~ Written by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The seeker is he who is in search of himself. Give up all questions except one: "Who am I?" After all, the only fact you are sure of is that you are. The "I am" is certain. The "I am this" is not. Struggle to find out what you are in reality. To know what you are, you must first investigate and know what you are not. Discover all that you are not - body, feelings, thoughts, time, space, this or that - nothing, concrete or abstract, which you perceive to be you. The very act of perceiving shows that you are not what you perceive. The clearer you understand on the level of mind you can be described in negative terms only, the quicker will you come to the end of your search and realize that you are the limitless being.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Monday, January 3, 2011
Universal Consciousness
~by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
You think that you are the one that has the thoughts. In fact thoughts arise in consciousness. As our spiritual knowledge grows our identification with the individual body-mind diminishes. Consciousness expands into universal consciousness. The life force continues to act, but its thoughts and actions are no longer limited to any individual. They become the total manifestation. It is like the action of the wind. The wind doesn’t blow for any particular individual, but for the entire manifestation.
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