Seeds Of Consciousness

 

🌹 Seeds Of Consciousness - 1 🌹
✍️ Nisargadatta Maharaj
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

You have to go within. Whatever great things have happened in nature, however powerful, still they disappear right here. These situations appear and disappear.

This is actually abstract, what is solid here is the knowledge "I am". The seen and seeing disappear. I tell this only to those who are prepared to listen. Whatever appears is bound to disappear.
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🌹 Seeds Of Consciousness - 2🌹
✍️ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

There are so many who take the dawn for the noon, a momentary experience for full realisation and destroy even the little they gain by excess of pride.

Humility and silence are essential for a sadhaka, however advanced.
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🌹 Seeds Of Consciousness - 3🌹
✍️ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻 ‘I am this or that’ 🌻

Now, you are trying to understand all this but you cannot, because you have on the swaddling clothes of 'I am this or that'. Remove them.

The ultimate point of view is that there is nothing to understand. So, trying to understand is just indulging in mental acrobatics.

Whatever you have understood you are not. Spit it all out. Whatever you understand is not the truth. Throw it overboard.

Do not try to catch hold of any concepts and cling to them. Don't employ any words, but look at yourself as you are.

Throw away every thought, every experience, everything that happens after the consciousness, the beingness comes. Other than throwing it away as useless, there is nothing to be done beyond this firm understanding in which you become more and more absorbed. Before the beingness was there, look at that, be in that state.

Do not get lost in words and thoughts and ideas. Do not crave for mind knowledge and concepts in the name of spirituality. Anything that is seen and interpreted by the mind is only an appearance in consciousness, and, therefore, cannot be true.

The knowledgeable one just witnesses whatever experiences are obtainable through the mind, viewing them as without substance.

The mind may be sprouting, expressing itself with various concepts. But, don't identify with that, let it go. Don't be a customer to your mind concepts.

The knower of the mind is just a witness. He does not interfere in anything.
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🌹 Seeds Of Consciousness - 4🌹
✍️ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

1) Once the conviction:

‘I am not the body’ becomes so well grounded that he can no longer feel, think and act for and on behalf of the body, he will easily discover that he is the universal being, knowing, acting,
that in him and through him the entire universe is real, conscious and active.

2) The totality of conscious experiences is nature.

As a conscious self you are a part of nature.
As awareness, you are beyond. Seeing nature as mere consciousness is awareness.[ but for awareness Maharaj says : There is a mysterious power that looks after them. That power is (awareness, Self, Life, God, whatever name you give it). It is the foundation, the ultimate support of all that is.]
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🌹 Seeds Of Consciousness - 5 🌹
✍️ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

The memory of the past unfulfilled desires traps energy, which manifests itself as a person. When its charge gets exhausted, the person dies.

Unfulfilled desires are carried over into the next birth. Self-identification with the body creates ever fresh desires and there is no end to them, unless this mechanism of bondage is clearly seen.

It is clarity that is liberating, for you cannot abandon desire,unless its causes and effects are clearly seen. I do not say that the same person is reborn.

It dies and dies for good. But its memories remain and their desires and fears. They supply the energy for a new person. The real takes no part in it, but makes it possible by giving it the light.
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🌹 Seeds Of Consciousness - 6🌹
✍️ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

You are not a kindergarten student of spirituality, so you must cease to think and speak as if you are a phenomenal object.

You are the animating consciousness that provides sentience to the sentient being. You are the pure Awareness. You do not need to be liberated.
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🌹 Seeds Of Consciousness - 7🌹
✍️ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻 Silent Meditation 🌻

Meditation is a deliberate attempt to pierce into the higher states of consciousness and finally go beyond it. The art of meditation is the art of shifting the focus of attention to even subtler levels, without losing one's grip on the levels left behind.

The final stage of meditation is reached when the sense of identity goes beyond the 'I-am-so-and-so', beyond 'so-I-am', beyond 'I-am-the-witness-only', beyond 'there-is', beyond all ideas into the impersonally personal pure being. But you must be energetic when you take to meditation. It is definitely not a part-time occupation.

Limit your interests and activities to what is needed for you and your dependents' barest needs. Save all your energies and time for breaking the wall your mind had built around you. Believe me, you will not regret.
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🌹 Seeds Of Consciousness - 8 🌹
✍️ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻. There are no others to help. 🌻

A rich man, when he hands over his entire fortune to his family, has not a coin left to give a beggar.

So is the wise man (Jnani) stripped of all his powers and possessions? Nothing, literally nothing can be said about him. He cannot help anybody, for he is everybody.

He is the poor and also his poverty, the thief and also his thievery. How can he be said to help when he is not apart?

Who thinks of himself as separate from the world, let him help the world. The only thing that can help is to wake up from the dream.
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🌹 Seeds Of Consciousness - 9 🌹
✍️ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

I have no need of any experience, therefore I have no need to quarrel with anybody.

The body and mind will go on doing whatever they like during their natural course of duration.
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🌹 Seeds Of Consciousness - 10 🌹
✍️ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻. THE POWER OF A JNANI 🌻

Q: Can you influence the world by your attitude? By separating yourself from the world you lose all hope of helping it.

M: How can it be? All is myself -- can't I help myself? I do not identify myself with anybody in particular, for I am all -- both the particular and the universal.

Q: Can you then help me, the particular person?

M: But I do help you always -- from within. My self and your self are one. I know it, but you don't.
That is all the difference -- and it cannot last.

Q: And how do you help the entire world?

M: Gandhi is dead, yet his mind pervades the earth. The thought of a jnani pervades humanity and works ceaselessly for good. Being anonymous, coming from within, it is the more powerful and compelling. That is how the world improves -- the inner aiding and blessing the outer.

When a jnani dies, he is no more, in the same sense in which a river is no more when it merges in the sea, the name, the shape, are no more, but the water remains and becomes one with the ocean.

When a jnani joins the universal mind, all his goodness and wisdom become the heritage of humanity and uplift every human being.
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