendental Consciousness is not
Absolute. see all Summary
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When I Ask My devotees, “Isn’t it
true that, no matter what arises, in any moment-even now you
Are the Witness of it, even of attention itself?”, My
devotees invariably say, “Yes.” But their answer does not
signify that they have Realized the Witness Consciousness.
They may enjoy a tacit sense that What I am Saying is True,
but such is not their Realization – because they are
“sitting in” (or being) the “self”-contraction. They have
received and responded to My “Question” in the context of
the “self ‘-contraction. Main points and
references in other material My transmission is
non-separateness. You tend to register my transmission in
terms of self-bound experiences. They’re not really
getting my transmission. There is something but not the
fullest reception of my transmission. It’s not my
fullest communion with me. It’s not true
self-understanding that’s demonstrated. It’s just
possibilities experienced by you a seeker, an apparent
individual perpetually active of
self-contraction.
Although there is something tacitly
obvious about the fact that, no matter what arises, even if
only attention itself arises, you are the (Inherently
actionless, and Intrinsically egoless) Witness Consciousness
– yet, you (in your egoic “self’-identification with a
separate body-mind-persona) are not Established As That.
When you respond to My “Consideration” about the
Witness-Consciousness, you are merely intuiting an
approximation of the Witness-Positiona kind of glimpse made
possible by the suspension of the faculties, but not the
actual Establishment of the Witness-Position. Main
points Intuiting an
approximation – approaching of the Witness or Consciousness,
but not established.
No matter how much you may think you
are so Established, thinking has nothing to do with
Realization. Realization of the Witness-Position is,
essentially, a Transcendental Spiritual process, in right
and true devotional Communion with Me (As I Am)
Transcendental Spiritual Communion with Me Reveals the
Witness Consciousness and Establishes It as the permanent
Basis of My devotee’s practice. It is then that the “Perfect
Practice” of the Reality-Way of Adidam begins. In any case,
the Establishment of the Witness-Position is only the
beginning of the process that continues on the Basis of the
Awakening to the Witness-Position. Main points and
references in other material Realization or
Established as Consciousness is a Transcendental process.
Permanent BASIS of
practice. It is THIS first
(Beginning of the process) and then the Perfect
Practice. Consciousness is just
like a point, moving in this infinite, three dimensional
crystal, or plane,or sphere of dots. It feels individuated,
separate, and trapped. Wherever it is, it sees everything
around it. Wherever you look, everything surrounds that
center of looking. In the next moment, you are in this spot,
or that spot. There are always the surrounding forms,
motions, and energies. You are trapped as this little point
in the midst of it. We must take attention
away from its preoccupation with, or bondage to, this
infinite medium of dots and let it fall back into the
contemplation of its own Source. When that is done most
profoundly, then there is the inherent or tacit, spontaneous
recognition of the Infinite Field in which this mechanical
act of attention is being moved. Then whenever attention
does move, wherever it moves, its condition and its objects
are inherently, instantly recognizable. They are still what
they are as an appearance, but they are recognizable in
their Source Condition.They do not have the capacity to
destroy Enlightenment, or the Realization of the Truth. But
we must persist in this power of recognition. It is a kind
of Yoga of Enlightenment. Unless we persist in it, attention
will simply continue to arise mechanically in this great
crystal or Mandala. And, Enlightened or not, there is still
the environment of limitation. see all Summary
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Of course, some traditions presume
that the Awakening to the Witness-Consciousness is
“Enlightenment”, and that the process ends there. Yet,
truly, such Awakening is not the completion of the Great
Process of Divine Self-Realization, as I have Revealed It to
you. Awakening to the Witness-Consciousness is only the
beginning of the “Perfect Practice” of the Reality-Way of
Adidam. In fact, there is no completion to the Process of
Divine Self-Realization in the context of this “world” or
the body-mind-“self’. The Ultimate Completeness Is Divine
Translation Itself – Prior to and Beyond the
body-mind-“self’ and its “world”. Main points and
references in other material The Beginning is many
times seen as the end. In Adidam it is the
Beginning and there is NO completion to the Process in the
context of the world or the body-mind. If there is a
completion it is in Translation – Prior to body, mind, self
and world.
I Am Divine Translation. I Am
Priorly Established and herePresent As That. If it were not
so, I could not Utter these words. How do you suppose I
“Know” that What I am Telling you Is True? It is because I
am not merely “looking forward” to Divine Translation-I Am
Divine Translation. I Am Always Already Established As That.
I am Speaking to you Already Established in That Position.
Divine Translation Is the Unique Nature of My Divine
Avataric Self-Incarnation-and Divine Translation Is What
makes My Divine Incarnation Avataric. Main
point What makes Adi Da
Avataric is He is Speaking As Translation and
Incarnation together All At Once. AVATAR ADI DA SAMRAJ:
Ordinarily, the body-mind-complex is associated with the
feelings of separateness, relatedness, otherness, and
“difference”. All of those feelings are characteristics of
the separate “point of view” that is the psycho-physical
entity (or the ego). Reality Itself – the Reality-Condition
(or the True and Very Self Nature, Self-Condition, and
Self-State) in Which the apparent ego arises – does not have
any of those characteristics. The Reality Condition Is
simply Self-Existing. Therefore, the Reality-Condition Is
Inherently Free of the characteristics of separateness,
relatedness, otherness, and “difference”. Main points and
references in other material There is NO relatedness
in Consciousness Iself The zero of the heart
is expanded as the world. Consciousness is not
differentiated and identified. There is a constant
observation of subject and object in any body, any
functional sheath, any realm, or any experience that
arises.
The Reality-Condition Tacitly
Self-Apprehends As Is. It Is the Self-Existing (and Tacit)
Self-Apprehension. It Is the Inherent (or Native) Tacit
Self-Apprehension of Being – not the conditionally arising
feeling of relatedness. When I use the term “Tacit
SelfApprehension of Being”, I am pointing to This
Self-Existing (and Tacit) Self-Apprehension. The Tacit
Self-Apprehension of Being Is the Non-conditional Context in
Which the inherently conditional feeling of relatedness
appears to be arising. Main points and
references in other material Consciousness Reality-Condition Self-Apprehends Self-Existing Being Self-Apprehension is the
non-conditional CONTEXT in which conditional relatedness
appears to be arising. see all Summary
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The feeling of relatedness is not
inherent in existence. Rather, the feeling of relatedness is
a characteristic of “self’-contraction. Indeed, the feeling
of relatedness is the first sign of “self’-contraction. The
“root”-feeling of relatedness carries with it, inherently,
the feeling of separateness, the feeling of otherness, and
the feeling of “difference”. Each of those feelings
“contains” all the others. Those feelings are the primary
characteristics of egoity (or “self”-contraction) which is
constantly manifesting as attention itself. Main points and
references in other material Relatedness is the
first form of the self-contraction. Feeling of relatedness
is not inherent in existence. Relatedness –
difference – is sign of “self”-contraction. The feeling of
separateness, otherness, difference are all contained and
manifesting as attention (mind). Consciousness is not
inherently identified with the body-mind. Consciousness is
aware of the body-mind. And what all of the preliminary
practices of spiritual life are about, all those exercises
that lead to meditation and finally to Samadhi, is the
freeing up of attention from the body-mind and its relations
to the point that it may contemplate the Source of attention
itself, or the Consciousness that is aware of all
conditions.
That Which Is the
Witness-Consciousness Is Tacitly Self Apprehending As Is. It
Is Self-Existing and Self-Radiant Conscious Light, the One
and Indivisible Current of Love-Bliss, Consciousness Itself.
Therefore, That Which Is the Witness-Consciousness Is
Tacitly Self-Apprehending As Being, As Is – without the
slightest presumption of “difference”, without the slightest
presumption of separateness, or relatedness, or otherness.
In That Tacit Self Apprehension of Being, none of those
principal characteristics of egoity is presumed to be the
case. Therefore, to be Established in the Reality-Condition
(or the True Self-Nature, Self-Condition, and Self-State) is
to Stand Prior to the principal ego-characteristics of
separateness, relatedness, otherness, and
“difference”. In fact, to be Established in the
Reality-Condition is to Stand Prior to all characteristics,
and all “experiences”, of the body-mind”self’-but not by
dissociating from the body-mind-“self’ and its relations,
and not by doing something “to” the body-mind-“self’ in
order to Realize the Fundamental (or Prior) Condition. The
Reality Condition must be Established As Is — As Itself, in
and of Itself. The Reality-Condition must be Self-Revealed.
This Revelation is Realized by My Divine Avataric
Transcendental Spiritual Grace, not by the application of
“techniques”. There is nothing you can do “to” the
body-mind-complex in order to Realize the Divine
Self-Nature, Self-Condition, and Self-State. Absolutely
nothing. Main points and
references in other material Stand Prior Not
disassociated Free Attention Self-Revealed Only by Grace see all Summary
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The Divine, As Is, must be
Self-Revealed, by Grace. That is the Only Means by Which
Divine Self-Realization can occur. There is no “technique”
that will attain the Divine. There is no “method” that will
attain the Divine. You cannot get “Here” from “there”. You
cannot Realize the Divine Self-Nature, Self-Condition, and
Self-State by means of the body-mind-complex. You cannot
Realize the Divine Self-Nature, Self-Condition, and
Self-State through any mode of seeking whatsoever. You
cannot Realize the Divine Self-Nature, Self-Condition, and
Self-State as a result of any kind of activity
whatsoever. Main points and
references in other material Only by Grace No Method No Seeking
In Truth, you are not even the
faculty of attention. You Are the Mere Witness-Consciousness
(Itself). Nevertheless, That Which is the
Witness-Consciousness is not “you”. It Is Me! This Truth is
regarded to be either fortunate or unfortunate, depending on
your perspective relative to the necessity for transcending
the ego-“I”. If you insist on not turning to Me with
devotion, then this Truth is unfortunate news – because to
Realize That Which Is the Witness-Consciousness is not
within your power. Indeed, to Realize That Which Is the
Witness-Consciousness is not to identify with (or “locate”)
any “thing” (or state) “within” you at all. On the other
hand, if you are moved to turn to Me in devotional
recognition-response to Me, then you know that you are the
most Gifted of beings. Main points and
references in other material Witness-Conciousness is
NOT you, it is Me. This is either fortunate
or unfortunate, depending on you perspective relative to ego
transcendence. Unfortunate if you’re not
surrendered, because it’s not in your power. Witness-Consciousness is
not ‘located’ or a ‘thing’ or a ‘state’ within
you. Fortunate if you are truly
surrendered, most fortunate, Gifted in fact. see all Summary
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DEVOTEE: Beloved, there is a
line in “The First Great Invocation”‘ which I have never
quite understood – “Consciousness Where I appear and
disappear”, What is the meaning of that line? AVATAR ADI DA SAMRAJ: What
Consciousness do you have to resort to, within which you are
aware of yourself arising and disappearing? I am not talking
about you in your conditional destiny. I am Talking about
Me. This Invocation is not about egoic “self-meditation. I
(Myself, As I Am) am not a metaphor for vou. To make the
devotional utterance of right and true Invocation of Me, you
must be devotionally recognizing Me, devotionally responding
to Me, Really Invoking Me by whole bodily devotion to Me
and, thus and thereby, Realizing ecstatic (or
ego-transcending) devotional Communion with Me As I appear,
and As I Am). I (Myself, As I Am Am the Consciousness
Wherein and Whereof every “I” arises and appears and
disappears. If there were this devotional recognition of Me,
devotionally responding to Me in the inherently ecstatic
mode of this Invocation, why would there be any lack of
clarity about what the words mean? DEVOTEE: There would
not. AVATAR ADI DA SAMRAJ: This
devotional Invocation is an address to Me. It is not a bit
of philosophy for you to think about yourself and how your
“I” may be appearing or disappearing in something that you
have in mind, now or in the future. It is an Invocation of
Me. To Invoke Me, to devotionally recognize Me to begin
with, such that you could make this Invocation, you must
have found Me to Be the Consciousness in Which “you” appear
and disappear. For this Invocation ever to be completely
(or, truly and really, most profoundly) done, you must truly
(and most profoundly) devotionally recognize Me. DEVOTEE: We can only appear
in You. AVATAR ADI DA SAMRAJ: And
disappear. If you devotionally recognize Me, devotionally
responding to Me and (in due course) searchlessly Beholding
Me, “I” is left behind. In that case, there is no “I”. In
one moment arising, the “I” presumes to Invoke Me-while, in
the next moment of truly searchless Beholding of Me, there
is no “I”. The “I” disappears in the searchless ecstatic
Beholding of Me. The “I” made the utterance to Invoke Me,
but it disappeared in the Beholding of Me. To Behold Me truly, you cannot
Behold Me merely as “Object”, apart from yourself. You must
be moved to Me Beyond yourself. The ego-“self’, or the
“self’-contraction of the body-mind-complex, must be
forgotten, gone beyond, in devotional Communion with Me. To
be Communing with Me, you must have “Located” Me in more
than the conventional, “objective” sense. The whole
bodymind-complex must be yielded in this devotional
recognition of Me. The whole body-mind-complex must be
devotionally responding to Me in this devotional
recognition, such that “self”-contraction is gone beyond in
the searchless Beholding of Me As I Am. Such is the ecstasy of true and
Reality-active devotion to Me. When “I” disappears in the
ecstasy of devotion to Me, in whole bodily devotional
recognition-response to Me, forgetting “self” in Me-Where
only I Am now (not merely “Objective”, but
all-andAll-Inclusive)-then there is Love-Bliss. Love-Bliss
Is the Inherent Mood of whole bodily ego-forgetting
devotional recognitionresponse to Me. To Realize Consciousness Itself is,
not to be established merely as the principle of being “set
apart” as awareness. Rather, to Realize Consciousness Itself
is to Realize the Condition That Consciousness Is. This is a
Most Profound Matter. In the face of the “world”,
Consciousness Itself seems to shrink, seems to settle
“behind” everything (like an eyeball behind the fence).
However, in Reality, Consciousness Itself Is a Sphere of
Infinite Magnitude – in Which everything arises, continues,
and (at last) passes away. To Be Perfectly Established As That
Which Is Consciousness Itself Is the “Perfect Practice” of
the only-by-Me Revealed and Given Reality-Way of Adidam.
That Perfect Establishment is a whole bodily Transcendental
Spiritual process, requiring the submission of the entire
psycho-physical vehicle to the Transcendental Spiritual
process of Realizing That Which Is Consciousness (or
Conscious Light) Itself. In that process, the
body-mind-“self’ itself becomes ego-transcending devotional
Communion with Me. Consciousness Itself Realizes the
Intrinsic Self-Apprehension of Being, Which Is, in Its
Deepest Realization, Well-Being–or LoveBliss Itself, or
Transcendental Spiritual Energy Itself. Energy Itself Is Consciousness
Itself. Ultimately, This can – and must-Be
Realized. AVATAR ADI DA SAMRAJ: The
“Witness-Position” is not merely a generalized reference to
apparently individual consciousness (or conscious
awareness). “Witness” refers to the Status of Consciousness
Itself. Consciousness Itself is not the
observer of what is arising, and It is not “causing” what is
arising. Consciousness Itself is not making what arises
happen. Consciousness Itself is not “doing” what arises.
People do animate the (mistaken) presumption that
Consciousness Itself is somehow “doing” what arises. Yet, it
is possible to be in a position to notice exactly how
thoughts are arising and see that they are, in fact, not
being done or “caused” by Consciousness Itself. Thoughts do
not arise from Consciousness Itself. Thoughts are happening
in the brain. Thought is a process associated with the
brain, or the brain-mind. The Acausal Divine Self-Nature,
Self-Condition, and Self-State does not think. To notice
this requires a unique “Location” (Prior to mind, body, and
all space-time-“locatedness” as “point of view”). It is
commonly presumed that the (apparently individual) conscious
“self’ is doing the thinking. You presume that you are
thinking and that you are the “subject” of that thinking.
You presume you are the source and “cause” and “doer” of
thinking. You presume that the contents, “questions”, and
“problems” of your thinking are “yours”but this is only a
presumption, or a mere idea. That presumption is not
inspected-and, indeed, that presumption is not
true. Main points and
references in other material Consciousness is aware
of thoughts. It’s not even thinking the thoughts. The
thinking is something of which it is aware. Everything that
arises is an object to consciousness. see all Summary
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As a matter of fact, the
“self”-referential characteristic of language itself
enforces this presumption. If the actual process of the
arising of thought or speech can be tacitly noticed, one can
tacitly understand that the process of thinking, and of
speech, is not being done by the (apparently individual)
conscious “self’. Main points and
references in other material All the language we
generate it order to conceive of or approach the Realization
of that Reality is based on the conventions of experiencing,
knowing, thinking, self-referring, relating. All kinds of language
has been used to point to what is beyond psycho-physical
existence All spoken and written
language is a “point-of-view”-machine-an ego-based (and
relentlessly ego-oriented and ego-bound) human invention,
originated on the “root”-basis of a chronically-enacted
“self”-contraction of the total psycho-physical apparatus of
a presumed (and largely verbal-mind-made) separate “self”,
dissociated from the Intrinsically egoless and wordless
Indivisible Transcendental Spiritual Self-Nature,
Self-Condition, and Self-State of Reality
Itself.” language is the first
form of artificial intelligence created by human
beings. There is no mind. Mind
is a myth. There is language-which is programmed by brains,
and which, in turn, programs brains. However, there is no
tangible existence to “mind” itself-absolutely none.
Nevertheless, human beings identify with the “mind” as
“self”, and (thereby) invent destiny for themselves, and
even project that “self”-imagined destiny into an idea of
time and space beyond the present physical
lifetime. Mind is an interior
projection of a language-program that, in its imaginative
elaboration of itself, conceives of purposes and ideas (in
the realm of illusion) for which there are no corresponding
physical data. Human beings are all living in a “virtual
world” of mind. Human beings are, characteristically,
egoically “self”-identified with a “robot”, an artificial
intelligence.
Language does not arise “within”.
Language is a construct of apparent physical and social
relatedness. Language is a brain construct, fabricated
“outside” (or entirely apart from and previous to) all
presumptions of “within”. Thus, the alleged “within” is,
entirely on the basis of bodily-based and
socially-constructed language (or mere ideas), merely and
subsequently invented (or reflexively presumed), without any
quantifiable and independent “within” otherwise and actually
arising as “experience”. Main points and
references in other material The book that I’m
working on now, I’ve thought of calling it, “The
Myth of Within.” Because the only reason we
go about this trying to free the one within is based on this
dilemma, There is no such one. So to generate spiritual life
for the purpose of inwardness effecting upon one’s
inner life is a false principle, one that we easily tend to
because of our traditional notions of spiritual
life. The true form of spiritual
life is not one in which we are simply turning within and
trying to do something for the one within and soul or
whatever but one in which we understand our present activity
and that present activity creates this implied inner one as
well as all the forms of confusion, suffering, deathful
life. A living being does not
enclose an inner, separate, and eternal soul or personal
Self. Every complex condition or being that arises is
exactly what it seems to be-a mechanical structuring of
manifest conditions. What is within a living individual, or
what may conventionally be considered to be his soul, is
merely the psychic or mental part, which is subtler than the
elemental body, and which survives the death of the
elemental body, but which is also subject to change and
death and every kind of illusion or torment. There is no
eternal, separate, interested, personal, implicated, and
conditioned Self within each living being. There are only
psycho-physical conditions, and the Consciousness in which
they seem to arise is Absolute, Transcendental, Motiveless,
and always Free of all conditions. I am it. I am not
mysteriously Somehow connected to
it. I don’t originate in it in
any way, And anything that’s
me Is not within
this, But is this
body. “me” is not within the
body. “me” is some way that the
body has Of referring to
itself. Me, I, the subjective
reference, Is not somebody within at
all. All this
subjectivity Is the way the body
has Of accounting for
itself. That does not mean
that Subjectivity survives the
body. This body is
it. This is the mystery, this
body. You must completely become
this body, Allow it. It is
you. You are not the ghost
within it. Ask “who am I?” and you
end up in mystery, And you have only
discovered that “I” means nothing more
than the body. It is a convention the
body uses. Body is what “I” is
about. see all Summary
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Therefore, the “I”-thought (which is
the principal “self’-reference in language constructions) is
always presumed merely as a reflexive physical and social
reference. The “I” (or ego) of language-reference to a
presumed separate “self’ is (originally, intrinsically, and
entirely) a bodily and social “self’-reference. There is no
specific, quantifiable, or directly identifiable particular
(or in any sense separate) “self’, within the sphere of
human “experience” and “knowledge”, to which the egoic
“I”-reference can be said to directly point-except for the
bodily “entity”, functioning (and thinking) within its
social and natural context of environments. Main points and
references in other material The Reality-Way of
“Perfect Knowledge” is not even about the
“I”-thought at the core of your presumed separate
“selfhood”—because even the
“I”-thought is simply another mode of mirroring
(or reflection).
The presumed separate “within” of
conventional “self’-reference is an illusion, fabricated by
means of the psycho-physical contraction of the body (or the
physically and socially environed “self”) toward and upon
itself. The conventional “I”-reference is merely the body-as
a physically and socially environed event-referring to
itself. Therefore, all “inwardness” (or presumed
separateness of “self-within”) is a bodily-based illusion,
“caused” by a misunderstanding (or false implication) of
language itself. If the “I”-thought is directly
inspected, the “I” in mind can be discovered to have no
existence apart from language itself. Therefore, if the
Witness-Consciousness is Tacitly Self-Apprehended, there is
neither the illusion of “within” nor the illusion of
“outside”-neither the illusion of mind nor of body nor of
“world”-but only Intrinsically egoless, Non-separate, and
Indivisible Reality Itself Is SelfEvidently the One, and
Only, and Divine Case. There is no metaphysical
“self-within”. There is no ego-“I” apart from the bodily and
social and brain-encoded “person” of physicallyembodied
life. There is no “soul” (or non-physical
“inner-I”). Main points and
references in other material You are not separate ego.
No matter what arises—waking, dreaming, or sleeping, no
matter what arises—you are the Witness of it, Prior to
it, not bound, not separate, the Only Condition that is
Self-Evident, that is non-separate and Indivisible. There is
no separate self. And there is no not-self. There is no
not-self to dissociate from by introversion. There is no
separate self to expand by extroversion. Therefore, experiences are
constantly sought in the vertical planes of experience,
above, below, and altogether beyond, which will release the
being from the inherent sense of separation, vulnerability,
fear, obsession, and self possession. But there is no
release until the primal error, illusion, or lie at the root
of the heart is undone. There is no separate self.
There is no not-self. It is simply Unshaken, Absolute
Self-Condition of Reality Itself, Self-Existing and
Self-Radiant. All separation is an
illusion. It is impossible for there to be. Any separation.
There is no such thing. It has never occurred. There is no
separately existing thing. Anywhere. There is no separately
existing being. Anywhere. There is no separate
Anything! You must be willing to
vanish completely, to be completely obliterated. You will
become capable of that sacrifice only by degrees, because
your fear is profound. The frigidity of feeling-attention is
most profound in you, because of your experience, your
adaptation. Therefore, the process of God-Realization is a
matter of time and practice. There is not now, nor has
there ever been, nor will there ever be individual being.
There is no such thing. see all Summary
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What, then, is at the depth-level of
human awareness? There is a depth Beyond and Prior to bodily
and social “self’-identitybut that depth is not a separate
“within”, or an “inner” ego-“I”. Rather, the “Deep” of
Consciousness (Itself) Is the Conscious Light That Is
Reality Itself-Which Is Intrinsically egoless, Non-separate,
Indivisible, and Self-Evidently Divine. That “Depth” Is the
WitnessConsciousness-Which Is of a Transcendental Spiritual
and Absolute Nature. The Witness-Consciousness is not the
“I” of mind. The Witness-Consciousness cannot be
Self-“Located” (or “Its” Realization “caused”) by any action
or gesture of mind. The Witness-Consciousness cannot be
Self-“Located” by means of any search of mind or
body-because the Witness-Consciousness Always Already Stands
Prior to all egoic “self”-identification with mind and body
and “world”. All seeking “within” is a reflexive
(or “self’-contracting) gesture of the bodily and social
“self’. All seeking (or turning to) “within”
is a “self”-bound, “self”reinforcing, and (inherently)
“self’-deluded activity. All seeking (or turning to)
“outside” is a “self’-bound, “self’reinforcing, and
(inherently) “self’-deluded activity. All seeking-whether to “within” or
to “outside”-is founded on already-presumed
“self”-identification with body, mind, and
“world”. All seeking exercises and reinforces
egoic “self’-identification with mind and body and
“world”-and even all “discoveries” (or all presumed
“knowledge”) achieved by the exercise of egoic
“self’identification with mind and body and “world” merely
re-assert the illusion of separate
“self’-consciousness. All seeking is the exercise of
egoity. The egoic “I”-thought (or the
separate-“self’-idea) is the iconic “self’-representation
(or identity-“object”) of the presumed “point of view” (or
the apparent space-time-“locatedness” of psychophysical
attention). Human beings die – but an icon (like
a mirror) comes to life every time anyone looks at
it. The egoic “I”-thought is a
“self’-representation (or a “self objectifying” device) that
is, in effect, an effort-exercised by means of a kind of
iconic fiction – to abstract and eternalize (and even to
immortalize) the otherwise mortal bodily and social
“self-entity”. The seeker-ego is a
“self’-fictionalized character, egoically “self”-projected
upon the “world”-stage of the human mind-play (or
“world”-mummery) of rather theatrically-staged adventures
(both comic and tragic). The icon that is ego-“I” is a
hero/heroine of “self’-adventure, “self’-protected from all
failures (and from death itself) by an illusion of
necessity, accomplishment, “knowledge”, power, and
foreverness. The iconic ego-“I” is the first,
last, and fundamental goal and beloved of its own
“self’-reflected and “self’-imagined theatre of
life. Therefore, all seeking is the
“self’-idolization and active “self’ idolatry of “point of
view”. All seeking is “self’-worship or the
iconic idealization of the “point of view” that is the
seeker, as if the “point of view” is the adorable purpose
and “object”-of-importance to the attention of the
seeker. The “inward”-turned search and the
“outward”-turned search are, both and equally, the worship
of the “self’-presumed separate “self” b the “self”-presumed
separate “self-or the ego-effort of “self’-worship of (or
“self”-meditation on the space-time-bound ego-“I” (or the
presumed separate “self’ of space-time-“location”, or “point
of view”) by the same space-time-bound ego-“I”.
The Intrinsic Self-“Locating” of the
Intrinsically egoless Witness Consciousness is not a search,
not an ego-effort, and not a meditation (or an “inner”
worship) turned upon the ego-“I”. The Witness-Consciousness Is simply
That – the Mere Witness (Itself). The Witness-Consciousness
Is the Status of the True Divine (and Acausal) Self-Nature,
Self-Condition, and Self-State That Is Reality
Itself. The Witness-Consciousness is not the
“doer” of the events of the body-mind-complex. The Witness-Consciousness Is Only
Itself. The process of Realization is a
Demonstration of the Self-Apprehension of That Very
Self-Nature, Self-Condition, and Self-State in the context
of conditionally manifested existence. Divine
Self-Realization is not about the body-mind-complex.
Therefore, the seventh stage Demonstration in the only-by-Me
Revealed and Given Reality-Way of Adidam is not about the
body-mind-complex. Rather, the seventh stage Demonstration
in the only-by-Me Revealed and Given Reality-Way of Adidam
is simply the inevitable course of the Demonstration of
Divine Self Realization (or Reality-Realization) Itself –
Which, Most Ultimately, Outshines the body-mind-“self’ and
the “world”. The Conscious Light of Being Itself
is not “doing” anything whatsoever. The body-mind-complex is
a “play” on Reality Itself, a “seeming” that is full of
self-“caused” characteristics. Main points and
references in other material The body-mind is a Play on
Reality. Nothing is separate from
or other than Consciousness, but all things, are tacitly
recognized as a temporary and unnecessary play upon
Consciousness Itself. To be receiving a Living Demonstration
and Transmission of this Realization in our time is a Grace
beyond conception. Conditional processes have
a kind of continuation, but they have no ultimacy.
Conditional processes arise during (and previous to) the
physical lifetime of an individual, and they also continue
after the physical lifetime. Nevertheless, the
factuality of such continuation does not mean that there is
a permanent “internal” principle in the human individual. In
Truth, and in Reality, There Is The Self-Existing and
Self-Radiant Divine Self-Nature, Self-Condition, and
Self-State Itself. Everything conditional is a conditionally
apparent “play” upon That. It is not the case that you are
“inside” the body-such that it is necessary to “go within”
and “get away from” the body. You are the body. It is simply
that you do not Divinely Self-Recognize the bodyAs a
transparent (or merely apparent), and non-necessary, and
intrinsically non-binding modification of Reality Itself.
That lack of Self-Abiding Divine Self-Recognition is the
“problem”. You basically are afraid
of that you see because you identify with the personae which
is dependent on the machine and which hasn’t understood
itself to the point of breaking the spell of the software
hardware game and realizing the eternal condition which is
eternally free therefore of all these consequences. It’s not
merely making them; it’s always free of them. They are a
play upon it and have no independent existence and yet the
Great Condition is not responsible for them like a cause is
responsible for its effect. It is a great paradox. It’s not
to be figured out perfectly. It is to be transcended utterly
and that will not make sense to you until you realize that
you truly are uncomfortable and are never going to be
comfortable as long as you are merely a conditional
personae. You never will no matter how grand the program may
ultimately become, no matter what plane you may be born into
you see, you’ll always be looking at this strange apparatus.
This is what I have always bee sensitive to. This is why
yogic phenomena, mystical phenomena have never bound me up
you see. I’ve had all these experiences — when I have the
experiences, I see this weirdo machine you see. see all Summary
points
That Which Is the Mere
Witness-Consciousness does not have a body, and is not a
body-mind-“self’. In Truth, there are no forms or
modifications or limitations. You – or the mind of
“self’-illusion – only presume them. The forms,
modifications, and limitations you presume are, in and of
themselves, non-existent – although they seem to exist. In
Reality, they are nothing but transparent (or merely
apparent), and non-necessary, and intrinsically non-binding
modifications of the Divine Self-Nature, Self-Condition, and
Self-State-Reality Itself, Which Is Always Already The Case.
When you are Established in That, by That, As That – by
virtue of My Transcendental Spiritual Divine
Blessing-Invasion, That Turns you about and “inside” out and
“outside” in, and Vanishes ego-“I” in My Sight – then you
Awaken from your false presumptions. You are simply
misinterpreting what you are seeing in the Mirror That Is
Reality Itself. You do not know what you are looking at,
“Narcissus”. You think it is an “other”- but the “other” is
only you . Main points and
references in other material ADI DA SAMRAJ: What is
coming up? DEVOTEE: Even the feeling
that I am dying. ADI DA SAMRAJ: Of course
you are dying. Everybody is dying. You must commit yourself
to dying. You must invest yourself in dying. That is the
Divine Yoga. Embrace this pressure, this imposition. Be
willing to die. Be willing to do the thing that you fear,
the thing that you keep putting forward to the end of time,
the end of your life. Do it now. Start doing some dying
here, then. Start giving yourself up if you have any
self-understanding at all, and receive Me down behind your
tongue here. You have to gulp Me down and give way to Me. So
what? That is life. DEVOTEE: In the process of
gulping and receiving You, this pressure does not go
away. ADI DA SAMRAJ: No, you
must give yourself to My Divine Invasion. Accept It. Accept
that that is life, that is the reason for existence, that is
the law of existence, that is the Perfect State you are
Given, and allow It completely, more and more, with all your
stress, with murders in your heart, in your gut, just
done. The Way is to yield the
self, the self-contraction, in all of its faculties, to the
degree of Samadhi, and then to be drawn in that Samadhi to
My Perfect Position, Prior to the body-mind, and enter into
That Most Profoundly until you Realize there is only Me. And
in that Realization it will be the same as to say that there
is only You.
It is possible to tacitly notice
that thoughts arise without any kind of intention on the
part of conscious awareness. If a presumed individual “self’
(or individual conscious awareness) were doing the thinking
– or if a thought were to appear concretely as a verbal
conceptual noticing of some kind, or if the individual
consciousness were thinking what became manifested as a
thought – there would have to be something preceding the
thought, which the individual consciousness would “know” and
do. However, the (apparently) individual consciousness (or
individual conscious awareness) does not “know” or do
anything in order to “cause” a thought to appear. If
conscious awareness were “causing” thoughts to arise, the
individual consciousness would have to think something and
then “cause” that preliminary thought to take the form of a
thought! You’can think something and then
speak, but you can also speak without thinking before you
speak. What is going on when there is speaking and no
pre-thinking? Where is the speech coming from? Who is
thinking it? The conscious awareness that presumes it is
doing the thinking is, in Reality, not doing the thinking –
because the conscious awareness is not doing anything except
standing there being itself, merely reflecting the thinking.
To do that takes no more activity than a mirror must perform
to reflect your face. The mirror does not have to do
anything. You need only look at the mirror. There is no activity of conscious
awareness that precedes a thought. The association between
conscious awareness and the brain exhibits thinking as one
of its characteristics. Yet, thought is a product of the
brain, not of conscious awareness. There are subtler conditions of
conditionally manifested “experience” in which there is no
physical brain-although there is certainly a functioning
subtle network of some kind that is the equivalent of a
brain, something that can conduct the energies and
proceedings that are associated with thoughts, and so on.
Similarly, there are subtle forms of existence which are not
physically incarnate, but which may appear to be, thinking.
Yet, the fact that such forms exist does not necessarily
suggest that they are thinking-or that the Very Self-Nature,
Self-Condition, and SelfState in Which they are appearing is
doing any thinking. In the case of every conditionally
manifested being (whether existing in a gross or a subtle
dimension of the cosmic domain), there is a conditional
mechanism enabling the function of memory and the apparent
awareness of “self’ and “other”-and the habitual
“self’-contraction of that entire mechanism pre-determines
the individual’s presumptions about existence. The
“self’-contraction is the “root”-attitude of the ego-bound
body-mind-complex, the attitude that is manifested whenever
the ego-bound body-mind-complex thinks or speaks. The
“self’-contraction is the presumption of separateness, the
presumption of “self’ existing “in” a “world”. Main points and
references in other material DEVOTEE! It felt
completely clear in the Paduka Puja, Beloved. I was To drawn
to serving Your Padukas, I was so absorbed in You, that was
how things ceased to arise. Lord, I had a question about the
(inaudible) in the “Perfect Practice” mind will continue to
arise, and it’s not clear to me than (inaudible) perfect in
that Practice. It wasn’t clear to me why the mind would
continue to arise,, AVATARA ADI DA: Well you
don’t disappear from the conditional world in order to do
the “Perfect Practice”, you see, otherwise no one would ever
be observed doing the “Perfect Practice”! (laughter), then
no one would he able to report about it! (laughter) The
“Perfect Practice” takes place in life, while you are alive.
So the mechanism of the body-mind remains, but your
practice, the focus of your practice, the specific “Perfect
Practice”, is prior to the body-mind, But the body-mind can
be totally forgotten in Jnana Samadhi, in the “Perfect
Practice”, you see, but that’s just at certain moments. And
when you got up from the seat of meditation you are in all
the normal ways associated with the body-mind. So there,
certainly, thoughts arise, and all the natural ordinariness
of the body-mind continued. see all Summary
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You presume that “the
body-mind-‘self’ in the world” is your first “experience”,
and you speak of your “within” as if you are “outside” your
“within”. You presume that you are “outside” your “inside”,
and that your “inside” is “deep in there”. That presumption
is not inspected, nor is it “known”- it is merely presumed.
It is not “experienced”. It is, simply and naively, spoken
of as if it were so. Language is a convention that
already presumes egoity and bodily existence. Language is a
means of interaction between presumed egos, between presumed
formally-existing entities. Language is not about the
Acausal Divine Self-Nature, Self-Condition, and Self-State
of Reality Itself, in Which those entities are (apparently)
arising. Rather, language is about the exchanges between
entities as entities, as body-minds. Thus, thought and
speech come from the body-mind-complex, not from
Consciousness Itself. Further evidence that thought and
speech come from the body-mind-complex is the fact that
people sometimes speak without “knowing” that they are
talking. For instance, someone who is asleep can be talking
and not be aware of doing so. It is even possible to have
conversations with people while they sleep, and they will
have no memory of having spoken. Who was talking? The
brain-mind or the body was talking. You identify with the
body-mind-complex through “self”contraction. The apparent
association (or apparent connection) between That Which Is
the Mere Witness-Consciousness (or Non differentiated
Conscious Light) and the apparently arising
body-mind-complex is the source of the (false) presumption
that That Which Is the Mere Witness-Consciousness (or
Non-differentiated Conscious Light) is the
body-mind-complex, and that That Which Is the Mere
Witness-Consciousness is Appearing in the form that the
body-mind-complex (itself) is presuming. Language is the
means whereby the Non-differentiated Conscious Light of
Being Itself presumes to be identified with “Narcissus” (or
the ego-“I”). Human beings make an entire culture out of
this presumption, an entire lifetime out of it. You make
every moment out of it. You presume that the body and the
“world” are the first “experience”, whereas you do not even
have any awareness of the body or of the “world” until after
they have already happened. To have any perception takes
time. Yes, perhaps only a fraction of elapsed time-but,
nevertheless, it takes time for the perception of the
“world” and the perception of the body to be registered. For
the mechanism of the body-mind-complex to register a
perception requires just that fraction of elapsed time that
it takes energy to travel the distance required for the
bodily cycle of perceiving to occur. and “There is… no thought
in That Position” Therefore, you do not “experience”
the body first or thought first or the “world” first. You do
not even “experience” the body, thought, or the “world” in
real time! They are always artifacts of the past. Always.
All conditional “experiencing” is of the past. There is no
present-time “experience”. There is no present time. There
is only past time. The Real Present is not in time. The Real
Present Is the Mere Witness-Consciousness. The Real Present
Is Conscious Light. The Real Present Is Prior to the
body-mind-“self’. The Real Present is not identified with
the body-mind-“self’. The Real Present Is Reality
Itself-Perfectly Prior to the body-mind”self’, all thought,
and all of conditionally arising “world”. The body-mind-“self’ is a kind of
“parasite” on the Non differentiated Conscious Light-making
use of it as you make use of the electricity generated by
the power company when you plug a lamp into the wall. The
power company sends you a bill. There is also a price for
the presumption of the separate body-mind-“self’ a bill of
suffering that you can never pay off! The price that you are
billed for your little lifetime is unpayable. The Reality-Condition Is the Acausal
Divine Self-Nature, SelfCondition, Source-Condition, and
Self-State of all-and-All. If you are Granted the Gift of
Standing in That Position, Self-Abiding in That Position,
then you have been Granted the Gift of the “Perfect
Practice” of “Perfect Knowledge”. It becomes Tacitly Obvious
that all “questions” (and all “problems”) are inherently
answered. The Nature of Reality Itself is Tacitly Obvious.
There is absolutely no “difference”, no separation-and the
actual status of thinking and of perception and of the
“world” is inherently Obvious. The “Perfect Practice” of “Perfect
Knowledge” is not a merely philosophical conviction that the
“subjective” interior is really the Source of the “world”.
The “Perfect Practice” of “Perfect Knowledge” is not
something you believe merely because it is stated
convincingly in some philosophical summary. No. In the
Divine Self Position, “Perfect Knowledge” is Inherently
Obvious. In the Divine Self-Position, the Status of
everything is Inherently Obvious, not argued. There is
Always Already no thought in That Position. The “Perfect Practice” of Adidam is
not about intentionally assuming the Position (or the
Attitude) of “Mere Witness”. You cannot do that. You can
strategically assume the attitude of observing, but to
observe is a function of the brain-mild. To observe, to
discriminate, and to think are all functions of the subtle
body. Those functions are all characteristics of
brain-mind-or of the mechanics, at any rate, of the complex
of gross and subtle structures. The “root” (or causal) dimension is
the “root” ego-dimension, the dimension of the
“root”-contraction. There are fundamentals in that
dimension. The feelings of separateness, relatedness,
otherness, and “difference” comprise the inherent
characteristics of the causal dimension (or “root”
ego-dimension) of conditionally apparent awareness. The
feelings of separateness, relatedness, otherness, and
“difference” are the “root” of all limitations that are
otherwise reflected in the brain-mind. All the patterns that
govern brain-mind presumptions are in the
“root”-dimension. You (as the presumed
body-mind-“self”) can observe – but you (as the presumed
body-mind-“self”) cannot be the Witness Consciousness,
because That Which Is the Witness-Consciousness is not (in
the active, or functional, sense) “witnessing”. “Witnessing”
is a kind of activity – it is (functionally) observing. That
Which Is the Witness-Consciousness, the “Root”-Condition, is
not doing any “witnessing”. I use the term
“Witness-Consciousness” to Describe the actual (or always
present-time) Status of Consciousness Itself, to indicate
that Consciousness Itself is not active in any sense. It is
not “doing” or “thinking”. Consciousness Itself is not
“doing” the activities of the body. Consciousness Itself Is
Prior to all action. The Condition That Is Always Already
The Case is not thinking. It is not that thinking must
somehow be controlled or stopped, and then what is “left
over” is the Witness-Consciousness. To stop thinking is
something you can do (somehow or other, by various means,
but only temporarily) to the body-mind-“self”. But to Be
Prior to thought is to Be-That Which Is the
Witness-Consciousness. The Witness-Consciousness does not
have to stop thinking in order to Be What It Is. It is
always already not thinking. Therefore, That Which.Is the
Witness-Consciousness is not limited (or defined) by the
characteristics of language. The characteristics of
separateness, relatedness, otherness, and “difference” are
inherent in language. Language is built on these structures.
Language is built on the illusion of egoity-or of separate
“self” in a “world” of separateness, relatedness, otherness,
and “difference”. The Fundamental Self-Nature,
Self-Condition, and Self-State-That Which Is the
Witness-Consciousness-does not manifest any of those
structures. That Which Is the Witness-Consciousness has none
of the structures of language, none of the structures of
egoity. That Which is the Witness-Consciousness has nothing
to do with any of that. It Stands Free. It Is Prior to all
conditionality. To be Established in That Position
(by My Divine Avataric Transcendental Spiritual Grace) is
the beginning of the Great Process of the “Perfect Practice”
of the only-by-Me Revealed and Given Reality-Way of Adidam.
The Establishment in the WitnessPosition is the beginning of
the Ultimate Manifestation of the Reality-Way of
Adidam-Which (in due course) becomes the seventh stage
Demonstration, in Which everything is (Tacitly, and
Inherently) Divinely Self-Recognizable, without illusion,
without the limitations of language or egoity or body-mind.
Most Ultimately, the Force of That Self-Abiding Divine
Self-Recognition Infuses all conditionally manifested
“experience” to the point of Outshining-and That Is Divine
Translation. The “Perfect Practice” of the
Reality-Way of Adidam is the Demonstration that becomes
Divine Translation. The “Perfect Practice” is not merely
about becoming Established in the Witness Position, as if
that Realization were an “end-phenomenon”. The
Witness-Position is not an “end-phenomenon”. The
Witness-Position is simply the first Gift Granted by My
Divine Avataric Transcendental Spiritual Grace to My
“Perfect Practice” devotees. Establishment As the
Witness-Consciousness is only the beginning of the process
of Real Existence. I have Summarized the “Perfect
Practice” of the Reality-Way of Adidam Thus: “Be
Consciousness (Itself), `Contemplate’ Consciousness
(Itself), Transcend everything in Consciousness (Itself).”
This is a simple summary of the Process whereby the “Perfect
Practice” becomes the Ultimacy of the seventh stage
Demonstration. Thus, once you have been Granted the Gift of
Self-Abiding As That Which Is the Witness-Consciousness, the
Witness-Position must be entered into. The
Witness-Consciousness Is Its Own Domain. The
Witness-Consciousness is not “doing”,something. The
WitnessConsciousness Is (Only) Itself. My devotee enters
into the WitnessPosition by Means of the devotional and
Transcendental Spiritual process in relationship to Me. The
Witness-Position is entered into by Means of My Divine
Avataric Transcendental Spiritual GraceMy Divine Avataric
Transcendental Spiritual Self-Transmission in the
circumstance of Non-“difference” (or Non-separation) from
Me, Which is the most intense mode of devotion to Me, the
“Perfect” form of devotion to Me. The “Perfect Practice” of the
Reality-Way of Adidam is not about being independently a
“something” that is “the same” as I Am. The “Perfect
Practice” of the Reality-Way of Adidam is about having
become Perfectly turned to Me As I Am). In the process that
(in due course) Establishes (and, then, Demonstrates) the
“Perfect Practice” of the Reality-Way of Adidam, My Divine
Avataric Transcendental Spiritual Self-Transmission Awakens
That Which Is the Witness-Consciousness (and not the “doer”)
to Itself, in and of Itself, As Itself-so that It Is “Known”
and Realized. This Awakening is not the achievement of some
process, act, or state of the active observing of the
body-mind-complex. Rather, That Awakening is the Perfect
Realization of the Domain of Conscious Light Itself. That
Perfect Realization becomes (in due course) the seventh
stage (or Most Perfect) Awakening, in Which everything is
Divinely Self-Recognized. Four Stages of Seventh
Stage Self-Abiding Divine Self-Recognition
(or seventh stage Demonstration) shows Itself in the four
stages of spontaneous Self Demonstration I have Described.
Divine Transfiguration, Divine Transformation, Divine Indifference, and Divine Translation These are the inevitable stages of
the only-by-Me Revealed and Given seventh stage
Demonstration. These stages are the (Spontaneously
Unfolding) Self-Evident Signs of the seventh stage
Demonstration, not the “doings” of the seventh stage
process. These stages are the inevitable Demonstration of
the Self-Abiding Divine Self Recognition of apparent
phenomenal (or conditional) existence. The non-necessity of conditional
existence is the Basis of the seventh stage Demonstration in
the Reality-Way of Adidam. The Demonstration of the seventh
stage of life in the Reality-Way of Adidam is a
“Brightening”, to the point of Outshining. The onlyby-Me
Revealed and Given seventh stage of life in the Reality-Way
of Adidam is the Demonstration of the Divine Conscious
Light. The seventh stage of life in the Reality-Way of
Adidam is the Divine Demonstration of the non-necessity of
the “world”. Most Ultimately, the seventh stage of life in
the Reality-Way of Adidam is Divine Translation into My
Divine Self-Domain-not by leaving the conditional domain,
but by Outshining it. These Words of Mine are suggestive
of something that may convey meaning to you. Yet, These
Words I am Uttering are (Themselves) a Direct
Self-Revelation of and As the intrinsically egoless Acausal
Divine Reality Itself. see all Summary
points Adi Da Samraj – October 20,
2004 – Discourse – unpublished
When Your Ripe and Not Until
Then The Witness-Consciousness is not
witnessing. It stands prior. There IS no such realization then
while there is identification with the body-mind.
There is NO identification with the
body-mind, none, and no dissociation from it and no method
of the body-mind to achieve it, to hold it in place, to
grasp it. It’s not established by thought nor
continued by thought. It has nothing to do with it.
It is not an “it”. It is not what you think.
It’s not what you might
strategically presume. When I say, even no matter what
arises you are the mere Witness, this is a paradoxical
statement like saying realization is always already the
case. You AREN’T the Witness. You’re this body-mind self-function
of self-contraction. The Witness is not what you think.
You think of the Witness or even
feel pointed to it by a subjective sense that is actually a
dimension of the mind or the body-mind. That which is the Witness is not
self. It’s not not-self. It IS the Divine. It IS Me. It is NOT you. And it is not other and it cannot be
turned to in the inward sense or the philosophical sense.
It’s not merely the bare consciousness because it is the
Very Condition of all conditions, the entire universe.
It IS the Conscious Light, the
Bright. I am that, fully, consciously, and
yet the words don’t really say it. They are true enough to be said.
They are true, but on the other hand they don’t convey
it. They are not the transmitters of the
realization and they’re not like koans you just think about
it or dwell on some while and then suddenly you’re
self-realized. It doesn’t work that way.
You see that’s the common
presumptuousness that has come with the casual transmission
of esotericism in the common world of consumers and ordinary
people, people without foundation, without preparations of
what would have been traditionally required before even the
philosophical utterances were made, you see. They were
regarded to be so profound, of such a sacred order, that
they weren’t even spoken to anybody. You couldn’t just sit down and
listen to the Upanishad, you see, at a Master’s Feet, or
something. You wouldn’t even HEAR about these great
philosophical statements of the nature of ultimate
realization, even in the sixth stage sense, you see. No,
that would be disclosed in secret. They are esoteric. They
were originally for just people uniquely tested and
prepared, ripe, so you don’t get to be eaten until you are
ripe [murmurs]. Realization is like being eaten
rather than becoming a big deal, you see. You don’t become a big deal, you
don’t become anything. It is the UTTER sacrifice of self and
any presumption of self-realization then is nonsense.
Only actual realization knows why
it’s nonsense, why sixth stage declarations or instructions
or presumptions by people are nonsense, even though
something about it seems to be
philosophically correct, you see. It’s the Self. Everybody
knows what the Self is, right? Somehow. But you don’t, that’s the point, you
see. You DON’T, you really don’t. You can think you do and
what you think seems to make sense. You might not have
thought of it otherwise, but once somebody tells you it’s
the Self, you think you’ve got it. It’s is the Witness. Well, you know
what that is. No matter what arises, even now, you see,
you’re the Witness. Oh, you know what that is, right? No,
you don’t [laughter]. You’re already thinking about it
right now, you see? It has nothing to do with thought. It
has nothing to do with the body. It has nothing to do with
the self. It’s not even, well it’s certainly not fully apt
to even speak of it, so in the Buddhist tradition, for
instance, Gautama is reported not to have spoken of it. He
refused to make a metaphysical so-called utterances
describing Nirvana in any kind of substantial sense and yet
in other traditions, Advaitic traditions, and so forth, it
IS spoken of. That doesn’t mean the realizations
are different. They both point ultimately toward a sixth
stage realization, but they’re just a different approach to
ripening those who might realize it. So in both traditions
there are conditions for those who are accepted, taken
seriously for ultimate practice and those conditions can
fundamentally be summarized under the heading of
Renunciation.
Summary Points Witness-Position is
Consciousness Prior to Attention, ego and
body-mind. In-depth experience or
any experience is in the ‘root’ of attention (causal)
ego. Witness-Consciousness –
Always Prior Self-State, Consciousness
Itself. Witness-Consciousness
is NOT active observer. Not discriminating,
thinking mind, not etheric feeling body not in gross
physical awareness not in the right-side of the
heart. The primary error of
human beings is that they get deluded by their own energies.
They submit Consciousness to Energy. They have this idea
that Energy and Consciousness are the same thing, perhaps.
But basically their life involves submitting themselves as
Consciousness to Energy, to motion, to impulses, instead of
realizing what Consciousness itself is and perhaps finding
Energy to be the same thing ultimately. They pay no
attention to consciousness itself and just submit themselves
as consciousness to the play of energies. And there is
nothing Enlightening about that, you see. The spiritual process
that I consider with you is ultimately a matter of
identifying with consciousness and realizing its Status, so
that, having realized that, the objective states of
existence, or all the forms of ‘Energy, may become
recognizable not merely as Energy but as
Consciousness. Only Grace Given
Actionless
Consciousness, Witness Consciousness, not the observer.
No inherent connection
or dependence on conditions. Beyond the exercise of
attention Temporary deepening of
conditional awareness can ‘appear’ to be Awakening to the
Witness-Consciousness. Until there is the
Realization of identification with consciousness and the
ultimate Realization of its actual Status, there is no
Realization that Energy and consciousness are identical.
That, of course, is what there is ultimately to Realize.
When Energy becomes recognizable as Consciousness, then the
entire Realm of Nature vanishes, It is outshines by
Consciousness itself. That is the secret of the seventh
stage of life. But it is not possible to recognize Energy as
consciousness until we identify with consciousness and
Realize its Status. Therefore, no amount of surrendering to
Energy is going to Enlighten us. Attention
(relationship, separateness, otherness, difference, object
consciousness) is the “root-position” of ego. There is no Awakening
(Only by Grace) until attention (with all associated
presumptions and feelings is transcended in the Prior
Condition of Consciousness Itself. And since the nature of
consciousness is the Divine only perfect intuitive
absorption is possible and YOU can’t do THAT. Only that
which IS can ‘do’ that! Which must absorb your limited
consciousness into that which is. The subtle nature of
the surrender is activiated. And since the nature of
consciousness is the Divine only perfect intutitve
absorption is possible. and YOU can’t do THAT.
Only that which is can ‘do’ that! Which must absorb your
limited conscousiness into that which is. Then when that occurs
there is only open eyes. The Root of Body and
Mind Is in the Heart True Awakening into
Consciousness is PERMANENT. True Awakening is
Un-Conditional and Non-Conditional. True Awakening is not an
experiences that comes and goes. It is not that only those
who are in the seventh stage are enlightened. Those who are
in the previous stages of practice are at times entered into
the disposition of enlightenment and at other times they are
not. They phase in that Realization, and their realization
of the Radiant Transcendental Consciousness is not
Absolute. My transmission is
non-separateness. You tend to register my transmission in
terms of self-bound experiences. They’re not really
getting my transmission. There is something but not the
fullest reception of my transmission. It’s not my
fullest communion with me. It’s not true
self-understanding that’s demonstrated. It’s just
possibilities experienced by you a seeker, an apparent
individual perpetually active of
self-contraction. Intuiting an
approximation – approaching of the Witness or Consciousness,
but not established. Realization or
Established as Consciousness is a Transcendental process.
Permanent BASIS of
practice. It is THIS first
(Beginning of the process) and then the Perfect
Practice. Consciousness is just
like a point, moving in this infinite, three dimensional
crystal, or plane,or sphere of dots. It feels individuated,
separate, and trapped. Wherever it is, it sees everything
around it. Wherever you look, everything surrounds that
center of looking. In the next moment, you are in this spot,
or that spot. There are always the surrounding forms,
motions, and energies. You are trapped as this little point
in the midst of it. We must take attention
away from its preoccupation with, or bondage to, this
infinite medium of dots and let it fall back into the
contemplation of its own Source. When that is done most
profoundly, then there is the inherent or tacit, spontaneous
recognition of the Infinite Field in which this mechanical
act of attention is being moved. Then whenever attention
does move, wherever it moves, its condition and its objects
are inherently, instantly recognizable. They are still what
they are as an appearance, but they are recognizable in
their Source Condition.They do not have the capacity to
destroy Enlightenment, or the Realization of the Truth. But
we must persist in this power of recognition. It is a kind
of Yoga of Enlightenment. Unless we persist in it, attention
will simply continue to arise mechanically in this great
crystal or Mandala. And, Enlightened or not, there is still
the environment of limitation. The Beginning is many
times seen as the end. In Adidam it is the
Beginning and there is NO completion to the Process in the
context of the world or the body-mind. If there is a
completion it is in Translation – Prior to body, mind, self
and world. What makes Adi Da
Avataric is He is Speaking As Translation and
Incarnation together All At Once. There is NO relatedness
in Consciousness Iself The zero of the heart
is expanded as the world. Consciousness is not
differentiated and identified. There is a constant
observation of subject and object in any body, any
functional sheath, any realm, or any experience that
arises. Consciousness Reality-Condition Self-Apprehends Self-Existing Being Self-Apprehension is the
non-conditional CONTEXT in which conditional relatedness
appears to be arising. Relatedness is the
first form of the self-contraction. Feeling of relatedness
is not inherent in existence. Relatedness –
difference – is sign of “self”-contraction. The feeling of
separateness, otherness, difference are all contained and
manifesting as attention (mind). Consciousness is not
inherently identified with the body-mind. Consciousness is
aware of the body-mind. And what all of the preliminary
practices of spiritual life are about, all those exercises
that lead to meditation and finally to Samadhi, is the
freeing up of attention from the body-mind and its relations
to the point that it may contemplate the Source of attention
itself, or the Consciousness that is aware of all
conditions. Stand Prior Not
disassociated Free Attention Self-Revealed Only by Grace No Method No Seeking Witness-Conciousness is
NOT you, it is Me. This is either fortunate
or unfortunate, depending on you perspective relative to ego
transcendence. Unfortunate if you’re not
surrendered, because it’s not in your power. Witness-Consciousness is
not ‘located’ or a ‘thing’ or a ‘state’ within
you. Fortunate if you are truly
surrendered, most fortunate, Gifted in fact. “In one moment arising,
the “I” presumes to Invoke Me-while, in the next moment of
truly searchless Beholding of Me, there is no
“I””. No ego, no mind, no self
and the Illusion of Language Consciousness is aware
of thoughts. It’s not even thinking the thoughts. The
thinking is something of which it is aware. Everything that
arises is an object to consciousness. All the language we
generate it order to conceive of or approach the Realization
of that Reality is based on the conventions of experiencing,
knowing, thinking, self-referring, relating. All kinds of language
has been used to point to what is beyond psycho-physical
existence All spoken and written
language is a “point-of-view”-machine-an ego-based (and
relentlessly ego-oriented and ego-bound) human invention,
originated on the “root”-basis of a chronically-enacted
“self”-contraction of the total psycho-physical apparatus of
a presumed (and largely verbal-mind-made) separate “self”,
dissociated from the Intrinsically egoless and wordless
Indivisible Transcendental Spiritual Self-Nature,
Self-Condition, and Self-State of Reality
Itself.” language is the first
form of artificial intelligence created by human
beings. There is no mind. Mind
is a myth. There is language-which is programmed by brains,
and which, in turn, programs brains. However, there is no
tangible existence to “mind” itself-absolutely none.
Nevertheless, human beings identify with the “mind” as
“self”, and (thereby) invent destiny for themselves, and
even project that “self”-imagined destiny into an idea of
time and space beyond the present physical
lifetime. Mind is an interior
projection of a language-program that, in its imaginative
elaboration of itself, conceives of purposes and ideas (in
the realm of illusion) for which there are no corresponding
physical data. Human beings are all living in a “virtual
world” of mind. Human beings are, characteristically,
egoically “self”-identified with a “robot”, an artificial
intelligence. The book that I’m
working on now, I’ve thought of calling it, “The
Myth of Within.” Because the only reason we
go about this trying to free the one within is based on this
dilemma, There is no such one. So to generate spiritual life
for the purpose of inwardness effecting upon one’s
inner life is a false principle, one that we easily tend to
because of our traditional notions of spiritual
life. The true form of spiritual
life is not one in which we are simply turning within and
trying to do something for the one within and soul or
whatever but one in which we understand our present activity
and that present activity creates this implied inner one as
well as all the forms of confusion, suffering, deathful
life. A living being does not
enclose an inner, separate, and eternal soul or personal
Self. Every complex condition or being that arises is
exactly what it seems to be-a mechanical structuring of
manifest conditions. What is within a living individual, or
what may conventionally be considered to be his soul, is
merely the psychic or mental part, which is subtler than the
elemental body, and which survives the death of the
elemental body, but which is also subject to change and
death and every kind of illusion or torment. There is no
eternal, separate, interested, personal, implicated, and
conditioned Self within each living being. There are only
psycho-physical conditions, and the Consciousness in which
they seem to arise is Absolute, Transcendental, Motiveless,
and always Free of all conditions. I am it. I am not
mysteriously Somehow connected to
it. I don’t originate in it in
any way, And anything that’s
me Is not within
this, But is this
body. “me” is not within the
body. “me” is some way that the
body has Of referring to
itself. Me, I, the subjective
reference, Is not somebody within at
all. All this
subjectivity Is the way the body
has Of accounting for
itself. That does not mean
that Subjectivity survives the
body. This body is
it. This is the mystery, this
body. You must completely become
this body, Allow it. It is
you. You are not the ghost
within it. Ask “who am I?” and you
end up in mystery, And you have only
discovered that “I” means nothing more
than the body. It is a convention the
body uses. Body is what “I” is
about. The Reality-Way of
“Perfect Knowledge” is not even about the
“I”-thought at the core of your presumed separate
“selfhood”—because even the
“I”-thought is simply another mode of mirroring
(or reflection). You are not separate ego.
No matter what arises—waking, dreaming, or sleeping, no
matter what arises—you are the Witness of it, Prior to
it, not bound, not separate, the Only Condition that is
Self-Evident, that is non-separate and Indivisible. There is
no separate self. And there is no not-self. There is no
not-self to dissociate from by introversion. There is no
separate self to expand by extroversion. Therefore, experiences are
constantly sought in the vertical planes of experience,
above, below, and altogether beyond, which will release the
being from the inherent sense of separation, vulnerability,
fear, obsession, and self possession. But there is no
release until the primal error, illusion, or lie at the root
of the heart is undone. There is no separate self.
There is no not-self. It is simply Unshaken, Absolute
Self-Condition of Reality Itself, Self-Existing and
Self-Radiant. All separation is an
illusion. It is impossible for there to be. Any separation.
There is no such thing. It has never occurred. There is no
separately existing thing. Anywhere. There is no separately
existing being. Anywhere. There is no separate
Anything! You must be willing to
vanish completely, to be completely obliterated. You will
become capable of that sacrifice only by degrees, because
your fear is profound. The frigidity of feeling-attention is
most profound in you, because of your experience, your
adaptation. Therefore, the process of God-Realization is a
matter of time and practice. There is not now, nor has
there ever been, nor will there ever be individual being.
There is no such thing. “All seeking is
“self’-worship” The body-mind is a Play on
Reality The body-mind is a Play on
Reality. Nothing is separate from
or other than Consciousness, but all things, are tacitly
recognized as a temporary and unnecessary play upon
Consciousness Itself. To be receiving a Living Demonstration
and Transmission of this Realization in our time is a Grace
beyond conception. Conditional processes have
a kind of continuation, but they have no ultimacy.
Conditional processes arise during (and previous to) the
physical lifetime of an individual, and they also continue
after the physical lifetime. Nevertheless, the
factuality of such continuation does not mean that there is
a permanent “internal” principle in the human individual. In
Truth, and in Reality, There Is The Self-Existing and
Self-Radiant Divine Self-Nature, Self-Condition, and
Self-State Itself. Everything conditional is a conditionally
apparent “play” upon That. It is not the case that you are
“inside” the body-such that it is necessary to “go within”
and “get away from” the body. You are the body. It is simply
that you do not Divinely Self-Recognize the bodyAs a
transparent (or merely apparent), and non-necessary, and
intrinsically non-binding modification of Reality Itself.
That lack of Self-Abiding Divine Self-Recognition is the
“problem”. You basically are afraid
of that you see because you identify with the personae which
is dependent on the machine and which hasn’t understood
itself to the point of breaking the spell of the software
hardware game and realizing the eternal condition which is
eternally free therefore of all these consequences. It’s not
merely making them; it’s always free of them. They are a
play upon it and have no independent existence and yet the
Great Condition is not responsible for them like a cause is
responsible for its effect. It is a great paradox. It’s not
to be figured out perfectly. It is to be transcended utterly
and that will not make sense to you until you realize that
you truly are uncomfortable and are never going to be
comfortable as long as you are merely a conditional
personae. You never will no matter how grand the program may
ultimately become, no matter what plane you may be born into
you see, you’ll always be looking at this strange apparatus.
This is what I have always bee sensitive to. This is why
yogic phenomena, mystical phenomena have never bound me up
you see. I’ve had all these experiences — when I have the
experiences, I see this weirdo machine you see. ADI DA SAMRAJ: What is
coming up? DEVOTEE: Even the feeling
that I am dying. ADI DA SAMRAJ: Of course
you are dying. Everybody is dying. You must commit yourself
to dying. You must invest yourself in dying. That is the
Divine Yoga. Embrace this pressure, this imposition. Be
willing to die. Be willing to do the thing that you fear,
the thing that you keep putting forward to the end of time,
the end of your life. Do it now. Start doing some dying
here, then. Start giving yourself up if you have any
self-understanding at all, and receive Me down behind your
tongue here. You have to gulp Me down and give way to Me. So
what? That is life. DEVOTEE: In the process of
gulping and receiving You, this pressure does not go
away. ADI DA SAMRAJ: No, you
must give yourself to My Divine Invasion. Accept It. Accept
that that is life, that is the reason for existence, that is
the law of existence, that is the Perfect State you are
Given, and allow It completely, more and more, with all your
stress, with murders in your heart, in your gut, just
done. The Way is to yield the
self, the self-contraction, in all of its faculties, to the
degree of Samadhi, and then to be drawn in that Samadhi to
My Perfect Position, Prior to the body-mind, and enter into
That Most Profoundly until you Realize there is only Me. And
in that Realization it will be the same as to say that there
is only You. DEVOTEE! It felt
completely clear in the Paduka Puja, Beloved. I was To drawn
to serving Your Padukas, I was so absorbed in You, that was
how things ceased to arise. Lord, I had a question about the
(inaudible) in the “Perfect Practice” mind will continue to
arise, and it’s not clear to me than (inaudible) perfect in
that Practice. It wasn’t clear to me why the mind would
continue to arise,, AVATARA ADI DA: Well you
don’t disappear from the conditional world in order to do
the “Perfect Practice”, you see, otherwise no one would ever
be observed doing the “Perfect Practice”! (laughter), then
no one would he able to report about it! (laughter) The
“Perfect Practice” takes place in life, while you are alive.
So the mechanism of the body-mind remains, but your
practice, the focus of your practice, the specific “Perfect
Practice”, is prior to the body-mind, But the body-mind can
be totally forgotten in Jnana Samadhi, in the “Perfect
Practice”, you see, but that’s just at certain moments. And
when you got up from the seat of meditation you are in all
the normal ways associated with the body-mind. So there,
certainly, thoughts arise, and all the natural ordinariness
of the body-mind continued.
“Language is a convention
that already presumes egoity and bodily
existence” “Language is the means
whereby the Non-differentiated Conscious Light of Being
Itself presumes to be identified with “Narcissus” (or the
ego-“I”). Human beings make an entire culture out of this
presumption, an entire lifetime out of it. You make every
moment out of it.” “You do not “experience”
the body, thought, or the “world” in real time! They are
always artifacts of the past. Always.” “The Real Present is not
in time.” and “There is… no thought in
That Position” Witness Consciousness is a
Noun not a Verb “Establishment As the
Witness-Consciousness is only the beginning of the process
of Real Existence.”
The Following is
from The Aletheon, pp. 1531-1549 entilted ‘What
Consciousness Is‘.
Adi Da
Samraj
Adi Da
Samraj
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Prior To All egoic self-Identification With Mind, Body, and
World
Is The True Divine and Acausal Self-Nature, Self-Condition,
and Self-State of Reality itself.
Consciousness is the Ultimate Domain of the conscious self
and it is not dependent upon the individual mind. A medium
is necessary for knowing anything other than one’s self: for
knowing one’s self no medium is necessary. In fact, the
association of consciousness with the mind is a hindrance to
the attainment of realization. As the seat of the ego the
individual mind is conscious of being isolated. From it
arises the limited individuality, which at once feeds and is
fed by the illusion of duality, time and change. To know the
self as it is, consciousness has to be freed from the
limitation of the individual mind. In other words, the
individual mind has to disappear while consciousness is
retained. The quality and mood of consciousness itself, that
precedes the mind and the Heart is the root of the mind, the
source of the mind.
The body-mind is a
Play on Reality
Further Reading:
Consciousness is the Ultimate Domain of the conscious self
and it is not dependent upon the individual mind. A medium
is necessary for knowing anything other than one’s self: for
knowing one’s self no medium is necessary. In fact, the
association of consciousness with the mind is a hindrance to
the attainment of realization. As the seat of the ego the
individual mind is conscious of being isolated. From it
arises the limited individuality, which at once feeds and is
fed by the illusion of duality, time and change. To know the
self as it is, consciousness has to be freed from the
limitation of the individual mind. In other words, the
individual mind has to disappear while consciousness is
retained. The quality and mood of consciousness itself, that
precedes the mind and the Heart is the root of the mind, the
source of the mind.