"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

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

'I am' the conscious presence

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:

What was your image about yourself ten years ago? Same as it is now? And when you were ten years old? And when you were an infant? And even before that? Has not your image about yourself changed all the time? And yet is there not something, when you think about yourself - deep down - that has not changed?

Is it not a simple sense of being, the sense of existing, the sense of presence? If you were not conscious, would your body exist for you? Would there be any world for you? Would there be any question of God or the Creator?

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That in whom reside all beings and who resides in all beings,
who is the giver of grace to all, the Supreme Soul of the universe, the limitless being:
I AM THAT. -- Amritabindu Upanishad