Real Is Objective

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The mind that projects the world, colors it its own way. When you meet a man, he is a stranger. When you marry him, he becomes your own self. When you quarrel, he becomes your enemy. It is your mind's attitude that determines what he is to you.

I can see that my world is subjective. Does it make it also illusory?

It is illusory as long as it is subjective and to that extent only. Reality lies in objectivity.

What does objectivity mean? You said the world is subjective and now you talk of objectivity. Is not everything subjective?

Everything is subjective, but the real is objective. It does not depend on memories and expectations, desires and fears, likes and dislikes. All is seen as it is.

Is it what you call the fourth state (turiya)?

Call it as you like. It is solid, steady, changeless, beginningless and endless, ever new, ever fresh.

How is it reached?

Desirelessness and fearlessness will take you there.