Guest guest Posted December 28, 2001 Report Share Posted December 28, 2001 Hi Sandeep, It would be what shadow is doing. ~~~ What would be, Sheng Hui asking the question in this post? Love, James Nisargadatta, " Sandeep Chatterjee " <sandeepc@b...> wrote: > > > If chasing one's shadow seems foolish; > > What would be, shadow chasing the Self asking " Who am I? " > > Sheng Hui Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 28, 2001 Report Share Posted December 28, 2001 At this point one could ask: What would be, James's asking the question about Sheng Hui's question? ...and so on ad infinitum. In this way the inquiry 'Who am I' is the living answer Itself - (there is no entity that answers it) the QUEST is the QUESTion is the answer - I AM. I AM WHO AM I OneDuality Love, James Nisargadatta, " nisarga111 " <nisarga@c...> wrote: > > Hi Sandeep, > > It would be what shadow is doing. > > ~~~ > > What would be, Sheng Hui asking the question in this post? > > Love, > James > > > > > > Nisargadatta, " Sandeep Chatterjee " <sandeepc@b...> wrote: > > > > > > If chasing one's shadow seems foolish; > > > > What would be, shadow chasing the Self asking " Who am I? " > > > > Sheng Hui Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 18, 2005 Report Share Posted June 18, 2005 Nisargadatta , " Anna Ruiz " <nli10u@c...> wrote: Who am I if I am not This Who am I if I know not This Who am I if I am not doing This Who am I if this doing is not This Who am I if I am not Love of This Who am I if I am notThis Knowing Who am I if I am not this Doing Who am I if this doing is not Mine Who am I if this Loving is not in Me Who am I if This is not Love of a simple name I called unto Myself This a Breath unto the Void Who Am I? > > > _______________________________ > copyright anna ruiz june 2005 Nisargadatta's furthest taken answer to that question: " When you follow it up carefully from brain through consciousness to awareness, you find that the sense of duality persists. When you go beyond awareness, there is a state of nonduality, in which there is no cognition, only pure being, which may be as well called non-being, if by being you mean being something in particular. " What is your answer? Is the answer speakable, knowable? Lewis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 18, 2005 Report Share Posted June 18, 2005 - Lewis Burgess Nisargadatta Saturday, June 18, 2005 9:29 AM Re: who am I Nisargadatta , " Anna Ruiz " <nli10u@c...> wrote: Who am I if I am not This Who am I if I know not This Who am I if I am not doing This Who am I if this doing is not This Who am I if I am not Love of This Who am I if I am notThis Knowing Who am I if I am not this Doing Who am I if this doing is not Mine Who am I if this Loving is not in Me Who am I if This is not Love of a simple name I called unto Myself This a Breath unto the Void Who Am I? > > > _______________________________ > copyright anna ruiz june 2005 Nisargadatta's furthest taken answer to that question: " When you follow it up carefully from brain through consciousness to awareness, you find that the sense of duality persists. When you go beyond awareness, there is a state of nonduality, in which there is no cognition, only pure being, which may be as well called non-being, if by being you mean being something in particular. " What is your answer? Is the answer speakable, knowable? Lewis Both the answer and the question are revealed/recognized in this small sacrifice " Who " am I / " I am " Who love, anna ** If you do not wish to receive individual emails, to change your subscription, sign in with your ID and go to Edit My Groups: /mygroups?edit=1 Under the Message Delivery option, choose " No Email " for the Nisargadatta group and click on Save Changes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 18, 2005 Report Share Posted June 18, 2005 - Lewis Burgess Nisargadatta Saturday, June 18, 2005 9:29 AM Re: who am I Nisargadatta , " Anna Ruiz " <nli10u@c...> wrote: Who am I if I am not This Who am I if I know not This Who am I if I am not doing This Who am I if this doing is not This Who am I if I am not Love of This Who am I if I am notThis Knowing Who am I if I am not this Doing Who am I if this doing is not Mine Who am I if this Loving is not in Me Who am I if This is not Love of a simple name I called unto Myself This a Breath unto the Void Who Am I? > > > _______________________________ > copyright anna ruiz june 2005 Nisargadatta's furthest taken answer to that question: " When you follow it up carefully from brain through consciousness to awareness, you find that the sense of duality persists. When you go beyond awareness, there is a state of nonduality, in which there is no cognition, only pure being, which may be as well called non-being, if by being you mean being something in particular. " What is your answer? Is the answer speakable, knowable? Lewis Both the answer and the question are revealed/recognized in this small sacrifice " Who " am I / " I am " Who love, anna Niyesh Anna. Youse preferrin da words without shamin. Ise be readin da words, smilin in your madness. Smilin, Lewis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 5, 2007 Report Share Posted November 5, 2007 Namaste Otnac6-ji. Your post 37844. In his Upadesasaram, Bhagwan Ramana Maharshi equates self-enquiry to a continuous sort of reflection (sarala-cintanam) which is like the pouring of ghee in an unbroken string or the smooth flow of a stream. Self-enquiry, therefore, is not simply sitting and repeating the question " Who am I? " without doing anything. Such reflection is the traditional neti, neti (understanding the body, mind, ego etc. for what they really are) which leads one to the unnegatable substratum of " I am " that answers the " Who am I? " enquiry. This reflection is something that can be practised during free time. After a while, the practice naturally grows on the seeker to grant him an awareness of himself that is quite contrary to his erstwhile assumptions of himself. From then on, the awareness remains an evident background whatever one does in his mundane roles, i.e. despite the innumerable demands of the roles, the role-performer remains awareness - unperturbed and untouched. That is the " I am " default of Nisargadatta Maharaj if I understand him right. I would even venture to say that constant reflection would let this awareness percolate into dreams and enlighten the darkness of sleep so that ultimately the seeker metamorphoses into eternal wakefulness, which is his real nature. You can engage yourself in algebra problems or in conversation. But, if you practise the reflection so kindly prescribed by Bhagawan, a time will soon come when you will be *yourself* despite the demands of algebra and chatter on your brain and tongue, which you are not in any way and with which you don't identify any more. You are right when you say: " Attention is a limited commodity. I can't attend to or concentrate on more that one thing at a time. " Here is a way you can walk back to Yourself from the above statement. When you concentrate on something, you are not aware of yourself because, as you say, attention is a limited commodity. So, when you are attentive to things one after another in a continous stream, do you exist or not? You definitely exist. That is why you are aware of other things. So, the awareness of things other than you validates only your existence - " I am " . You are every bit of what you are aware of. If that is the case, you are the one appearing as this multiplicity. You know that you can't be a multiplicity because you are One. So, the multiplicity is simply negatable. What remains is then " I am " . You have now answered the " Who am I? " question of Bhagawan and found the Unity in diversity. You are the twinkle of the stars, the peal of thunder, the roar of the oceans. Yet, you are " You Are " - the " I am " which is the only answer there to the question " Who am I? " . PraNAms. Madathil Nair Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 5, 2007 Report Share Posted November 5, 2007 Namaste Madathil, Thanks much for the reply! I appreciate it. Best wishes, Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 12, 2009 Report Share Posted January 12, 2009 Abidance in pure being Transcending thought through love intense Is the very essence Of supreme devotion. Absorption in the Heart of being Whence we sprang, Is the path of action, of devotion, Of union and knowledge. --Ramana Maharshi-- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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