"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

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

How to lose identification with the body?

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:

Increase the conviction that you are the formless consciousness. You develop your firm conviction that you are the total manifestation, universal consciousness. There is nobody who can have the knowledge of the Truth, the Eternal. It is one's eternal true state, but it is not a knowledgeable state - you cannot know It. So-called knowledge is boundless and plenty in the state of attributes, "I Am". 

In this body is the knowledge "I Am". When the body drops down, the knowledge "I Am" will subside there only - what remains is the Absolute.

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