Guest guest Posted March 1, 2007 Report Share Posted March 1, 2007 Maharaj: Awareness is not of time. Time exists in consciousness only. Beyond consciousness where are time and space? Questioner: Within the field of your consciousness there is your body also. M: Of course. But the idea 'my body', as different from other bodies, is not there. To me it is 'a body', not 'my body', 'a mind', not 'my mind'. The mind looks after the body all right, I need not interfere. What needs be done is being done, in the normal and natural way. You may not be quite conscious of your physiological functions, but when it comes to thoughts and feelings, desires and fears you become acutely self-conscious. To me these too are largely unconscious. I find myself talking to people, or doing things quite correctly and appropriately, without being very much conscious of them. It looks as if I live my physical, waking life automatically, reacting spontaneously and accurately. Q: Does this spontaneous response come as a result of realisation, or by training? M: Both. Devotion to your goal makes you live a clean and orderly life, given to search for truth and to helping people, and realisation makes noble virtue easy and spontaneous, by removing for good the obstacles in the shape of desires and fears and wrong ideas. - Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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