Sri Ramakant Maharaj: Every day I am repeating and telling everybody the same thing:
Don't take my words literally.
What the Masters are trying to convey is what is important - the essence, the meaning, the gist.
We are not here to have a debate, or to study the exact words that are spoken, or compare teachings or make a comparison of Masters.
Listen to me! I am not speaking to you.
I am addressing the silent invisible listener within you.
Q. Is the presence of the Master and the conversation only a kind of game?
Sri Ramakant Maharaj: The Master is needed at the initial stage to give direct Knowledge and remind the 'disciple' that he, too, is a Master.
There is no difference between them but the Master is speaking from the realized state.
He has transcended the limitations and is free of illusion.
The Master reminds the disciple of his true identity with statements such as "The Master regenerates your power."
"You have forgotten your true identity".
"You are not the body, were not and will not remain the body".
"You are covered in ash. Underneath the fire is burning. Master removes the ash."
In fact, there is no you, no I, no he, no she,
no disciple, no Master.
We have to play at being the Master and disciple to remove the layers of ignorance and illusion and to get back to the Source/Reality.
Q. If you discriminate between Self and ego, is that not a kind of duality?
Sri Ramakant Maharaj: The world is projected out of your Spontaneous Presence. Mind, ego, intellect are our babies -
they are not real.
Q. If the mind and its content is illusory does that not mean that all words, including knowledge given by the Masters must be untrue as well? Ranjit Maharaj and Siddharameshwar Maharaj say that knowledge is the greatest ignorance.
Sri Ramakant Maharaj: The Masters are beyond mind.
They abide in the stateless state.
They speak from the bottom of Reality.
We are not talking here about body knowledge,
which is ignorance.
The Masters' Knowledge is Selfless Self-Knowledge,
not second-hand book knowledge or experiential knowledge.
Even when you read spiritual books, you are reading them as if they are stories about someone else.
Book knowledge is not enough.
Knowledge has to be sourced from within.
When all body knowledge is dissolved, then the door of Knowledge will open to you.
Q. What is enlightenment?
Sri Ramakant Maharaj:
Enlightenement is the Conviction that
"You were not the body.
You are not the body.
You are not going to remain the body".
It is the Conviction that you are beyond Brahman,
Paramatman, that you are Selfless Self - Self devoid of all content and body knowledge.
Selfless Self is that which can only be pointed to and is impossible to describe.
"You are the spontaneous, invisible, anonymous, unidentified identity".
Q. It is impossible to stop the flow of thoughts (mind) completely. Do you agree that it is sufficient to know for sure, that it is illusion?
Sri Ramakant Maharaj: First, you have to be a Master of the mind ie witness the thoughts flowing, without being affected by them.
And at the advanced stage, there are no thoughts and the illusory thinker disappears.
Q. Can you confirm, that I am the base of all experiences, but as such like a void, without action, time, space and any kind of perception?
Sri Ramakant Maharaj: Again, these are the words - void, time space, action, perception - all a reflection of your Spontaneous Presence.
In the Ultimate stage (there are no stages but this is used for teaching), there are no experiences, no experiencer, no witness, no witnesser.
There is nothing.
It is the state of not knowing or unknowing.
Nisargadatta Maharaj used to say "How you were prior to beingness/consciousness - stay like that".
No needs, no requirements, no Master. No knowledge!
You did not even know the word 'knowledge'.
As Nisargadatta Maharaj used to say - "All that is perceivable and conceivable is not it".
Sri Ramakant Maharaj: "It is easy to understand intellectually,
but this Knowledge has to be absorbed so that it can be applied to your daily life.
It is pragmatic knowledge.
Also, you have to be the conviction that you are Ultimate Reality, Final Reality,
so that when the time comes for the body to go,
there is no attachment to the body left."
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