Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
March 9, 1981
Q: If there is nothing to be achieved by an entity, then what is the purpose of this spiritual seeking?
M: What is to be understood is - all that is functioning is the consciousness - no entity is involved.
Q: Then what is the use of understanding?
M: There is no benefit for any supposed entity. There should be no sense of even a benefit out of this understanding. You are the understanding. Who is to get the benefit? That which apprehends this has no shape or form.
The forms are created from the five elements - at the end of their span of time they are destroyed. If you live for hundreds of years, nothing will be of any benefit to you.
I have obviously understood all of this and yet I have made sufficient provision for my new flat to be constructed. Understand what might appear as contradiction, but there is no contradiction so long as one sees all this as part of total functioning. Will this appear to any normal person as something reasonable?
Q: Can Maharaj tell us how the different traps can be separated and avoided?
M: You had better get some hefty people to cut up the five elements into little bits - then you will have this separation. It is just one. Consciousness itself is the trap.
Forget all your other questions, merely concentrate on the source of this consciousness because of which everything else is. How did this body arrive, and within it this consciousness which is latent? Find out the source of this.
Q: Maharaj has brought us back to the root.
M: I threw you at the root and buried you, and in that state in which I have buried you, there is nothing to be known, because in that state, consciousness is not. Once this is clearly apperceived, so long as the body is there life must go on, but life appears merely as a series of entertainments.
You should understand from what standpoint I am talking; if you understand you take it, otherwise you leave it. Nobody in the world will tell you so bluntly. When you really, intuitively, understand what I mean, then you will come to the end of spirituality.
M: What is to be understood is - all that is functioning is the consciousness - no entity is involved.
Q: Then what is the use of understanding?
M: There is no benefit for any supposed entity. There should be no sense of even a benefit out of this understanding. You are the understanding. Who is to get the benefit? That which apprehends this has no shape or form.
The forms are created from the five elements - at the end of their span of time they are destroyed. If you live for hundreds of years, nothing will be of any benefit to you.
I have obviously understood all of this and yet I have made sufficient provision for my new flat to be constructed. Understand what might appear as contradiction, but there is no contradiction so long as one sees all this as part of total functioning. Will this appear to any normal person as something reasonable?
Q: Can Maharaj tell us how the different traps can be separated and avoided?
M: You had better get some hefty people to cut up the five elements into little bits - then you will have this separation. It is just one. Consciousness itself is the trap.
Forget all your other questions, merely concentrate on the source of this consciousness because of which everything else is. How did this body arrive, and within it this consciousness which is latent? Find out the source of this.
Q: Maharaj has brought us back to the root.
M: I threw you at the root and buried you, and in that state in which I have buried you, there is nothing to be known, because in that state, consciousness is not. Once this is clearly apperceived, so long as the body is there life must go on, but life appears merely as a series of entertainments.
You should understand from what standpoint I am talking; if you understand you take it, otherwise you leave it. Nobody in the world will tell you so bluntly. When you really, intuitively, understand what I mean, then you will come to the end of spirituality.
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