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Monday, December 21, 2009
Is Japa useful?
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:
You have to abide in that naama-japa; it is no use conceptualizing what benefits you are going to derive from it. Follow it and realize the benefits. Even if the one following Naama-japa is like a donkey or dud, he will become a great Sage - that power is there in the recitation of a japa. When that person comes across a Sat-guru, the Sage tells him, "You need not take care of yourself becase you are that immanent principle 'I Am'. You need not take care of anything. You just be and everything will be taken care of for you."
It is a pity that you depend so much on hearsay and you don't try to investigate for yourself. Your knowledge is confined to your body and borrowed knowledge.
All the activities of the world are going on because of this "I Amness." It is the source which creates the world. Understand that "I Amness" first - only then can you transcend it. First of all, be that "I Amness."
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