Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
December 28, 1980
Can any of your concepts grasp the total, the Ultimate? Have you understood that knowledge itself is ignorance? If it were real it would have been there eternally - it would not have had a beginning and an end.
Now the experience I AM is felt, earlier that experience was not. When it was not, no proof was called for, but once it is, lots of proof is required.
How did you wake up in the morning? Why did you wake up at all? It is not the mind which knows - somebody knows because of the mind. Now my hand has lifted, who knows? The one who has lifted my hand knows it has lifted it. You are before the mind; because you are there the mind is working.
When will you wake up? Provided you are, you wake up. Through the concepts of others you have built up so many things around you that you are lost. "You" is decorated and embellished by the concepts of others. Prior to receiving any hearsays from outside, has anyone any information about himself?
The purpose of SatGuru is to tell you what you are like prior to the building up of all those concepts of others. Your present spiritual storehouse is filled up with the words of others - demolish those concepts. SatGuru means the eternal state which will never be changed: what you are. You are that immutable, eternal unchangeable Absolute. SatGuru tells you to get rid of all these walls built around you by the hearsays and concepts of others.
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