"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

Friday, April 1, 2011

What about reincarnation?

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Even this birth is false. The quality of "I Amness" is because of the body. You don't know whether you exist or not in deep sleep; you don't know you are, that is all. You were not born at all; only the announcement of your existence is there. You existed even prior to your birth; your existence is eternal, but the knowledge that you existed came about when you were a few years old.

Just worry about this birth. Why worry about reincarnation? Think whether this birth is correct.

June 5, 1981.

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