"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

Friday, November 4, 2011

Death Not Traumatic

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

August 1, 1980.

How can one understand that we abide in consciousness?

Right now you are in that state, but you always try to judge through the body-mind. You are still attached to the body-mind. Even if you might live for a hundred years, you would still like an extension of five years. In the Absolute there is no need of any kind, even the need to know oneself.

At the time of death there might be a very traumatic experience?

It is not always so. For the one who has purified the mind of all concepts, to that one death will be very blissful. You have had a lot of learning and spiritual wisdom and still with all this, at the moment of death you will open your diary wherein you have noted all your relatives.

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