Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Jan 27, 1981
Q: Does the sense of presence continue after the body and mind go?
M: When the body goes that sense of presence will go and consciousness will no longer be conscious of itself.
Q: When the body goes, everything goes?
M: Correct. There is no experience of either happiness or unhappiness, there is no need of experience either.
Q: Is there nothing that continues - nothing?
M: You are thinking at a conceptual level. At that level, who is there who wants to know? Forget about That state.
Q: I would like to understand That.
M: Whatever can be understood or perceived can never be the eternal Truth. The Unknown is the Truth. I have no need of any experience, therefore I have no need to quarrel with anybody. The body and mind will go on doing whatever they like during their natural course of duration.
Q: Is it better to do one thing than another? For instance, with this mind and body I could just sit and do nothing, or I could go around helping people, doing food things. Which would be better to do?
M: The body and mind will do whatever is natural for that combination.
Q: You can control things - for example, you can eat too much or drink too much, things like that - or else you can do good things, helping people etc.
M: These are the do's and don'ts regarding the body-mind, which you are not; that is the premise from where you have started. Understand that when there is no body, consciousness is not conscious of itself. So long as the body is there, the body must do its natural functioning.
Q: Then I just let it do what's natural?
M: There is no question of your allowing it to happen, it will happen, you have no control over it.
(To Be Continued)
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"Everything emanates from Paramatman, so whatever is happening, and is going to happen in the future, is definitely going to take place. There is nothing to do, or to hold onto. When the thing to happen is thus naturally powerfully effective, there is no question of deciding or not deciding to do anything." - Sadguru Sri Siddharameshwar Maharaj, Nisargadatta's Guru
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"Everything emanates from Paramatman, so whatever is happening, and is going to happen in the future, is definitely going to take place. There is nothing to do, or to hold onto. When the thing to happen is thus naturally powerfully effective, there is no question of deciding or not deciding to do anything." - Sadguru Sri Siddharameshwar Maharaj, Nisargadatta's Guru
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