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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
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Can you give me knowledge?
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:
Understand this: a jnani cannot give knowledge to anyone. All he can do is point to that which is your true nature. With such a condition offered here, I don't know why people are attracted to this place. There is nothing I can give anybody who comes here. The attraction to this place is spontaneous and not understandable intellectually.
If what I have been saying is clearly understood by anyone the effective result will be that even in the daily working of the individual's life there will not be any specific intention. Things will continue in a sort of ball-bearing fashion - without any deliberate intention or deliberate action. In my own case, throughout the day the body carries out its normal functions; things go on in a normal way and nothing is resisted. Throughout the whole day there is no interest in understanding what is happening.
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