"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, August 27, 2011

Grace

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

July 15, 1980.


Any embodied person with the knowledge "I Am" carries on his activities in the world with the name only. That inner core, the "I Am" has no shackles. Once it is understood that I am that "I Am" only, and not this shackled form, then no liberation is called for; that itself is liberation.

Grace means that you have come to me. I and that 'you' are only one. That you understand that we are one is grace. Grace means totality, wholeness, there is no fragmentation.

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That in whom reside all beings and who resides in all beings,
who is the giver of grace to all, the Supreme Soul of the universe, the limitless being:
I AM THAT. -- Amritabindu Upanishad