Page 381 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 6

‘We are and we are not’as also ‘we are not and we are’
normally understood sense, is to feel or be aware of ‘self’ and the experiences of such a ‘self’ and that is what the Master seems to indicate when He says ‘to be’ has a sense of ‘self’ with an accompanying awareness of separate existence. According to the common folk life is to be enjoyed and where is enjoyment and for whom will that enjoyment be if the ‘enjoyer’ – the ‘self’ is not there?
But for those who are on the Natural path with the goal of oneness with the Absolute, negating themselves to the ultimate limit of becoming ‘zero’ is the call. That such a life is possible has been already demonstrated by Rev.Babuji Maharaj who was structured in such a manner by the Great Lalaji Maharaj, our Revered Adhi Guru.
The Divine can be fully expressed only when we reduce our individuality to zero. That is what the Master says in, ‘If we want to go into ‘non-self’ or in other words the Divine core of our Being, then we will have to annihilate ‘to be’ in thought and we will come to ‘not to be’ in real sense’. The implication seems to be that when the sense of separate existence, ‘to be’ is lost we realize that we are only a part of that Divine existence inseparably linked to it and at the same time one in essence.
Again when He says it means ‘life without life’ we may take it as life without the idea of separate independent existence. It is almost as if we are dead to our ‘selves’, but alive and alert to God and fully available to Him with all faculties dedicated to Him to be used by Him as He deems fit for the fulfillment of His own purposes. In that condition, the condition of ‘nothingness’ where we clearly realize that we are ‘nothing’ and we own nothing’, and we have fully owned the same, we are truly dead to ourselves. The body and faculties of the mind function automatically even as a programmed robot would do, only here, He is the programmer, the executor
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