Maharaj on awareness And Conciousness

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Here is a quote at last from " Pointers from Nisargadatta Maharaj by

Ramesh. " Page # 183

 

 

" What is our true identity? Maharaj would say: 'Unmanifested, in

stillness, our

identity is absolute unicity- pure awareness not aware of itself;

manifested,

functioning in duality, our identity is consciousness seeking itself

as the

'other' because it can't tolerate its own presence.' In other words,

says

Maharaj, on the timeless, changeless, Absolute Noumenality, the body-

cum

consciousness has appeared like a temporary illness, without cause or

reason, as

part of the total functioning of impersonal consciousness in its role

as Prajna.

Each phenomenal form works its alloted time and at the end of its

life-time it

disappears, and consciousness no longer conscious of itself merges in

Awareness.

One is neither born nor die. Consciousness in order to manifest is

constantly

creating new forms and destroying old ones. "