Sunday 31 March 2024
The child of a barren woman
Thursday 28 March 2024
GOD
• To help you, God must know your existence. But you and your world are, dream states. None knows them, and none can help you.
• Your scriptures and your gods have no meaning here.
• Is it not the simple sense of being, the sense of existing, the sense of presence, that has not changed about yourself?
• If you were not conscious, would your body exist for you? Would there be any world for you?
• Would there then be any question of God or the Creator?
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
I am That
Friday 15 March 2024
Let us come back to your problems of re-birth.
• And consciousness is not an object, not a 'thing' at all; therefore, consciousness, as something non-objective, cannot be 'born', cannot 'die' and certainly cannot be 're-born'.
• Who is born? And who dies? And who is to be re-born? How does the concept of Karma, causality and re-birth arise at all?
• Instead of a phenomenon being accepted as a manifestation of the unmanifest, a mistaken identification with a pseudoentity takes place and a phantom with a supposed autonomous existence gets created.
• This phantom is supposed to have choice of decision and action. It is this phantom that is supposed to be born, to live, to suffer and to die.
• And in this process, it is this phantom who becomes liable to the process of causality known as Karma, accepts the supposed 'bondage' and 're-birth', and seeks an imagined 'liberation'.
• Over the natural process of the manifestation of phenomena, gets superimposed a phantom-self with a supposed autonomous, independent existence, and on this/phantom-self is loaded the concept of the resultant effects of the imagined volitional actions — i.e. Karma, bondage and re-birth!
• Do you understand now why I debunk the theory of re-birth?
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Thursday 14 March 2024
The entity which is supposed to be re-born does not exist
- The entity that you believe to exist and roam about after death is a religious superstition.
- The entity that you believe that will enter into another body after your death is a religious superstition.
- The entity that you believe that will progress gradually, on doing some gimmicks called yoga, or repeating some meaningless words called mantra is a religious superstition.
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"The entity which is supposed to be re-born does not exist, except as a mere concept! How can a concept be re-born?"
- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Thursday 22 February 2024
You may know all the right words, quote the scriptures
You may know all the right words, quote the scriptures, be brilliant in your discussions and yet remain a bag of bones. Or you may be inconspicuous and humble, an insignificant person altogether, yet glowing with loving kindness and deep wisdom.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
A journey into the unknown
Once you realize that the person is merely a shadow of the reality, but not reality itself, you cease to fret or worry. You agree to be guided from within and life becomes a journey into the unknown.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Wednesday 21 February 2024
The plurality that we perceive is only an appearance
Erwin Schrödinger
Austrian physicist. One of the founders of quantum theory.
Tuesday 11 July 2023
Sunday 25 June 2023
Individual soul is a religious superstition
Planarian worms cut into pieces, grow into separate organisms. If each organism has a soul, where from did these extra souls come?
Individual soul, jiva, atman is a religious superstition. That it can carry karma is a myth. That it will take rebirth is a myth. That it will go to heaven and hell is a myth. Individual soul is an imagination out of misidentification with the body. The very purpose of realization is to remove this false idea. Then, how can believing in fairy tales built on the misidentification, enlighten you?
Thursday 15 June 2023
There is no such thing as matter in itself - Max Planck
Tuesday 6 June 2023
There are no other means to liberation, all means delay.
When the fallacy of concepts and beliefs are exposed, the common argument raised is "Till I am ready, let me have such concepts", or "Till I am mature, such concepts are true for me". False is false whether you realise it or not. No dumb practice will make you free. Unless you come face to face with sensitive areas that disturbs you the most and clear it out, no change is going to happen.
Tuesday 11 April 2023
Until you drop everything - Ashtavakra Gita
You can recite and discuss scriptures all you want, but until you drop everything, you will never know the Truth.
Ashtavakra Gita
Monday 20 March 2023
The entire manifested universe exists only in consciousness
● As an appearance in consciousness, the world is the totality of the known in the potential of the unknown.
● 'Me', 'you' and 'he' are only appearances in consciousness.
Tuesday 3 January 2023
Absolute perfection is here and now
All you get by waiting is more waiting. Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Sunday 4 December 2022
What if I die without getting realized?
When you talk about an ignorant person and a Jnani and the need for an ignorant person to become a Jnani, do you not assume that there is an independent and autonomous individual, capable of exercising personal volition according to his choice and decision?
In the process whereby the phenomenal universe comes into manifestation, is there a provision for such independent entities?
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
- Realization is from the illusion of a person.
- A "realized person" is a paradox.
- There is no one to realize.
Saturday 3 December 2022
People mistake bliss for self-realisation
Your expectation of something unique and dramatic, of some wonderful explosion, is merely hindering and delaying your self-realisation.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
People mistake bliss for self-realisation.
Bliss is connected to serotonin in the brain. It comes and goes.
Thursday 1 December 2022
A character in a movie, a dreamed pseudo-entity
Who is thinking in terms of self-improvement? Surely, an appearance in consciousness, a character in a movie, a dreamed pseudo-entity considering itself subject to the workings of Karma.
• Realizing one's true nature requires no phenomenal effort.
• What efforts can a shadow make to know its substance?
• Who is to do Sadhana and for what purpose?
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Pointers from N.M.
• You are so attached to the show that you forget that you are not the character in the cinema, but its witness.
• “Reincarnation exists as long as I am not realized” is like saying “The characters in the cinema are true as long as I don’t realize that it is a cinema.”
• The cinema is an appearance whether you realize it or not. The entire world is an appearance to you, whether you realize it or not.
• Karma and reincarnation are just false religious concepts, whether you are realized or not realized.
• Can any amount of ‘sadhana’ done by the imaginary character in a cinema help to realize its true nature? How can a non-existent entity realize itself? How can a concept realize itself?
• Then what is the solution? – Stop conceptualizing and spontaneously and directly apperceive things as they are. All knowledge is conceptual, therefore, untrue.
Thursday 17 November 2022
Man of cluttered intellect - Ashtavakra Gita
A man of open intuition may realize Self upon hearing a casual instruction, while a man of cluttered intellect inquires bewildered for a lifetime.
यथातथोपदेशेन कृतार्थः सत्त्वबुद्धिमान् ।
आजीवमपि जिज्ञासुः परस्तत्र विमुह्यति ॥
Ashtavakra Gita
Sunday 13 November 2022
The self-styled Gurus obstruct
The self-styled Gurus talk of ripeness and effort, of merits and achievements, of destiny and grace. All these are mere mental formations, projections of an addicted mind. Instead of helping, they obstruct.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
All ideas of ripeness and effort, merits and achievements, progress and goal, destiny and grace, rebirth and karma, are ignorant religious concepts based on the false notion of a non-existent entity. Such an entity does not exist.
Monday 7 November 2022
It is all imagination - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Through the film of your mind you project a world and also a God to give it cause and purpose. It is all imagination. Step out of it.
Nisargadatta Maharaj