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Saturday 1 March 2014

ONLY BE AWARE AND YOUR BEING IS CLEAR IN YOUR AWARENESS

No one can deny his own being. Being is knowledge, i.e., awareness. That awareness implies absence of ignorance.
And yet why should he suffer? Because he thinks he is this or that. That is wrong. “I am” alone is; and not “I am so and so”, or “I am such and such”. When existence is absolute it is right; when it is particularized it is wrong.That is the whole truth.
Does he require a mirror to reveal his own being now? Only be aware, and your being is clear in your awareness.
D.: How is one to know the Self?
M.: “Knowing the Self” means “Being the Self”. Can you say that you do not know the Self? Though you cannot see your own eyes and though not provided with a mirror to look in, do you deny the existence of your eyes? Similarly, you are aware of the Self even though the Self is not objectified. Or, do you deny your Self because it is not objectified? When you say “I cannot know the Self” it means absence in terms of relative knowledge, because you have been so accustomed to relative knowledge that you identify yourself with it. Such wrong identity has forged the difficulty of not knowing the obvious Self because it cannot be objectified; and you ask. “How is one to know the Self?” 
Your duty is to be: and not to be this or that. “I AM that I AM” sums up the whole truth. The method is summed up in “BE STILL”.
From Talk 363

2 comments:

  1. A part of a very concise and aphoristic talk.

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  2. The ending 'Your duty is to be: and not to be this or that. “I AM that I AM” sums up the whole truth' was really magical...

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