"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

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Being Alive!

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:

All this spirituality is only for understanding your true nature. To achieve this what is "being alive" is the whole question. Once you know your true nature then being alive is not an individual but being alive is simply being a part of that spontaneous manifestation. There is nothing to be sought, the seeker is what is to be seen. Merely see the picture as it is.

All of you are seekers; let me know what it is that you are seeking.

Unless you are a part of the manifestation can you live? Know this! When you are not conscious, your world does not exist. You are conscious of your presence and the world outside, they are not two things. Understand this. The world can exist only if this psychosomatic apparatus is there. If you consider this apparatus as yourself, you accept death and die. The jnani knows this to be just an apparatus and is apart from it.

Having understood this, you do your job happily. What is happening is spontaneous and all activity is part of the total manifestation.

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