No Experience in the Highest State

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Visitor: Sitting in Maharaj's presence, I had a certain bodily experience. How should I understand this?

M: In trying to understand the experience, whatever significance your words and concepts give to it will be acceptable to you. But that is not the knowledge.

That is why I am not very keen to ask people to stay for any extended period of time, because if you do stay that long you will not be able to understand. In the course of your initial eight or ten days, whatever is somewhat understood will first have to be properly digested; until then any further talks will not be absorbed. Assuming that a person is knowledgeable, then what will happen is this: having left this place, he will not be able to remain alone for long. He craves company to whom he can deliver the goods of spirituality. He likes to seek out somebody with whom he can talk and discuss spirituality; otherwise, he feels unhappy. Will you feel happy and satisfied if you don't encounter other sadhakas?

The question was asked [by the translator] whether it is not necessary for a serious seeker to go through this stage where one likes to dole out whatever knowledge one has, to share it with others? My anser wasthat this is a part of the process, but that it also must come to an end, this desire to discuss and exchange views on spirituality.

That highest state is the unborn state, in which there is no experience. [According to the translator, Maharaj is not feeling well today; he is very weak, almost in a daze.]