"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, July 29, 2014

Giving Up The Body - A Festival

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
December 28, 1980

You have no form, no design. The names and forms you see are your consciousness only - the Self is colorless but it is able to judge colors, etc. The one who is directed by a SatGuru has no more birth. Your sadhana is over, you have reached this place. To you who search for the Self, I explain this type of knowledge, I lead you to a state where there is no hunger, no desire. When you have knowledge you see the "I" as all-pervasive, as long as the consciousness is there, but the witness of the consciousness has no "I AM", that is your true eternal nature. Giving up the body is a great festival for me.

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