Nisargadatta Maharaj: You will come across many who say that Krishna is their soul. But I tell you that I am Krishna’s soul.
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The Parabrahman principle
Nisargadatta Maharaj: Doctors have diagnosed that this body has cancer. Would anyone else be as joyful as I am, with such a serious diagnosis? The world is your direct experience, your own observation. All that is happening is happening at this level, but I am not at this level. I have dissociated myself from Sattva Guna, beingness.
The Ultimate state in spirituality is that state where no needs are felt at any time, where nothing is useful for anything. That state is called Nirvana, Nirguna, that which is the Eternal and Ultimate Truth. The essence and sum total of this whole talk is called Satguru Parabrahman, that state in which there are no requirements.
I found myself free unexpectedly
Question: You make all these extraordinary statements about yourself. What makes you say those things? What do you mean by saying that you are beyond space and time?
Nisargadatta Maharaj: You ask and the answer comes. I watch myself – I watch the answer and see no contradiction. It is clear to me that I am telling you the truth. It is all very simple. Only you must trust me that I mean what I say, that I am quite serious. As I told you already, my Guru showed me my true nature and the true nature of the world. Having realized that I am one with, and yet beyond the world, I became free from all desire and fear. I did not reason out that I should be free – I found myself free unexpectedly, without the least effort.
What I am saying is very simple
Nisargadatta Maharaj: Who you are? If you don’t know it, then get lost. What I am saying is very simple. Since death is inevitable, why not do as the sages say and see if it works? Why not listen to them and see if they are right? Before death comes it is necessary to follow a sage or a guru. If this body and this sense of I am are going to vanish, why not use them while you have them? It’s all going to vanish. Your waking, sleep and knowledge are going to vanish. You know it! Why not find out who you really are while you have them?
Why am I totally free?
Nisargadatta Maharaj: How did you get this “I Am-ness”? Did it come spontaneously, or did you try for it? As the Absolute, you were free from all concepts, including the primary concept “I Am”. Suddenly you were caught up in this “I Am-ness”. Who did it? Has it not happened spontaneously?
Question: Yes, that is true.
Nisargadatta Maharaj: You did not have this concept “I Am” in the course of the nine months in the womb. Understand this state of affairs; the concept “I Am” comes spontaneously and goes spontaneously. Amazingly, when it appears, it is accepted as real. All subsequent misconceptions arise from that feeling of reality in the “I Am-ness”. Try to stabilize in that primary concept “I Am”, in order to lose that and with it all other concepts. Why am I totally free? Because I have understood the unreality of that “I Am”. Continue reading “Why am I totally free?”
There are strong habit patterns
Question: There are strong habit patterns.
Nisargadatta Maharaj: Yes, and once you know their impermanence and that they are not true, why worry about the habit patterns? Remove the habit. Go beyond! If you cannot do so, then you cannot understand this, the whole final truth, yet. No path, no instruction, no method, no technique. You are full, you are all One. You feel you are two, so OK. Understand you are not two, advaita.
You were a child, and you have become a big boy now, a big man. Do you know anything about along which path you have come? And how you have grown? You don’t know anything about this? Then why do you want to ask which path to follow now?