Digital Blackboard – January 21, 2008
Life-Energy (Chaitanya) is the One God
All beings, all that we see, and all that we feel, is only Brahman in its completeness. One who knows this, realizes that "All is Brahman." The Banana tree is full of water. Similarly, all of the five elements including the earth, are only the Life-Energy. All the winds are that Chaitanya, and that Chaitanya is God. The houses are earth, people are earth, they eat earth, and return back into earth in the end. Similarly, all of this Illusion is eternal movement. We may paint many pictures but there is nothing but paint. Knowledge (dnyana) means "Right Knowledge." What is Right Knowledge? To know that which is the "Original Thing," is Right Knowledge. The creatures born out of the five elements are all a myth. With the dissolution of the elements, what remains is only One, which is that Life-Energy, Chaitanya. The wise man should know what is at the root of everything. That which functions within is Chaitanya. One who knows that, is in all the elements everywhere and in all beings, and He is truly God, Krishna.
In all beings, it is Me who lives, and that "Me" is God. This is the "One Single Quality." It is the natural "Self Being," the True Religion, or Natural State. When this quality disappears, what remains is beyond qualities or attributes (Nirguna). This One Quality, or "Existence," is nothing other than the Supreme Self, Parabrahman. It is the Great God of all beings, all their activities and functions, and their Glory. "That" is "One Alone" without any facets or attributes. It is Original, Permeating Everywhere, Whole, Self-Created, Self-Luminous, Paramatman. It is the Supreme Self. Of all that is moving, it is the Essential Life. It is not possible to describe such a One who has realized it, and has become the Reality. To conceive of this state, is the highest achievement of our intelligence. That Knowledge which is cognizant of Brahman, which is All, is the Supreme Knowledge. Nothing further remains to be learned. The aspirants who study in such a way become Brahman. They attain this Knowledge that is the pinnacle of intelligence, and the Highest Wisdom of the wisest person. They experience that there is nothing else but that "Singular Existence." ....
The meaning of the "Key of Knowledge" is that when the "I" is dropped, the nuisance is also gone. The house should be vacated. That is the only thing to be done. Only one thing should happen. That is, the state of having no "I" should be adopted. The All-Pervading, Omnipresent Brahman, is as it is, only "I," am not. "I am not," and in that egoless state, everything is unqualified Brahman. "I" means ego, the sense of being a separate entity. The pride of that separate existence should be renounced. This is the highest limit of "True Wisdom." This shape of the body is going to perish one day. However, it is due to, and with help of this body only, that one can become the eternal Brahman by the "Realization of the State of Self-Consciousness."
Shri Siddharameshwar Maharaj – Excerpt from "Master of Self-Realization"
October 19, 1935
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