Know This!

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

September 27, 1980.

All this spirituality is only for understanding your true nature. To achieve this what is "being alive" is the whole question. Once you know your true nature then being alive is not as an individual but being alive is simply being a part of that spontaneous manifestation. There is nothing to be sought, the seeker is what is to be seen. Merely see the picture as it is.

All of you are seekers; let me know what is that you are seeking.

Know this! When you are not conscious, your world does not exist. You are conscious of your presence and the world outside, they are not two things. Understand this. The world can exist only if this psychosomatic apparatus is there. If you consider this apparatus as yourself, you accept death and die. The jnani knows this to be just an apparatus and is apart from it. 

Having understood this, you do your job happily. What is happening is spontaneous and all activity is part of the total manifestation.