"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, February 19, 2010

You are an actor


Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:

You not only fail to see you are merely an actor playing a role in this farce but go on to assume you have a  choice  of decision and action in the play called 'life,' which must obviously unfold strictly according to the pre-written script. And when events thus take place naturally in the ordinary course, this conceptual entity that man is lets himself get affected by them and suffers. And then he thinks of 'bondage' and 'liberation'.

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