Go Beyond and Leave All Behind -NM

N.MAHARAJ: Visitor: What is the exact difference between the Jiva, Brahma, and the Absolute?
Maharaj:” You remove all the names and understand. These are all concepts, a chaotic confusion of words, nothing else. Whatever I tell you, this knowledge is never-ending, it has no beginning and no end. All this is the product of the five elements, and the elements, including space, are substances. Space is like darkness, nothingness, like night. Out of it, vital breath arose as a vibration.
This body has appeared on me automatically, without my willing it, and therefore I became puzzled. What I have experienced is- I am not the matter. That quality of Beingness, knowingness, which is a product of matter, gets extinguished and again goes into the atmosphere with increasing progression and the cycle continues. That Beingness has gone into that state of matter, but it will not stay in that matter, it will take care that it goes back to its state of Absolute subtlety.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

We’re all walking each other home – Ram Dass

If you abide in consciousness,
everything will be happening
spontaneously. If you are
still at body-mind level, you
will think that you are doing
something. Consciousness
can never remain inactive,
it will always be busy –
that is its nature.

My Guru told me that
consciousness alone
is the Guru, all other
developments sprouted
within me. The fruit should
grow on your own plant.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Just as the dream is not apart from the dreamer,
so is knowing not apart from being.
…………………………..

You cannot know the knower, for you are the knower.
The fact of knowing proves the knower. You need no other proof.

The knower of the known is not knowable. The knower is known in Knowledge.

~ Guru Nisargadatta Maharaj

In this body is the subtle principle “I Am”; that principle witnesses all this. You are not the words. Words are the expression of space, they are not yours. Still further, you are not that “I Am”.

~Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Q: On my old business of making myself safe and happy. I confess I have not been too successful. I am neither safe nor
happy. Therefore, you find me here. This place is new to me, but my reason for coming here is old: the search for safe happiness, happy safety. So far I did not find it. Can you help me?

M: What was never lost can never be found. Your very search for safety and joy keeps you away from them.
Stop searching, cease losing.
The disease is simple and the remedy equally simple. It is your mind only that makes you insecure and unhappy. Anticipation makes you insecure, memory — unhappy.
Stop misusing your mind and all will be well with you. You need not set it right — it will set itself right, as soon as you give up all concern with the past and the future and live entirely in the now.

Q: But the now has no dimension. I shall become a nobody, a nothing!

M: Exactly. As nothing and nobody you are safe and happy.
You can have the experience for the asking. Just try.
But let us go back to what is accidental and what is spontaneous, or natural. You said nature is orderly while accident is a sign of chaos. I denied the difference and said that we call an event accidental when its causes are untraceable. There is no place for chaos in nature. Only in the mind of man there is chaos. The mind does not grasp the whole — its focus is very narrow. It sees fragments only and fails to perceive the picture.

Just as a man who hears sounds, but does not understand the language, may accuse the speaker of meaningless jabbering,
and be altogether wrong.
What to one is a chaotic stream of sounds is a beautiful poem to another.

King Janaka once dreamt that he was a beggar. On waking up he asked his Guru — Vasishta: Am I a king dreaming of being a beggar, or a beggar dreaming of being a king? The Guru answered: You are neither, you are both. You are, and yet you are not what you think yourself to be. You are because you behave accordingly; you are not because it does not last. Can you be a king or a beggar for ever? All must change. You are what does not change. What are you?
Janaka said: Yes, I am neither king nor beggar, I am the dispassionate witness. The Guru said.
This is your last illusion that you are a gnani, that you are different from, and superior to, the common man. Again you identify yourself with your mind, in this case a well-behaved and in every way an exemplary mind. As long as you see the least difference, you are a stranger to reality. You are on the level of the mind.

When the ‘I am myself’ goes, the ‘I am all’ comes.
When the ‘I am all’ goes, ‘I am’ comes. When even ‘I am’ goes, reality alone is and in it every ‘I am’ is preserved and glorified.

Diversity without separateness is the Ultimate that the mind can touch. Beyond that all activity ceases, because in it all goals are reached and all purposes fulfilled.

Q: Once the Supreme State is reached, can it be shared with others?

M: The Supreme State is universal, here and now; everybody already shares in it. It is the state of being — knowing and liking.
Who does not like to be, or does not know his own existence?
But we take no advantage of this joy of being conscious, we do not go into it and purify it of all that is foreign to it. This work of mental self-purification, the cleansing of the psyche, is essential.

Just as a speck in the eye, by causing inflammation, may wipe out the world, so the mistaken idea: ‘I am the body-mind’
causes the self-concern, which obscures the universe. It is useless to fight the sense of being a limited and separate person unless the roots of it are laid bare.

Selfishness is rooted in the mistaken ideas of oneself. Clarification of the mind is Yoga.

~ Guru Nisargadatta Maharaj
✅ I AM THAT
Chapter: MIND CAUSES INSECURITY

Nirupana 16
Sunday, March 19, 1978

‘I am not the body, I am the Self ‘. If you meditate like this, you will become God. This great mantra is the same as pure consciousness. Do not worship it by giving it a form. The idea that you are the body must go. Then the rest will be fine.

You say, ‘I forgot to meditate’, but the one who says it has not forgotten it.
Just as gold is the source of ornaments, similarly, the sense ‘I am’ is the source of all words. When consciousness realizes itself, it is called the grace of the Guru.

One must be the proof of the Guru’s words.
The initiation with mantra establishes a special relationship with the Guru. Hence, you must have faith in the Guru. One could die anytime. Then how can he neglect the Guru’s words?

Real devotees are illumined by Self-knowledge. Their existence is like that of space. When the stage of the seeker evolves, his behavior also changes. Some behave in a peculiar fashion. Some go about naked, some keep silent, and some become very abusive. As they are Self-realized they do not behave consciously.
A Self-realized person has no concern with how the body behaves. His conduct is not governed by any rule of law.

The flavor of your beingness is the holy presence of God. The concern about the individual self can be compared to a snakebite. Sages do not consider themselves as the body, so they are not bitten. The Self is beyond light and darkness. Only the body or the mind gets stained.

Bhagavan means light. The light of Bhagavan is a big void of light. Is there a difference between that light and your own light? When you know your consciousness and become a witness, you will understand that the sky is your light. There is nothing beyond the light of God. The natural quality of God is your own consciousness.

As soon as consciousness arises, the five elements are created along with the world. Your sight has the same color as that of space. All the names are of the incarnations of God. Were there any names prior to that? Bhagavan means the manifested consciousness. That by which you know ‘you are’ is the same as His nature. Embrace it tightly.

In everything all around, there is God and only God. Does this light see any difference between a man and a woman? All this, one and all, in its totality is consciousness. That taste or knowledge of self-existence is
Bhagavan. To understand this means to see God in every living being.

Forget that you are a human being. Your light is the light of Bhagavan. In all that appears, what is the underlying luminous Source? It is this light alone. It is present even in a stone but it is prominently
expressed in you.

In all things there is only one true quality. It is consciousness. It demonstrates existence. All other knowledge comes about because of knowingness. Paramatman means ‘I, myself, am Atman’. He is not a
deity. Deities worship Him. It is my own Self. It is the direct, correct knowledge. It is there before a single word is uttered.

The one that rises and the one that sets finds his rest in Paramatman. People are awed by the knowledge of Paramatman. How can it even be felt when one has no body? The enlightened devotee says, ‘I
am not the body’. Then who is it that became enlightened? (When a person becomes realized, he no longer considers himself a body. Then who says, ‘I have become realized’? In other words, there is no one who has become enlightened. There is neither knower, nor known. No one is born, no one dies, nothing has happened.)
The experience can be described in many ways but the experiencer cannot be described. When words are silent, there is no sense in enumerating the divine names.

🕉 MEDITATIONS WITH
SRI NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ

N.MAHARAJ:” Consciousness is everywhere, latent or otherwise. First, there is Consciousness, then came everything, the sky, the earth, and all. “
Visitor: This Consciousness, it is not the same as the ‘ I Am’, the Self Consciousness, is it?
M:” Whenever we think of Consciousness we think of the body, but that is an error. The original state was there before the waking and sleep states.”
V: The ‘ I Am’ dissolves after death, so it is not the same.
M:” Are you speaking now of the individual personality or the Universal Consciousness?”
V: The Universal Self.
M:” The Consciousness that prevails is the Universal Consciousness. The world is born out of that, and not from the point of view of the individual personality”
V: What is the relationship between Universal Consciousness and the ‘I Amness’?
M:” The spark of the incense stick and the whole of it- that is the relationship. That Consciousness which prevails before you are aware of the two states is the Universal Consciousness. You will not learn this through your thoughts, but when you meditate, that Consciousness of Being will merge into Universal Consciousness, and only in that way will you understand it. The Universal Consciousness has always been, its power is always present. Its power of creation has given rise to this world, it has produced this Prakriti and Purusa, and its soul is the Universal Consciousness.
It is spontaneous, manifest, dynamic Spirit. It has no aspect. It is all-pervading. I am talking about the Vedic Principle, Vedic raw material, out of which this flow has started. That Universal life force pervades everything, but it has no personality or individuality.”

“He who knows himself has no doubts about it. Nor does he care whether others recognise his state or not. Rare is the realised man who discloses his realisation.”

~ Nisargadatta (20th century Indian Advaita mystic)

Unless we revolt against
this craving for experience
and let go the manifested
altogether, there can be
no relief. We shall
remain trapped.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Even to talk of re-uniting the
person with the self is not right,
because there is no person, only
a mental picture given a false
reality by conviction. Nothing
was divided and there is
nothing to unite.

Nisargadatta Maharaj