What is your experience of Brahman?

Someone asked Bokuju, “What is your experience of Brahman?”

Dadami said, “Perhaps the Himalayas would have to move, but you will not be able to take me.” Alexander couldn’t understand how a lean, naked fakir standing on the river sand could speak so boldly. He drew his sword and ordered his soldiers, “Surround him!” Swords drawn, they circled Dadami. Dadami burst into laughter: “You are not surrounding me. You are surrounding what I am not. You have no power to surround me, for my circle has become one with the vast circumference.” Alexander said, “I don’t know philosophy, metaphysics. I only know the sword; your neck will fall in a moment!” Dadami replied, “Great joy! You too will see the head fall, and I too will see the head fall. We both will see.” This is the third point: “I too will see the head fall.” If you can see your own head falling, it means only this: your…

Eternal consciousness, itself beyond creation and destruction, is known as knowledge. The consciousness that is whole and all-pervading, and that permeates the entire cosmos like clay permeating the articles made of clay, and like gold permeating articles made of gold, and like yarn permeating articles made of yarn, is called the infinity.

THAT WHICH IS BLISSFUL CONSCIOUSNESS, WHICH IS AN OCEAN OF LIMITLESS BLISS, AND WHICH IS THE VERY NATURE OF EVERLASTING HAPPINESS IS KNOWN AS BLISS. In your innermost center, the moment there is no known and knower, this happening happens. There are ripples, ripples of bliss. And they go spreading, and they go on spreading, they go on... and there is no end to them then. And continuously, one lives in bliss. Because now you are the source: This bliss cannot be destroyed. Because now you are the source: This bliss cannot be taken back. Whenever something else is the source, it can be taken back; it is bound to be taken back, it can only be momentary and temporal. It is not your being, it is just a happening outside -- just a foreign something outside. Bliss is unrelated to anyone; bliss is not produced by any cause; it…

One who never knows any difference through intellect between jiva, the embodied soul, and brahma, or between brahma and nature, the creation, is called a jivanamukta, the one who is liberated while living.

RESPECTED BY THE GOOD OR INSULTED BY THE WICKED, ONE WHO EVER REMAINS IN EQUANIMITY IS CALLED A JIVANAMUKTA. FOR THE ONE WHO HAS KNOWN THE BRAHMA ESSENCE, THIS WORLD NO LONGER REMAINS THE SAME AS BEFORE. IF IT IS NOT SO, HE HAS NOT KNOWN THE BRAHMA STATE OF BEING AND IS STILL AN EXTROVERT. AS FAR AS HAPPINESS ETCETERA ARE EXPERIENCED, IT IS CALLED PRARABDHA, ACCUMULATED PAST ACTION-IMPRESSIONS; BECAUSE THE ARISING OF ANY FRUITS IS FROM ACTIONS IN THE PAST. THERE IS NO FRUIT ANYWHERE WITHOUT ACTION. JUST AS THE DREAM ACTIVITY CEASES UPON WAKING UP, SIMILARLY PAST ACTIONS ACCUMULATED OVER BILLIONS OF EONS DISSOLVE INSTANTLY UPON ONE'S KNOWING: "I AM BRAHMA." In the next depiction, a front encounter has happened, the soul has been caught by its horns. In the depiction after this, the soul has not only been caught by its horns, but it has also…

Invocation

HE KNOWS IT WHO KNOWS IT NOT, AND HE KNOWS IT NOT WHO KNOWS IT. TO THE MAN OF TRUE KNOWLEDGE IT IS THE UNKNOWN, WHILE TO THE IGNORANT IT IS THE KNOWN. INDEED, HE ATTAINS IMMORTALITY WHO REALIZES IT IN AND THROUGH EVERY BODH -- PULSATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND AWARENESS. THROUGH THE ATMAN HE OBTAINS STRENGTH AND VIGOR AND THROUGH ITS KNOWLEDGE, IMMORTALITY. FOR ONE WHO REALIZES IT HERE, IN THIS WORLD, THERE IS TRUE LIFE. FOR ONE WHO DOES NOT SO REALIZE IT, GREAT IS THE LOSS. DISCOVERING THE ATMAN IN EVERY SINGLE BEING, THE WISE ONES, DYING TO THIS WORLD OF SENSE-EXPERIENCE, BECOME IMMORTAL. This is the mystery of religious knowing. The more you know it, the more it becomes unknown -- the more you feel how impossible it is to know, how difficult it is to know. The more you know the impossibility of this, the…

Different from all that constitutes the experiencer, bhokta, the experienced -- bhogya, and the experiencing -- bhoga, in the of waking, dream, and deep sleep. I am the witness, the ever-auspicious, the pure consciousness.

I AM THE NON-DUAL BRAHMAN. IN ME ALONE IS EVERYTHING BORN; IN ME ALONE THAT EVERYTHING EXISTS. AND IN ME ALONE, THAT EVERYTHING DISSOLVES. Find this witness; try to find this witness in everything you are doing, knowing, feeling. You are walking on the street; be a witness to it . See it, feel it, that the body is walking and the mind knows that the body is walking. Then be a witness of both; then be a witness that the mind knows that the body is walking, and the body is walking. The mind is the subject; the walking the object. Who are you? You can witness both body and mind -- WITNESS. Then suddenly you become aware that "the body is walking in me, the mind is knowing in me." And this me is not an "I" -- this is just a pure consciousness, a mirror in which…