Fw: Why not the real itself?

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` ` By itself nothing has existence. Everything needs

its own absence. To be, is to be distinguishable, to be here

and not there, to be now and not then, to be thus and not

otherwise. Like water is shaped by the container, so is

everything determined by conditions (gunas). As water remains

water regardless of the vessels, as light remains itself

regardless of the colours it brings out, so does the real

remain real, regardless of conditions in which it is

reflected. Why keep the reflection only in the focus of

consciousness? Why not the real itself? -

Nisargadatta Maharaj ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` `

` ` ` ` ` ` `This quotation is from:"I Am That"Talks with Sri

Nisargadatta MaharajThe Acorn Press, 1973Lead me from the unreal to

the realLead me from darkness to lightLead me from death to

immortality. - Invocation from the UpanishadsArchive for

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