Thoughts on Awareness by Nisargadatta Maharaj

September 9, 2006

All you need is to keep quietly alert, enquiring into the real nature of

yourself.

This is the only way to peace.

The real exists and is of the nature of witness-consciousness.

Of course it is beyond the witness, but to enter it one must first realise the

state of pure witnessing....The witness is the reflection of the real in all its

purity....The state of witnessing is full of power.

There are no conditions to fulfill. There is nothing to be done, nothing to be

given up. Just look and remember whatever you perceive is not you, nor yours. It

is there in the field of consciousness, but you are not the field and its

contents, nor even the knower of the field. It is your idea that you have to do

things that entangle you in results of your efforts-the motive, the desire, the

failure to achieve, the sense of frustration-all this holds you back. Simply

look at whatever happens and know that you are beyond it.

You need not get at it (Enlightenment), for you are it. It will get at you, if

you give it a chance. Let go your attachment to the unreal and the real will

swiftly and smoothly slip into its own. Stop imagining yourself being or doing

this or that and the realisation that you are the source and heart of all will

dawn upon you. With this will come great love which is not choice or

predilection, nor attachment, but a power which makes all things love - worthy

and lovable.

Discover all you are not. Body, feelings, thoughts, ideas, time, space, being

and not being, this or that - nothing concrete or abstract you can point out to

is you. You must watch yourself continuously - particularly your mind - moment

by moment, missing nothing. This witnessing is essential for the separation of

the self from the not-self ........be aware of that state which is only, simply

being, without being this or that or the other.

Thoughts on Awareness by Nisargadatta Maharaj

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September 10, 2006

Gita says that the soul is taking birth and death constantly during the day and

night (Athachainam Nitya Jatam). Soul (pure awareness) dies in deep sleep and in

Coma also. So if you equate Atman to Brahman (God), then it leads to a

meaningless conclusion that God also takes birth and death during the day and

night. How do you account for this?

What is soul or Atman or causal body? Is it the awareness present in the

nervous system? Or is it the inert energy present in the brain? The concept of

‘I’ exists in both. The egoism ‘I’ exists as a pulse in the brain in the inert

energy and the same pulse exists in nervous system being experienced. If you say

that the soul is awareness, it is born every day and it dies every day. This is

the soul from one angle, which is mentioned by Gita (Athachainam Nityajatam…).

Please note that this view is mentioned as an angle and is never condemned by

Gita. From another angle, it is the inert energy present in the brain, which is

eternal as mentioned in Gita (Ajo Nityah…).

The Advaita scholar uses the logic positively with respect to every item of

the creation but when the final item of the creation (pure awareness or soul) is

attained, he is misleading himself. As per Sanskrit grammar, Brahman comes from

the root " Bruhi-Vruddhau " , which means that the root meaning of this word is

greatness. Anything that is great can be called as Brahman. The soul is the most

precious and greatest item of the creation and is called as Para Prakruti, which

means the greatest of all the created items. The soul is included as a part of

the creation (Prakruti) and is called as Para Prakruti as said in Gita

(Prakritim Viddhi me paraam….). It is not Creator. If it is Creator it cannot be

called as Prakruti. It is only the modification of food during evolution as said

in Veda (Annat Purushah…).

The sage Charvaka was scientist and atheist. His scientific approach was

appreciated and his theory is given place among the six theories (Shat Darsanas)

by Vidyaranya. He told that a soul or awareness is just a conversion of food

into energy. This is the exact elaboration of the Vedic statement (Annat

Purusha). But he denied the experience of God beyond this logic. What is the

difference between the Advaita scholar and an atheist? The Advaita scholar

denied God beyond awareness like an atheist. The Advaita scholar said that the

awareness is God. The atheist said that awareness is also not God because God

does not exist for him.

At the lotus feet of Shri Datta Swami

surya

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joson george <josongeorge5 wrote:

All you need is to keep quietly alert, enquiring into the real nature

of yourself.

This is the only way to peace.

The real exists and is of the nature of witness-consciousness.

Of course it is beyond the witness, but to enter it one must first realise the

state of pure witnessing....The witness is the reflection of the real in all its

purity....The state of witnessing is full of power.

There are no conditions to fulfill. There is nothing to be done, nothing to be

given up. Just look and remember whatever you perceive is not you, nor yours. It

is there in the field of consciousness, but you are not the field and its

contents, nor even the knower of the field. It is your idea that you have to do

things that entangle you in results of your efforts-the motive, the desire, the

failure to achieve, the sense of frustration-all this holds you back. Simply

look at whatever happens and know that you are beyond it.

You need not get at it (Enlightenment), for you are it. It will get at you, if

you give it a chance. Let go your attachment to the unreal and the real will

swiftly and smoothly slip into its own. Stop imagining yourself being or doing

this or that and the realisation that you are the source and heart of all will

dawn upon you. With this will come great love which is not choice or

predilection, nor attachment, but a power which makes all things love - worthy

and lovable.

Discover all you are not. Body, feelings, thoughts, ideas, time, space, being

and not being, this or that - nothing concrete or abstract you can point out to

is you. You must watch yourself continuously - particularly your mind - moment

by moment, missing nothing. This witnessing is essential for the separation of

the self from the not-self ........be aware of that state which is only, simply

being, without being this or that or the other.

Thoughts on Awareness by Nisargadatta Maharaj

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September 11, 2006

> Gita says that the soul is taking birth and death constantly during the day

and night

not death; it is like a swing:

Kabir:

Between the conscious and the unconscious . . . Between the conscious and the

unconscious, the mind has put up a swing: all earth creatures, even the

supernovas, sway between these two trees, and it never winds down.

Angels, animals, humans, insects by the million, also the wheeling sun and moon;

ages go by, and it goes on

Everything is swinging: heaven, earth, water, fire, and the secret one slowly

growing a body. Kabir saw that for fifteen seconds, and it made him a servant

for life.

> (Athachainam Nitya Jatam). Soul (pure awareness)

This is not Nisargadatta's term: Awareness [capital " A " ]

> dies in deep sleep and in Coma also.

-Awareness does not die

> So if you equate Atman to Brahman (God), then it leads to a meaningless

conclusion that God also takes birth and death during the day and night. How do

you account for this?

>

> What is soul or Atman or causal body? Is it the awareness present in the

nervous system? Or is it the inert energy present in the brain? The concept of

`I' exists in both. The egoism `I' exists as a pulse in the brain in the inert

energy and the same pulse exists in nervous system being experienced. If you say

that the soul is awareness, it is born every day and it dies every day. This is

the soul from one angle, which is mentioned by Gita (Athachainam Nityajatam…).

Please note that this view is mentioned as an angle and is never condemned by

Gita. From another angle, it is the inert energy present in the brain, which is

eternal as mentioned in Gita (Ajo Nityah…).

>

* read my next post please and some Western thinkers too

> The Advaita scholar uses the logic positively with respect to every item of