Conscious Immortality

CONSCIOUS IMMORTALITY

Q: How is 'I-I' consciousness felt?

M: As an unbroken awareness of 'I'. It is simply Consciousness. You are That even now. There will be no mistaking It, when pure.

Q: Can that Consciousness give any pleasure?

M: Its nature is pleasure. Pleasure alone is. There is no one to enjoy the pleasure: both the enjoyer and the pleasure are merged
in it. Pleasure is turning and keeping the mind within; pain is sending it outward.

Absence of pleasure is called pain.

One' s nature is pleasure, i.e. Bliss. It is not the soul which yearns for realization, as the latter is always there. Do you deny yourself? No.

Then the Self exists. It is only the ego which seeks.

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