Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Q. All desires are painful, the holy as well as the unholy.
They are not the same and pain is not the same. Passion is painful, compassion - never. The entire universe strives to fulfill a desire born of compassion.
Q. Does the Supreme know itself? Is the Impersonal conscious?
The source of all has all. Whatever flows from it must be there already in seed form. And as a seed is the last of innumerable seeds, and contains the experience and the promise of numberless forests, so does the Unknown contain all that was, or could have been and all that shall or would be. The entire field of becoming is open and accessible; past and future co-exist in the eternal now.
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Q. Who knows the silence?
Silence knows itself. It is the silence of the silent mind, when passions and desires are silenced.
Q. Do you experience desires occasionally?
Desires are just waves in the mind. You know a wave when you see one. A desire is just a thing among many. I feel no urge to satisfy it, no action needs be taken on it. Freedom from desire means this: the compulsion to satisfy is absent.
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