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Manonash

(complete annihilation of the mind)

This message was printed and sent out to Baba’s lovers throughout the world.

From, Meherazad (Pimpalgaon), Maharashtra, India, on Feb.06.1952



“God is everywhere and does everything.

God is within us and knows everything.

God is without us and sees everything.

God is beyond us and IS everything.

…. To try to understand with the mind that which the mind can never understand is futile; and to try to express by sounds of language and in the form of words the transcendental state of the Soul, is even more futile. All that can be said and has been said, and will be said by those who live and experience that State is, that when the false self is lost, the Real Self is found; that the birth of Real can only follow the death of the false; and that dying to ourselves __ the true death which ends all dying __ is the only way to perpetual life.

this means that when the mind with its satellites __desires, cravings, longings __ is completely consumed by the fire of Divine Love, then the infinite, indestructible, indivisible, eternal Self is manifested. This is Manonash, the annihilation of the false, limited, miserable, ignorant, destructible “I”, to be replaced by the Real “I”, the possessor of Infinite Knowledge, Love, Power, Peace, Bliss and Glory, in its unchangeable existence.

Manonash results in this glorious state in which plurality goes and Unity comes, ignorance goes and Knowledge comes, binding goes and Freedom comes. We are all permanently lodged in this shoreless Ocean of Infinite Knowledge, and yet are infinitely ignorant of it, until the mind __ which is the source of this ignorance __ vanishes forever: for ignorance ceases to exist when the mind ceases to exist!

Unless and until ignorance is removed and Knowledge is gained __ the Knowledge whereby the Divine Life is experienced and lived __ everything pertaining to the spiritual seems paradoxical.

God whom we do not see, we say is real: and the world that we do see, we say is false. In experience, what exists for us does not really exists: and what does not exist for us, really exists.

We must lose ourselves in order to find ourselves. Thus loss itself is gain.

We must die to self to live in God. Thus death means life.

We must become completely void inside to be completely possessed by God. Thus complete emptiness means absolute Fullness.

We must become naked of selfhood by possessing nothing, so as to be absorbed in the infinity of God. Thus nothing ,means everything.

…. To sum up my Manonash work in short:

I feel in all truth that the four months’ Manonash work has been done by me, by the help of God, to my entire satisfaction.
The result of this work must bear fruit, sooner or later; either in the immediate present, or some time later, or in the distant future.
The result will bring Freedom to us all in proportion to our merits of Love, Faith and Service.
This Freedom will be freedom from ignorance, and will be the Knowledge that we always were, are and will be One with God.
This Knowledge will make us realize and experience Infinite Love, Power, Bliss and Peace, which we always possessed and knew not of.”


Meher Baba

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Buster_Brown said:
Enlightenment begins with realizing that we are not in control.

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soldatheero said:

It means the dissolution of the external world, nothing is left but your own self and you experience yourself as the oversoul, the sole existence. This means in enlightenment you no longer experience the phenomenal world of duality - illusion . The phenomonal world is why we experience ourselves as being in TIME and conditioned by time, an illusory series of moments constantly going in and out of consciousness. The experience of enligthenment means no more time but instaed a ceaseless continuum of super consciousness which makes the consciousness you experience now nothing but a dream in comparison.

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WOW! That resonated extremely strong....Wow I am almost flabbergasted at a slight loss for words. This was EXACTLY my experience with the term/state of being Enlightenment.

Suggestions on how to feel it always? That is one of my big "desires" in life although I am practicing acceptance but in truly not only knowing this but really FEELING it....It is easier though than done lol



Also I was struck very deeply by these statements. I know this to be true. But it does seem so paradoxical and slightly ridiculous to a person who has never had this type of experience. I know if someone were to tell me this b4 my profound experience i would have regarded it as dribble or basically useless.


"We must lose ourselves in order to find ourselves. Thus loss itself is gain.
We must die to self to live in God. Thus death means life.
We must become completely void inside to be completely possessed by God. Thus complete emptiness means absolute Fullness.
We must become naked of selfhood by possessing nothing, so as to be absorbed in the infinity of God. Thus nothing ,means everything."

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Buster_Brown said:
Enlightenment begins with realizing that we are not in control.

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..and then can extend to the adoption of irrational tenets.

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not to offend or be rude or anything like that but these statments seemed empty and shallow. It just didn't really fit with me or what I have experienced....But again my experience with enlightenment was the Great Integrity so that is basically everything as well as this statement...Complete Unity and Oneness.

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BlindSoothsayer said:
  I'm more interested in post-conceived notions on Enlightenment.

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BlindSoothsayer said:
  I'm more interested in post-conceived notions on Enlightenment.

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A post-conceived notion would be more rational.

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Icelander said:


I find it hard to believe that the universe forgot itself however.

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99.9999% (guess) of people forgot who they are, where they come from, and their purpose on this reincarnation As have u.....

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LustfulLinsanity said:
I view enlightenment, as being fully merged with God (the one conciousness, universal mind, or whatever your interpretation of god is). You can retain a physical body, but at this point there really is no necessity to stay. Those that reach enlightenment and chose to stay, i would say chose only to do so to be of assistance in helping raise the concsiousness of other people. We are enlightened, we have just forgotten

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