Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
July 23, 1980.
All the activities are in the field of consciousness, the mind and vital force. The knower of the mind is just a witness. It does not interfere in anything. Guru's grace means the knowledge you are. When you stabilize in this conviction, that will open up and give you all the knowledge and that is the grace.
If you are there, then everything is immeasurably there. You give no significance to the fact that you are - you are carried away by all the manifestation which is the expression of your beingness.
Q. My tendency is to look outward, rather than inward.
That is the quality of your "I Aamness", not of you, the Absolute. You have embraced the body as your Self. That also is superficial, you don't know what is happening inside the body either.
All the actions happening in this wide world, the samples of all those, are also happening in the body.
Q. That which is, does not know Itself?
In that state you do not know you are. With the tool, or aid, of beingness you know you are.
Q. With the tool we try to go beyond?
Don't try to go beyond consciousness, only recognize, understand what the beingness is, that does the trick. The proof that consciousness was not lies with you only. You, the Absolute, are the proof of that. Spontaneously, uncalled for, this beingness has come and this beingness is witnessed by you, the Absolute.
Just by sitting here quietly and listening to the talks your mind will be annihilated. In case the mind sprouts again you forestall it by asking questions.
Q. Things like getting food, eating at regular times, earning money, all these are concepts of the mind and are responded to by the mind. If one does not respond to these things, how does one live?
By all means employ the mind, but don't get lost in the mind. Observe the mind, be a witness to the mind flow.
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