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Consciousness and Space

Consciousness and space are one living reality. Space does not expand or contract, for it is limitless. Consciousness is the life of space, present within all. This consciousness is the Paramātmā, the singular supreme Self. The apparent many are like beads on a single thread, connected by the one Ātmā. Realized saints express this truth in their bhajans, which contain the essence of all wisdom. The individual self, or Jīvā, is ultimately this one consciousness, appearing as many through duality. All forms are like drops from one ocean, destined to merge back into the whole. Our journey is to realize this unity.

"Eko’ham, dvitīyo nāsti." I am one. The rest is duality.

"Śrī Guru Ātmā Paramātmā." The Guru, the Self, and the Supreme Self are one.

Filming location: Prague, Czech Republic

We must understand consciousness and space. Both are living. Space is said to be expanding and contracting. But where does it begin to expand? And how is it contracting? In which way is it expanding and contracting? When people, when scientists, say space is expanding and contracting, what is the condition of the stars? Are they expanding and contracting? Does it mean the stars are moving to their place, or are they coming close and going far? In reality, space does not expand. Because it has no limitation, so how can it expand and contract? Similarly, that consciousness. The conscious is as life. It is the life of the space. Within us is that life. That expanding and contracting is material. Then, what is that? The conscious. And that is the Paramātmā. And that is only one. Mahāprabhujī has so many bhajans. These bhajans are of Gurujī Mahāprabhujī’s disciples and some other saints, like Sūrdāsa. There are also ones like Mīrābāī, Nandak Dās, etc. They are known as self-realized or the Śaṅkarācārya. That is why they can make such bhajans, songs, and poems. Others cannot go so far. We are only around our body, only in this world. So it is only one. Finally, it is said: one is the Brahman, and where there is two, there is duality. But there is duality, and there is unity. So we are in duality, but in reality, we are connected to the unity. Take the mālā. In the mālā, there are many beads. But there is one thread, and this thread is only one. It connects these seeds. So this thread—now we will call a ring—and in the ring, or here, is this one ball, and equally it has this ring on it. Now we all can look, but where is the beginning? Realization—and that is what we have in our Kriyā. You have the Kriyā practice. Many are doing it; 60% give up, but many are doing it, and they are very close to that realization. So in that, one of the bhajans of Mahāprabhujī’s disciple… it is so clear, it is so clear given to us. And that is: Śrī Guru, Ātmā, Paramātmā, Puruṣottama. Good. Look how in oneness. It is in oneness. Śrī Guru Ātmā. Śrī means the Gurudev. Śrī Guru Ātmā Paramātmā. So it is the Ātmā, and that is the Paramātmā. Śrī Guru Ātmā, Paramātmā, Ho Mahātmā—and that is the Mahā Ātmā. Śrī Guru Ātmā, Paramātmā, Ho Mahātmā, Puruṣottama, Sakal Jag ke Antaryāmī, Cāra Carkī Ātmā, Prabhu Cāra Carkī Ātmā. How nice. How nice. Everything, the whole Vedas, whole Upaniṣads, whole Self-Realizations, everything is in this one. The entire Vedas, the entire Upanishads, the entire path of self-realization is here in this bhajana. O Mahātmā, Mahā Ātmā, Sakal Jagakī. So everywhere in this bhajana are the prayers of Mahāprabhujī’s disciples. You should do this prayer in the morning. It is beautiful in meditation. How nice. That all Sakal Ātmā—Sakal Ātmā means everyone is Ātmā. And that Ātmā is in everyone. So again and again, coming to one point: "Eko’ham, dvitīyo nāsti." I am one. The rest is duality. Do you understand me? Who did not understand me was sleeping. Now, yesterday I gave some glimpse. How is the soul, or Jīvā, or life—whatever we do to the language? My Jīvā, your Jīvā, their Jīvā—all are the Jīvā. But how so many Jīvā? God has only one. God said there is only one Jīvā. Now, there is duality and non-duality. We can give an example only in many, many ways. So, I said yesterday: the ocean and all seven oceans, and a very tiny point is the earth. This lead is a big one, and this is all the water. And on this lead, we have one point to hold to lift it up. So what can we hold to lift this up? This is only the earth. And the rest, all is water. And what is up to the water? Endless. So even this is only very little. And when we go very far, then even our ocean is a tiny, tiny drop of water. The ocean. And here in the ocean, from the heat, the steam goes up. This steam, the parā—you look, it’s like really coming from boiling water, or also when you make your soup and there is steam coming out. Now, though it is looking only like a fog, it also has the one point. Many, many, many drops become fog, and that becomes the cloud. We see the big one called cloud, but it is endless, endless the drops of the water. And one is sure: in the whole space, whatever is there, it has its only raw zero. And zero is one of the highest, and zero is zero. Everything plus and minus is zero, and zero is endless. So it is very fine, very fine, the drop of the water. You feel air-conditioning, coming nice and cool. But it is the drop of the water. But it is one, water. But separated. When will this all come together? It becomes one ocean. But still the ocean itself is a drop, drop, drop. And that can expand into the whole universe. Let’s say one water element is the oneness. That steam comes, fogs come, clouds become. And again comes the heat. All the many, many clouds, the drops come together. That becomes like what we call the gas. And that’s why it’s like a gas; it is very light. So fine it is, it’s just fluttering in the sky. And that’s why our aeroplane can go in. Otherwise, the aeroplane will also be scratched. But when we are going through the clouds, there are no scratches. But it is the water. It is the drops. So again they try to come together, the heat, so they are coming together, falling drops—we call the rain—also drop, one one drop. It falls on the ground, and they all come together and begin to flow. And it goes to this little creek and big river and to the ocean. But there is somewhere, well, it’s raining in the ocean already. Again, coming close quickly. So I was thinking, why do small, very tiny, quick, some children die? And people are crying, "My child was born and died in two days." I was thinking, why? Then I said, "Oh, that ocean was dripping back very quickly into the ocean." So from the clouds, again it came back, but we don’t understand. We are sad, but you know, that person or child who died, he doesn’t know. We don’t know how long life he was suffering—to go to school, how many years you are sitting on the chair. Minimum 20 to 25 years or less. No, 25 is okay. Sitting on the hard wooden, and now it is iron or plastic seat. Quarter life is in this room, sitting, then searching job, so on and so on, and again die. So either you went through this whole trouble, these things, or God said, "Okay, come back, finished." So, don’t please. If someone happens like this to your child, say, "Thank you, God, you took him back again nicely." But we don’t want this, because we survive. And I need disciples. I am sitting here, and nobody is there. So there is a shortcut and a long cut. So what happens? The cloud is moving, and it is coming to the Sahara. Hot. Now, the last one week we have in Rajasthan 50 degrees, 52 degrees. Then you should take your skin and say, "The skin feels," or cold. So that drop falls on the hot sand. That one, seventy-five percent the drop goes back again as humidity, and something remains there. And that will follow when it comes to the river, and when that river brings it to the ocean. Similarly, we are one ocean to the seven oceans. But some part of us is somewhere we don’t know. So the destiny of the drops of water is according to the destination. And others have a good time, and again, coming, good day. But we are one part. When we make very nice chapati, there’s a different corn, or any corn, and we grind it. But one seed is ground together, but again it will go to a different part. He will eat ten chapatis, this boy, and that boy, he will eat fifteen chapatis. It depends how thick or very thin. So again, we are divided. Again, we come, again we go. So this is that. And our ātmā is going, coming, going, coming, going, coming. And also, our body has so many cells inside. And every cell has more cells inside. And that is called Jīvātmā. Jīvā, jīvā,... jīvā. So that jīvā is coming to the paramātmā. So that’s how one into two into one. We are coming, and we are going. But one time it will come that there will be only everything. Everything in this place is peace. So all in one, but destiny is coming. So one destiny, water is flowing through the holy Gaṅgā. One flowing into the other river, and some flows into the canalization. And someone is stuck somewhere in the canalization. In very stinky water? Yes, water is not stinking. But that is in the stink. But when will I come out of this stink? So some have such karma in this way, and some have karma in a good way. So, where do you all? Where are you stuck? And when will we come back? So that’s why we have to go step by step to understand our existence. And so we will see the evening this and the nervous system. These three are very important, these three pictures, portal. Planet Bhagwan.

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