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"I Am That" -- Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

 

Chapter 29 Excerpt

 

Questioner: What may be the reason that some people succeed and

others fail in Yoga? Is it destiny or character, or just accident?

 

Maharaj: Nobody ever fails in Yoga. It is all a matter of the rate

of progress. It is slow in the beginning and rapid at the end. When

one is fully matured, realization is explosive. It takes place

spontaneously, or at the slightest hint. The quick is not better

than the slow. Slow ripening and rapid flowering alternate. Both

are natural and right.

 

Yet, all this is so in the mind only. As I see it, there is really

nothing of the kind. In the great mirror of consciousness images

arise and disappear and only memory gives them continuity. And

memory is material -- destructible, perishable, transient. On such

flimsy foundations we build a sense of personal existence -- vague,

intermittent, dreamlike. This vague persuasion: "I-am-so-and-so"

obscures the changeless state of pure awareness and makes us believe

that we are born to suffer and die.

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