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Sitting quietly
“Sitting quietly, doing nothing,
Spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.”Zenrin Kushû (The Way of Zen 134, 222)
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I am
The beginning and the end of knowledge is the ‘I am’, be attentive to the ‘I am’, once you understand it, you are apart from it. Whatever the volume of knowledge maybe it has to begin with the primary knowledge or concept ‘I am’. The ‘I am’ is the one, and then with two, three, four and so forth the structural labyrinth of knowledge builds. You have to go back, retrace the steps in the maze and when you do so correctly you will end up at the ‘I am’. Give all your attention to this ‘I am’, by and by you shall come to understand it and all its implications as well. The clearer your understanding of the ‘I am’ is, the more distinctly apart from it you are.
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I am, come back to it
The ‘I am’ is the permanent link in the succession of events called life, be at the link ‘I am’ only and go beyond it. Conception, birth and infancy, these are the beginnings of your being where the ‘I am’ lies dormant. Then there is the spontaneous appearance of the non-verbal feeling ‘I am’ around say three years of age. On this foundation of the knowledge ‘I am’ is built a large structure of words, ideas and concepts and very soon it is ‘I am so and so’ and so forth. The pure ‘I am’ is contaminated and it piles on right from childhood to old age, but in all the succession of events, the ‘I am’ lies at the base and has always been there. The ‘I am’ is an unbroken link throughout your life, so come back to it, abide there and try to transcend it, for there lies your True being
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First moment of bliss and its continuous growth
THE SPIRITUAL ASPIRANT, THE FIRST MOMENT OF BLISS AND ITS CONTINUOUS GROWTH The ever-awaited first moment was the moment when I was convinced that I was not an individual at all. The idea of my individuality had set me burning so far. The scalding pain was beyond my capacity to endure; but there is not even a trace of it now, I am no more an individual. There is nothing to limit my being now. The ever present anxiety and the gloom have vanished and now I am all beatitude, pure knowledge, pure consciousness. The tumors of innumerable desires and passion were simply unbearable, but fortunately for me, I got hold of the hymn “Hail, Preceptor”, and on its constant recitation, all the tumors of passions withered away as with a magic spell! I am ever free now. I am all bliss, sans spite, sans fear. This beatific conscious form of mine now knows no bounds. I belong to all and everyone is mine. The “all” are but my own individuations, and these together go to make up my beatific being. There is nothing like good or bad, profit or loss, high or low, mine or not mine for me. Nobody opposes me and I oppose none for there is none other than myself. Bliss reclines on the bed of bliss. The repose itself has turned into bliss. There is nothing that I ought or ought not to do, but my activity goes on everywhere, every minute. Love and anger are divided equally among all, as are work and recreation. My characteristics of immensity and majesty, my pure energy, and my all, having attained to the golden core, repose in bliss as the atom of atoms. My pure consciousness shines forth in majestic splendor. 27 Why and how the consciousness became selfconscious is obvious now. The experience of the world is no more of the world as such, but is the blossoming forth of the selfsame conscious principle, God, and what is it? It is pure, primal knowledge, conscious form, the primordial “I” consciousness that is capable of assuming any form it desires. It is designated as God. The world as the divine expression is not for any profit or loss; it is the pure, simple, natural flow of beatific consciousness. There are no distinctions of God and devotee, nor Brahman and Maya. He that meditated on the bliss and peace is himself the ocean of peace and bliss. Glory to the eternal truth, Sad-Guru, the Supreme Self.
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The Ultimate Medicine
Nisargadatta-Maharaj-The-Ultimate-Medicine.pdf
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Letting go
Spiritual maturity is being ready to let go everything. Giving up is a first step, but real giving-up is the insight that there’s nothing to be given up, since nothing is your property. When you know thoughts and their wonderful powers, and liberate them from what has poisoned them – the idea of an own, separate person -, you just let them alone, such that they can perform their appropriate work. Letting the thoughts do their own work at their own place is freedom. When you don’t require anything from the world and nothing from God, when you don’t desire anything, when you don’t strive for anything, don’t expect anything, the divine will enter you, unasked and unexpected. The wish for truth is the best of all wishes, but it’s still a wish. All wishes must be given up, that the truth can enter your life. When you encounter sorrow and suffering, remain with it and don’t try to escape from it. Don’t throw yourself into blind activity. Neither learning nor acting can really help. Be with the presence of sorrow and uncover their roots – help with insight is real help. Understanding confusion means becoming free of it. The world and the thinking are states of being. The divine is not a state, it penetrates all states, but is no state of anything else. Nothing extraordinary can happen to a consciousness knowing exactly what it wants. Delayed reaction is wrong reaction. Thinking, feeling and action must be a unity and happen together with the situation requiring them. What is the worth of a hapiness for which you must strive and work? Real happiness is spontaneous and effortless. In my view, everything happens by itself, quite spontaneously. But humans think they would work for a win, towards a purpose. There’s nothing from which the world could profit more than from giving up profit. A man who’s no longer thinking in terms of winning and loosing is truly non-violent man, since he’s above all conflicts. It’s the nature of thinking to differentiate things and specialize itself. There’s no harm to that, but it isn’t true when one thinks of oneself as separate from things. Things and humans are different, but not separate. Nature is one, reality is one. There are opposites, but no contradictions. You will receive everything you need when you stop asking for what you do not need. There’s no state in which one is seeing reality. WHO is seeing WHAT? You can only BE real. (And that you are always.) The problem exists only in thinking. Let all false ideas go, that’s all. There’s no need for true ideas. (Since there are none.) Suffering is exclusively the result of attachment or resistance, it is a sign of lacking readiness to go on, to flow with life.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Ashtavakra Gita
Even abstention from action leads to action in a fool, while even the action of the wise man brings the fruits of inaction.