personality is memory

11-26-2001, 08:20 AM

Message: 1 Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 21:28:08 +0200 From: "viorica
weissman" Subject: Nisargadatta-Q: Yet personality must have a
cause.Q: Yet personality must have a cause. Maharaj : How does
personality come into being ? By memory. By identifying
the present with the past and projecting it into the
future. Think of yourself as momentary , without past
and future and your personality dissolves .Q : Does not "I am" remain
? M: The word 'remain' does not apply . "I am" is ever fresh. You do
not need to remember in order to be. As a matter of fact ,
before you can experience anything , there must be the sense of
being. At present your being is mixed up with experiencing. All
you need is to unravel being from the tangle of experiences.
Once you have known pure being , without being this or that ,
you will discern it among experiences and you will no longer be
misled by names and forms. Self-limitation is the very essence
of personality. from * I Am That *