"Hello, I Am"

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Oct 14, 1980.

Can swamiji suggest one thing so that we may enjoy eternal bliss?

I have a very simple remedy, and that is that I am not the body. Had the world been real, there could have been some treatment - but it is not real. Whatever you do is of no use. Everywhere you see all this chaos, in spite of all efforts. You cannot stop it - it is in continual state of flux and it is all unreal. After listening to my talks do you acquire and store knowledge, or is whatever knowledge you had being dissolved?

Becoming dissolved. Can I carry Maharaj to my home?

I am just like the city of Bombay; can you carry Bombay home with you? This experience of the world is happening to you spontaneously, not out of your efforts. Even your understanding of the Guru must come spontaneously. Nothing will stop - all the process is going on without your effort - so many bodies are being created and dying. All actions for the running of the world are already happening. The process of creation of millions of bodies is already going on in the space. Out of the weeds, the grains have come, in those grains the "I Amness" is latently present. That phone message, "Hello, I Am, Hello, I Am,"  is already there in that grain of food. If you create something out of your efforts, only then can you destroy it - but this creation is not your effort.
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I am reminded of the Gita teaching where the Lord imparts the same message to Arjuna - that the actions would go on even without Arjuna's involvement and his sense of doership is, therefore, a fallacy.

I am the mighty world-destroying Time, engaged here in annihilating all beings. Even without you, not one of all the warriors arrayed in these rival armies shall survive. - Gita 11.32
Therefore arise! Win renown! And destroying your enemies, enjoy the prosperous kingdom. For these warriors have already been slain by Me. Be you but an instrument thereof, O master-bowman, Arjuna. - Gita 11.33