An Advaita Vedanta realization, enlightenment, nisarga yoga site discussing non-duality (nonduality), your original nature, and dwelling in the natural state as revealed by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.
FROM A SITE VISITOR: Aren't "You" seeing realized and non-realized persons? Is this not duality? Please explain. Raja
F.: There is no duality. There is the real and the imagined-to-be-real. Be free of delusion and then it will be understood that only the oneness is.
To believe that one can see realized and non-realized persons shows the degree of currently-unavailable logic, tantamount to saying:
“My parents wanted one boy and one girl but they only had me…a male; therefore, our family is made up of four persons: two parents, one male, and then the female that does not exist. Surely when you look at us, you are seeing the ones who are here as well as the one that is not.”
Again, there are no persons. There are specks of consciousness that are impure or pure…that are blocked or not blocked and thus either believing that illusions are real or understanding Truth.
FROM “ANONYMOUS”: Just found your site and like it. What did Sri Nisargadatta means “you are not in the world the world is in you? If we are not in the world, how can we ever change it for the better.
F.: It is suggested that you visit the archives and focus for now on postings that deal with body identification. That is your starting point.
As for the quote from Maharaj, you will understand those words if you reach the second step of the “journey” to Realization, namely, that your “mind” is the storehouse of false concepts and what you see as “the world” is nothing more than a set of misperceptions. (See yesterday’s post.)
There is no “you” that is “in the world.” There is the manifested consciousness which either (a) sees all in a distorted fashion or which (b) witnesses in a subject-object fashion or which (c) engages in Pure Witnessing.
That which you take to be “the world” is a figment of the distortions of the “mind,” so that “world” is only “in you”—in your “mind.”
Finally, you will not change the world because there is no world to change. Instead, change the attachment you have to “the mind” and its dualistic concepts by being rid of that “mind” completely.
You are invited to begin by questioning every belief you assume to be true but which you have accepted as truth without reservation and without investigation. Please enter the silence of contemplation.
