Wednesday, March 13, 2013

(March 13,2013)Consciousness by Swami Krishnananda

(Spoken during Sunday night satsang on January 24, 1982)
In this world, everything is conditioned by consciousness. If you are rich, it only means that you are conscious that you are rich. A richness minus consciousness of being rich is no richness. If you are rich and not conscious that you are rich, you cannot be called rich. If you are anything and you are not conscious that you are that thing, you are not that thing. If you have a lot of money with you but you are not conscious that you have money, you have no money. Everything is consciousness. If you subtract consciousness from anything, you will find it is a nihil, a zero. Thus, the very existence of things is consciousness.

Existence is the supreme value, and minus consciousness, existence is not. Therefore, consciousness, existence, is the supreme value. That is the heart of things. Here is the freedom of the individual, the freedom of all beings; and freedom is bliss.
Thus, existence and consciousness and freedom go together, and if freedom is bliss, sat-chit-ananda, Existence-Knowledge-Bliss is the heart of things. On this may we meditate.

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