Nisargadatta January 30, 1981

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Consciousness and the Absolute

January 30, 1981. P.M.

 

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A real spiritual seeker

ponders over these things

all the time.

 

When I have no body,

what am I?

 

What is the Ultimate Reality?

 

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The Absolute state cannot be

explained by words.

 

Words are only pointers.

 

You are that Absolute,

Unchanging Consciousness,

or the Knowingness,

which is homogeneous and one only.

 

When you are in that

state of consciousness,

it is all one, all the same state,

only the expressions are different.

 

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Everything which gets consumed,

exhausted, is unreal.

 

Your knowingness will, in due course,

be consumed, will disappear,

so it can not be real.

 

But you can not just dismiss it.

 

You must understand it fully.

 

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Presently there are an infinite

number of items in your

association with this world,

 

because you have the association

of the vital breath.

 

 

Suppose that vital breath goes.

 

What will happen then to

all your associations

with the world.

 

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This knowledge which

has been expounded

will not go to waste.

 

Many people have taken

advantage of it.

 

The time will come when

they will be enlightened also,

and then they will expound

knowledge.

 

 

A Jnani's state remains the same,

with or without the body.

 

 

You should meditate,

you should not lose

what you have learned.

 

 

When one disidentifies

with the body,

one transcends not only the body,

but consciousness as well,

 

since consciousness

is a by-product of the body.

 

 

The consciousness no longer says,

"I am, I am."