Book Club: Friday May 13th, 8 pm Paris Time, 2 pm New York time
Friends,
The next Book Club meeting is Friday, May 13th : 8pm Paris time, 2 pm New York time. Bernard and Jaya will be hosting.
Questioner: Why is it that we naturally seem to think of ourselves as separate individuals?
Maharaj: Your thoughts about individuality are really not your own thoughts; they are all collective thoughts. You think that you are the one who has the thoughts. In fact, thoughts arise in consciousness. As our spiritual knowledge grows, our identification with an individual body-mind diminishes, and our consciousness expands into universal consciousness. The life force continues to act, but its thoughts and actions are no longer limited to an individual. They become the total manifestation. It is like the action of the wind - the wind doesn't blow for any particular individual, but for the total manifestation.
Questioner: As an individual, can we go back to the source?
Maharaj: Not as an individual; the knowledge "I am" must go back to its own source.. Now, consciousness has identified with a form. Later, it understands that it is not that form and goes further. In a few cases, it may reach the space, and very often, there it stops. In a very few cases, it reaches its real source, beyond all conditioning. in "Consciousness and the Absolute" The final talks of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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