The Brahma Aperture (Opening to Creation)
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Maharaj: In deep sleep, nothing is.
Try to catch that in the waking state. My thinking now is towards
five elements. Whichever way I think, I conclude all forms are
creations of five elements. Forms, with three gunas act in different
ways. The basic guna is Sattva. Prakriti and Purusha are starting
points- the creator of five elements. There is awareness in the
Brahma aperture which is talking. The Pure Sattva like a drop of ghee
(clarified butter), is the Brahma aperture. That small drop contains
the picture of the whole universe. Each one’s intellect is
different, so the power of intellect differs, understanding differs.
The primary nature of consciousness is to not remain
constant. Objects keep on changing, when the mind stops, there is
no-mind. The very nature of Consciousness is to change, but you think
one thing, then the very next second, something different, if
consciousness becomes steady it will be awareness. The words,
including nama-roopa (name and form; mantra) cannot have, by their
very nature, any steadiness. Even ideas about yourselves are bound to
change. Give me an idea of what you consider as yourself, you cannot,
it changes. Mind does not speak to personality, it is its creation,
mind speaks to mind, boy friend, girl friend and so on, all are
movements in consciousness. At that point of consciousness where
one’s mind realizes the ‘I Am’ (I amness), the
word, breath and mind is one.
If I go to some place, sit and
think and form opinions, all is mind, its movements. The Brahma
aperture is Sattva (Creation comes out of Pure Sattva), harmony, and
the mind is its result. Sattva created the world. The mind is also
its product, when the Sattva movement stops, mind disappears and the
people say ‘he is dead’.But the knower (Jnani) says, I am
not consciousness, mind or Sattva, I am apart from the elements and
their products. All that is seen is of five elements, however high an
entity may be he is the end product of five elements. Where are the
individuals or Avatars after death? The mind, the word, name and form
have no independent existence apart from the five elements.
For
me there is no death and birth, for the mixture of five elements,
their essence, their products and forms, their starting point is
Purusha and Prakriti. Purusha and Prakriti have no forms so how can
they be destroyed? In fact they are the Primal Illusion ‘Moolmaya’,
the root cause of the illusion.
When Consciousness begins to
stir the forms and the Universe arise and these are my own body. From
a tiny drop of Sattva, arises the entire Universe. Is my own body and
world in that Sattva? I refuse to accept it, how can it be? It’s
a lie. There is the body so I suffer, you say: there is the world,
how can it all be an illusion? But the mind is a concept and all
worlds are movements in consciousness, hence, false. When you see the
false as false, the mind settles down and disappears. There are
different human races and creeds each praises and denigrates the
others. All these are movements in Consciousness, emanating from
nonbeingness. My beingness sees false as false therefore, I do not
comment on them. Anything that you acquire, even knowledge, is false,
Zero, try to transcend the knowledge.
Only sometimes, a rare
one at the time of death, will realize that he is not the body, the
body disintegrates in the fire and mingles with the five elements.
Brahman is a concept because it is not going to be in my association
for long. Just for a short period as long as there is the beingness
there is the world. For the one who realizes the departure of
beingness there is bliss. The ignorant get involved with beingness,
hence there is traumatic suffering for them. All is suffering; the
waking, deep
sleep and dream states, the five elements and three gunas. Realize
this and get rid of suffering.
The
ignorant one dies while the one who understands is liberated. The
mind must sing the ‘I Am’ without words. Be liberated, if
you think you have acquired knowledge and that is your achievement,
then you are still far from Self-knowledge.
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Shri Nisargadatta Maharaj, December 4th,
1979
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