Q: If happiness is not conscious and consciousness – not happy, what is the link between the two?
M: Consciousness being a product of conditions and circumstances, depends on them and changes along with them. What is independent, uncreated, timeless and changeless, and yet ever new and fresh, is beyond the mind. When the mind thinks of it, the mind dissolves and only happiness remains.
Q: When all goes, nothingness remains.
M: How can there be nothing without something: Nothing is only an idea, it depends on the memory of something. Pure being is quite independent of existence, which is definable and describable.
Q: Please tell us: beyond the mind does consciousness continue, or does it end with mind?
M: Consciousness comes and goes, awareness shines immutably.
Q: Who is aware in awareness?
M: When there is a person, there is also consciousness. ‘I am’, mind, consciousness denote the same state. If you say ‘I am aware’, it only means: ‘I am conscious of thinking and being aware. There is no ‘I am’ in awareness.
Q: What about witnessing?
M: Witnessing is the mind. The witness goes with the witnessed. In the state of non-duality all separation ceases.
I Am That – Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“It is because you think yourself big enough to be affected by the world. You are so small that nothing can pin yourself down. It is your mind that gets caught, not you. Know yourself as you are – a mere point in consciousness, dimensionless and timeless. You are like the point of the pencil – by mere contact with you the mind draws its picture of the world. You are single and simple – the picture is complex and extensive. Don’t be misled by the picture – remain aware of the tiny point – which is everywhere in the picture.
What is, can cease to be; what is not, can come to be; but what neither is nor is not, but on which being and non-being depend, is unassailable; know yourself to be the cause of desire and fear, itself free from both.”
Excerpt from I Am That, Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Just realise you are dreaming a dream you call the world and stop looking for ways out. The dream is not your problem. Your problem is that you like one part of your dream and not another. Love all or none of it and stop complaining. When you have seen the dream as a dream, you have done all that needs to be done.”
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
There is really nothing to say. Words are superfluous.
The only reason I use words is so you can detect
the silence in the words.
Silence is truth. You cannot explain truth in words.
The words become meaningless, redundant.
The truth comes to you of its own free will
when you prepare yourself through deep surrender
to your Self,
giving up all attachment, giving up your body, your mind,
and everything that’s important to you,
to the Self.
As long as you’re holding on to anything,
the Reality only comes when you give up yourself,
when you give up your ego,
when you give up your needs, your wants,
trying to make something happen, desires.
When you give up trying to become Self-realized.
When you just give up.
Then something wonderful happens.
You begin to expand.
Not your body, but the Consciousness which you are.
You become all pervading. Absolute Reality.
It happens by itself.
Words from Robert Adams, Silence of the Heart.
(Sadhana)
Everyone here is Absolute Reality, Pure Awareness,
This is your real nature.
Right now, not some time in the future.
Not when you get enlightened.
Not when you search for the answers.
But right this moment. This is what you are.
Why will you not accept it?
When you think about yourself, do you think
you’re a punny human
that has to struggle for existence and fight for survival?
As long as you believe this, that’s what it’s going
to be for you.
But as soon as you accept the truth about yourself,
that you are a delight, Divine Sat-Chit-Ananda,
You will be free.
You simply have to accept this.
There are no rituals you have to go through.
There are no prayers you have to chant.
You simply have to awaken to your true nature,
Pure Awareness,
Nirvana,
Bliss,
Consciousness.
This is what you are right at this moment.
Words of Robert Adams, Silence of the Heart.
(Atma Vichara)
Think how many years you’ll be going through life,
believing you’re a body, a mind, an ego.
The situations you’ve been through.
The agonies, the ecstasies,
The Dualities.
You’re beginning to seen now that all of those things belong
to the I-thought, to the personal self,
which is not really you.
You are total freedom, having absolutely nothing to do
with the personal self.
You simply have to ask yourself, “Who is this personal self?
Where did it come from? How did it arise?
How did it get a hold of me, and make me believe
I’m human?
That makes me feel I was born? And I have to die?
What is this personal self? Where did it come from?”
And as you follow the personal self, the I-thought,
you’ll begin to see it never existed.
It was never born.
It is absolutely nothingness.
And you’ll become radiantly happy,
Full of Love,
Full of Peace.
By Robert Adams , Silence of the Heart.
Maharaj says;
“Once you realise that all comes from within, that the world in which you live has not been projected onto you but by you, your fear come to an end. Without this realisation you identify yourself with the externals, like the body, mind society, nation, humanity, even God or the Absolute. But these are all escapes from fear. It is only when you fully accept your responsibility for the little world that you live and watch the process of its creation, preservation and destruction, that you may be free from your imaginary bondage.
Seeker; Why should I imagine myself so wretched?
M: You do it by habit only. Change your ways of feeling and thinking, take stock of them and examine them closely. You are in bondage by inadvertence. Attention liberates. You are taking so many things for granted. Begin to question. The most obvious things are the most doubtful. Ask yourself such questions as; ‘Was I really born?” ” Am I really so and so?” “How do I know that I exist?” “Who are my parents?” “Have they created me, or have I created them?” “Must I believe all I am told about myself?” “Who am I, anyhow?” You have put so much energy into building a prison for yourself. Now spend as much on demolishing it. In fact, demolition is easy, for the false dissolves when it is discovered.. All hangs on the idea ‘I am’. Examine it very thoroughly. It lies at the root of every trouble. It is the sort of skin that separates you from the reality. The real is both within and without the skin but the skin itself is not real. This ‘I am’ idea was not born with you. You could have lived very well without it. It came later due to your self-identification with the body. It created an illusion of separation where there was none. It made you a stranger in your own world and made the world alien and inimical. Without the sense of ‘I am’ life goes on. There are moments when we are without the sense of ‘I am” at peace and happy. With the return of the ‘I am” trouble starts.”
An exert from “I AM THAT”, the chapter is called “Notion of Doership is Bondage.”
Recently, whilst reading “Prior to Consciousness” by Nisargadatta Maharaj it suddenly became clear that the truth, or essence of who “I” am has existed way before this body began. It in fact was that which began the heart beating, it is that which grew the body. It has always been and always will be. It can never be separate. It the source (so to speak) on which ALL appears. How can there be any seperation, like the pattern on a fabric, or the clouds appearing in the sky or the waves arising from the ocean. ALL one appearing on one.
Not always appearing in manifested form yet ever-present. Think of the flame, strike a match – the flame appears – the flame goes out, yet it is still present only appearing in form when materials surface.
Much like what we call humans, the consciousness only appears when the matter (body) is there to appear in – when the matter is finished the consciousness leaves that form – though remains ever-present - formless.
Sometimes the body can feel like a cage, yet when this understanding deeply penetrates – there is simply functioning through a body – no cage.
The body may experience illness or pain, yet there is no suffering when it is realised as an appearance.
This body is a guest, a guest in consciousness. It will leave in time, as time appears with consciousness. That on which ALL appears on is ever-present – Eternal, formless.
“Be true to your own self. Love yourself absolutely. Do not pretend that you love others as yourself. Unless you have realized others as one with yourself, you cannot love them. Don’t pretend to be what you are not, don’t refuse to be what you are. Your love for others is the result of self-knowledge, not its cause.”
Nisargadatta Maharaj
“The one that is listening, which you do not know, is you and the one which you know as you is not.” Nisargadatta Maharaj
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