"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

Monday, August 1, 2011

What Remains?

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

July 6, 1980


There are twenty people in this room, all twenty people leave, then what remains is there, but someone who has left cannot understand what it is. So in that parabrahman which is without attributes, without identity, unconditioned, who is there to ask?

This is to be understood, by not by someone: the experience and the experiencer must be one, you must become the experience. What is this parabrahman like? The answer is, what is Bombay? Don't give me the geography or the atmosphere of Bombay, give me a handful of Bombay. What is Bombay? It is impossible to say, so also with parabrahman. There is no giving or taking of parabrahman, you can only be That.

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