Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

[Guest guest]

Visitor: Why doesn't everybody become Krishna?

 

Maharaj: What is that childhood? What is that child-principle?

Investigate that. The touch of that quality, the child-quality;

understand and realize it. When did you encounter yourself?

Since when and how? After collecting all the messages

and concepts in the world, you cannot investigate yourself.

When Krishna was born, he had that touch of "I-am-ness."

The same goes for yourself. Understand that! What is that

touch of "I-am-ness," that touch of child, in you? Since

when did you know that you are? And with what did you

know that you are? If you try to employ whatever you have

heard, you will never be able to understand this. You know

that you were not, but now you know that you are. How did

this happen, this confluence? You were not and suddenly

you are. This is what we want to discover.

 

Visitor: I think I will give up on all this.

 

Maharaj: You just find out and enquire about your own self. Since

when did you come to know yourself? And how? Did anybody

tell you that you are? Or did you come to know yourself spontaneously?

 

Visitor: I was told and also it kept occurring to me when I read

Ramana Maharshi's questions, "Who is it that dreams, who

is it that sleeps?"

 

Maharaj: Give up your body identity. Since when did you start

knowing yourself? Concentrate on that only.

 

Visitor: Who is the one who slept?

 

Maharaj: Give up that question, because it is not relevant. There is

no value in your question. At the moment I do not want you

to ask any questions. I am driving you to the source

and would be satisfied with your knowing that you are. I

want to find out from you with what it is you know you are.

Confine yourself to this area. Focus only on your knowing

that "you are." How do you know you are? Just be there.

You have been shadow-boxing with the many concepts you

have collected from the world - you are fighting with all

that. What is the use of it?

 

 

LoveAlways,

 

Mazie

[Guest guest]

Maharaj: How do you know you are? Just be there.

You have been shadow-boxing with the many concepts you

have collected from the world - you are fighting with all

that. What is the use of it?

 

 

 

Beloved,

Jai to Beloved,

Jai to The Natural,

Jai to The Great Comic,

Jai to Nisargadatta Maharaj,

Jai to the Horse he rode in on!

 

Mashuq,

prior to that mystery we call

conception,

mom & dad had never been formally

introduced to us, nor we to them,

wouldn't you agree? Indeed, we could have been

drowning in the Bliss within every Bliss, Blissfully

sitting right next to them at the movies and just

stared straight ahead, wondering if

Rhett and Scarlett would finally just …. DO IT!

in a time and place that has no meaning whatsoever

for anybody now, except that it is Now, and maybe

it was a warm, kind-hearted night, and after the show

(perhaps as a Cormorant dipped and dived for fish somewhere,

and not just any fish, but with the most perfect compassion

of any flying thing consuming any swimming thing),

we could have been the beer in the bottle they tossed

by the exquisite Jasmine Garden, punctuated by fragrant

notes of Lavender and Summer, on an increasingly exciting

Saturday night ride down Main Street in Bindu Junction

with something other than Jasmine and Lavender on their minds,

and that last few drops of beer spilled into the serene bouquet of

that garden, and so it has a special place in our hearts, our lost

twin

siblings blended into Supreme Flowerhood, and then returned as the

birth

none of them asked for, and none of us do –

 

some drop of stuff filled up a certain space, some

transitory perfume was uncomprehendingly transformed,

nothing actually happened, just as it does

now, just as we do now.

 

What was it then?

 

Somehow,

we know we are.

 

There is a way we know this, but

it is the same way our parents knew us,

before they had even met --

 

we are.

 

Care for a beer, Honey?