"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

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

No Consciousness, No World

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Q. Surely, you are aware of many things and behave according to their nature. You treat a child as a child and an adult as an adult.
M. Just as the taste of salt pervades the great ocean and every single drop of sea water carries the same flavor, so every experience gives me the touch of reality, the ever fresh realization of my own being.

Q. Do I exist in your world, as you exist in mine?
M. Of course, you are and I am. But only as points in consciousness; we are nothing apart from consciousness. This must be well grasped: the world hangs on the thread of consciousness; no consciousness, no world.

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