Nisargadatta..Foolishness is my richness

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Prior to Consciousness 12/31/80

 

Q: When you become one with everybody's consciousness there is an emotional

drain because you feel their sorrow and everything. It that a right state in

which to be?

Maharaj: It is one of the preliminary stages, but it is excellent. There is a

still separateness but gradually it will ripen into complete oneness.

Q: I don't feel any desire anymore to strive for anything in the world.

M: There is nothing wrong it that. Your hunger and thirst for bliss or joy is

absolutely fulfilled and therefore you stop going after things.

Q: Is there still some individuality left to continue one's destiny?

M: That individuality does not create any kind of discontent or fear. It so

happens that there is no memory at all of that individual " I " it goes on acting

on its own energy. There is a memory that this is the total manifestation but

no memory of an individual acting.

Q: I feel that I am one with consciousness but it wavers.

M: You are not yet stabilized in consciousness; you are getting some glimpses.

Being one with consciousness is going beyond these states of waking and

sleeping. You know the sky, you know the space, but can you become one with the

space? Not yet, it is not possible. When you become one with consciousness you

become one with space.

Q: Is there something which I can do to help me to grow, to progress?

M: Consciousness does not undergo any progress. Even the space cannot have any

progress and the space is number three.

One is the Absolute, two is consciousness, three is space. " Where there was

no knowledge " I Am, " that is number one; later on there is a sense " I Am " that

is number two; then there is space - number three. Passing the examination of

the Upanishads, does it give you knowledge of the Self?

Q: No. However it does something.

M: In my case, everything is spontaneous - that is my dharma. If the

knowledgeable people come and tell me I am foolish, I will say, " This

foolishness is my richness, my freedom. That knowingness which has come over

me, that itself is foolishness. "

You are a very gentle woman; if someone comes and abuses you thinking you

are a man, you will get angry at this misunderstanding. To identify with

anything, " I Am like this, " is abuse of your nature.

Q: How to loose this identification with the body?

M: Increase the conviction that you are the formless consciousness. You

develop your firm conviction that you are the total manifestation, universal

consciousness. There is nobody who can have the knowledge of the Truth, the

Eternal. It is one's true state, but it is not a knowledgeable state - you

cannot know It. So-called knowledge is boundless and plenty in the state of

attributes, " I Am " .

In this body is the knowledge " I Am " . When the body drops down the

knowledge " I Am " will survive there only - what remains is the Absolute.