"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

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

True Knowledge: Within

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
November 7, 1980.

Q. Does this dis-identification take place suddenly or gradually?

It depends on how you look at it. If you are waiting for it, it will be gradual; when the last step is taken it is sudden. When it does happen you will realize the identity of the non-manifest and the manifest; they are one, there is no difference.

The true knowledge can only come when all possible concepts have been given up, and can only come from within.

Parabrahman has no beginning and no end. It is eternal, whereas this consciousness is time-bound - it has a beginning and an end. 

Just as you wake up in the morning and come to know that you are, similarly this has happened. Because I am, I woke up, if I was not, how could I have woken up?

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