personality is memory

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Message: 1 Sun, 25 Nov 2001 21:28:08 +0200 "viorica

weissman" Nisargadatta-Q: Yet personality must have a

cause.Q: Yet personality must have a cause. Maharaj : How does

personality come into being ? By memory. By identifying

the present with the past and projecting it into the

future. Think of yourself as momentary , without past

and future and your personality dissolves .Q : Does not "I am" remain

? M: The word 'remain' does not apply . "I am" is ever fresh. You do

not need to remember in order to be. As a matter of fact ,

before you can experience anything , there must be the sense of

being. At present your being is mixed up with experiencing. All

you need is to unravel being from the tangle of experiences.

Once you have known pure being , without being this or that ,

you will discern it among experiences and you will no longer be

misled by names and forms. Self-limitation is the very essence

of personality. from * I Am That *