Consciousness and the Absolute

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:

There is only one state, not two. When the "I Amness" is there, in that consciousness you will have many experiences, but the "I Am" and the Absolute are not two. In the Absolute the "I Amness" comes and then the experience takes place.

In the Absolute there is no individuality, no memory that I am this or that, but there is continual stirring.

I have nothing to say which can be termed as hearsay, or which has been read, or has authority from the scriptures. What I have to say is coming out of my own Self.

Whatever is happening, from the Absolute standpoint, without the knowledge "I Am", is very profound, unlimited, expansive.

In the realm of beingness the fragmentation begins; it is limited, conditioned, because in this beingness we try to claim all the actions as ours.

In the Absolute I have no occasion to say that I exist, because It is in eternity. I do not have to make any comments about my existence. Because of the existence of the Absolute Parabrahman state a lot of incarnations have come and gone, but the Absolute remains untainted by the movement of all these incarnations.