Blessing

PRESENTLY ONLY FORTUNATE PEOPLE

WILL LISTEN TO MY TALKS...

December 27, 1980.

Maharaj :- The trouble is, everybody wants to have the knowledge of the Self without giving up the identification with the body, they are contradictory.

Give up this identification and everything becomes simple.

A child may be playing with the smallest coin, and if it is removed will
be greatly agitated. You accept your identification with the same
determination, the same anxiety, in spite of the knowledge which you are being given.

Even if you give the child a toy made of gold, he will reject
it because he has his heart set on that small coin. Even if I give you
this knowledge, which is priceless, it will not be acceptable.

Whatever one sees or perceives, that one must be prior to what is seen or perceived. It is simple.

When this knowledge of the Self gets firmer and firmer we are no
longer attracted to those things which had previously attracted us so
much.

You see me talking, apparently at ease, but there is continual
suffering, particularly between 2 and 4 p.m. the existence of this
consciousness itself becomes unbearable. This is no one else's experience I experience it myself.

What is being recorded now, when it is typed and put into book form
and someone reads it, what will he make of it? He will say that he cannot imagine anyone having lived who could say this.

The actual-fact now is that I have reached a stage where it would require good fortune for anyone to have even a sight of that principle.

The words are so profound, there is deeper meaning behind it.

Presently only fortunate people will listen to my talks.

I repeatedly tell you that there is nothing to save in this consciousness, the knowledge "I Am" -if you feel like worshipping something, worship that. I am giving blessings. Blessings mean what? I am giving confidence and courage.

Self

YOU HAVE NO CONTROL OVER IT...

Q. Then I just let it do what's natural?

M. There is no question of your allowing it to happen, it will happen,
you have no control over it.

Q. But some things I can control. If I come here or I stay outside - I-can control that.

M. That is a misconception. Whatever happens, happens by itself. All
this is the show, or the expression, of consciousness - the nature of it is change. It is the dance of the conscious presence.

There are so many ways in which consciousness entertains itself, many different forms, abilities, capacities are functioning, but the functioning is merely to entertain itself.

When it is tired, it rests in sleep, when awake it needs
some kind of entertainment, some movement, some doing.

They are all appearances in consciousness; each will last according to its own duration, but basically, nothing that happens has any validity or importance.

Until the awakening, or understanding, you think that you
are the doer, but once this apperception takes place you know there
is no entity that is working.

Q. I just think it would be best to do good things instead of bad things.

M: What do you mean by good and bad things? Good things in one set of circumstances can be bad things in another set of circumstances.

Even the things you consider good can be so only as long as the body lasts.

Only a rare one will realize there is nothing to do -he is already That.

PRIOR TO CONSCIOUSNESS...108.