Postby Jack Roper » Mon Dec 09, 2013 2:07 pm
Hi Mikey,
You have probably misunderstood what Gangaji is saying. Given the radical nature of this video I can see how that would be very easy to do. However, once you realize that we are effectively lost in a web of words, definitions, beliefs, "isms", and other self-imposed conditioning, then defending one's word-belief-structure comes quick and easy. To see that we are in this web is another matter entirely; that behind all thought, and feeling, there is an awareness that has been there ever since you (and I) were born. She calls this consciousness, and it is there right now as I type and you read these words. Seeing that everything appears in conscious awareness and that it "comes and goes" (as do all things born that eventually die), the question she asks is "who am I" really? As soon as you (or I) attach another word to "I am" then you have moved from the unlimited to that which can be described as limited. From the unknown to the known. The unlimited expanse of consciousness gets narrowed down to a limited entity. Of course, we have to function in the world, where there is a proper place for thoughts and feelings, but psychologically, how necessary is it to define yourself down, as it were, to a limited being: either a Christian, a Buddhist, a Muslim, a Communist, a capitalist, an American, a Russian, a South African, etc.? Even man and woman.
All limitation is exactly that: limitation. I'll leave it at that and would gladly continue this dialogue with you and anyone else on here who is truly interested.