"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

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Prior to words, you are!

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.

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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