Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The sum and substance of spirituality is nothing but to come to a decision, make a judgment, about the Self, God and the world - what is it? You must first dispose of this question.
This world is filled up with selfishness due to your association with the body. Once you know what these principles are, then you will dissolve the personality, and in the process that selfishness vanishes because you are no more an individual.
Q. How can I be in my true state and lose my fear?
You are already in your true state. Because of the mind, duality comes in and therefore you are afraid. The association with the body and mind is because of love for the body-mind; that is going to go away, therefore everyone is afraid of death.
Q. When you go beyond that state of "I Amness" do you experience the world?
There is no question of going beyond. I was never born, will never die. Whatever is - is all the time. Going beyond is only an idea meant to remove all other ideas you have accumulated. You think about birth. Do you know anything about your birth?
Q. I feel that I am really not born, and yet the world seems so real.
Do not worry about the world. First start from here: the "I Am", and then find out what is the world. Find out the nature of this "I".
Q. Why find out about the "I" which is not real?
It is the seed from which everything comes out. If the seed is not there, the universe is not. How have you come into this so-called objective world? Here everything will be wiped out. I invite you, in your own interest, to go home.
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