Nisargadatta-At the root of everything,is the feeling 'I am'

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Nisargadatta, " viorica weissman " <viorica@z...> wrote:

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> Maharaj :

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> Before the world was , consciousness was. In consciousness

> it comes into being , in consciousness it lasts and into pure

> consciousness it dissolves.

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> At the root of everything , is the feeling " I am " .

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> The state of mind " there is a world " is secondary , for to be ,

> I do not need the world , the world needs me.

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> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> I AM THAT , Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 

Nice to see that other seekers are aware of the fundamental point of

Nisargadatta's teaching.

 

Nobody else can see their face.

So who sees all the faces?

 

" You are the one knower of everything. Therefore you are the liberated soul. "

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>threedrom

>Nisargadatta

>Nisargadatta

> Re: Nisargadatta-At the root of everything,is the

>feeling 'I am'

>Sun, 11 Nov 2001 21:55:19 -0000

 

>Nice to see that other seekers are aware of the fundamental point of

>Nisargadatta's teaching.

>......

> " You are the one knower of everything. Therefore you are the liberated

> >soul. "

 

It depends on where 'you' are coming from.

The problem with these blanket statements

from Douglas Harding and others

are that they can be misleading and

and more than likely the cause of acute

Narcissism and spiritual pathology

-You are the center of the world and so on-

....and all this crap.

 

In fact what is usually published as

'spiritual practise','Spiritual wisdom' are

really methods of unconsciousness,

therapeutic pallitives, tranquillizers or

sedatives that puts us to sleep and provides

temporary and symtomatic relief of the pain

of separation of the 'I-sense'.

 

What I'm trying to say are that all these

strategies : psychological, religious,

yogic, mystical, spiritual and otherwise

are simply methods or prescriptions of fogetfulness

of our fundamantal error(which is a mistaken

self-image or self-identification),our root

cause of suffering which propels all our

secondary activities, a desire to heal this wound,

a restless seeking for a solution, but which

ultimately never works! (the real cause

of the problem - the 'I'- cannot get rid of

itself using such methodologies.)

 

~dave

 

 

 

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