"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, January 20, 2012

No Individual

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

September 21, 1980.

All that one does is for the continuance of the consciousness, but for me there is nothing at all that I would like to continue.

You come here as individuals expecting to get something from me, that is where the mistake arises. There is no individual, so how can I do something for a non-existing individual? Your true nature is in no way different from mine. This happening is just a happening which has come and which will go.

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