"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

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

The Child Consciousness

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:

So long as you are interested in this manifest world you have no time to get to the root. The root is this consciousness which appeared when you were a child. The root of whatever activities you are now doing is that moment when you were a child. In that child, the most important quality - the chemical, the consciousness - took the photograph. From that moment you started gathering knowledge and on that your present activities are happening.

People are so interested in my words that no one really tries to find out what that child consciousness is. Only when you get established in the consciousness can you know that child consciousness. That is the only way.

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