God is Life-Energy (Chaitanya)

Sri Siddharameshwar Maharaj

The real God is Sat-Chit-Ananda (Being, Consciousness, and Bliss). The Consciousness in the body is God. It is that Consciousness which protects the body from accident, from a horse, or a serpent etc., that is God. This has become evident. We must know what we are. In this body, that which says "I" is not really anyone. All of this is only misunderstanding and confusion. We have assumed conceptually that we are a body, but if you take a search throughout the body, there is neither "you" nor "I" in it. The sense of "you" and "me" is not there in "That". We see all of the five elements, but these are all created from the Life-Energy, Chaitanya. All is only that Life-Energy. One who has understood that only "One Thing" is real, is liberated from birth and death. Beard, mustache, and hair on the head are all only hair. Name, form, shape, etc. are all false. Once you know this Life-Energy, all is fulfilled. In all the innumerable forms, God is the only One everywhere. By analysis of the five elements, you are shown what this life-energy is. By explaining the meaning of the great statement, "You Are That", you have been told that you are Brahman. In "Original Being", the ego (Ahankar) is the Wind.,

Surrendering to the Guru should be without any attachment. This must be explained. "Without attachment" here means without being intimidated, without any other personal greatness exercising any kind of pressure, or anything or anyone else putting pressure on us. That is, it cannot be that that person does not actively use it even though some pressure exists. It must be that the pressure does not exist. There is not a single bit of pressure upon our own True Being. Therefore, neither now nor anytime in the future is there anything, or anybody which puts any pressure upon, or competes with our True Being for importance. We should be convinced about this. What prevents us or pressures us at all times and everywhere in various forms is our own confusion or misunderstanding. There is no other distortion at all. The surrender should be like this without any attachment. 

By taking a thoughtful look at things (vichara), the sense of separateness disappears, and when even thought goes, there remains only chaitanya. Then, only a natural disinterestedness (Nivritti) remains. When the speaker disappears, that state is called unmani, or the "no-mind" state. When there is no accused, who is there to pay the fine? Nobody calls his belly as a toilet. For whom is the past karma, and destiny in effect? Why should one who is the king pay any penalty? Who can find the one who is the king? How can the inanimate physical body have any past karma? The body is Brahman and the Self (Atman) is Brahman. By "Absolute Knowledge" or Vidnyana, Knowledge (Jnana) has been nullified. The meditator disappeared with the meditation. The "me", the entity who meditates, has become extinct along with the meditation. The "me", which is the cause of the worldly life, has gone with that life. 

That life which has disappeared has come with all its glory again, but it has now become Brahman. All appearances are nothing but Brahman. The one who dies is dead because he was a "non-entity". The one "who was not", has died. No sin remains on the face of the earth. That which has no bondage was having bondage, and that bondage is no more. God does not have any bondage or freedom. Those who are servants of the Guru who is the liberator of the downtrodden also liberate others. They do not remain servants. They remain as Brahman.