Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
You know you are. That itself is awareness. If you think that you have to be aware, then it becomes an experiential state. You want to experience something. Don't recognize your body as yourself. That is all right for your daily world affairs, identifying with the body, but when you have to understand yourself, don't understand that you are the body. You have the knowledge "I Am". That itself means you are.
Awareness is that state in which the consciousness subsides into itself.
This body is the expression of the product of the food consumed. Material is consumed in the form of food and this is the result. When the food becomes less and less, the body is bound to become emaciated, become thin. This is not your identity. This is not your image.
The food body you are not. The waking state you are not. The deep sleep state you are not. You know the waking state. Since you know the waking state you are not the waking state. You know the deep sleep state; therefore, you are not the deep sleep state.
Visitor: I am lost.
The ultimate "you" can never be lost. Whatever you have lost, you have lost only the words. Who told you that you are lost? You know you are, "I Am". The moment the feeling "I Am" appears, the world also appears. "You are" is not alone, in isolation. You are part and parcel of the world knowledge.
You are tenaciously clinging to the body as yourself. You must have the firm conviction that you are not the body, and not even the consciousness in the beingness.
Nothing is useful, no talk is useful when one is by oneself. When one subsides in one's true identity, nothing matters, because nothing is. When "I" subsides, it's all awareness.
June 21, 1981.
You know you are. That itself is awareness. If you think that you have to be aware, then it becomes an experiential state. You want to experience something. Don't recognize your body as yourself. That is all right for your daily world affairs, identifying with the body, but when you have to understand yourself, don't understand that you are the body. You have the knowledge "I Am". That itself means you are.
Awareness is that state in which the consciousness subsides into itself.
This body is the expression of the product of the food consumed. Material is consumed in the form of food and this is the result. When the food becomes less and less, the body is bound to become emaciated, become thin. This is not your identity. This is not your image.
The food body you are not. The waking state you are not. The deep sleep state you are not. You know the waking state. Since you know the waking state you are not the waking state. You know the deep sleep state; therefore, you are not the deep sleep state.
Visitor: I am lost.
The ultimate "you" can never be lost. Whatever you have lost, you have lost only the words. Who told you that you are lost? You know you are, "I Am". The moment the feeling "I Am" appears, the world also appears. "You are" is not alone, in isolation. You are part and parcel of the world knowledge.
You are tenaciously clinging to the body as yourself. You must have the firm conviction that you are not the body, and not even the consciousness in the beingness.
Nothing is useful, no talk is useful when one is by oneself. When one subsides in one's true identity, nothing matters, because nothing is. When "I" subsides, it's all awareness.
June 21, 1981.
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