from I AM by Nisargadatta

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Question: There is a Yogi who says,

that for realization the eightfold

Yoga is not necessary, that will-power

alone will do it. It is enough to concentrate on the goal with full

confidence i the power of pure will

to obtain effortlessly and quickly what

others take decades to achieve.

 

Nisargadatta: Concentration, full

confidence, pure will! With such assets

no wonder one attains in no time.

This yoga of will is all right for

the mature seeker, who has shed all

desires but one. After all, what is

will but a steadiness of heart and mind..Given such stead-fastness all

can be achieved...

 

Question: I feel the yogi did not

mean mere steadiness of purpose,

resulting in ceaseless pursuit and application. He meant that with will

fixed on the goal no pursuit nor

application are needed. The mere fact

of willing attracts its objects...

 

Nisargadatta: Whatever name you give

it, will, or steady purpose, or one-pointedness of the mind, you come

back to earnestness, sincerity,

honesty. When you are in dead earnest

you bend every incident, every second

of your life to your purpose. You do

not waste time and energy on other

things. You are totally dedicated,

call it will, or love, or plain

honesty. We are complex beings, at

war within and without. We contradict

ourselves all the time: undoing

today the work of yesterday. No wonder

we are stuck. A little of integrity

would make a lot of difference.

 

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Nisargadatta:Everything is a play

of ideas. In the state free from

ideation (nirviikalpa samadhi) nothing

is perceived. The root idea is

*I Am*. It shatters the state of pure

consciousness and is followed by the

innumerable sensations and perceptions feeling and ideas which in their

totality constitute God and His world.

 

The *I Am* remains as the witness, but

it is by the will of God that

everything happens...

 

Question: Why not by my will?

 

Nisargadatta: Again you have spit yourself-into God and witness. Both

are one...

 

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