I Amness is in a dormant state - Seeds of Consciousness

 

For the sprouting of any seed, water is necessary. Similarly, for the sprouting of this knowledge "I am", water and food essence are necessary. In the essence of the food the quality of "I Amness" is in a dormant state.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

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That beingness will also be dissolved after the death of the body - Seeds of Consciousness

This knowledge ‘I am’ comes to you after your body is born, after that the body of childhood grows on its own and becomes old. What remains in the end is only one thing ‘I am’. So all through life you have to remember to investigate who is this ‘I am’. Otherwise birth and death will have no meaning for your beingness, because that beingness will also be dissolved after the death of the body.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

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The tree is already there in the seed - Seeds of Consciousness

 

The ‘I am’ is the sum total of everything you perceive. It appears spontaneously and disappears, it has no dwelling place. It is like a dream world. Do not try to be something, even a spiritual person. You are the manifested. The tree is already there in the seed. Such is the ‘I am’. Just see it as it is.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Womb of ignorance - Seeds of Consciousness

 

In the womb of ignorance the knowledge was there and that knowledge, in maturity, had become this manifestation, but prior to ignorance that great ancestor is there.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

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You are afraid because you have assumed something - Consciousness and the absolute

 

You are afraid because you have assumed something as ‘I am’, which actually you are not. Suppose you find a diamond ring on the road and you pocket it. Since it is not yours, a fear overcomes you. When you put on an identity that is not yours, you are afraid. When you are the pure ‘I amness’ only, there is no fear. Presently you are this ‘I am’, but this ‘I am’ is not the truth. Whatever you are prior to the appearance of ‘I am’, that is your real nature.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Whatever happens in consciousness is purely imaginary - Consciousness and the absolute

 

Any thought that you have reached or are going to reach that state is false. Whatever happens in consciousness is purely imaginary, an hallucination; therefore, keep in mind the knowledge that it is consciousness in which everything is happening. With that knowledge, be still, do not pursue any other thoughts which arise in consciousness. What is necessary is to understand with sure conviction is that all is temporary, and does not reflect your true state.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

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The riddle of spirituality cannot be solved by your intellect - Consciousness and the absolute

Recite the sacred name, that is all right, but the important thing is to recognize and understand what is the presiding principle by which you know you are and by which you perceive everything else. You must look at yourself, get to know yourself. The riddle of spirituality cannot be solved by your intellect. At the most, your intellect can provide you with livelihood.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

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The essence of the body is the essence of the foodstuff - Consciousness and the absolute

 

The essence of the body is the essence of the foodstuff, and this consciousness lies dormant in it from the very beginning. In that state of consciousness is the entire universe. Having seen this, whoever has understood is bound to be quiet, knowing that this is only a transient happening. An enormous structure of concepts being taught to us as knowledge is based on the simple appearance of consciousness.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

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You are not this chemical - Consciousness and the absolute

 

People identify me with their concepts and they do what their concepts tell them. It is consciousness which is manifest, nothing else. Who is talking, who is walking, who is sitting? These are the expressions of that chemical "I Am". Are you that chemical? You talk about heaven and hell, this Mahatma or that one, but how about you? Who are you? In meditation, one sees a lot of visions. They are in the chemical, the realm of your consciousness, are they not? All these things are connected only to that birth-chemical. You are not this chemical "I Am".

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

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All these activities go on - Quotes - Consciousness and the absolute

All these activities go on, but they are only entertainment. The waking and deep sleep states come and go spontaneously. Through the sense of "I" you spontaneously feel like working. But find out if this sense of "I"; is real or unreal, permanent or impermanent.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Fearlessness comes by itself - Quotes - I am That

 

Fearlessness comes by itself, when you see that there is nothing to be afraid of. When you walk in a crowded street, you just bypass people. Some you see, some you just glance at, but you do not stop. It is the stopping that creates the bottleneck. Keep moving! Disregard names and shapes, don't be attached to them; your attachment is your bondage.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

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There can be no experience of the Absolute - Quotes - I am That

  

There can be no experience of the Absolute as it is beyond all experience. On the other hand, the self is the experiencing factor in every experience and thus, in a way, validates the multiplicity of experiences. The world may be full of things of great value, but if there is nobody to buy them, they have no price. The Absolute contains everything experienceable, but without the experience they are as nothing. That which makes the experience possible is the Absolute. That which makes it actual is the Self.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Quotes - I am That - Is Experience Real ?

 

Experience, however sublime, is not the real thing. By its very nature it comes and goes. Self-realisation is not an acquisition. It is more of the nature of understanding. Once arrived at, it cannot be lost. On the other hand, consciousness is changeful, flowing, undergoing transformation from moment to moment. Do not hold on to consciousness and its contents. Consciousness held, ceases. To try to perpetuate a flash of insight, or a burst of happiness is destructive of what it wants to preserve. What comes must go. The permanent is beyond all comings and goings. Go to the root of all experience, to the sense of being. Beyond being and not-being lies the immensity of the real. Try and try again.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Quotes - I am That - Is Time Real ?

 

Once you accept time and space as real, you will consider yourself minute and short-lived. But are they real? Do they depend on you, or you on them? As body, you are in space. As mind, you are in time. But are you mere body with a mind in it? Have you ever investigated?

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Quotes - Pointers - The absence of presence

All that one can say is that the sense of presence, which is present during the waking state, is absent in the deep sleep state. The state of Awareness - what we truly are - on the other hand, is the total absence of both the presence and the absence of the sense of presence. This is the all-important distinction.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Quotes - I am That - All this is temporary

All this is temporary, while I am dealing with the eternal. Gods and their universes come and go, avatars follow each other in endless succession, and in the end we are back at the source. I talk only of the timeless source of all the gods with all their universes, past, present and future.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Quotes - "I am That" - Refuse all thoughts except one

Refuse all thoughts except one: the thought ‘I am’. The mind will rebel in the beginning, but with patience and perseverance it will yield and keep quiet. Once you are quiet, things will begin to happen spontaneously and quite naturally, without any interference on your part.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Quotes - The Nectar of Immortality - Paths and movements

Paths and movements cannot transport you into Reality, because their function is to enmesh you within the dimensions of knowledge, while the Reality prevails prior to it. To apprehend this, you must stay put at the source of your creation, at the beginning of the knowledge ‘I am’. So long as you do not achieve this, you will be entangled in the chains forged by your mind and get enmeshed in those of others.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Quotes - Consciousness and the Absolute - The Ultimate State

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 Sat-guru Parabrahman, that state in which there are no requirements.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Quotes - I am That - To know the Self

To know itself the self must be faced with its opposite the not-self. Desire leads to experience. Experience leads to discrimination, detachment, self-knowledge liberation. And what is liberation after all? To know that you are beyond birth and death. By forgetting who you are and imagining yourself a mortal creature, you created so much trouble for yourself that you have to wake up, like from a bad dream.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

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