"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, June 13, 2010

How did this come about?

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:

Out of a common heap of wheat, many types of edibles are prepared, using different methods. In the same way, there are many systems of spirituality. I am not interested in nibbling at the various delicacies - methods and techniques - but only in the main course, which is the primordial Source of all existence.

How and why did the state of my beingness, my existence, and the entire manifestation arise and out of what? In that original source, there is no feeling of my presence. To that ultimate source, how did the state of existence resulting in differentiation (duality) happen?

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