"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, May 7, 2012

No Cause?

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
October 4, 1980.

Q. Maharaj says that everything has happened spontaneously but we are accustomed to thinking that everything must have someone to start something, someone to control. Without this controlling authority it is difficult to imagine anything functioning.

In the state of duality this idea has to be there, otherwise there can't be any concept or any functioning, this is the basis of manifestation. When ultimately the knowledge merges in knowledge, the seeker disappears and there is no one to ask questions.

What is being said and what is being heard is time-bound - from a particular time until today - but That which we are is totally separate from that which is time-bound.

I can understand and measure this time duration, so I must obviously be separate from this duration.

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