Another beauty from Nisargadatta

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What intelligence! What insight! What brilliance! Yet so simply put.

Compared to all those cryptic poems and sayings other mystics have spoken.

All this from a humble bidii seller! Never underestimate anybody.

 

Jan

 

Between the remembered and the actual there is a basic difference which can

be observed from moment to moment. At no point of time is the actual the

remembered. Between the two there is a difference in kind, not merely in

intensity. The actual is unmistakably so. By no effort of will or

imagination can you interchange the two. Now, what is it that gives this

unique quality to the actual? A moment back, the remembered was actual, in

a moment the actual will be the remembered. What makes the actual unique?

Obviously, it is the sense of being present. In memory and anticipation,

there is a clear feeling that it is a mental state under observation, while

in the actual the feeling is primarily of being present and aware. Wherever

you go, the sense of here and now you carry with you all the time. It means

that you are independent of space and time, that space and time are in you,

not you in them. It is your self-identification with the body, which, of

course, is limited in space and time, that gives you the feeling of

finiteness. In reality you are infinite and eternal. (516) - Nisargadatta

 

 

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With Love,

Cyber Dervish

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