Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
June 11, 1981 Morning
Q: This is a very high kind of knowledge, at a very high level; until it is absorbed what should an ordinary man do?
M: So long as there is receptivity, a deep desire to understand it, there is nothing to be done. The knowledge itself will result in whatever is to result. It is not mental or intellectual caliber that is required, but an intuitive sense of discrimination. So, now you are not the body, having accepted it, can you continue to identify with the body?
Q: Do body and mind have an importance?
M: Everything has its importance.
Q: Must we not take care of the body?
M: One takes care of something with which one identifies, but you have nothing to do with body-mind anymore, so why are you concerned in taking care of them?
When you are the space you are no more the body, but whatever is contained in the space, and the space, you are. You are now manifest - whatever is known - the space. This space is known by chidakash. When you are the chidakash, you are subtler than the physical space, expansiveness is more. A jnani transcends in various stages these subtleties, skies, spaces. In chidakash he is still confined, still conditioned by thinking I AM, therefore the next is Paramakash. Paramakash is the highest, in which there are other akashes - seven. In chidakash this knowingness is I AM. In Paramakash there is no is or is not, It transcends everything.
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