"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

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Why do we differ?

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:

It is a well established fact that fingerprints of one person are ne'er exactly like those of any other person; leaves of the same tree are found to be different from one another in minute details. The reason is that the permutations and combination of the five elements, plus the three attributes in their millions of shades, number in the millions and trillions. Let us by all means admire what we think is admirable and love what we think is lovable, but let us understand what it is we really love and admire - not the conceptual individual but the wonderful acting ability of consciousness, which is able to play simultaneously millions of roles in this dream-play that the world is!

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That in whom reside all beings and who resides in all beings,
who is the giver of grace to all, the Supreme Soul of the universe, the limitless being:
I AM THAT. -- Amritabindu Upanishad