"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

Monday, May 9, 2011

Form from the Formless

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

April 15, 1980.

When something is understood, one does not really grasp it until a name is given and then one says that one has understood. The name is not the thing. Father, mother and child are three in name, but all three represent the same thing. What is is one only, It is, and the three are only names and numbers given to what is basically one thing. The union of prakriti and purusha are only names - they are not forms. This subject is meant only for those who are seriously interested.

Prior to taking this form you were formless; spontaneously the form came, and when the form came there was a natural longing to return to the formless state. When you want to return to the formless, desireless state, then only you come here, to seek what you are. The consciousness has to know the consciousness. When it realizes itself, then only do you return to normal.

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