Guest guest Posted March 5, 2007 Report Share Posted March 5, 2007 Maharaj: ... When self-control becomes second nature, awareness shifts its focus to deeper levels of existence and action. Questioner: Don’t you become a robot? M: What harm is there in making automatic, what is habitual and repetitive? It is automatic anyhow. But when it is also chaotic, it causes pain and suffering and calls for attention. The entire purpose of a clean and well-ordered life is to liberate man from the thraldom of chaos and the burden of sorrow. Q: You seem to be in favour of a computerised life. M: What is wrong with a life which is free from problems? Personality is merely a reflection of the real. Why should not the reflection be true to the original as a matter of course, automatically? Need the person have any designs of its own? The life of which it is an expression will guide it. Once you realise that the person is merely a shadow of the reality, but not reality itself, you cease to fret and worry. You agree to be guided from within and life becomes a journey into the unknown. - Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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