Sri Bhagwan:
Seek your source, merge in the Self and remain all one. Rebirth really means discontent with the present state and desire to be born where there will be no discontent. Birth, being of the body, cannot affect the Self. The Self remains ever, even after the body perishes. The discontent is due to the wrong identity of the Eternal Self with the perishable body. The body is revealed in all its glory. The body is the cross, Jesus, the Son of Man, is the ego or "I-am-the-body" idea. When he is crucified he is resurrected, a Glorious Self, Jesus, the son of God. "Give up this life if thou wouldst live."
A Jnani crushes the ego at its source. It rises up again and again, for him too, as for the ignorant, impelled by nature, i.e., prarabdha. Both in the in the ignorant and the Jnani, ego sprouts up but with this difference: the former's ego when it rises up is quite ignorant of its source, or is not aware of it in deep sleep, in the dream and wakeful states, whereas a Jnani, when his ego rises up, enjoys his transcendental experience with this ego, keeping his lakshya (vision) always on its source. His ego is not dangerous, it is only the ash-skeleton of a burnt rope; although it possesses a form it is ineffective. By constantly keeping our lakshya on our source, our ego is dissolved.
Source: Conscious Immortality.
Dear Devotees,
Mistake lies in thinking that 'I' is what 'I' is not. How can 'I' be inert body? Sri Bhagwan has taught unequivocally, without any ambiguity whatever, that the body's movements are confounded with 'I''s movement and invariably misery is the result. Is it not? Truth is whether the body works or not, moves or not, 'I' remains ever free and happy. What a pity indeed! ajnani's 'I' is identified only and only with the body. Sri Bhagwan has taught that whole error lies there. Gnani's 'I' includes body, mind, et al, i.e., what is all. If only we could understand and grasp that it is only some intermediate, spurious, non-entity which arises and gives rise to all these confusion!
Dear devotees, Sri Bhagwan has taught elsewhere that the wrong identity of the Eternal Self with the perishable body is akin to suicide!
Therefore, I would like to share with all those who practice sincerely and earnestly Sri Bhagwan's Vichara One Mantra to which I have been able, by His Grace, to reduce all mantras, and I feel now, in retrospect, that indeed, this was the only pursuit, of all my myriad pursuits that happened in my life, worth pursuing:
MANTRA: WHEREVER I AM, WHATEVER I AM DOING, I DO NOT REALLY LIKE NOW TO STRAY AWAY FROM MYSELF.
Thanks very much,
Pranam,
Anil