"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

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Consciousness Is The Same

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

August 21, 1980.

The consciousness indwelling the sparrow and the consciousness indwelling this body is the same. Here the instrument is big, there it is smaller. They (sparrows) are planning for food, their tummies are not full. All the species are suffering; creation itself is suffering. All these concepts about rebirth, etc., has the rain rebirth? the fire? the air? In short, it is a mere transformation of the five elements. You may call it rebirth.

In the process of this spiritual search, all will happen in the realm of this consciousness. You finally stumble on, or culminate, into the Absolute Parabrahman state, which is desireless.

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