Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
So long as you identify yourself with the body, you will not have satisfaction. This is the space, I am not the space. You must have the firm conviction about your own Self. You must have that deep urge to know yourself. Grace is always there. Your first conviction, that "you are", which is prior to words, to that you have given the form of a body. Give up this bodily identity. Prior to words you are, just be that.
V: How can I be that?
Whatever you are, don't give it any shape or design, that is all. If you are, then everything else is. Worshiping books and being devoted to books will lead you nowhere. Be your Self. Be devoted to your Self, worship only that. Worship the knowledge "I Am" as a God, as your Guru.
June 11, 1981.
So long as you identify yourself with the body, you will not have satisfaction. This is the space, I am not the space. You must have the firm conviction about your own Self. You must have that deep urge to know yourself. Grace is always there. Your first conviction, that "you are", which is prior to words, to that you have given the form of a body. Give up this bodily identity. Prior to words you are, just be that.
V: How can I be that?
Whatever you are, don't give it any shape or design, that is all. If you are, then everything else is. Worshiping books and being devoted to books will lead you nowhere. Be your Self. Be devoted to your Self, worship only that. Worship the knowledge "I Am" as a God, as your Guru.
June 11, 1981.
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