Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:
Ishwara is not an individual person. It is an all-pervading principle, which is latent in everything. It is manifest in the five elements, the three gunas, and in the cycle of waking, sleep and knowingness.
Duality is only at the body-mind level. In the all-pervading universal consciousness, millions of births take place everyday, but in its basic Absoluteness it is ajanma - the Unborn. Although as universal consciousness it is multi-qualitative, as the Absolute state it is nirguna, non-qualitative.
In this country (India), for ages it has been accepted that a sacred name carries great spiritual potency if recited properly; it has no better substitute. Millions of persons in the world are personified by the names given to them, because a name has utility on the worldly level. When you are initiated into a spiritual discipline with a sacred name, it means that it represents your "ultimate true nature." Be one with the sacred name completely, then it will give you all the mystic knowledge necessary for your spiritual elevation. It will awaken you into your "eternal awareness." This is the mystic key-word of the Navnath-Sampradaya, the traditional order of the Nine Gurus. These gurus were neither cultured nor highly educated. According to one of the stories, a man sat on one of the highest branches of a tree, cutting the very branch he sat on from the wrong side. A guru passing that way, seeing the naive man's one-pointed attention, took pity on him and blessed him with a name which the man recited diligently. In due course, this simpleton himself became a great sage. Such is the power of the sacred name recited with concentrated attention.
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