God and Mahatma are One

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Q. A day must come when the show is wound up; a man must die, a universe come to an end.

M.Just as a sleeping man forgets all and wakes up for another day, or he dies and emerges into another life, so do the worlds of desires and fear dissolve and disappear. But the universal witness, the Supreme Self never sleeps and never dies. Eternally the Great Heart beats and at each beat a new universe comes into being.

Is he conscious?

He is beyond all that the mind conceives. He is beyond being and not being. He is the Yes and No to everything, beyond and within, creating and destroying, unimaginably real.

God and Mahatma - are they one or two?

They are one.

There must be some difference.

God is the All-Doer, the jnani is a non-doer. God himself does not say, "I am doing all". To Him things happen by their own nature. To the jnani all is done by God. He sees no difference between God and nature.  Both God and the jnani know themselves to be the immovable centre of the movable, the eternal witness of the transient. The centre is a point of void and the witness a point of pure awareness; they know themselves to be as nothing, therefore nothing can resist them.