"The very first step in understanding what this is all about is giving up the concept of an active, volitional 'I' as a separate entity and accepting the passive role of perceiving and functioning as a process." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Saturday, April 14, 2018

Only Paramatman Is

Sri Siddharameshwar Maharaj

When you realize that you are Paramatman, then you are Brahman including your body. The former mundane life is destroyed. God has no destiny, Do not keep believing in destiny. Your concepts deceive you. Do not fall prey to doubt. Maya says, "I have tethered many big beasts." The seekers, sadhus, and yogis are these beasts tethered by Maya. The Supreme Self, Lord Krishna, became and remained as Parabrahman. Others only identified themselves as separate egos. The mirror says, "There is nobody in me." The man who looks into the mirror says, "I am in the mirror." The Knowledgeable Ones know all of these things. Some elements came together, and that became a body. After understanding this, it is important to live according to this Knowledge. It demands skill. First, Knowledge (jnana) is necessary to gain Self-Knowledge. This Self-Knowledge, or wisdom then destroys the Knowledge. One should also throw out all that has happened. The Master Key to what is being said here is that one whose conceptual entity is gone, is the Jnani. The Illusion is gone, the elements are gone, and Brahman remains. When one house is emptied, all houses are empty.

The transcendental Brahman, which is beyond qualities, is not affected by anything. It is always undisturbed. When we use discrimination, the unessential goes off, and only Pure Essence remains. Only Brahman, which is beyond even the sattva quality remains. The sense of "I" was only imagined. One whose sense of "I" is wiped out by the blessings of the Guru, remains not as a person, but as Paramatman. The outcome is experience. While looking at God, one becomes God. Paramatman has the power to do, to undo, and then to do something else. He is transcendent to all. He can do anything He wills. There is no bondage for Him who is free from all actions. Have no pride in, or identification with karma. A person was deceiving himself and calling himself as some particular entity, but once the sense of 'me' goes, then "I", "who am I?", and "I am That", also all go away. Then, even if one dwells in a body, he is free of the body, beyond the body. Only Paramatman Is.

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