Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Q. When somebody dies what exactly happens?
Nothing happens. Something becomes nothing. Nothing was, nothing remains.
Q. Surely there is a difference between the living and the dead. You speak of the living as dead and of the dead as living.
Why do you fret at one man dying and care little for the millions dying every day? Entire universes are imploding and exploding every moment - am I to cry over them? One thing is quite clear to me: all that is, lives and moves and has its being in consciousness and I am in and beyond that consciousness. I am in it as the witness. I am beyond it as Being.
Q. Surely, you care when your child is ill, don't you?
I don't get flustered. I just do the needful. I do not worry about the future. A right response to every situation is in my nature. I do not stop to think what to do. I act and move on. Results do not affect me. I do not even care, whether they are good or bad. Whatever they are, they are - if they come back to me, I deal with them afresh. Or, rather, I happen to deal with them afresh. There is no sense of purpose in my doing anything. Things happen as they happen - not because I make them happen, but it is because I am, that they happen. In reality nothing ever happens. When the mind is restless, it makes Shiva dance, like the restless waters of the lake make the moon dance. It is all appearance, due to wrong ideas.
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