You are That

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

September 27, 1980.

In dreams you live for 100 years but when  you wake up that dream lasted for just 5 minutes. How did that happen? 

The basic reason for all this great cause is that you exist, so find the nature of that. All these acts are done by the child of a barren woman. All these are problems of the consciousness; find out the root of the consciousness. Catch that consciousness by throat. Conceptual consciousness by conceptual throat. Pamper and woo this basic consciousness, it alone can satisfy your quest, not your intellect. Unless that knowledge is pleased, you cannot have knowledge.

I never knew; if I had the slightest knowledge would I have descended into the prison of my mother's womb? Whatever happens, happens by itself. Who can have knowledge of that which existed before conception? There is nothing to be acquired. You are That.