When you go and see movie in a theater and somebody asks you how was it , what would you say?.You would say, the movie was fine. The story was good . or some such comment. You speak as though there is some story enacted really. What happens to the characters in the movie?. What happens to the incidents . The war , the songs and all. When the movie ends, there is only the screen staring at you. All the characters are gone. They have lived a life in 2 hours and have died. The scenes, the experiences are all lost. If someone asks you "where are the characters now?" . You would say, they were not there in the first place. They were just pictures and images projected on the screen. It is only a dance of the lights. Nothing really exists except as an image in screen.
For a truly realized person, this is how the world appears. A dance of consciousness. All appear in conscious presence and then they are all dissolved into it. There is nothing to reject , only to accept as it is only a sequence of appearances. What is the point in rejecting a scene in the movie?. After all it is an appearance. Is there any scope for likes and dislikes about the movie. Let the movie unfold as it is. Even if you don't like, the movie would unfold according to the plan. And also it is not happening for anybody in particular. It is happening according to the laws of the story. Nobody need be concerned or affected by it.
In reality nothing happens. Reality exists independent of all , supporting all appearances. We realize only when we return to the screen that realize that nothing really happened. But for most people they live in the world of the movie , never realizing the screen would come back and cancel all appearances. Spirituality tries to tell you there is a screen that is showing all this drama. So please look at what is supporting it rather than the projected reality.
Spiritual life tells you the secret of how to live. Act as though you are watching the movie, but understand deep down nothing really matters and all this is just a dance of lights.
Some one asked N.Maharaj on how he perceived the world?. He answered, "Just as you have eaten some food and become unconscious of it, i have eaten the world and have become unconscious of it". This means that the appearances are seen to be what they are and he rests in what really is. He is neither tempted nor blind.
Now when you consider yourself dreaming and seeing appearances in it, you would see little more. In the dream all characters and incidents are made of consciousness. In short they are made from you. This is what the real picture is. All appearances are not different from what is supporting it. All appearances are waves made of consciousness. However when the dream or movie is going on you never doubt its truth. This is life for you. When the movie of life unfolds you believe in the characters, the incidents its problems , its pleasures and so on. You cry , laugh, run behind things and so on. It is so silly, when you understand that it is all a glittering show of nothingness.You need not make the dream any different. You cannot. But at least understand that it is only a dream while watching it.
When you are watching the movie ,the moment you think of the screen and its modifications the movie becomes unreal. Only when you forget about the screen does the movie attract you. When the movie ends, then you realize this. The reality of the an illusion is compounded by our forgetting the source of the illusion. When we travel in a boat , if the boat is closed we may forget that we are moving in water. All experiences are real only when we forget the source of it. The moment we are conscious of the background reality , we immediately see that the experience itself is only a temporary modification and not different from it.
When we go through experiences we don't realize what is behind these experiences. Something that is beyond the form consciousness that is formless and supporting all . The reason why this is not perceptible is because it is not an object like the body or mind . It is the very thing that enables the looking . It is from which, these appearances are happening .The dance of lights cannot happen without an underlying light.
In order to see this, look at a table. What is a table?. It is only a name and a concept given to a piece of wood. When we break it , there is nothing but wood. The thing called table is just a mental construct given to wood. It is only a convenience. If i remove a leg of a table , can we call it a table, even though the table parts are still there?.In reality there are no tables. There is only wood. But even wood is not true reality. Wood is made of atoms. Atoms are made of sub atomic particles. All these are just pure energy. So a thing called table is nothing but a dance of energy embodied in a form which our mind calls as table. Repeating it in our mind continuously we get used to tables.
Reality has nothing to do with concepts or mental constructs. It assumes forms and gets dissolved into energy.Bodies, minds and all appearances are also only a dance of energy . Underlying these form filled illusion, the formless rests peacefully giving rise to all and supporting all.
For a truly realized person, this is how the world appears. A dance of consciousness. All appear in conscious presence and then they are all dissolved into it. There is nothing to reject , only to accept as it is only a sequence of appearances. What is the point in rejecting a scene in the movie?. After all it is an appearance. Is there any scope for likes and dislikes about the movie. Let the movie unfold as it is. Even if you don't like, the movie would unfold according to the plan. And also it is not happening for anybody in particular. It is happening according to the laws of the story. Nobody need be concerned or affected by it.
In reality nothing happens. Reality exists independent of all , supporting all appearances. We realize only when we return to the screen that realize that nothing really happened. But for most people they live in the world of the movie , never realizing the screen would come back and cancel all appearances. Spirituality tries to tell you there is a screen that is showing all this drama. So please look at what is supporting it rather than the projected reality.
Spiritual life tells you the secret of how to live. Act as though you are watching the movie, but understand deep down nothing really matters and all this is just a dance of lights.
Some one asked N.Maharaj on how he perceived the world?. He answered, "Just as you have eaten some food and become unconscious of it, i have eaten the world and have become unconscious of it". This means that the appearances are seen to be what they are and he rests in what really is. He is neither tempted nor blind.
Now when you consider yourself dreaming and seeing appearances in it, you would see little more. In the dream all characters and incidents are made of consciousness. In short they are made from you. This is what the real picture is. All appearances are not different from what is supporting it. All appearances are waves made of consciousness. However when the dream or movie is going on you never doubt its truth. This is life for you. When the movie of life unfolds you believe in the characters, the incidents its problems , its pleasures and so on. You cry , laugh, run behind things and so on. It is so silly, when you understand that it is all a glittering show of nothingness.You need not make the dream any different. You cannot. But at least understand that it is only a dream while watching it.
When you are watching the movie ,the moment you think of the screen and its modifications the movie becomes unreal. Only when you forget about the screen does the movie attract you. When the movie ends, then you realize this. The reality of the an illusion is compounded by our forgetting the source of the illusion. When we travel in a boat , if the boat is closed we may forget that we are moving in water. All experiences are real only when we forget the source of it. The moment we are conscious of the background reality , we immediately see that the experience itself is only a temporary modification and not different from it.
When we go through experiences we don't realize what is behind these experiences. Something that is beyond the form consciousness that is formless and supporting all . The reason why this is not perceptible is because it is not an object like the body or mind . It is the very thing that enables the looking . It is from which, these appearances are happening .The dance of lights cannot happen without an underlying light.
In order to see this, look at a table. What is a table?. It is only a name and a concept given to a piece of wood. When we break it , there is nothing but wood. The thing called table is just a mental construct given to wood. It is only a convenience. If i remove a leg of a table , can we call it a table, even though the table parts are still there?.In reality there are no tables. There is only wood. But even wood is not true reality. Wood is made of atoms. Atoms are made of sub atomic particles. All these are just pure energy. So a thing called table is nothing but a dance of energy embodied in a form which our mind calls as table. Repeating it in our mind continuously we get used to tables.
Reality has nothing to do with concepts or mental constructs. It assumes forms and gets dissolved into energy.Bodies, minds and all appearances are also only a dance of energy . Underlying these form filled illusion, the formless rests peacefully giving rise to all and supporting all.
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