Nisargadatta..You are that immutable, eternal, unchangeable Absolute.

July 23, 2002

12/28/80 Prior to Consciousness editor Jean Dunn

Maharaj: Can any of your concepts grasp the total, the Ultimate? Have you

understood that knowledge itself is ignorance? If it were real it would have

been there eternally - it would not have had a beginning and an end.

Now the experience " I Am" is felt, earlier that experience was not. When

it was not, no proof was called for, but once it is, lots of proof is required.

How did you wake up in the morning? Why did you wake up at all? It is not

the mind which knows - somebody knows because of the mind. Now my hand has

lifted, who knows? The one who has lifted my hand knows it has lifted it. You

are before the mind; because you are there the mind is working.

When will you wake up? Provided you are, you wake up. Through the concepts

of others you have built up so many things around you that you are lost. "You"

is decorated and embellished by the concept of others. Prior to receiving any

hearsay from outside, has anyone any information about himself?

The purpose of Sat-Guru is to tell you what you are like prior to the

building up of all those concepts of other. Your present spiritual storehouse

is filled up with the words of others - demolish those concepts. Sat-Guru means

the eternal state which will never be changed: what you are. You are that

immutable, eternal, unchangeable Absolute. Sat-Guru tells you to get rid of all

these walls built around you by the hearsays and concepts of others. You have no

form, no design. The names and forms you see are your consciousness only- the

Self is colorless but it is able to judge color, etc. The one who is directed by

Sat-Guru has no more birth. Your sadhana is over, you have reached this place.

To you who search for the Self, I explain this type of knowledge, I lead you

to a state where there is no hunger, no desire.

When you have knowledge you see the "I" as all-pervasive as long as the

consciousness is there, but the witness of consciousness has no "I" Am, that is

your true eternal nature.

Giving up the body is a great festival for me.

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