Nisargadatta..Do not expect to benefit

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January 24, 1981

 

 

 

M: Listen to what I am saying, but do not expect to benefit in any way by what

you hear, because to benefit there must be an entity, and there is no entity.

 

Since I have had this disease there has been a slight change in the way I look

at things. Earlier, I had felt that there was slight touch of individuality, to

the extent that I felt that this universal consciousness was acting through a

particular form. Now there is not the slightest touch of any individual form

nor functioning. There in now cognition of total functioning as such, but even

that will last only so long as the body lasts. In that body there is

consciousness, and both are material. In all this there is no question of any

entity cognizing anything as separate. Instead, there is total functioning

through various million of forms. I have identified that disease with the total

consciousness.

 

 

 

Q: What remains when consciousness goes?

 

 

 

M: Nothing phenomenal remains. The present talks are the culmination, or

termination, of spiritual understanding. The more the physical pain is

observed, the more it is being realized that everything is illusory.

 

 

 

Q: Maharaj has reached the destination, we have not.

 

 

 

M: There is a house, and in the house there was person; now the person is gone

and the house is demolished. The sum total is, whatever experiences you have,

whether for a day or for years, it is all illusion. The experiencing will not

go until you realize that all this domain of the five elements, and the

experiences in the five elements, are unreal. This "I Amness" itself unreal.