Be A Witness

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

M: Are you satisfied?

Q: Sometimes there is satisfaction, sometimes not.

M: Who says this? Who tells you this?

Q: I see satisfaction, a feeling in consciousness. I am indifferent. Whatever is happening, whatever appears in my consciousness, I am not concerned. I'm not interested. I have nothing to do with it.

M: It is not called indifference, it is detachment. There is no such thing as unhappiness. You don't worry about anything; that is the state, the real state. You feel no attraction toward anything in this world?

Q: Whatever is happening, there is no gaining, no losing.

M: How did this happen?

Q: I don't know.

M: Don't behave as others do, just because they say so. After hearing those teaching you should behave like a king or a lord. That should be your behavior, inwardly and outwardly. Aham Brahmasmi, I am the Lord. Have you understood or not?

Q: I don't know.

M: Do you want to ask anything more?

Q: There is great pressure in this feeling of being aware of myself. It is always accompanied by a great pressure in the head.

M: You should be a witness of that. You are aware of the consciousness, so you are beyond that. You are a witness of that.

Q: That feeling is there all the time.

M: Your consciousness is not in the body. There is attraction to that body yet, so that feeling has not gone completely. Your consciousness has some attraction, some love for your body; therefore that pressure is there. 

You know your consciousness, you witness your consciousness now. Formerly that was not true because you were considering yourself as a body. Now you know that you are not the body. You know also that you are not the consciousness.

Formerly, before you heard this, before you came to India, your name for consciousness was the mind. Now the word for consciousness is Jnana (Knowledge).