"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

Thursday, August 2, 2012

The Root Cause: I am

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Q. How is the Supreme affected?
What can affect it and how? The source is not affected by the vagaries of the river nor is the metal by the shape of the jewellery. Is the light affected by the picture on the screen? The Supreme makes everything possible, that is all.

Q. How is it that some things happen and some don't?
Seeking out causes is a pastime of the mind. There is no duality of cause and effect. Everything is its own cause.

Q. No purposeful action is then possible?
All I say is that consciousness contains all. In consciousness all is possible. You can have causes if you want them, in your world. Another may be content with a single cause -- God's will. The root cause is one: the sense 'I am'. 

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That in whom reside all beings and who resides in all beings,
who is the giver of grace to all, the Supreme Soul of the universe, the limitless being:
I AM THAT. -- Amritabindu Upanishad