Nisargadatta: Your mind will be annihilated

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Prior to Consciousness. 7/23/80 .editor Jean Dunn

 

Q: Maharaj says all that is necessary is to be aware. The mind keeps on

casting doubts, and particularly keeps on saying that there must be more

practices or something more to be done.

M: All the activities are in the field of consciousness, the mind, and vital

force. The knower of the mind is just a witness. It does not interfere in

anything.

Guru's grace means the knowledge you are. When you stabilize in this

conviction, that will open up and give you all the knowledge and that is the

grace.

 

If you are there, then everything is immeasurably there. You give no

significance to the fact that you are - you are carried away by all the

manifestation, which is the expression of you beingness.

Q: My tendency is to look outward, rather than inward.

M: That is the quality of your "I Amness," not of you, the Absolute. You have

embraced the body as your Self. That also is superficial, you don't know what

is happening inside the body either.

Q: Correct. I don't know what's happening in my organs or how they act.

M: All the actions happening in the wide world, the samples of all those, are

also happening in the body.

Q: That which is, does not know Itself?

M: In that state you don't not know your are. With the tool, or aid, of

beingness you know you are.

Q: Don't try to go beyond consciousness, only recognize, understand, what the

beingness is that does the trick. The proof that consciousness was not, lies

with you only. You, the Absolute, are the proof of that. Spontaneously,

uncalled for this beingness has come and this beingness is being witnessed by

you, the Absolute. Ask questions - you will not have such and opportunity

again.

Q: The urge in not so much to ask questions as to just be with Maharaj.

M: That is quite proper. Just by sitting here quietly and listening to the talks

your mind will be annihilated. In case the mind sprouts again you forestall it

by asking questions.

The mind is sprouting expressing itself with various concepts. Don't

identify with that, let it go. Don't be a customer to your mind concepts.

Q: Things like getting food, eating at regular times, earning money, all these

are concepts of the mind and are responded to by the mind. If one does not

respond to these things, then how does one live?

M: By all mean employ the mind, but don't get lost in the mind. Observe the

mind, be witness to the mind flow.