Satsang with Nome - The Self alone is - Question 1

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Q.: I was berating myself for trying to objectify the Self. Thinking

it over, I reflected that there could be no alternative. The Self

cannot be objectified, and nothing can be objectified. The other

night, when you were joking with Advait (a young child), it seemed

clear to me that, if something appears objectified, it only appears

that way. That is what we can call " maya. " As you just indicated,

there can be no alternative. I want to be sure that I am going in the

right direction.

 

N.: Nonduality does not have an alternative. It is not one among

many. It is that which alone exists. It can never be a known or

unknown object. If you imagine objectivity, the objectivity is still

only That—That misperceived through delusion. Yet the delusion,

itself, does not have a separate existence. To resolve the

nonexistent maya, and that is what maya is, that which is not, find

out for whom it is.

 

It is evident that your Being is nonobjective. If " I " arises, the

notion of existing as some kind of individual, an object will be

imagined. The imagined object will always correspond in kind with

definitions superimposed upon the individual who does not actually

exist. Follow the Maharshi's advice by inquiring, " For whom is

this? " " Who am I? "

 

Q.: Your advice was the direction to inquire, " Who would be limited

by it? "

 

N.: If we inquire, " Who is bound?, " we find no bound individual at

all. We find just Brahman, just the Self. It is One Self (oneself).

You don't have another kind of Self.

 

Q.: We can never be too thankful.

 

N.: Sri Bhagavan has pointed out that our gratitude consists in our

steady abidance in That as That, itself.

 

(silence)

 

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Not two,

Richard