Whatever is gone, does not vanish and die, but disperses and manifests into multiplicity. While the consciousness leaves the body, it remains ample, widespread and manifest.
In the manifest world, avatars and social workers have for thousands of years been trying to bring about a change. But in spite of their collective efforts, there has been no improvement at all. Human beings all have the same type of mind and intellect in which they are embroiled and caught up. But no improvement is possible in that state.
I always go by the basic principle in the background. Unknowingly, everything is happening against that background, from that principle. A person is normally engaged in activities that may be considered good or bad, but are actually just mental occupation.
Everybody is trying to protect and preserve the time factor-that is, the consciousness. So long as time is there, consciousness is there; and time is there so long as the body is present. When the life span is over, time has gone. When time has gone, consciousness is gone.
As long as the beingness is there, activities proceed. Once you realize that you are not the body, then there is no more attraction for the manifestation. When a firm conviction is established that one is not the body, one's behavior has become just like that of the five elements, claiming no credit as things are merely happening by themselves.
Such a one can have no needs and demands. Many people clothed in spiritual attitudes are not inclined to give up their bodily identity. In the name of spirituality, they go on pursuing creeds, faiths and disciplines. But they do not relinquish their cherished identity, nor do they proceed inwards towards their Self.
All the diverse guises that are adopted are the characteristics of the mind-its various inclinations, latencies-and not those of the Self. Many people change creeds as some change wives when dictated by their mind.
When a butcher attains the realized state, he continues his vocation of slaughtering animals, because he knows that it is only the function of the body but that he is not the body and mind. He does not even need a God nor the knowledge of the Brahman.
Once you realize that you are not the body and the mind, you have no needs and demands; then you are one with the manifest consciousness. In due course you are not even the consciousness, when you dwell in the Highest, thus ultimately also transcending the consciousness. Manifest conscious- ness is the Brahman.
Once stabilized in the Brahman, there is no longer any use for knowledge of the Brahman-that is, knowledge of the Self. What can be the use of Brahman to the Brahman? Therefore, I, the Brahman, do nothing and need nothing, at this stage of videhisthiti, the body-free state.
There is no high nor low; no real nor unreal; no inside nor outside and no dimension of any kind in that state. In the name of spirituality, people adopt as their religion certain creeds and concepts and develop pride. Later, they give up all that and accept another creed, and so on.
Finally, they will never know when their bodies "kick-off." At present, you put your faith in the body. Once you give up that faith, you are the Brahman-the manifest principle. Bhagavan Krishna said, "Remember me, I am always there."
What is that state of Krishna? He is beyond the body-mind state; that means, he is the consciousness. Further, Krishna as the Absolute is the witness of consciousness also; so whenever anybody thinks of him, it is of eternity only. In thinking thusly, a devotee himself dwells in eternity. Therefore Krishna says, "Remember me, memorize me."
Do not use your identity with the body, but by all means use the body. Although "I-am-ness" dwells in the body, it rejects the body as "I am not it." I, in the Krishna state, do not belong to the Hindu, Christian, or Muslim faith.
Why? Because I am not the body and therefore I prevail in a Hindu, Christian, Muslim-in everyone and everything. Bring me a Muslim or a Christian without a body. Can you bring anyone like that? All religions and creeds are at the body-mind level. Is there any indwelling principle, such as Hindu, Christian, or Muslim, in the food we cultivate and consume?
Thus, food does not provide any religious nourishment to indicate the religion of the person. A child of a Muslim food-body is considered a Muslim conventionally. This applies similarly to a child of a Hindu.
Because the parents call themselves Hindu or Muslim, they impose their particular religion on their offspring. Could there be any religion, creed or faith in the food-a product of the five elements?
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