Nisargadatta Maharaj
Slide 7 description. All me and you exist as one anothers objects in the consciousness that cognizes them
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Thursday, 28 March 2024
GOD
• Did God come and tell you that the world is His creation and concern and not yours?
• To help you, God must know your existence. But you and your world are, dream states. None knows them, and none can help you.
• Your scriptures and your gods have no meaning here.
• Is it not the simple sense of being, the sense of existing, the sense of presence, that has not changed about yourself?
• If you were not conscious, would your body exist for you? Would there be any world for you?
• Would there then be any question of God or the Creator?
• To help you, God must know your existence. But you and your world are, dream states. None knows them, and none can help you.
• Your scriptures and your gods have no meaning here.
• Is it not the simple sense of being, the sense of existing, the sense of presence, that has not changed about yourself?
• If you were not conscious, would your body exist for you? Would there be any world for you?
• Would there then be any question of God or the Creator?
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
I am That
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Friday, 15 March 2024
Let us come back to your problems of re-birth.
• What is 'born', the objective body, will, in due course, 'die'; thereafter it will be dissolved i.e. irrevocably annihilated. The objective part of what was once a sentient being will be destroyed, never to be re-born as the same body.
• And consciousness is not an object, not a 'thing' at all; therefore, consciousness, as something non-objective, cannot be 'born', cannot 'die' and certainly cannot be 're-born'.
• Who is born? And who dies? And who is to be re-born? How does the concept of Karma, causality and re-birth arise at all?
• Instead of a phenomenon being accepted as a manifestation of the unmanifest, a mistaken identification with a pseudoentity takes place and a phantom with a supposed autonomous existence gets created.
• This phantom is supposed to have choice of decision and action. It is this phantom that is supposed to be born, to live, to suffer and to die.
• And in this process, it is this phantom who becomes liable to the process of causality known as Karma, accepts the supposed 'bondage' and 're-birth', and seeks an imagined 'liberation'.
• Over the natural process of the manifestation of phenomena, gets superimposed a phantom-self with a supposed autonomous, independent existence, and on this/phantom-self is loaded the concept of the resultant effects of the imagined volitional actions — i.e. Karma, bondage and re-birth!
• Do you understand now why I debunk the theory of re-birth?
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
• And consciousness is not an object, not a 'thing' at all; therefore, consciousness, as something non-objective, cannot be 'born', cannot 'die' and certainly cannot be 're-born'.
• Who is born? And who dies? And who is to be re-born? How does the concept of Karma, causality and re-birth arise at all?
• Instead of a phenomenon being accepted as a manifestation of the unmanifest, a mistaken identification with a pseudoentity takes place and a phantom with a supposed autonomous existence gets created.
• This phantom is supposed to have choice of decision and action. It is this phantom that is supposed to be born, to live, to suffer and to die.
• And in this process, it is this phantom who becomes liable to the process of causality known as Karma, accepts the supposed 'bondage' and 're-birth', and seeks an imagined 'liberation'.
• Over the natural process of the manifestation of phenomena, gets superimposed a phantom-self with a supposed autonomous, independent existence, and on this/phantom-self is loaded the concept of the resultant effects of the imagined volitional actions — i.e. Karma, bondage and re-birth!
• Do you understand now why I debunk the theory of re-birth?
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Thursday, 22 February 2024
You may know all the right words, quote the scriptures
You may know all the right words, quote the scriptures, be brilliant in your discussions and yet remain a bag of bones. Or you may be inconspicuous and humble, an insignificant person altogether, yet glowing with loving kindness and deep wisdom.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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A journey into the unknown
Once you realize that the person is merely a shadow of the reality, but not reality itself, you cease to fret or worry. You agree to be guided from within and life becomes a journey into the unknown.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Wednesday, 21 February 2024
The plurality that we perceive is only an appearance
The plurality that we perceive is only an appearance; it is not real. Vedantic philosophy has sought to clarify it by a number of analogies, one of the most attractive being the many-faceted crystal which, while showing hundreds of little pictures of what is in reality a single existent object, does not really multiply that object.
Erwin Schrödinger
Austrian physicist. One of the founders of quantum theory.
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Tuesday, 6 June 2023
There are no other means to liberation, all means delay.
When the fallacy of concepts and beliefs are exposed, the common argument raised is "Till I am ready, let me have such concepts", or "Till I am mature, such concepts are true for me". False is false whether you realise it or not. No dumb practice will make you free. Unless you come face to face with sensitive areas that disturbs you the most and clear it out, no change is going to happen.
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Tuesday, 11 April 2023
Until you drop everything - Ashtavakra Gita
You can recite and discuss scriptures all you want, but until you drop everything, you will never know the Truth.
Ashtavakra Gita
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Monday, 20 March 2023
The entire manifested universe exists only in consciousness
● The entire manifested universe exists only in consciousness.
● As an appearance in consciousness, the world is the totality of the known in the potential of the unknown.
● 'Me', 'you' and 'he' are only appearances in consciousness.
● As an appearance in consciousness, the world is the totality of the known in the potential of the unknown.
● 'Me', 'you' and 'he' are only appearances in consciousness.
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Thursday, 17 November 2022
Man of cluttered intellect - Ashtavakra Gita
A man of open intuition may realize Self upon hearing a casual instruction, while a man of cluttered intellect inquires bewildered for a lifetime.
यथातथोपदेशेन कृतार्थः सत्त्वबुद्धिमान् ।
आजीवमपि जिज्ञासुः परस्तत्र विमुह्यति ॥
Ashtavakra Gita
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Monday, 7 November 2022
It is all imagination - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Through the film of your mind you project a world and also a God to give it cause and purpose. It is all imagination. Step out of it.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Wednesday, 12 October 2022
Yogis who preach either effort - Ashtavakra Gita
कर्मनैष्कर्म्यनिर्बन्धà¤ावा देहस्थयोगिनः ।
संयोगायोगविरहादहमासे यथासुखम् ॥
Yogis who preach either effort or non-effort are still attached to the body.
I neither dissociate nor associate with any of that and am happy.
Ashtavakra Gita
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Monday, 10 October 2022
There is no such thing as enlightenment
There is no ‘me’ or ‘you’ to seek enlightenment. Personal entity and enlightenment cannot go together. Indeed, there is no such thing as ‘enlightenment’. The apperception of this fact is itself enlightenment!
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Friday, 9 September 2022
The imperceptible being
Each one of us, as a phenomenon, is merely an appearance in the consciousness of those who perceive us, and, therefore, what we appear to be is a phenomenon — temporal, finite and perceptible to the senses; whereas what we are, what we have always been and what we shall always be, without name and form, is the noumenon — timeless, spaceless, imperceptible being.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Friday, 26 August 2022
Tuesday, 28 June 2022
Neither do I know, nor do I do not know - Kenopanishad
I do not think that I know this well;
nor do I think that I do not know this.
He among us who knows that –
“Neither do I know, nor do I do not know”
- perceives That well.
Kenopanishad
नाहं मन्ये सुवेदेति नो न वेदेति वेद च ।
यो नस्तद्वेद तद्वेद नो न वेदेति वेद च ॥
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