Showing posts with label Nisagardatta Maharaj. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nisagardatta Maharaj. Show all posts

Monday, September 1, 2025

The whole of life lies in the verb seeing. —Teilhard de Chardin

  





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Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the perception of this one living being; and how all things act with one movement; and how all things are the cooperating causes of all things which exist; observe too the continuous spinning of the thread and the contexture of the web.

[...] The Nothing is never at rest, neither manifestation repeats any other and everything that IS throbs and vibrates to create the mental world of "existence". 

Whatever we do "here and now" influences the surrounding environment of the planet of the Solar system, of the Galaxy, of the Universe, of the full combination of the universes.

When a blade of grass is cut the whole universe quivers ...

—The Upanishads

                    


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In the end words go; finally the perceptibles and observables go into the non-perceptible and non-observable state. Find that out. 

You will understand this slowly and get peace and rest. 

You do not do anything. It happens.


—Nisagardatta Maharaj




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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

the witness is the door








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Awareness is primordial; it is the original state, beginningless, endless, uncaused, unsupported, without parts, without change. Consciousness is on contact, a reflection against a surface, a state of duality. There can be no consciousness without awareness, but there can be awareness without consciousness, as in deep sleep.

Awareness is absolute, consciousness is relative to its content; consciousness is always of something. Consciousness is partial and changeful, awareness is total, changeless, calm and silent. And it is the common matrix of every experience.

Whatever depends, is not real. The real is truly independent. Since the existence of the person depends on the existence of the world and it is circumscribed and defined by the world, it cannot be real.

As long as you cling to the idea that only what has name and shape exists, the Supreme will appear to you non-existing. When you understand that names and shapes are hollow shells without any content whatsoever, and what is real is nameless and formless, pure energy of life and light of consciousness, you will be at peace – immersed in the deep silence of reality.

The source of consciousness cannot be an object in consciousness. To know the source is to be the source.

The witness-consciousness is the reflection of the real in the mind. The real is beyond. The witness is the door through which you pass beyond.
 
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
I Am That, 1973

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You are the solitary Witness of All That Is,

Forever Free.

Your only bondage is not seeing this.


—Ashtavakra Gita




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