Find Out Your Source

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

August 24, 1980.

The consciousness is the same, but the mind can work only according to what is known to it. What is known to the lower creatures is only the basic physical requirements. It is only man, who from an early age, has been thinking of and has been fed, higher ideas, other than merely physical aspects. Man is able to fly and go to the moon. No other species can do this; the mind of the lesser species is limited.

There are 84 lakhs of different species, as soon as any conception takes place in any of these species, there is a sort of causal body on which the print has been made at the time of conception about the nature of the form and its working. Nobody tells a bird to fly, a fish to swim, or a worm to crawl, it is all in the conception itself. That which cannot die is now firmly convinced that it is going to die. How has this fear of death crept in? It is based on the concept that one is born, on mere words; this is the bondage.

All that one has to do is find out one's source and take up headquarters there.