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"The very first step in understanding what this is all about is giving up the concept of an active, volitional 'I' as a separate entity and accepting the passive role of perceiving and functioning as a process." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Friday, November 20, 2009
What about my presence?
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:
What you are is 'presence' only so long as the body, a manifested phenomenon, is there. What were you before the body and consciousness came upon you spontaneously? I say spontaneously, because you were neither consulted about being presented with a body, nor did your parents specifically expect to have 'you' as their son. Before the body-consciousness state arose on whatever it was that 'you', were you not relatively 'absence' rather than 'presence'?
Are you clear about one thing - that you are prior to all conceptualizing? What you appear to be as a phenomenon is nothing but conceptual. What you really are cannot be comprehended, for the simple reason that in the state of non-conceptuality there cannot be any one to comprehend what one is!
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