Transcending the Planes of Existence🔗

The one who attains the state of pure knowing and pure experience, such a jin, means the person who won, attains the state of kevala gnana, aloneness and transcends all the planes of existence.

You exist in different levels, different planes. Sometimes you exist in the physical plane. Whenever you exist in the physical plane, you experience the physical pleasures and physical pains. Whenever you exist in the mental plane, you experience the mental pleasures and mental pains.

See, for example, if you are more in the mental layer, you will experience more joy in name and fame and you will be afraid of defamation. You will not be afraid of losing the physical pleasures much, you will be more bothered about the mental pleasures. In the same way, if you are living in subtler planes, your joys, your experiences, will be more subtle.

The person who knows the whole thing is just consciousness moving in consciousness. See, there is nothing to protect. There is nothing to save. There is nothing to play. Understand this one Truth: It is like you are a big wave rising in the ocean of consciousness and falling into it, nothing more than that. Sometimes the wave starts thinking, 'No, no, no, I have become separate. Now, I need to …'

The moment you think you have become separate, either you want to go back to the source or you want to try to do something for your security. Trying to do something for your security is your outer world game. Trying to go back to the source is the inner world game. Both are games - because you are not separate from the ocean.

You are Already One

Mahāvīra is saying, you are liberated. You are supposed to be liberated even from the idea of liberation. You are supposed to transcend the idea of liberation. See, first ignorance is the wave thinking it is separate from the ocean. And the second thing, if the wave is more towards the outer world, it starts thinking, 'I should now create security for me.' It starts collecting all the pebbles in the beach and feels that is the treasure it can hold on to, it feels that it will be secure forever with the stones and pebbles. It goes towards the outer world. That is what we are doing collecting few more zeroes in our bank balance, thinking that we will be safe and secure forever. The same thing we are doing. This is the movement towards the outer world.

Sometimes the ocean starts thinking, 'I should go back to my source, connect myself with the ocean and achieve enlightenment.' And it starts thinking it should try to do something specially to connect. You don't need to do anything because you were never separated. All you need to do is to renounce the idea that you are separated.

Understand the Truth that you are one. You are already one with the ocean. You are already one with the consciousness. You are already one with the Truth.