Guest guest Posted July 15, 2001 Report Share Posted July 15, 2001 "I Am That" -- Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Ch. 42 Excerpt Questioner: What benefit do I derive from listening to you? Maharaj: I am calling you back to yourself. All I ask you is to look at yourself, toward yourself, into yourself. Q: To what purpose? M: You live, you feel, you think. By giving attention to your living, feeling and thinking, you free yourself from them and go beyond them. Your personality dissolves and only the witness remains. Then you go beyond the witness. Do not ask how it happens. Just search within yourself. Q: What makes the difference between the person and the witness? M: Both are modes of consciousness. In one you desire and fear, in the other you are unaffected by pleasure and pain and are not ruffled by events. You let them come and go. Q: How does one get established in the higher state, the state of pure witnessing? M: Consciousness does not shine by itself. It shines by a light beyond it. Having seen the dreamlike quality of consciousness, look for the light in which it appears, which gives it being. There is the content of consciousness as well as the awareness of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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