Q: I may come across a beggar, naked
and hungry and ask him 'Who are you?' He may answer: 'I am the
Supreme Self'. 'Well', I say, 'suffice you are the Supreme, change
your present state'. What will he do?
M: He will ask you: 'Which state? What
is there that needs changing? What is wrong with me?
Q: Why should he answer so?
M: Because he is no longer bound by
appearances, he does not identify himself with the name and shape. He
uses memory, but memory cannot use him.
Q: Is not all knowledge based on
memory?
M: Lower knowledge -- yes. Higher
knowledge, knowledge of Reality, is inherent in man's true nature.
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Also I am not afraid because I am
nothing that can experience fear, or can be in danger. I have no
shape, nor name. It is attachment to a name and shape that breeds
fear. I am not attached. I am nothing, and nothing is afraid of no
thing. On the contrary, everything is afraid of the Nothing, for when
a thing touches Nothing, it becomes nothing. It is like a bottomless
well, whatever falls into it, disappears.
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