NDM.

What came first, 

the body of the world or our body? 

Your true nature is formless, 

yet it identifies with the body. 

In the same way, 

the world looks real through the senses!

Who is prior: 

the world or the one who sees the world? 

Your wakefulness is the same as the world. 

First comes consciousness, and 

then the world is seen in it. 

Consciousness is unstable. It likes to be.

However, when ‘I am-ness’ goes so does the world. You have to see this with a very subtle inner discrimination. This vast panoramic world is the reflection of your consciousness. As such it is nameless; yet name gives it support and transactions are made possible. All names are concepts. When Parabrahman remains in the unmanifest state, can He have a name?

Krishna says He is all-pervading. Because of the sense of duality people differentiate. They either praise or censure. The concept ‘I am like this’ is the basic reason of misery or happiness. If you stay with the feeling

‘I am’, the basic vibration of ‘I am’, you will digest miseries as easily as happiness. Whatever is visible, whatever appears, has not happened at all! 

Do not indulge in flattery or censure, even if it costs you your life, as there is no other. Unless the sense ‘I am like this’ goes, the duality will not go. You must understand the ultimate meaning of your Self, by yourself. Then nothing can harm you. One in a million tries to know it. One who realizes it, his consciousness merges peacefully within his own Self. Consciousness disappears into the knower. That is called Parabrahman. 

You know what you are before you know anything else. Convince yourself that you are pure consciousness.

All worldly dealings will be carried out spontaneously. It is the only way. The notion that you do something is utterly false.

!!! MEDITATIONS WITH SRI NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ. Excerpt from: Nirupana 47

Sunday, July 30, 1978