Everything Just Happens

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Q: I am lost.

M: Who is talking? To whom?

Q: To myself.

M: If you (the knowledge I AM) are really lost, how will you know about the sense of being lost? You are carried away by concepts. The infinitesimal seed contains the universe. You miss the point, you do not understand me properly. This principle I AM I am telling you about again and again.

Find out your identity. Whatever appears is going to disappear. What can Roosevelt or Gandhi do now? In the very places which they were commanding changes have taken place. Why don't they talk? When the prana leaves the body even great Sages cannot speak.

Q: In the Gita, Sri Krishna says that wherever there is calamity and there is no dharma, he will come and rescue.

M: This is like the seasons, the cycle is there. In this cycle the deeper meaning of the Self is to be understood. All questions will be over once you solve the riddle of I AM.

Q: Sometimes I feel good and sometimes bad, sometimes blissful, sometimes depressed. I know this is the mind; the Vedas say that mind is born out of the moon and hence it changes.

M: Oblige me, after coming here, by leaving your mind aside. Good and bad are in the realm of the mind only. Disown whatever you get from the mind.

Q: Who tells me to come here and be at your feet?

M: It cannot be said in words; you can call it anything you like. Moon means mind, mind is like a liquid stuff as it flows continuously. Just innocently, dispassionately, observe the mind flow; do not own the mind flow. Be in the I AM-ness state without words. You give meaning to words and in the end words go; finally the perceptible and the observables go into the non-perceptible and non-observable state. Find that out. You will understand this slowly and get peace and rest. You do not do anything. It happens. You talk about knowledge, that knowledge is what you have read and heard from others. Unless you have confidence in your own Self you have to draw upon the authority of others, but I tell you from my real state; as I experience it, as I see it, I speak, without citing the authority of the Gita or Mahabharata. When you talk about the Gita you must know that it relates to you, every word of it relates to your own Self.