GuruSwamiG (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Namaste --- you speak from what is presumed - what is spoken here is from the Reality that your intellect is trying to figure out... No matter how ego wants to dance around this - ego is never going to get it... - IN writing a comment then indeed clarification is needed to say ego's idea of dropping it and truly having nothing to pick up are vastly different things.... dropping it and nothing to get are vastly different.. OM Shanti

Crazybugeater (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Presumably if there is one force behind all - it created ego as well - therefore it is ego and not ego. But in the end isnt all this just scribbles on a screen - ego - no ego - terminology - the mind intellectualising - why not drop it all? - with respect might it eventually be a good idea to let go of definitions and discussion unless one is asked for clarification ?

GuruSwamiG (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Namaste --- a philosophy of illusion doesn't end the suffering... but there IS a way beyond this... OM Shanti

satguru (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Haha! My friend spent a couple of years with Ramesh and apparently got him nowhere or most of the others who had been there even longer. That kind of teaching only serves to confuse and as you say, only describes phenomena after enlightenment. Suffering is very real as well beforehand, it is only seen as an illusion when overcome.

GuruSwamiG (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Namaste --- the body is not needed for Consciousness -- but food is needed for the vehicle. If you want to walk the path then begin at the GuruSwamiG(dot)com orientation page.... Am not going to continue to carry on a dialog at the youtube comments..Thank you OM Shanti

sargentpepperoni (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Namaste -GuruSwamiG -thanks for clarifying that. Does consciousness exist independently outside the body ? Because if the body is required for maintaining awareness, then we need food for the body also.

GuruSwamiG (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Namaste --- why is it that seekers find every way to attempt to remain in mind ? Survival and reproducing are BODY activities and have nothing to do with Consciousness.... OM Shanti

sargentpepperoni (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Please correct me if I am wrong. Consciousness is everywhere and in everything. Living beings have the mechanism(or mind)to use that consciousness to look at the world so that they can survive and reproduce ?

psstheyyou (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Thank you.

GuruSwamiG (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Namaste - There is only One Consciousness and one is not the body - so don't think that Consciousness is contained by form... Form reacts to consciousness... Om Shanti