"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

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Abide in the Guru's words

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

May 8, 1980.


After the information given to you by the mother, that you are a boy or a girl, all your further acquisitions are through hearsay. Your primary capital is knowingness, waking state and deep sleep.

Remember just this: a real disciple is ready to give up his body and the vital breath to attain this. Abide in the words of the Guru. Stabilize only in "I amness".

The five elements and the three gunAs make up your body and beingness. When you abide in sat-guru, sat-guru indicates to you that you are the witness of your beingness also. Have faith in the sat-guru, you are That. Such a sat-guru has remained untouched and without any stigma. Whatever is, is there eternally, but we are overwhelmed by concepts. In the world of beingness the consciousness takes care of every worm, bird, human being, of all the species. That is the problem of the beingness. Every species knows the art of living.

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