"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

Monday, March 28, 2011

Get rid of concepts

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Stick to your own consciousness, remain in that. All the burden of your concepts you should fuse into your consciousness, but do not use your consciousness to build edifices of concepts.

The habit of considering Self as the body has influenced everybody too much. The knowledge "I Am" is your Guru, be in it.

Who is the one who sings the bhajan? It is the intellect of that Guru - who are you, an intruder? Of course, the action of the whole world depends on this intellect, but when this intellect reaches its apex, it gets merged into Parabrahman.

You all go on writing a diary of your own concepts - I tell you, finally, it is utterly useless. It will only serve as an instrument of bondage.

April 22, 1981.

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