There is only one state - Balsekar

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Nisargadatta, Jan Sultan <swork@m...> wrote:

> There is only one state.

 

I am not a state.

 

A state requires someone to be in it,

and to know it as a state.

 

> When corrupted and tainted by self-identification,

> it is known as an individual.

 

There is nothing outside of my being, which could corrupt

this being.

 

> When merely tinted by the sense of presence,

> of animated consciousness, it is the impersonal witnessing.

 

Whatever seems to appear within me, as a state of being,

comes and goes.

What doesn't make an appearance, nor disappear, hasn't

been tinted.

 

> When it remains

> in its pristine purity, untainted and untinted in primal repose, it

is the

> Absolute.

 

Anything said about it, is just an arising of words,

which come and go.

 

> Balsekar

>

> [The above is also vintage Nisargadatta.]

>

> Understand the above intuitively without any concepts blocking the

way and

> you need no other teaching!

 

Thinking that there is something to understand,

you propose a teaching which is to be understood.

 

Dan