"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

Friday, May 7, 2010

Personality

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:

As long as you do not see that it (personality) is a mere habit, built on memory, prompted by desire, you will think yourself to be a person - living, feeling, thinking, active, passive, pleased or pained. Question yourself. Ask yourself, 'Is it so? Who am I? What is behind and beyond all this?', and soon you will see your mistake. And it is in the very nature of the mistake to cease to be, when seen.

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