"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, January 30, 2011

Transcend body and consciousness

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The Absolute state cannot be explained by words. Words are only pointers. You are that absolute, unchanging. Consciousness, or the knowingness, is homogeneous and one only. When you are in that state of consciousness, it is all one, all the same, only the expressions are different.

Everything which gets consumed, exhausted, is unreal. Your knowingness will, in due course, be consumed, will disappear, so it cannot be real; but you can't just dismiss it, you must understand it fully.

Presently there are an infinite number of items in your associations with this world because you have the association of the vital breath. Suppose that vital breath goes. What will happen then to all your associations with the world?

This knowledge which has been expounded will not go to waste, many people have taken advantage of it. The time will come when they will be enlightened also and then they will expound knowledge. A jnani's state remains the same with or without the body. You should meditate, you should not lose what you have learned. 

When one dis-identifies with the body, one transcends not only the body but consciousness as well since consciousness is a product of the body. The consciousness no longer says, "I Am, I Am."

January 30, 1981 P.M.

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