THE ‘NOT-KNOWING’ … THAT ‘YOU ARE’

Nisargadatta Maharaj:
“Is there anything further you are seeking?”

Visitor:
Just to have all the false attachments, and false identification fall off.

Nisargadatta Maharaj:
That is the whole trouble, one thinks that certain misconceptions have come to him.

All those concepts are ‘Movements In Consciousness’; and once the Consciousness itself disappears – the movements that have come with it, also disappear.

You are already in That State!
… There is nothing to acquire.

Now you know this, and – for you, all this is useless.

Visitor: Right!
I would like Maharaj to explain about ‘The Brahma-Randhra’. I am familiar with the Yoga teaching on it, but Maharaj’s is slightly different.

Nisargadatta Maharaj:
There are two things: the world, and one’s Presence; the feeling of Presence – that is, ‘The Consciousness’, ‘The Beingness’. That is ‘Brahma’ – ‘I Am Present’; ‘Randhra’ means ‘the tiniest of apertures’, and in that aperture is ‘The Silent, Primordial Sound’, which gives you the impression that you ARE – but you really, ARE NOT. This sound – in that aperture gives you the feeling that ‘You ARE’, but be sure that You ARE NOT.”

Visitor: Very good!

Nisargadatta Maharaj:
I take my stand in ‘The Original State’, where I was ‘Not Aware that I AM’. This body and The Beingness have come, but knowing ITs Nature, I do not expect anything from IT. When a Yogi is totally absorbed in his meditation – or Yoga, ‘This Soundless Sound’ – so fills him, that he becomes drunk with IT for a while, and then IT subsides. When the body dies, this Individual Consciousness will merge with ‘The Total Consciousness’ – but even so, that ‘Total Consciousness’ knows that ‘IT IS’, and so long as one knows that ‘IT IS’, IT is in ‘a state of duality’.”