You Are Not Book.indb - Stephen H. Wolinsky Ph. D.

The Bhakti Illusion / 225
Student: Just silence, but there is also grief.
Wolinsky: By this concept called “my consciousness,” which
believes in this concept called playing and doing,
and I’m here and you’re there, causal body and
subtle body and hearts and eternal life. What has
this concept called “my” consciousness done to
itself?
Student: Preserved itself.
Wolinsky: So if the concept called “my” consciousness
condensed down and created the concept of
preserve or not preserve, the concept of I am, the
concept of light body, the concept of instincts
and senses, the concept of I’m here and you’re
there and let’s play, concept of subtle body and
causal body, which lives in the heart and the mind
where there is eternal life—if all of these, along
with the knower and “awarer” of all these, were
all made of the SAME underlying SUBSTANCE,
which had nothing to do with anything, then . .
. ?
Student: The chronic contraction, the knot will subside.
Wolinsky: Now if the concept called “my” consciousness,
which believes in the concept of contraction and
expansion, was made of the same substance as
the knower or “awarer” of them, then . . . ?
Student: It’s just by itself.
Wolinsky: Now if the concept called “my” consciousness,
which believes in all of these concepts: causal
body, eternal life, light, concept of I am, believed
all that, how could this, “my” consciousness,
deceive another concept called “my” consciousness.