This is me Here abd Now

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Between the remembered and the actual there is a basic difference

which can be observed from moment to moment. At no point of time is

the actual the remembered. Between the two there is a difference in

kind, not merely in intensity.

 

The actual is unmistakably so. By no effort of will or imagination

can you interchange the two. Now, what is it that gives this unique

quality to the actual?

 

A moment back, the remembered was actual, in a moment the actual

will be the remembered. What makes the actual unique?

 

Obviously, it is the sense of being present. In memory and

anticipation, there is a clear feeling that it is a mental state

under observation, while in the actual the feeling is primarily

of being present and aware.

 

Wherever you go, the sense of here and now you carry with you all

the time. It means that you are independent of space and time,

that space and time are in you, not you in them.

 

It is your self-identification with the body, which, of course,

is limited in space and time, that gives you the feeling of

finiteness. In reality you are infinite and eternal.

 

Look closely and you will see that the seer and the seen appear

only when there is seeing. They are attributes of seeing. When

you say " I am seeing this " , " I am " and " this " come with the seeing,

nor before.

 

You cannot have an unseen " this " nor an unseeing " I am " . Knowing

is a reflection of your true nature along with being and loving.

 

The knower and the known are added by the mind. It is in the nature

of the mind to create a subject-object duality, where there is none.

 

This reality is so concrete, so actual, so much more tangible

than mind and matter, that compared to it even diamond is soft

like butter. This overwhelming actuality makes the world dreamlike,

misty, irrelevant.

 

My feeling is that all that happens in space and time happens to

me, that every experience is my experience, every form is my form.

 

What I take myself to be becomes my body, and all that happens to

that body becomes my mind. But at the root of the universe there is

pure awareness, beyond space and time, here and now.

 

Know it to be your real being and act accordingly.

 

Nisargadatta

 

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The most fundamental duality is the duality between " Me " and

" Not-Me " . This has to disappear

~ Sandeep ~