It is not you who suffers

[CarsonZi]

Wow.....My forehead is BURNING from watching this video....and I'm not even finished yet![:p]  This is my first real exposure to Nisargadatta...thank you.

Love,
Carson[^]

[yogani]

quote:Originally posted by emc

A one hour video on Da Man! Go to "free audio/video" and "Awaken to the eternal"
http://www.theeternalstate.org/

"Wisdom is knowing I am nothing
Love is knowing I am everything
and between the two my life moves"

Hi emc and All:

This video on the life and teachings of Nisargadatta Maharaj is excellent, and I highly recommend it. It ties in with many things we have been discussing in AYP over the years, and is very compatible.  

Thanks so much for sharing it.

The guru is in you.

[Shanti]

Wow!!
Thanks emc.

[miguel]

The video is EXCELLENT.Thank you very much.

[Balance]

The world of mind and matter, of names and shapes, continues, but it does not matter to me at all. It is like having a shadow. It is there, following me wherever I go, but not hindering me in any way. It remains a world of experiences, but not of names and forms related to me by desires and fears. The experiences are qualitiless, pure experiences, if I may say so. I call them experiences for the lack of a better word. They are like the waves on the surface of the ocean, the ever-present, but not affecting its peaceful power.


- Nisargadatta

[Balance]

You are the Supreme Reality beyond the world and its creator, beyond consciousness and its witness, beyond all assertions and denials.

- Nisargadatta

[Balance]

When the mind has been put to rest and disturbs no longer the inner space (chidakash), the body acquires a new meaning and its transformation becomes both necessary and possible.

- Nisargadatta

[Balance]

Concern yourself with your mind, remove its distortions and impurities. Once you had the taste of your own self, you will find it everywhere and at all times. Therefore it is so important that you should come to it. Once you know it, you will never lose it.


In reality there is only consciousness. All life is conscious, all consciousness -alive. Even the stones are conscious and alive.

- Nisargadatta

[Balance]

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.


There is only imagination. It has absorbed you so completely that you just cannot grasp how far from reality you have wandered. No doubt imagination is richly creative. Universe upon universe are built on it. Yet they are all in space and time, past and future, which just don't exist.


There can be no continuity in existence. Continuity implies identity in past, present and future. No such identity is possible, for the very means of identification fluctuate and change. Continuity, permanency, these are illusions created by memory, mere mental projections of a pattern where no pattern can be.


- Nisargadatta

[Balance]

The world does not yield to changing. By its very nature it is painful and transient. See it as it is and divest yourself of all desire and fear. When the world does not hold and bind you, it becomes an abode of joy and beauty. You can be happy in the world only when you are free of it.


When somebody dies, nothing happens. Something becomes nothing. Nothing was, nothing remains.


It is the changing that dies. The immutable neither lives nor dies; it is the timeless witness of life and death. You cannot call it dead, for it is aware. Nor can you call it alive, for it does not change.


-Nisargadatta

[emc]

It is not what you do, but what you stop doing that matters.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj