The ‘I am’ at peace becomes the Absolute.ĭo not bother about anything you want, or think, or do, just stay put in the thought and feeling, ‘I am’, focusing ‘I am’ firmly in your mind. Similarly, the ‘I am’ in movement creates the world. When the movement ceases, the ember remains. A glowing ember moved round and round quickly enough appears as a glowing circle. He who is beyond time – is the un-nameable. When the centre of selfishness is no longer, all desires for pleasure and fear of pain cease one is no longer interested in being happy beyond happiness there is pure intensity, inexhaustible energy, the ecstasy of giving from a perennial source. Love is not selective, desire is selective. To know, to do, to discover, or to create you must give your heart to it – which means attention. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover your self as the light behind the watcher.ĭo not undervalue attention. As you watch your mind, you discover your self as the watcher. Watch your mind, how it comes into being, how it operates. Save all your energies and time for breaking the wall your mind has built around you. True happiness is spontaneous and effortless. Because you take your mind off yourself and make it dwell on what you are not, you lose your sense of well-being. Love says 'I am everything.' Wisdom says 'I am nothing.' Between the two, my life flows.īe fully aware of your own being and you will be in bliss consciously. If you wish to read the book in its entirety, here is a link to amazon The only thing I can be sure about is that ‘I am’ not as a thinking ‘I am’ in the Cartesian sense, but without any predicates.Īgain and again, Maharaj draws our attention to this basic fact in order to make us realize our ‘I am-ness’ and thus get rid of all self-made prisons.Insightful quotes on the nature of consciousness, existence and spiritual enlightenment by the Indian non-dual master and guru Nisargadatta Maharaj, sampled from his highly influential book I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj In opposition to the restless mind, with its limited categories – intentionality, subjectivity, duality etc.-stands supreme the limitless sense of ‘I am’. And the world as seen from the mind is a subjective and private world, which changes continuously. The existence and form of all things depend upon the mind. This means that time, space and causality are not ‘objective’, but mental categories. As in the Kantian view, it is a correlate of the human knowing subject, and, therefore, has the fundamental structure of our way of knowing. We know that only by means of the bodily senses and the mind can the world be known. All this applies to the body and the mind also, both of which are transient and subject to birth and death. Also, they are governed by the law of causation. They are transient and in a state of perpetual flux. The forms around us, says Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, are constituted of the five elements.
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