Rajneesh

Dear All,

Old timers who have been to puttaparthi  many times, witnessed Swami's discourse many times, would have seen Swami holding his handkerchief and telling, " This is my handkerchief, so I am not this handkerchief, I am different from the hand kerchief which I am holding just now"

This " ME" or "I" or "AHAM" 9 which is different from all the objects in this world (compared to the handkerchief)  is me the pure consciousness, me the divine, me in which God resides in His full divine essence.

The moment ME the divine starts seeing or recognizing me as Jiva, the duality starts, the duality about which  the  Master has said in the above quote.

The only reality is that we are all Divine. We are all sparks of one absolute consciousness, call it as God or Atman or Brahman or consciousness or what ever. 

All our problems in this world starts only and only when we start thinking that we this body, this mind, this intellect, this doctor, this house wife, this CA, this manager, this and that.

Dont we know the saying, " Adam ate the apple and our teeth still aches"?

In vedanta, this is explained with the example of a rope and a snake. 

There is a rope lying on the ground and some one mistakes this rope for a snake and is afraid of the snake and cries. Is the snake  really there?? No. 

But for the person who has mistaken a rope for a snake, the snake is very much there. 

Similarly, we the divine our consciousness (Rope in the above example), super impose our physical identity upon ourselves ( like the super imposition of snake on a rope) and then we live with the mistaken identity for ever that we are this physical frame. 

Even after witnessing dozens of deaths in our family/ circle and even after lamenting every time standing near a dead body and crying out " what is there in this body, how unreal is this body and this life, see this person was alive yesterday and today, his body is to be burnt to ashes", still, after 2 days, we get back to our own life and we glorify our own physical existence and do everything in life, right or wrong, to gratify our identity with our physical identity and our mental fancies!!!

Arise, O man, be aware that you are the one whom you think you are, whom the world think you are, but you are the one who is in reality, the divine essence, which was never born and which will never die!!!!!!

And.. that is  not the end......, Rush, run towards realizing your divine essence eternally, not for 5 minutes, not for half day, not for one  day but for ever!!!!!!

Once you reach THERE and Exist as THAT divine essence, then, it is in REAL sense that one can look up to you and exclaim, " And.. then, He lived Happily (Real happiness/ Joy of divine consciousness)  for ever"!!

Love