Develop "I am not the body" Attitude

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

V: Most of us are not satisfied, we are fed up with life; there is some urge, but it is not sufficiently strong, to withdraw from this daily grind.

M: How can you dispose of this problem? You resent that you are the body, that you are mind, you are this sattva-guna. I am not the body, that standpoint you must have.

It is very simple. The body and in the body .. it is like a coin. On one side, you have the vital breath for making possible all activity; and on the other side is the knowledge I AM. Only when the vital breath is there, the knowledge I AM is present. When the vital breath leaves the body, the knowledge  IAM also disappears. And both of these are the product of the food essence body. I am not that; this entire composite I am not. This you have to realize.

Who are your ancestors? They are the food particles - that food essence. Those food essences are your real ancestors. On the earth there is vegetative growth. I call it vanaspati. The quintessence of that vanaspati is the food essence; out of that grows vachaspati. The latter means: insects, worms, bees, mammals, etc. - all types of creatures. They survive on this essence of vanaspati. Now in that vanaspati juice that quintessential vegetation juice, there is also a particle, a granule, which contains the sattva-guna, the rajas-guna and tamas-guna. The particle quintessence contains all three qualities. The sattva-guna is mere witness, beingness, a touch of I AM-ness. Rajas-guna is activity; this guna leads you to activity. And tamas-guna represents the claiming of authorship, taking te credit, for the activities.

Unlike what one can read in the scriptures, your ancestors are in these grains of wheat and rice; in the essence of those are our ancestors. Therein the real essence of our creation is contained.