"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, January 21, 2011

Is practising Nama Japa good?

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Recite the sacred name, that is all right, but the important thing is to recognize and understand what is the presiding principle by which you know you are and by which you perceive everything else. You must look at yourself, get to know yourself. The riddle of spirituality cannot be solved by intellect. At the most, your intellect can provide you with livelihood.

Whatever you try to become, that is not you. Before words come out, before you say "I Am", that is you. You must be concerned only with yourself. Don't worry about anybody else. What are you?

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That in whom reside all beings and who resides in all beings,
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I AM THAT. -- Amritabindu Upanishad