Spiritual Knowledge

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We are here to identity oneself in a real sense. Spiritual knowledge is just to identity oneself in a real sense. We are identifying ourselves in body-form, and that is illusion.  And everybody knows it, the body is not your identity at all.  The body was not your identity, the body’s not going to remain your identity.  Just glimpses of ‘I’ is there, that appears upon your Spontaneous Presence. If Presence is not there, where is ‘I’?  So, ‘I’ appears upon your Presence.  It is called God or Master, Brahman, Atman, Paramatman, name is given to that Unidentified Identity within you.

See, what happens is from childhood till today we are measuring ourselves in body-form, and as you know body is not our identity at all.  What is the purpose behind spiritual knowledge?  We are reading so many books, we approach so many Masters. What is the purpose, what do we want exactly? The basic thing is we want happiness, peacefulness, tension-free life, fearless life.  Because human body is not tolerable. We’ve accepted the human body as ‘I am’.  The ‘I am’ appeared upon your Presence.  Presence does not know ‘I am Presence’.  It is subtler than sky, space. If there is no Presence what is the value of this body?

Through the human body we can identity ourself in a real sense.  What is knowledge, spiritual knowledge? It means just to identify oneself in a real sense. It does not mean neglect your body, neglect your family responsibility. It is practical spirituality, it is not a dry spirituality, not a dry discussion on spirituality.  Be practical.  It’s not difficult at all.  I’ve already told you: except your Selfless Self there is no God, no Brahman, no Atman, no Paramatman, no Master.  But all the time we are measuring ourselves in body form, and that is illusion.  And that illusory concept is supposed to be dissolved.  ‘I am somebody else’, mind, ego, intellect, appeared along with the body.  We are living within the circle of the mind, ego, intellect.  Where was the mind, ego, intellect prior to beingness?  Prior to beingness we were not having any happiness or peacefulness.  After leaving the body, who wants happiness, who wants peacefulness?  These are the words. Body-knowledge is not tolerable, ‘I am somebody else’ is not tolerable.  So once it is identified perfectly, it means ‘I’m not the body, I was not the body, I’m not going to remain the body’.

Basically you are unborn. There is no birth and death. Birth and death are connected with the body-knowledge only. I’m not saying to neglect your body.  Body is the media through which you can identity.  If Presence is not there, what is the value of this body?  So be practical, it’s not impossible.

What is practical?  To identify oneself in a real sense you are to undergo the discipline of meditation, it is most important.  We are insisting Nama Mantra, mantra, these are the words. ‘Soham’ is a word, ‘Aham Brahmasmi’, ‘Sivoham’, these are the words through which you can identify, through which you are hammering yourself all the time.

So, that is the only source.  I’m telling you that meditation is also illusion at the advanced stage. But, to dissolve all body-based concepts, meditation is most important, the foundation.  In other words, I am saying it is the anti-virus software, meditation is the anti-virus software.  You have to go through this, without which you can’t identity.  Only dry spiritual knowledge, “I’ve read so many books”, these are temporary reliefs, they’re painkillers.  So this is a golden opportunity.  Your Presence is invaluable Presence.  Presence does not know ‘I am Presence’.  I have given the name ‘Presence’, ‘Spirit’, or ‘Energy’, you can say anything. It’s just like space: space does not know ‘I am space’ or sky does not know ‘I am sky’.  Then what to do?  Try to identify yourself in a real sense. “I am somebody else” is supposed to be dissolved.  You’re everybody.  You’re beyond sky.  Sky is everywhere.  You go anywhere in the world, sky is there.  But sky does not know ‘I am sky’. Likewise, your Anonymous, Invisible Presence, the Invisible Listener within you is everywhere just like sky – not limited to the body.  The body is having some limitations, some stages. You’re a child, then grown up as young man, then old man, and some or other day, willingly or unwillingly, we have to leave this body.