How can I do what Maharaj says?

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

July 1, 1980.

You are engaging in worldly activity everyday, but before you go to sleep at night forget all that, and think of what I have told you. Take one sentence of what I have told you and stay with it; that will lead you to your source.

The very source of all happiness is your beingness, be there. If you get involved with the flow of maya, this is the product of beingness. Be still in your beingness. Whatever I have told you, remember it, chew it, recollect it. It will lead you to the stillness. Establish in that knowledge.

Q. What will happen?

It will be clear to you, just as clear as seeing the five fingers on your hand. You observe, this body is made of the five elements, and because the five elemental body is there, your beingness, the consciousness has appeared.

Your beingness is there because of this food body and the vital breath, and you will be able to watch all these elements - the body, your vital force and your beingness; but you must be established in that knowledge. In short, you liquidate that yardstick of body-mind as your identity. When this is done, you are Ishvara, you are brahman.