F.: The body shall return to dust; the breath shall be released from the space and shall join the universal air; and the consciousness shall move from the space to the universal pool of consciousness. Of those three—the body, the breath, the consciousness—it is the consciousness which can witness the error of identifying with the limited body. It is the consciousness which can witness the breath. It is the consciousness that can be aware of its presence. It is the consciousness which knows that it does not have consciousness but Is consciousness. It is the consciousness which can know that it Is energy. The principle that can know whether it is the body or not and whether it is the breath or not and whether the world is real—or is merely in the “mind”—that is the principle which precedes the body, the breath, and the world. Manifested, the essence is the True Self or the Real Self that allows the Self to know ItSelf, to know that it currently abides in the “Am-ness,” and to know That Which Is beyond the “I Am,” beyond the selfness, and even beyond Selfness. When Advaitans speak of Sat-Chit-Ananda (the Existence-Knowledge-Bliss) that is the knowledge they speak of. It is the knowledge that ends knowledge and allows the re-purified consciousness to know the bliss of no knowledge, no concepts, no something, and no nothing.
Yesterday, the role the body plays in the cycling was seen. That said, there is nothing you can do to sustain the body. At some point, the body will no longer even be able to consume the plant by which the consciousness manifests. The glucose that comes via plants might be injected via needle to prolong temporarily the manifestation of consciousness, but even that will eventually prove futile. Look to the truth that can currently be witnessed on the planet: over six billion bodies are walking about, but not one of them was on the planet 125 years ago. Not one. All the trillions and trillions of bodies that had been…now are no more. Yet the elements from which those bodies were “made,” and from which all bodies have ever been “made,” have neither increased nor decreased an iota. What has "come and gone"? Only the conscious-energy has cycled. And of that conscious-energy which has cycled, only in a small percentage of all cases has the consciousness reached a state of enlightenment and purification that allowed it to know It Self, to know its essence or true nature. It is not the plant that temporarily sustains humans, birds, or animals but the essence. The bodies, in turn, sustain the consciousness. Consciousness relies on the body and the body relies on the essence of the plant. And that manifested conscious-energy and essence are one. Again, it is Your True Nature.
Yesterday, the role the body plays in the cycling was seen. That said, there is nothing you can do to sustain the body. At some point, the body will no longer even be able to consume the plant by which the consciousness manifests. The glucose that comes via plants might be injected via needle to prolong temporarily the manifestation of consciousness, but even that will eventually prove futile. Look to the truth that can currently be witnessed on the planet: over six billion bodies are walking about, but not one of them was on the planet 125 years ago. Not one. All the trillions and trillions of bodies that had been…now are no more. Yet the elements from which those bodies were “made,” and from which all bodies have ever been “made,” have neither increased nor decreased an iota. What has "come and gone"? Only the conscious-energy has cycled. And of that conscious-energy which has cycled, only in a small percentage of all cases has the consciousness reached a state of enlightenment and purification that allowed it to know It Self, to know its essence or true nature. It is not the plant that temporarily sustains humans, birds, or animals but the essence. The bodies, in turn, sustain the consciousness. Consciousness relies on the body and the body relies on the essence of the plant. And that manifested conscious-energy and essence are one. Again, it is Your True Nature.
The manifestation of the consciousness came spontaneously and it shall unmanifest spontaneously. Since the end of an given body is the end of that particular configuration of space, no body-mind shall exist eternally; however, since matter can neither be created nor destroyed, then the elements (which assumed a particular space for a limited time that appeared to have a particular “shape”), shall be forever and might recycle or not. Similarly, the unmanifested consciousness shall not know itSelf, but will nevertheless be forever and might recycle…or not. To know thy Self, transition beyond the physical, transition beyond the religious, transition beyond the spiritual, and focus first on the essence. Then, after Your True Nature is known, from that platform You will also know all that is beyond. You will understand that “matter, energy and life” may seem to be distinct in appearance, but they are only one in essence. Focus on Your Self. Focus on the essence. Know That first and then You can know all of That Which Is beyond. Please enter into the silence of contemplation. [ To be continued tomorrow. For more now, you may visit http://www.floydhenderson.com/article2.htm ]
