Manifestation is Spontaneous

Sri Nisaragdatta Maharaj

Q: Is this state of "I AMness manifet" detachment?

M: What do you call that "I AMness"?

Q: Consciousness.

M: Do you know the consciousness? Do you witness the consciousness?

Q: I don't know.

M: To what principle do you give that name?

Q: Everything that I perceive or know. Everything.

M: Who knows consciousness?

Q: I don't know.

M: What you don't know, that is the prior-most.

Q: It seems, in consciousness the experiences constantly change, and, at the same time, something remains the same.

M: In ignorance you used to call it mind, but that is itself the knowledge of manifestation, that is the power of manifestation, this knowledge. It is the source of manifestation (mula-maya). It is Maheshwara, that is the highest Ishwara principle whose name is Atman.

Q: Whose name?

M: The feeling you have of "I AMness" - "I AM" without words - that is Atman. It is very dynamic and moving. The consciousness is the mind of the Absolute; the power of knowledge, the power of memort, the message of  "I AMness".

Q: The state of manifestation - is that a state of attachment?

M: Its happening or creating is spontaneous, without attachment, but once it appeared the attachment started. 

You are all keeping quiet and not daring to ask questions.

Q: Questions are prepared before, when you come here they fade away.

M: In the womb of ignorance the knowledge was there and that knowledge, in maturity, had become this manifestation, but prior to ignorance that great ancestor is there.

You have the knowledge of knowing only on the basis of no-knowing. First of all, you do not know; on that no-knowing platform this knowing sprouts, but the basis if ignorance only. Although ignorance, when it grows into maturity, becomes knowledge, and becomes profuse in its manifestation, still its ancestor is ignorance only. Prior to ignorance is that ancestral state of Absolute.