You wont get the answer to "Who Am I"

[Guest guest]

Nisargadatta: From Consciousness and the Absolute. Editor Jean Dunn

 

 

December 8, 1980

 

 

 

Maharaj: I am talking about the consciousness which works through this body at

the moment, but which is not visible. This consciousness is not limited to the

body but is universal consciousness; I can't speak of anything else now. A

person who is already dead is not worried about anything. Whether the people

like it or not doesn't matter. Perhaps you may be getting some blessings, some

benefits, from listening to my talks, I don't know.

 

 

 

All my actions are the actions of universal consciousness appearing to work

through this body. I do not remember something from the past and then act; it is

all action in the now.

 

 

 

Q: Where does consciousness come from?

 

 

 

M: It never comes or goes, it just appears to have come.

 

 

 

Q: Why does Maharaj know this and we do not?

 

 

 

M: It is not difficult for you to know also, but with what identity are you

asking?

 

 

 

Q: It is karmic, can karma be changed?

 

 

 

M: It is all consciousness working, not this one or that one working; it is all

consciousness.

 

 

 

Q: Can Maharaj, out of compassion, give me a push into that state of universal

consciousness?

 

 

 

M: Yes, of course, I can do that, but you must listen to me, you must have

complete faith in whatever I tell you about yourself, and you must behave

accordingly.

 

 

 

By nature I am non-manifest, yet I am manifested, but I am really not

manifested. Can you live like that, the non-manifest?

 

 

 

As long as the attribute is there, the quality of the attribute, the " I Am", is

there; therefore, I can speak like this. If it goes away, what happens? The

sense of "I" has come and has gone, that is all, I am not going to die. One who

has rejected this identity will understand.

 

 

 

Q: Maharaj has said that he is not going to die?

 

 

 

M: How can one who is not born die? When people first learned about this

illness, those who have affection for me came to talk to me, or wrote to me,

giving advice and medicine. Whatever is to happen will happen, I have no

interest. I don't have fear so I don't have to do anything. It is quite in

order that those who have affection for me write and come to discuss things with

me: I don't listen to them, and that is also quite in order, because I am not

afraid of anything.

 

 

 

You are asking "Who am I" and you are not going to get an answer, because the

one who will get the answer is false. You may have an idea, a concept, and you

will think you have found yourself, but it is only a concept; you can never see

your Self.

 

 

 

Q: What is sat-chit-ananda?

 

 

 

M: It is words. You can take it that sat-chit-ananda is the limit which your

mind can describe of that state which cannot be described. Your true state is

non-manifest; the manifestation comes and the words come. The one who

experiences sat-chit -ananda is there before the experience.

 

 

 

SAT-CHIT-ANANDA: EXISTENCE-KNOWLEDGE-BLISS