"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

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Guru

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:

Guru is not an individual. You are thinking in terms of a form. The consciousness is all pervading. You find out what is this "you" that is seeking grace. In that body the "I Am" is ticking - that is the Guru. You worship that "I Am' principle and surrender to that Guru and that Guru will give you all the grace.

In consciousness there can exist nothing without its interrelated counterpart. The moment you say knowledge, knowledge can only be in ignorance, so this knowledge one has about Guru is also ignorance. When will the knowledge be Guru? When that knowledge and the ignorance both disappear into vijnana. Jnana is knowledge, ajnana is ignorance, both disappear into vijnana.

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