Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
All this talk is merely verbal acrobatics. I want to know: What is this "you are" medicine? Why are you? What are you? Due to what are you? In the absence of that medicine "you are", what are you? Before understanding this "you are" medicine and dismissing it, you are talking about a state without "you are" medicine. Understand what it is!
My state is: I am, without parents. I am the Unborn. Similarly, I understand you are as such only. You are also the Unborn, without parents. I have been telling you again and again: that you exist is due to that "you are" medicine. It has a certain period of time. Again and again I have been telling you that, and still you are putting the same basic question.
Someone asked me a queer question: I am responsible for the birth of fifty children. Due to what are they born? That was his question. Suppose your father asked such a silly question of somebody else?
All this talking about the manifest and unmanifest is mere talk for the sake of entertainment. First find out: What is this medicine "you are"? Due to what? When you recognize and transcend that, you are a Mahatma, and people will come and talk to you. Have you understood this principle "I am"?
When spiritually experienced people come here, they enter into a dialogue just for entertainment. In the true state nothing is. All this spiritual talk is spiritual jargon. You can talk in the world to the ignorant masses: you can convey any number of concepts to them. Let me give you an example: In certain parts of our country, when a person is dead, his ornaments are given to a barber, because from the barber they will go to the dead person. That is the concept. And such concepts are all for ignorant people. But you can't very well tell such stories here, when discussing profound spiritual matters. Ultimately, what are these spiritual talks? They are meant for so long as ignorance prevails. To remove the ignorance, so-called knowledge is necessary. The knowledge removes the ignorance and then itself also goes; both knowledge and ignorance are thrown overboard. What remains is the Absolute.
All this talk is merely verbal acrobatics. I want to know: What is this "you are" medicine? Why are you? What are you? Due to what are you? In the absence of that medicine "you are", what are you? Before understanding this "you are" medicine and dismissing it, you are talking about a state without "you are" medicine. Understand what it is!
My state is: I am, without parents. I am the Unborn. Similarly, I understand you are as such only. You are also the Unborn, without parents. I have been telling you again and again: that you exist is due to that "you are" medicine. It has a certain period of time. Again and again I have been telling you that, and still you are putting the same basic question.
Someone asked me a queer question: I am responsible for the birth of fifty children. Due to what are they born? That was his question. Suppose your father asked such a silly question of somebody else?
All this talking about the manifest and unmanifest is mere talk for the sake of entertainment. First find out: What is this medicine "you are"? Due to what? When you recognize and transcend that, you are a Mahatma, and people will come and talk to you. Have you understood this principle "I am"?
When spiritually experienced people come here, they enter into a dialogue just for entertainment. In the true state nothing is. All this spiritual talk is spiritual jargon. You can talk in the world to the ignorant masses: you can convey any number of concepts to them. Let me give you an example: In certain parts of our country, when a person is dead, his ornaments are given to a barber, because from the barber they will go to the dead person. That is the concept. And such concepts are all for ignorant people. But you can't very well tell such stories here, when discussing profound spiritual matters. Ultimately, what are these spiritual talks? They are meant for so long as ignorance prevails. To remove the ignorance, so-called knowledge is necessary. The knowledge removes the ignorance and then itself also goes; both knowledge and ignorance are thrown overboard. What remains is the Absolute.
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