"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

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Mistaken Identity

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:

Liberation is seeing this life as a farce and perceiving that you (the "I" without the slightest touch of objectivity) cannot be an entity of any shape, name or kind. Liberation is apperceiving that sentient objects are part of the manifestation of the total phenomena, without separate identities; that what "I" am is the sentience in all sentient objects, the Conscious Presence as such. Liberation is apperceiving that "I", the Absolute, in my phenomenal expression, am the functioning (seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting, smelling, thinking) without the presence of any other individual actors.

Now do you understand why you "suffer"? You suffer because you are a case of mistaken identity, or rather, because you have accepted what is obviously a mistaken identity!

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