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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
Sunday, December 6, 2009
We are not the body!
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:
If one sees - apperceives - things as they are, if one apprehends the total manifestation with the whole-mind and not with the dichotomized mind of an individual, one is not far away from the great awakening, and then whatever one does is of no importance. Indeed, to think that an individual being can act independently is itself a mistake. What we are is the Conscious Presence and not the outside easing of consciousness, not the body, which is only a psychosomatic apparatus used for cognizing the manifestation. This apparatus is only a spacio-temporal concept and as such has no independent existence. It therefore cannot act independently, despite all appearances to the contrary. Let us understand this basic fact.
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