"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

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Daily Duties

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Oct 8, 1980

You should attend to your duties - they are not personal, they are of the manifest consciousness, they belong to all. Try to expand yourself to Infinity as the manifested consciousness. There is no other God but you.

One day this body will drop dead; people think that death means completely unmanifest, but it is not so, it is not like that. When something is consumed or exhausted, it becomes more, it becomes manifest.

Sri Krishna said, "I reincarnate myself at every yuga (eon)," but I say, every moment I expand, ever more I am created, I proliferate more and more every moment.

I never seek anything from anybody else. Whatever I want to get, I want to get out of my own being. I worship that very principle "I Am" and demand what I want out of that; because of that, all these things are coming.

His Majesty the Emperor has gone to sleep - it doesn't mean he is dead. You are not able to realize this knowledge because you hang on to the body. Only a Self-Realized Guru can direct you.

Without this body sense I am perfect, total, complete. You will not be able to comprehend my talk.

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