The existence of ego is purely conceptual. When a person sleeps, consciousness is absent, but he is not dead. We are neither the warm body that is alive nor the cold body that is dead. We are the birthless and deathless vital current of Consciousness itself. The very first step in understanding is in giving up the false concept of 'I' as a separate entity. It is also the last step.
The sage is one who has offered as a sacrifice his own individuality, and this annihilation of identity is tantamount to a merging with the Totality in complete love.
The sage is one who has offered as a sacrifice his own individuality, and this annihilation of identity is tantamount to a merging with the Totality in complete love.
What you appear to be is the outer body perceiving the outer world, but what you are is that Consciousness in which the body and the world appear.
Although thought, words, logic and reasoning are obviously necessary to lead a moral life, they do not by themselves constitute living. They are all based on memory of the known and are products of the split-mind, the mind divided by the intrusion of a spurious 'me'. To LIVE without thought, without words, is to be receptive to the unknown with the whole mind.
Although thought, words, logic and reasoning are obviously necessary to lead a moral life, they do not by themselves constitute living. They are all based on memory of the known and are products of the split-mind, the mind divided by the intrusion of a spurious 'me'. To LIVE without thought, without words, is to be receptive to the unknown with the whole mind.
True teaching is in reality the SILENCE of the SILENCE in which there is neither talking nor the absence of talking. It is like drawing the figure of a fish on the water's surface with a stick.
Apperception of the highest Truth is not, and cannot be, a matter of gradual practice. Apperception, in fact, occurs prior to consciousness, which is the basis of intellect. It can only happen by itself, spontaneously and instantaneously. It is not in time, and there are no stages in which deliberate progress is made. Furthermore, there is NO ONE to make any progress.
There is no causal relationship between Consciousness and the universe. The truth is that Consciousness alone exists and is immanent in what appears as the universe. They are not two, by which any sort of relationship could exist.
Ramesh Balsekar
Apperception of the highest Truth is not, and cannot be, a matter of gradual practice. Apperception, in fact, occurs prior to consciousness, which is the basis of intellect. It can only happen by itself, spontaneously and instantaneously. It is not in time, and there are no stages in which deliberate progress is made. Furthermore, there is NO ONE to make any progress.
There is no causal relationship between Consciousness and the universe. The truth is that Consciousness alone exists and is immanent in what appears as the universe. They are not two, by which any sort of relationship could exist.
Ramesh Balsekar
