"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

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Words Cannot Explain That

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

July 1, 1980.


Don't say that you are an individual; just stay in the beingness. The whole problem is the sense of being a separate entity - once that subsides, that is true bliss. With the arising of the "I Am" the whole of manifestation takes place; in any activity that which witnesses is the "I Am", that which is doing all this is mAyA, the tendencies, attributes. This is what I am trying to tell you, but you want something else, something that is in the manifestation - you want knowledge.

That knowledge "I Am" is new, it is not the Real; the Real I am not telling you, words negate That. Whatever I am telling you is not the truth, because it has come out of this "I Am". The truth is beyond expression.

You are going all over, amassing knowledge for an individual. This amassing of knowledge is not going to help you, because it is in a dream.

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