He is drunk with Name potion
And not with base wine
Who drinks the potion of the Lord’s Name –
With drunkards he is not in line.
Idle talks are useless vain
Good deeds are best of all
Says Kabir, they lead man to success
And help him reach his goal.
What is good and what is bad
Fools cannot see at all
With a garment tied to its tail
Can the rat enter its hole?
Karl Renz: There is an unpronounced yes. Just the silence agreed. There is a total agreement of what you are. You agree to everything. Yes. Even if I would read the telephone book. Yes, yes. It’s not what I say. For sure not.
Question: And yes, it’s in spite of what you mind.
Karl Renz: Yeah. I am just talking to keep the mind busy that some whatever is there. So I take over your mind. Because I don’t mind. And then you can be what you are. And that is always yes.
Question: That is always yes.
Karl Renz: Ok. Yes. Yes. Not even pronounced. It’s just yes. So the most silent agreement. But agreement to yourself. And that… there is peace. Because there is peace, there is yes. Because there is doubtlessness of being. And in doubtlessness there is peace and there is yes. So you agreed to your existence. And then there is peace.
Normally you don’t agree with how you are and what happens. Because you are a seeker and you want to go out of this. And then there is no agreement. And I by talking to you and taking over that doubtful tra-la-la, there is sudden agreement. Unexpected. Then you don’t know… what. And there is doubtlessness. But the problem is no one can take it with him. Because this ownership thing steps in again. And then that owner wants even to own that doubtlessness of Existence. My doubtlessness.
Karl Renz: Who defines strong and not so strong energy?
Question: Ok.
Karl Renz: That is why I say – you are still concerned about the quantity of energy.
Question: Yes, sure.
Karl Renz: And that’s the block it.
Question: But sometime… I want to kill everybody I found on the road. So horrible.
Karl Renz: That is why we are sitting here, talking about the quality of energy which has no quantity. And at the moment you talk about the quantity of more or less energy is a dream. Is imagination.
Question: So, we talk about the quality?
Karl Renz: Just you have to write the discrimination – whatever has a quantity of energy is an imaginary energy.
Question: Yes, sure.
Karl Renz: And that quality of energy is silence. There is no more or less energy. This what is called silence. But any concerning about the quantity and how it was, and making a biography of more or less energy is this personal conserver. Memorizing whatever quantity of more or less imaginary energy. That is called dream. And being That what is energy – doesn’t know energy and doesn’t have energy. And there is no quality of negative or positive or anything what you can imagine.
Question: Yes, sure.
Karl Renz: But for that you are sitting here, for that silence. And not for any more or less energy. Come on. And not knowing – why this solar plexus is jumping there or something is happening there in the right ear or in the left ear. What does it mean. When the antenna is sending or receiving. And bla-bla-bla. Bla-bla-bla. We can talk about it. But it’s all bullshit.
Karl Renz: Everything is as it should be! Otherwise, it would be different. Perfection realizes itself. Self – heart in exhalation and inhalation. Forgetting and remembering. An endless self-experience.
ABOUT SRI SHESHADRI SWAMIGAL, from memories
A poor man called Arumuga Padayachi was neglected by all his relatives because he became a victim of “Mega” disease and being without any support, he came to Tiruvannamalai in search of Swamiji. After a search for many days he found Swamiji and held on to his feet and wept about his condition. He would not leave the hold on his feet. Swamiji got very angry, took a stone lying nearby and hit him on his head. Padayachi started bleeding, fell down unconscious and relaxed his hold on Swamiji’s feet. Within a month he was cured of his disease and led a happy life with wife and children.
A trader from Saurashtra staying in Madurai did not have any child. After a long period of prayers Devi Meenakshi appeared in his dream and asked him to go to “our Seshadri in Tiruvannamalai”. When they met Swamiji they were surprised when he asked them whether Devi Meenakshi had sent them. He blessed them, tied their saree and doti in a knot and after some time opened it. Within a year they had a male child and they named it Seshadri.
Anandamayi Ma: In whichever direction you may turn your gaze, you will find One Eternal Indivisible Being manifested. Yet it is not at all easy to detect this presence, because He interpenetrates everything. As a king is known by his majesty, as fire is known by its heat, so the Unmanifest reveals Himself through the world of manifestation. The analysis of the substance of all created things, if carried sufficiently far, will lead to the discovery that what remains is identical and equally present in all creatures: it is He, it is That, which is styled as Pure Consciousness.
The Universal Body of the Lord comprises all things – trees, flowers, leaves, hills, mountains, rivers, oceans, and so forth. A time will come, must come, when one actually perceives this all-pervading Universal Form of the One. The variety of His shapes and guises is infinite, uncountable, without end. Just as ice is nothing but water, so the Beloved is without form, without quality, and the question of manifestation does not arise. When this is realized, one has realized one’s Self. For, to find the Beloved is to find my Self, to discover that God is my very own, wholly identical with myself, my innermost Self, the Self of my Self.
Question: Is there any reason that this whole theatre starts? We could have stayed what we are?
Karl Renz: No. You could not. As I said – you are that what is freedom. And freedom means freedom of choice. And freedom of choice means – you cannot make a choice to stay where you are. Even the choice to stay where you are, already the chooser wakes up. So by whatever choice, the chooser is there. Unavoidable. You cannot avoid to wake up. As you cannot avoid to realize yourself. As the realization is here and now. And the wanting to make it un, undoing it, getting out of it – it is called me. It’s a seeker who wants to avoid himself. Who is looking for a way out. Always looking for an exit.
And I am sitting here as a doorman and say – no way out. No way out for you. Because as you are That what is, you cannot leave what you are. As this is, this moment as absolute as it is – one absolute realization, out of infinite aspects of what you are. And you cannot leave That what is, your realization. As you are That what is the realization.
And to be That what is, what is the realization – as the I of the I, the I-am of the I-am, and the I-am-the-world of the I-am-the-world, always the essence as That what is heart. Simply realizing itself as I-am-the-world. But it’s still That what is heart. And there is no second heart. As there is no second edition of existence. You are that existence itself. And you cannot leave it.
Ranjit Maharaj: One should find out what is Reality. The whole world may go to zero but still Reality remains.
Same way the Reality is there. Find out that Reality. And that is oneself without self. Understand this way and you can understand “Who am I?”. Don’t misrepresent you. Everybody misrepresents himself. All ornaments are nothing but gold, or not? If you understand gold, then ornaments do not remain. They are nothing but gold.
Karl Renz: And no one can claim that he is That. And no one can pull you out again, anything. Because you cannot lose it. Cannot gain it. But everything else you can lose again. And it’s fragile. So all the realizations, all enlightenment, all awakening, and all experiences are very fragile. Wherever you land, you have to depart again. It will be checked. And God will cut you down by all your experiences, by all your insight, by all your intellectual acrobatic ideas of whatever you can nicely pronounce with all the beauty and all of that. Bum. It will puhhh as nothing.
Question: This point of satisfaction.
Karl Renz: It’s not the point of satisfaction.
Question: Or that state.
Karl Renz: That’s not a state. It is not a state. It is fact. There is no one who can be in That what has no state. Everyone needs a state to be in it. But That which is not a state you cannot be in it. There is no one who can be there. Every other state you can land in. But in That no one can land. And then no one can land there, no one can depart. There is no departure possible from what you are.
Karl Renz: Giving attention to attention is being That what doesn’t have any idea about attention.
Question: Yeah, yeah. It sounds first like a paradox.
Karl Renz: It is a paradox.
Question: Because that what is attention can’t…
Karl Renz: If only when you have attention and give attention, then it’s a relative attention. But if you are the absolute attention which cannot… There is no one who has anything. Then you don’t give attention to anything. Then you are attention. Because then you are that what is attention and that what is experience. There is no difference in nature. Then you are that what is. And that what is cannot be disturbed by what is.
So, only when you are separate person and the separate bla-bla-bla entity, and then you are permanent disturbed just by existence. That you exist, you are disturbed. That you are aware to exist. Already the root of all disturbances. That all starts. The awareness I. But that what is awareness has no idea about awareness. That what is the father doesn’t know any father. That what is spirit doesn’t know any spirit. It would never give it the same name. And the absolute person doesn’t know any person.
