2012-02-16 1st journal, Mayan day 7 MonkeyNOTE: It might help to read along with the transcript ;)Transcript http://www.scribd.com/doc/81901433Intro:In reading Papaji's biography today, I am struck by several things. It is so wonderful, first, that there is such a thing as these three large volumes sharing his life with us. I am transported, again and again, by what I find, here – and taken aback, too, as today.Some words he shared of Ramana Maharshi: “Brahman is real. The universe is unreal. Brahman is the universe.”Go figure, right? It is that beautiful non-duality at work, and I am so glad that I have experience of this, so that I can see into it, at least partially. Fully, I don't know. Still, it is the two sides of one coin I keep talking about. That which seems opposed and dual in the world, taken within, taken from head to heart, can be seen to be but one. It is more like two aspects of the same one.Papaji clears it up better than this in a following paragraph, though. First, he said one way to answer this is that he doesn't see any world. This is perhaps not so accessible to most, but then he says this:“You can see the world as real, as Brahman, or, like the Buddha, you can say it is not there at all. He never saw anything. Both statements are equally true, but this is very hard to understand. The world is real because it is Brahman, not because it appears as names and forms. It is the names and forms that never existed.”... Less