"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

Monday, March 28, 2016

Auspicious Moment

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
March 6, 1981

If you have any questions I will try to answer them. This moment now, of this particular situation, is a very peculiar one. You need not talk if you don't want to, you may merely sit. Merely sitting here, at this particular time, will be of great benefit. The moment .. the auspicious symptom, and it will give the most amazing results .. incredible .. this moment itself, this touch of I AMness is just a pinprick, just a touch.

If you apperceive what I have said, there is no reason to visit me again. What I have told you is not something to be wondered over or pondered over for a period of time - it is a matter to be apperceived immediately.

Have you had this way of expounding knowledge anywhere else, in quietude?

Q: At Ramanasramam. Everybody was silent there too.

M: How long were you with Ramana?

Q: Only a short while. How is it that I have been so fortunate as to find Maharaj soon?

M: Something good you have done in your past life. If you had not done your homework you would not have visited this place. The rare, lucky ones will visit this place and listen to the talks.

Q: I am having different experiences of warmth, seeing light, and I am afraid.

M: Don't worry about any experiences, try to abide in the experiencer. The experiences are good indications of your development, but don't stagnate at the level of experience.

Q: I usually feel that I am this or that, but I am losing this. I am feeling more detached, not interested in the world. During the experience of the shedding away of these concepts I feel a sense of death and fear.

M: Yes, it will go on like that. So long as you are, such things are bound to happen. You have to transcend the I AM. If you are alert, focusing your attention on the moment, the I AM is a continuous moment, you transcend the I AM.

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