Visitor: To meditate on that which comes after the Beingness.
The only way I see it; is to watch what remains, when everything is gone. When time, space, and everything disappears, what remains?
Nisargadatta Maharaj: When the manifest world of the three gunas is gone, whatever remains indicates what you were a hundred years ago, and prior to your birth.
In that state, ‘You’ were bereft of the three states of; waking, deep sleep, and Knowingness.
You should abide in that state during meditation.”
V: How does one avoid going into Samadhi, in this meditation?
N.M: Going into Samadhi or coming out of Samadhi are not your qualities. You are beyond qualities.”
V:My question is how to avoid it.
N.M: Going into, and coming out of, Samadhi, are qualities like all other qualities of the three gunas, and do not try to avoid Samadhi.
It is the natural play of the three gunas. Samadhi will be there, but ‘You’ – The Absolute, are not in the Samadhi.”
I do not (cannot) suffer any experience,
pleasant or unpleasant; it is only a ‘you’ or
a ‘me’ who suffers an experience. This is a
very important pronouncement and you
should ponder over it deeply.
There is nothing we can do, we can only let things happen according to their nature. Clarity and charity is action. Love is not lazy and clarity directs. You need not worry about action, look after your mind and heart. Stupidity and selfishness are the only evil. (496)
In reality things are done to you, not by you. Your desire just happens to you along with its fulfilment or non-fulfilment. You can change neither. You may believe that you exert yourself, strive and struggle. Again, it all merely happens, including the fruits of the work. Neither is by you and for you. All is in the picture exposed on the cinema screen, nothing in the light, including what you take yourself to be, the person. You are the light only. (481)
Life itself is desireless. But the false self wants to continue – pleasantly. Therefore, it is always engaged in ensuring one’s continuity. Life is unafraid and free. As long as you have the idea of influencing events, liberation is not for you: the very notion of doership, of being a cause, is bondage. (298)
Everybody wants to be active, but where do his actions originate? There is no central point: each action begets another, meaninglessly and painfully, in endless succession. The alternation of work and pause is not there. First find the immutable centre where all movement takes birth. Just like a wheel turns round an axle, so must you be always in the centre and not whirling at the periphery. (349)
The witness is that which says “I know”. The person says “I do”. Now, to say “I know” is not untrue, it is merely limited. But to say “I do” is altogether false, because there is nobody who does; all happens by itself, including the idea of being a doer. The universe is full of action, but there is no actor. There are numberless persons small and big and very big, who, through identification, imagine themselves as acting, but it does not change the fact that the world of action (mahadakash) is one single whole in which all depends on, and affects all. The stars affect us deeply and we affect the stars. Step back from action to consciousness, leave action to the body and the mind; it is their domain. Remain as pure witness, till even witnessing dissolves in the Supreme. (400-1)
Nisargadatta Maharaj Excerpts from: I AM THAT ‘Pure Witness’
“It is not a person that DOES the thinking, sensing and perceiving. The person IS a bundle of thinking, sensing and perceiving.
There is no separate self located in this bundle. This bundle is made of the knowing, which is infinite consciousness.
The person is an activity, not an entity.”
On my true, whole, homogeneous state just a small ripple appeared, the news came, “I Am.” That news made all the difference, and I started knowing this; but now I have known my true state, so I understand my true state first, and then I understand that this ripple is coming and going on my true state. While, in your case, you take interest in the ripple and don’t take interest in your true state.
Out of my existence as the Noumenon has come this state of the phenomenal. The homogeneous understands the play of the attributes, the projection of the mind, but the play, the projection of the mind, cannot understand the homogeneous. The moment it tries to understand It, it becomes one with It. Everybody is trying to understand the meaning of all this. You are not understanding because you have all the swaddling clothes of “I-am-this-or-that.” Remove them.
When one sees the situation as it really is, that no individual is involved, that what is present is Presence as a whole and merely the expression of the Absolute, then the moment this is perceived, there is liberation. Liberation is nothing else than seeing this with full conviction <3 Nisargadatta Maharaj
Realize once for all that neither your body nor your mind, nor even your consciousness is yourself and stand alone in your true nature beyond consciousness and unconsciousness. No effort can take you there, only the clarity of understanding. Trace your misunderstandings and abandon them , that is all .
Nisargadatta Maharaj, born Maruti Shivrampant Kambli, was a Hindu guru of nondualism, belonging to the Inchagiri Sampradaya, a lineage of teachers from the Navnath Sampradaya and Lingayat Shaivism. WikipediaBorn: April 17, 1897, Mumbai, IndiaDied: September 8, 1981, Mumbai, IndiaGuru: SiddharameshwarParents: Shivrampant Kambli, Parvatibai Kambli
I am not my body, nor do I need it. I am the witness only. I have no shape of my own. You are so accustomed to think of yourself as bodies having consciousness that you just cannot imagine consciousness as having bodies. Once you realize that bodily existence is but a state of mind, a movement in consciousness, that the ocean of consciousness is infinite and eternal, and that, when in touch with consciousness, you are the witness only, you will be able to withdraw beyond consciousness altogether.
You must come to a firm decision. You must forget the thought that you are a body and be only the knowledge “I Am,” which has no form, no name. Just be. When you stabilize in that beingness it will give all the knowledge and all the secrets to you, and when the secrets are given to you, you transcend the beingness, and you, the Absolute, will know that you are also not the consciousness. Having gained all this knowledge, having understood what is what, a kind of quietude prevails, a tranquility. Beingness is transcended, but beingness is available.
You behave according to what
you have heard as it suits you,
but that is entirely false. Your
image of yourself, whether
in worldly matters or in
spirituality, is not you
at any time ..
There is not a single
experience in the world
that is true and honest.
Whatever image you
have in your mind
is not true <3
Nisargadatta Maharaj
