"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, January 22, 2018

Stay in Peace

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
June 26, 1981

For those who are sitting here the benefit you get will not be different from the benefit you get from sitting under the shade of several thickly leaved trees.  Sitting under the trees there is a certain amount of peace and the feelings of well-being. Stay in peace.

My teachings are emanating out of this consciousness. It is like a big shady tree for relaxation; you come here and sit and feel the relaxation, but you are not able to say what it is like. In that state you are not able to explain by words. You are in a relaxed state but the deeper meaning is reveling in the Self, abiding and subsiding in the Self - that is why you feel relaxed and happy.

Whatever sentences you hear in this state will not be forgotten.

Swartha - swa means Self and artha - meaning. Swartha has great meaning. Swartha means selfishness and swa means the meaning of the Self. Words have meaning in the practical world which will make you selfish, but the worlds which emanate here will give you the meaning of your own Self.

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