tonight's Nisargadatta

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Questioner: The war is on and there is chaos and you are being asked to take

charge of a feeding centre. You are given what is needed, it is only a question

of getting through the job. Will you refuse it?

 

Nisargadatta Maharaj: To work, or not to work, is one and the same to me. I may

take charge, or may not. There may be others, better endowed for such tasks,

than I am -- professional caterers for instance. But my attitude is different. I

do not look at death as a calamity as I do not rejoice at the birth of a child.

The child is out for trouble while the dead is out of it. Attachment to life is

attachment to sorrow. We love what gives us pain. Such is our nature.

 

For me the moment of death will be a moment of jubilation, not of fear. I cried

when I was born and I shall die laughing.