"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

Monday, December 12, 2011

When Understood, Words Are Of No Use


Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

August 29, 1980.

This beingness goes into individuality because of the form of food package, the body. From my standpoint it is dynamic, manifest beingness only - no individuality. Once you take to this understanding there is no question of enjoying yourself as an individual. You are no more an individual, the individual is dissolved. A rare one will do this.

The one who has understood all the five elements and its play is not worried about the essence of these five elements, the beingness - this state is transcended also. That one has the fragrance of humanity: he remembers humanity, but knows that he has nothing to do with humanity.

Having understood this and transcended it, the words are of no use. The beingness feels that it should not die, but if the so-called death has occurred, there is no loss to it. 

From my standpoint, whatever beingness in the form of a human being was there is all gone; because of that dissolution it has become manifest.

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