The Absolute Is There Anyway

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

August 8, 1980.

Q. Should we have a firm conviction that there is a state beyond the consciousness?

The Absolute is there in any case, so there is no question of your having faith - it is there. There is only one state, not two. When the "I Amness" is there, in that consciousness you will have many experiences, but the "I Am" and the Absolute are not two. In the Absolute the "I Amness" comes and then the experience takes place. In the Absolute there is no individuality, no memory that I am this or that, but there is continual stirring.

Whatever is happening, from the Absolute standpoint, without the knowledge "I Am", is very profound, unlimited, expansive. In the realm of beingness the fragmentation begins; it is limited, conditioned, because in this beingness we try to claim all the actions as ours.