The Days Are Numbered

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

October 17, 1980

Just be as you, don't imagine or picturize. Your body and your image have changed continuously all during your life and none of these images has remained constant. 

After twenty-five years your body will give up this image and will have an old person's image; later on that image also will go. If these images had been real they would have remained; they are unreal. The "I Am" principle has no form, no color, no design. Through these designs we enjoy or suffer, but nothing is real; any experience you get is not real. Whether you are crying or laughing, this is the image for that moment only - the next moment it will be changing. Some people are very good at weeping, crying, lamentation, only for that moment. 

So long as the body is there this passing show will be there, continuously changing, and finally, that very consciousness through which you see the world will quit. The days are numbered of this body and consciousness.