Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Q: When an ordinary man dies, what happens to him?
M: According to his belief it happens. As life before death is imagination, so is life after. The dream continues.
Q: And what about the jnani?
M: The jnani does not die because he was never born.
Q: He appears so to others.
M: But not to himself. In himself he is free of things - physical and mental.
Q: Still you must know the state of the man who died. At least from your own past lives.
M: Until I met my Guru I knew so many things. Now I know nothing, for all knowledge is in dream only and not valid. I know myself and I find no life nor death in me, only pure being - not being this or that, but just being. But the moment the mind, drawing on its stock of memories, begins to imagine, it fills the space with objects and time with events. As I do not know even this birth, how can I know past births? It is the mind that, itself in movement, sees everything moving, and having created time, worries about the past and future. All the universe is cradled in consciousness (mahatattva), which arises where there is perfect order and harmony (maha sattva). As all waves are in the ocean, so are all things - physical and mental - in awareness. Hence awareness itself is all important, not the content of it. Deepen and broaden your awareness of yourself and all the blessings will flow. You need not seek anything, all will come to you most naturally and effortlessly. The five senses and the four functions of the mind - memory, thought, understanding and selfhood, the five elements - earth, water, fire, air and ether; the two aspects of creation - matter and spirit, all are contained in awareness.
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