"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

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Be like space

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

You should be like space. If you pay attention to things external to you, you will be carried away. If you are the space and not the body, then at that stage the body does not remain as the body because there is nobody to evaluate the body as body. In chidakash you evaluate the world as name and form, but when name and form are dissolved, a dissolution takes place. All forms dissolve in mahakash. You evaluate a form, that it is like this or that. When evaluation is not there, the mind is not there, it is like space.

Chidakash is that raw material by which you evaluate whatever you experience or whatever you observe. In the process of becoming more subtle, the external forms are dissolved into mahakash; no more names and forms. Simultaneously, the process of evaluation and mind functioning stops, dissolves itself into chidakash. When both mahakash and chidakash become still, it is space only and you are space.

Because of the external body, the "I Amness" is felt. However, in the absence of the body, the "I Amness" is still there without feeling "I Am". I am ever-prevailing.

June 22, 1981 P.M

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