The knowledge that I am expounding will dissolve your identity as a personality and will transform you into manifest knowledge. The manifest knowledge, the consciousness, is free and unconditioned. It is not possible to either catch hold of or give up that knowledge because you are that knowledge, subtler than space.
This knowledge that you are the manifest must be opened through meditation; you do not get it by listening to words.
Is not this consciousness prior to any other experience and is there not something on which this consciousness has come about? That waking state, deep sleep and the sense of presence, who has these experiences other than That which was prior to these experiences?
That which is talking to you is that state which is time-bound, which has come temporarily upon my original state. Therefore you and I can have no sense of fear; it is only this changing state which has identified with the body which has fear.
The fear of death is the fine for accepting the identity of the body as a separate entity in the total functioning. It is only birth which fears death.
M. Nisargadatta
PtC February 3, 1981
As human beings we are in the tomb where the Christ lies buried, and all that the world sees is this living corpse in which we are entombed. Within us, in this tomb of human selfhood, is the Christ, and in certain moments of our lives, such as can happen to us this moment, an experience takes place, and then a few hours later when we look in the mirror, we suddenly find that our eyes have been opened.
I have been limited by a finite body and a bank account, circumscribed by their dimensions. Even my wealth was a tomb in which I have been buried, but now I am not in these: I am risen. I am no longer buried in the tomb of a body, nor am I any longer subject to its limitations.
Joel S. Goldsmith
We must understand the nature of God as fulfilment. That precludes the possibility of thinking of God as that from which we are going to get something. God is fulfilment. God is fulfilling Itself, just as the sun, shining and pouring forth it’s warmth and light, is fulfilling itself as the sun. We do not pray to the sun to send out more light or to give more warmth. If we were going to utter any kind of a prayer in regard to the sun, our prayer would be an inner realization that IT IS – the sun is shining; the sun is warmth; the sun is light.
So it is with God. We should never think of God as that from which we expect to derive some good.we should never think of God as that which can bring peace on earth. There is no such God. The only God there is, is a God who is life eternal.
Joel S. Goldsmith
Practicing The Presence
If you heard that you had won ten million dollars & could pick it up in one month, I’ll bet there’d be little else you’d think about!
Imagine hearing for the first time that you are the Son of God and you are entirely spiritual having all the attributes of God, and for the first time you actually believed it.
Imagine all the wonderful things you could be thinking about as you reflect on this incredible Truth.
Always remember that to know God aright is to know that God is closer to you than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet. There’s nothing closer to you than breathing and nearer than hands and feet than yourself. Your Self, spelled with a capital S-E-L-F. That Self, which is the self of you and the self of me, it isn’t personal, it’s spiritual and universal, that Self is God and it is where you are, and that is why Scripture says:
The place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
Is there any other God but Me? … I know not any.
I and the Father are one.
Son, thou art ever with Me and all that I have is thine.
I is that magic word, and “I” is within you. The moment we begin to know that, we begin to understand why meditation is the important step in life. You see, “I” is at the center of your being, but as a human being trained to keep your thoughts out here, to be thinking always of person and place and thing and circumstance and condition, you cannot get back inside and tabernacle with God; you cannot get back inside and commune with God. God is hidden under a thousand generations of mortality.
God is hidden under hundreds of generations of people steeped in spiritual ignorance. God is hidden under orthodox religion. God is hidden under all the layers of human-ness, of self-righteousness, self-protection, all the self’s that we build around our selves so that we can’t reach It.
And if we are to reach it, it’s going to be in quietness and in confidence. It’s going to be in stillness. It’s going to be in silence. And when we learn then to abide in quietness within … in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength.
When we learn to be so still that we can get into where the poet told us to, “closer than breathing, nearer than hands and feet,” we are going to contact “I”, the divine Selfhood of each of us, which is within our own being. And when we contact It we will be as the Master was: in communion with the Father within me.
Joel Goldsmith
176A – The Letter and the Spirit
Integration of the outer man with the inner man IS the Kingdom of heaven. When two become one, this is true peace.
Jesus replies: “When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner as the outer, and the upper as the lower, and when you make male and female into a single one, so that the male shall not be male, and the female shall not be female: . . . then you will enter the kingdom.” ~ gospel of thomas
Jesus did not deny crucifixion, nor did he audibly assert, “I am not afraid of Pilate.” He did not “handle the error” of crucifixion, or “affirm freedom.” He turned from both crucifixion and freedom, and declared God to be the only power acting in the consciousness of man, even of Pilate.
Consciousness Unfolding, page 135 by Joel S. Goldsmith.
” Consciousness unfolds from within to the without from a boundless basis or source, from the infinity of your being to the individual awareness of it in infinite variety, form, and expression.”
(THE INFINITE WAY, Joel S, Goldsmith, The Christ, p,51).
God is being, but not a being. God is being you and being me. So to set up a God separate from that Being produces the sense of separation that keeps us in ignorance. That personalizing of God, personalizing I, is the “veil” that brings about man’s sense of separation from God.
