"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

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

How To Understand?

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

September 21, 1980.

Discrimination is very necessary to understand what I am saying. It is only after the arrival of consciousness that we try to understand ourselves. Consciousness is the so-called birth; birth means the three aspects: waking state, deep sleep and the knowledge "I Am". Once I understand what this birth is, then the whole mystery is solved. Since I have thoroughly known what this birth principle is, I will know very well at that happening of the so-called death, I shall observe the departure of the vital breath, the language and the 'I Amness'; there is no question of death.

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