Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Q: I am feeling the burden of I AMness. How to get rid of it?
M: Where is the question of getting rid it when you have not planted it?
Q: I know but my mind feels that I should get rid of it.
M: Can the mind recognize the highest principle? Do not follow the mind; mind is following its own natural course. You get identified with the mind and speak for it. With what insistence can the mind make changes in the sky or space?
The space is the eyeglass of the I AM through which it observes the world. The five senses cannot know you, you know the five senses.
Q: By 'you' what do you mean? Which 'you'?
M: Since you feel the duality, I mean the listener in you.
Q: I am not outside consciousness.
M: Actually you are out of it, and recognize it. If you say that you are consciousness, then you are the entire world. You are separate from I AM. I AM is itself an illusion. The knowledge I AM and the world are tricks of Maya. There is no substance to them. There are no words actually, you speak words for your satisfaction.
You know that there are hunger, thirst, waking and sleep states. Without these, what are you? You think that these are your eternal needs; this is the trick of Mula Maya (primary illusion). I AMness has a certain span of time. How long will you be associated with these?
Q: Memory makes the world seem real. Unless memory registers the color green, there is no color green.
M: Memory is inside I AM. Relative repetition is the play of Maya. If you are not able to sleep for eight days will you survive?
Q: No
M: That is, you will be beyond the waking and sleep states; in short, the illusion will vanish.
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