Continue With Your Sadhana

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Visitor: No, I feel as if I am an observer to this whole thing; it is all a massive play, you know - you act.

M: If the one who observes that  is also dissolving into nothingness, then what?

V: But he can't, because the physical body is there.

M: The answer was a 100% correct. Therefore, I assume that that to which this answer has also been has also dissolved into nothingness, and that there is no individuality left. But from your subsequent treatment of this problem I conclude that this individuality still remains. Therefore, my final answer to you is that you continue to do your sadhana.

The jnani who has this experience of nothingness, his individuality does not remain. So whatever happens, he no longer has an instrument with which to undergo any experience. But in your case, you say that nothingness is there, and also your individuality - the two are incompatible. Therefore, continue to do your sadhana. If you are really at a stage where you find nothingness, what then is left to do anything in this world?

V: There is nothing left. But then what should I do, commit suicide?

M: You are not there even to die!

V: No, I appreciate that. That is not the answer either. Nothing is an answer to this. But where do I go from here?

M: The lady was explaining that there are all kinds of EST types of methods and systems which come with the promise of liberation in 10 or 12 days. As for myself, I no longer care about all this. I have come to this nothingness in which the search has ended because the seeker has also disappeared into that nothingness of which we are talking. I no longer take any interest in that research. First, I have seduced maya and once the maya surrendered to me, I had no other use for maya so I threw her out.

Thousands of organizations have come and gone, thousands are yet to come. All of them are based on a  certain concept. For example, one had the concept of untouchability; now to a certain extent that concept of untouchability has gone. But have the people because of that concept been able to realize their true nature? Therefore, none of these organizations have any use; the ultimate thing is to fin out about one's true nature. In this, organizations can do nothing, because they are all based on a certain concept.

V: But this organization put me in touch with my beingness and that is the whole point.

M: In that very nothingness which we have been discussing, the individuality should have been dissolved so that there is no longer anyone who is satisfied or dissatisfied. How could he be satisfied, because there is no longer anything to be satisfied in, in that nothingness? So what you have got is not the real thing, although your answer was a 100% correct. Only that individual who has lost his individuality has merged with the parabrahman. So the individuality must go. The entire world moves on the basis of one concept, and that is I AM - the fundamental concept of one's individuality.