Sweet consciousness

[Guest guest]

The sweetness is the nature of sugar;

but that sweetness is there only so long as the sugar is present.

Once the sugar has been consumed or thrown away, there is no more

sweetness. So this knowledge " I am, " this consciousness, this

feeling or sense of Being, is the quintessence of the body. And if

that body essence is gone, this feeling, the sense of Being, will

also have gone. This sense of Being cannot remeain without the body,

just as sweetness cannot remain without the material, which is sugar.

 

Visitor: What remains then?

 

Maharaj: What remains is the Original, which is unconditioned,

without attributes, and without identity: that on which this

temporary state of the consciousness and the three states and the

three gunas have come and gone. It is called Parabrahman, the

Absolute.

 

This is my basic teaching.

 

-Nisargadatta Maharaj

" The Ultimate Medicine, " p. 35

 

ps. i found this quote on

http://www.prahlad.org/gallery/nisargadatta/nisargadatta_quotes01.htm