"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

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Hold On To The "I AM"

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

July 1, 1980.

Q. How does Maharaj feel about all the people coming here?

I don't care. You come and listen to me and go. If you want it, take it. If not, go away. The space in this room is neither for, not against, nor in love with, the space in that room; it is one.

Like a river flowing, if you want to utilize it, you take the water and drink it, assimilate it; otherwise, let it flow past. I am not charging you, just like the river is not charging for the water. You are spending a lot of money everyday; come on, you put your money away and take my water.

While talking about it I take you to the source of the spring; there water is coming out in a trickle. This water afterwards becomes a river, an estuary, becomes the sea. I am taking you again and again to the source. Once you go to the source you will come to know there is no water actually, water is the news of "I Am".

There is only one principle, the principle "I Am". Because you are, everything is. Hold it close. You have heard, now live accordingly.

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