What is true consolation?
True consolation (or true healing) is only possible in the timeless presence of Being. Where separation and therefore suffering doesn't exist anymore, both, the suffering person who needs consolation and the suffering person who wants to soften the suffering by giving consolation, are recognized as one. Afterwards, no separation between the suffering and the consoling person exists any more. Suffering and consolation are recognized - by no one - as the ONE appearing as two.
To whom does the idea of death refer?
The idea of death refers to the separate person who thinks they are born and going to die. There is nothing ever born or subjected to death. Birth and death are illusions. Concepts that were built by a separate person identified with a body. As soon as the person disappears the idea of birth and death will disappear. Birth, death and if you like reincarnation are identified to be the One playing the game of life. That's of course another concept. Don't worry about it. It's going to disappear with the "death" of the identified person. But actually nothing happens at all.
How do you go about, I mean without a body?
Of course there is a body. But it doesn't belong to anybody. It just happens. It appears like everything in the world of manifestation just appears. I don't do anything. Acts are happening.
In satsang and in Advaita forums you often hear or read the following answers to a question of a seeker: To whom does this appear? Or: Is there nobody who understands this?
I don't understand what this means. Is it related to the (apparent) person or to the consciousness (the Being)?
Basically in satsang there is always this counter-question: WHO asks the questions? The investigation of this counter-question by the identified mind (the apparent person asking questions in satsang) leads to a kind of loop. The answer can never be found by the asking person because simultaneously with the appearance of the answer the identification (person) ceases to exist. So there isn't anybody left who can "keep" or "conserve" the answer. At the end there is nobody with the final realisation because realisation means there is only THIS, the One and there is no "either... or" and therefore no questions and no answers. It doesn't mean that the asking person should agonise over who is this "me" asking questions. It is unnecessary. There is only oneness. The "me" asking questions is oneness appearing as a "me" asking questions. So nothing has to be done. Liberation is now. You may relax and let "it" happen. Because it has already happened.
Oliver, H.W.L. Poonja's said, "From the first not a thing is. From the outset your nature is free.". In theory we find this plausible. Can you nonetheless show us a metaphor, resp. a direct relation to the "practical" life?
Very freely translated but conveying the meaning Poonja's words imply the following: "There is nothing to be done in order to be free. It is your true nature to be free." So you cannot become something that you are already inherently. Therefore Poonja advises you to just be silent. With "silent" he doesn't mean that you are not allowed to speak or to start meditating. No, he says that you cannot do anything wrong as you are free already. There is nothing that hampers you from being free. That is the ABSOLUTE silence that is here in every moment, whatever you do. It can't be more "practical", can it :-)? This silence is your true nature. Being. Oneness. Pure existence that is closer to you than anything you can imagine, as you ARE this already.
