Nisargadatta: With and identity not yours you are afraid

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February 13, 1981

 

 

 

Q: I have so many questions to ask that it is chaotic.

 

Maharaj: Your questions are regarding the concepts of others. Ask

questions only regarding yourself.

 

Q: I don't know my Self, how can I reach that point, how can I come

to that?

 

M: The fact that you do not know your Self is very appropriate; you

are not the body, not the name of the body, therefore how can you

know your Self?

 

Q: How can I experience my Self?

 

M: It is because of the body that you do not see your Self?

 

Q: Perhaps because "I Am".

 

M: I am leading you in that direction. You are; because you are,

your world is. You are lost in the names and titles imprinted on

that world. Give up the habit of labeling whatever you are. Be what

you were prior to the label or title, be that.

 

Q: Is it intuitive, not of the mind?

 

M: Don't employ the mind, do nothing.

 

Q: Should you not be aware?

 

M: That awareness will be there provided you are. You must give up

all you have read and heard, and just be. Don't be carried away by

concepts. Truth is eternal; whatever you can grasp is unreal. Even

your experience that you are is not your true nature. You, as the

Absolute are not this "I Amness", but presently you have to abide in

your " I Amness.

 

Q: I feel afraid.

 

M: Because you have assumed something as " I Am", which actually you

are not, that is why you are afraid. Suppose you find a diamond ring

on the road and you pocket it. Since it is not yours, a fear

overcomes you. When you put on an identity that is not yours you are

afraid. When you are the pure " I Amness" only, there is not fear.

Presently you are this " I Am, but his " I Am; is not the truth.

Whatever you are prior to the appearance of " I Am" is your true

nature.

 

 

 

>From Consciousness and the Absolute editor Jean Dunn