Nisargadatta. Spiritual experiences all entertainment.

[Guest guest]

January 11, 1981

 

 

 

Q: The spiritual experiences which I have, are they something which should not

be there? What is it?

 

 

 

M: It is all entertainment. You are present here; is your body not the result

of someone's entertainment? So long as you know that the experiences are only

appearances in consciousness it is all right.

 

 

 

Understanding is not a matter of time. If you really apperceive the truth, it

is simple and quickly grasped.

 

 

 

The conscious presence depends of the body, and the body is nothing but the

sperm and ovum, so where is this "You" This body is like an instrument that

says, " I am", like an announcer. Presently you think that you are the

body-mind, and whatever concepts you have collected are flowing out. When you

begin spirituality, you reject the body-mind with "I am not that." Then you

come to the "I AM" only, without words. Then you are everything; you are not

confined to the body.

 

 

 

Because of the instrument of the body, that feeling of consciousness is there

and I, the absolute, am not that.

 

 

 

Having stabilized in the consciousness, the next step is to be in a position to

observe the consciousness, and all the play that is happening in the

consciousness, just to understand. Attachment to the body and to the

consciousness is very strong; to get rid of it is very difficult.

 

 

 

The birth principal, the chemical around which the body formation takes place,

has no form or design and actually didn't exist. That non-existing thing

suddenly came into existence. What is the validity of its existence? It is an

apparition only, it can't be the truth. That's why I dare talk like this. This

is a big hoax, a big fraud, created out of nothingness. Can you create

something out of nothing?

 

 

 

Whatever I said is securely planted in that birth principle of yours, you cannot

extract it. In due course it will proliferate into knowledge.

 

 

 

I don't want life, even for a moment, but in that momentary life there are so

many lives.

 

 

 

I am not afraid of death. With death the imperfection is removed.

Consciousness, the stigma of imperfection is gone. What remains is total

perfection.

 

 

 

There is no guarantee that I will meet you tomorrow, but the reality is that

there is no separation at all between you and me, because we are one. Do not

imagine any separation

 

 

 

>From Consciousness and the Absolute editor Jean Dunn