Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
July 9, 1980.
Q. I am not going to be satisfied until I am in Maharaj's state.
Whatever you consider yourself to be at the moment, when you get rid of that, whatever your true nature, it is spontaneous. Abide in the words of the Guru.
Q. When you read Maharaj's teachings you want very much to be in his company. There is something very enlivening about that. Is it important or essential?
It is very advantageous to get rid of all your doubts. That's why the questions and answers are required. This is the place where you get rid of all concepts. The trees which are near the sandalwood tree also have the same smell, because of proximity.
What is the Self? If you want to expand, the entire world is the manifestation. At the same time it is very tiny - the seed beingness - like an atom, a pinprick of "I Amness". That is the very source of love. Such a potential is there, having provided that love to the entire world, it remains in that seed "I Am", the leftover is the "I Am". That pinprick or touch of "I Amness" is the quintessence of all essence.
Q. I am not going to be satisfied until I am in Maharaj's state.
Whatever you consider yourself to be at the moment, when you get rid of that, whatever your true nature, it is spontaneous. Abide in the words of the Guru.
Q. When you read Maharaj's teachings you want very much to be in his company. There is something very enlivening about that. Is it important or essential?
It is very advantageous to get rid of all your doubts. That's why the questions and answers are required. This is the place where you get rid of all concepts. The trees which are near the sandalwood tree also have the same smell, because of proximity.
What is the Self? If you want to expand, the entire world is the manifestation. At the same time it is very tiny - the seed beingness - like an atom, a pinprick of "I Amness". That is the very source of love. Such a potential is there, having provided that love to the entire world, it remains in that seed "I Am", the leftover is the "I Am". That pinprick or touch of "I Amness" is the quintessence of all essence.
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