"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, September 26, 2012

Be Devoted to your Being

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
November 10, 1980

Q. How does the dream state happen?
In deep sleep there is an apparent waking state in which that "I Amness" feels itself waking up and creates a dream world. You know very well how you proceeded into this mess. You inquire into this and keep quiet.

After listening to my wildly virulent talks you may not come tomorrow, it doesn't matter. I tell you again and gain, you might run around and around the world, but nobody is going to give you the knowledge. Recede into your own Self. Surrender to your own beingness and that alone will give you all the knowledge necessary for you - no one else will. You don't inquire into this, you blindly follow the rituals of spirituality.

You may be anywhere, but be honest, be devoted only to your being.

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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