"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 18, 2011

Whatever Is, Is One Self

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

August 8, 1980.


Is this "I AMNESS" a necessary threshold to obtain that Absolute state?


The Absolute state cannot be obtained. That is your state. To the Absolute state the witnessing of the consciousness happens.

How long must one practice?

How long did you practice to become a woman?

The first stage is to transcend this body-mind sense, it is easy, but to transcend consciousness is very difficult. Beingness is a very powerful potential knowledge, because of that you have all other knowledge, therefore it is difficult to get rid of this knowledge.

Is it separate from the Unmanifest?

From your point of view it is separate; from my standpoint it is not separate. Sri Krishna said that whatever is, is myself only. Saguna and nirguna, both myself only. This touch of beingness is a temporary phase. Enquire at that point. How did this beingness happen to be?

No comments:

Post a Comment

सर्वभूताधिवासं यद्भूतेषु च वसत्यपि।
सर्वानुग्राहकत्वेन तद्स्म्यहं वासुदेवः॥

That in whom reside all beings and who resides in all beings,
who is the giver of grace to all, the Supreme Soul of the universe, the limitless being:
I AM THAT. -- Amritabindu Upanishad