What Are You After?

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Jan 19, 1981

This sense of presence, is it not the most acceptable thing, as far as you are concerned - do you not love it the most? Why are you sitting here? You are sitting here for yourself, because you want something for yourself. What is it that you are? Go into that. You have no doubt that you are present, so what is it that makes you want to continue all the time?

Aeons of time have come and gone. During this time millions of forms have been created and destroyed. Do they have a sense of being present? Are they worried about themselves? There is nothing you can do without this sense of presence and there is nothing you can do to continue it.

Q: Why does it love to continue?

That is its nature. Consciousness and love are the same thing. Ask yourself, what is it that you want, what are you after? You consider yourself an entity and want something. If consciousness were not there would you need anything? 

What you hear is totally different from what you expected to hear.