You Are Everything

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

March 25, 1981

Q: Would Maharaj tell us more about that moment of death?

M: Nothing more can be said about it. It is the culmination or termination of the Self-experience, I AM. After the termination of I AMness there is no experience of knowingness or not knowingness; the knowingness is the quality of the material stuff. What did you know prior to your birth? Similarly, after death this instrument is missing; without the body there is no experience. Eternity has no birth and no death, but a temporary state has a beginning and an end. Even when the consciousness goes, you prevail - you always are - as the Absolute. As the consciousness you are everything; whatever is, is you. All this knowledge has dawned on me, I am not that knowledge. The knowledge I AM and all its manifestations, are understood. In understanding, I am not That.