Can you help me?

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Q. Isn't God a person?

M. As long as you think yourself to be a person, HE too is a person. When you are all, you see Him as all.

Can I change facts by changing attitude?

The attitude is the fact. Take anger. I may be furious, pacing the room up and down; at the same time I know what I am, a centre of wisdom and love, an atom of pure existence. All subsides and the mind merges into silence.

Still you are angry sometimes.

With whom am I to be angry and for what? Anger came and dissolved on my remembering myself. It is all a play of gunAs (qualities of cosmic matter). When I identify myself with them, I am their slave. When I stand apart, I am their master.

Can you influence the world by your attitude? By separating yourself from the world you lose all hope of helping it.

How can it be? All is myself - can't I help myself? I do not identify myself with anybody in particular for I am all - both the particular and the universal.

Can you then help me, the particular person?

But I do help you always - from within. Myself and yourself are one. I know it, but you don't. That's all the difference - and it cannot last.