Nisargadatta

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Our only hope: to stop, to look, to understand and to

get out of the traps of memory. For memory feeds

imagination and imagination generates desire and fear.

 

The light of consciousness passes through the film of

memory and throws pictures on your brain. Because of

the deficient and disordered state of your brain, what

you perceive is distorted and colored by feelings of

like and dislike. Make your thinking orderly and free

from emotional overtones, and you will see people and

things as they are, with clarity and charity.

 

The witness of birth, life and death is one and the

same. It is the witness of pain and of love. For while

the existence in limitation and separation is

sorrowful, we love it. We love it and hate it at the

same time. We fight, we kill, we destroy life and

property and yet we are affectionate and

self-sacrificing. We nurse the child tenderly and

orphan it too. Our life is full of contradictions. Yet

we cling to it. This clinging is at the root of

everything. Still, it is entirely superficial. We hold

on to something or somebody with all our might and

next moment we forget it; like a child that shapes its

mud-pies and abandons them light-heatedly. Tough them

- it will scream with anger, divert the child and he

forgets them. For our life is now, and the love of it

is now. We love variety, the play of pain and

pleasure, we are fascinated by contrasts. For this we

need the opposites and their apparent separation. We

enjoy them for a time and then get tired and crave for

the peace and silence of pure being. The cosmic heart

beats ceaselessly. I am the witness and the heart too.

 

The world appears to you so overwhelmingly real

because you think of it all the time; cease thinking

of it and it will dissolve into thin mist.

 

There is only one mistake you are making: you take the

inner for the outer, and the outer for the inner. What

is in you, you take to be outside you, and what is

outside you take to be in you. The mind and feelings

are external, but you take them to be intimate. You

believe the world to be objective, while it is

entirely a projection of your psyche. That is the

basic confusion.

 

You have projected onto yourself a world of your own

imagination, based on memories, on desires and fears,

and you have imprisoned yourself in it. Break the

spell and be free.

 

This must be well grasped: the world hangs on the

thread of consciousness. No consciousness, no world.

 

Once you realize that the world is your own

projection, you are free of it. You need not free

yourself of a world that does not exist, except in

your own imagination! However is the picture,

beautiful or ugly, you are painting it and you are not

bound by it. Realize that there is nobody to force it

on you, that it is due to the habit of taking the

imaginary to be real. See the imaginary as imaginary

and be free of fear.

 

 

 

 

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