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QUOTATIONS AND POINTERS dealing with NON-DUALITY, ADVAITA, NISARGA YOGA and more
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Quotations and Pointers by Category and Subject Matter
from
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
REGARDING
"KNOWLEDGE," "THE INTELLECT," AND "LEARNED
IGNORANCE"
"You come here because you are ignorant, not because you are
knowledgeable. This knowledge I give is only to remove ignorance."
"Those who come here with the idea of getting knowledge, even spiritual
knowledge, come here as individuals aspiring to get something; that is the real
difficulty.”
“The
seeker must disappear. When you know your real nature, the knowledge 'I Am'
remains, but that knowledge is unlimited. It is not possible for you to acquire
knowledge. You are knowledge. You are what you are seeking."
"I am that knowledge 'I Am'."
"You understand what I say but you are afraid that whatever so-called
knowledge you have collected is being devalued."
"You
discover that there is nothing to discover."
"How did I get to the truth that I prevail everlastingly? I understand
what my true nature is. Nobody had told me how to do it. I did not seek this
knowledge externally. It sprouted within me."
"There are two ways of receiving the knowledge [I AM]. One way is you are
taught the knowledge, you receive it externally. Another way is, the knowledge
grows from inside, intuitively."
"Some people come here for knowledge. I talk because the words naturally
come out. There is no intention behind my talks that you should get
knowledge."
"Ignorance will remain there for all time just as knowledge also will
remain for all time. There cannot be knowledge without ignorance and there
cannot be ignorance without the correlated knowledge.”
“Both are the opposites in manifestation. One cannot remain without the other. Even this concept about knowledge is merely a concept. With a jnani, there is no concept of either ignorance or knowledge.”
“The
total absence of all knowledge or ignorance is that state prior to the arising
of consciousness. But you try to interpret whatever I say with various concepts
and you condition yourself with all these concepts."
“Any image you have of yourself is not true.”
“The so-called knowledge you get elsewhere talks only about ignorance; it cannot talk about . . . true knowledge. All of what is pursued by the mind, it is not true knowledge.”
“True
knowledge cannot be understood easily. If I had the experience 'I Am' before,
would I care to enter the womb of my mother? Prior to entering the womb I did
not know myself. There was no knowledge of 'I Amness'. "
"The factual state of affairs is open, very clear, but nobody wants to
look at it. This is the place where the intellect gets annihilated."
"I do not follow the spirituality of the masses. In this place
spirituality of the common type will not be doled out to you. That “ultimate
you” can never be lost [because it is merely energy / matter, neither of which
can end or be destroyed].”
“Whatever you have ‘lost,’ you have lost only the words. That “ultimate you” [that is, the presently-manifested pure, universal conscious-energy bundled with elements and air] knows or feels 'I Am' without words. Through this 'I Am' comes the [so-called, bogus] 'world knowledge'."
"You,
with your wisdom, are stuck here; you are sticking to certain concepts. If you
had no concepts, why should you come here? You study only those concepts which
arise from within you [or from within the minds of others who are trapped in
ignorance - a.k.a., “learned knowledge]. Those concepts which you do not like
will not occur to you."
"All so-called knowledge is tainted by words, which is only ignorance."
"What I am expounding does not relate to worldly knowledge. You do not
want to give up either 'worldly knowledge' or so-called 'spiritual knowledge',
and yet, through these worldly concepts, you want to understand the riddle of
your existence, and that is precisely why you are not able to understand."
"You are very adept at word-games. While I am talking about knowledge that
is beyond this phenomenal world, you are trying to understand through worldly
concepts and words. Give up all these concepts and inquire into the nature of
your beingness. How did you happen to be? Ponder it! The real blessing of the
Guru comes when your knowledge itself sprouts inside you."
"If you continue in the realm of intellect you will become entangled and
lost in more and more concepts."
"You have a lot of knowledge but it pertains to the practical world. I will not talk about the
worldly knowledge."
"You did not know your own existence after you were ‘born’. Nine months in
the womb and for sometime afterwards that 'I am so and so' is absent.”
“When you start recognizing your mother, then you also come to be aware of your own existence. That 'I Amness' comes sometime later.”
“Mother
teaches you, in ignorance, that you are the body and you begin to believe that.
Your mind also starts slowly to develop. So right from the beginning, because
of ignorance, the Absolute does not know itself; and because of the body, it
started knowing that it is - 'I AM'."
"I have no use for traditions or traditional knowledge. If you do the
slightest research on tradition you will see that it is all a concept. I am
concerned with only one fact. Here I was in my wholeness, not even aware of my
awareness, then suddenly this consciousness sprang up. How did it come about?
That is the question which needs investigating."
"What you are doing is using your mind and intellect, but what I say is
not based on the intellect, but rather on whatever comes up spontaneously in
consciousness.”
“You
try to fix that knowledge which springs spontaneously from consciousness into
the structure of concepts you have built out of the mind and intellect. This
can never happen."
"This is the place where the intellect gets annihilated."
[See?
Annihilation is the prerequisite for realization to happen because, as Maharaj
taught, realization is merely the process by which one becomes freed from the belief
in any and all learned ignorance. So what has to be annihilated in order for realization
to happen? Beliefs. Learned concepts. And how is that annihilation accomplished?
Not by learning more but by reaching a state of “less-ness” by allowing one
that is “not a teacher” to un-teach you and thus allow you not to learn more but
to un-0leanr it all. That is the “Ultimate De-accumulation” . . . the “Ultimate
Freedom-Generating Forfeiture”!]
"You are bent on having knowledge at the most mundane level, but whatever
knowledge you collect is bound to disappear."
"Whatever you have placed before me as knowledge are all mistaken
concepts."
"When you come to the end of material world-knowledge, at that stage you
transcend the observer and the observed. That means that you are in a true
state of beingness. Thereafter you enter the state of transcending beingness,
where the identities of the observer and observed disappear."
"Personalities only exist in body consciousness. The usual knowledge is
concerned only with the body image. You are not the body, you are the
consciousness."
"What I am expounding does not relate to worldly knowledge."
"While I am talking about knowledge that is beyond this phenomenal world,
you are trying to understand through worldly concepts and words. Give up all
these concepts ...."
"Ultimately, one must go beyond knowledge ...."
"I will not expound knowledge . . . ; a few words here and there will be
all."
"Your idea of knowledge is something you can catch hold of, something you
can feel and put into your pocket. This knowledge is not of that kind. When I
know that I am knowledge itself, what can I hope to get?"
"When you get this knowledge [that is, this understanding of authenticity
and an ability to differentiate the false from the true] you will realize that
knowledge of this world and consciousness are not even worth your spit."
"You have come here with the idea that you are full of knowledge."
"You assume that you have knowledge. You have developed a pride that you
have knowledge, so for testing yourself you have come here. Some others here have
no pride that they are knowledgeable; you alone are claiming all the knowledge
and pride."
"Just as a person continues going to work every day because he wants to
receive his wages, so you keep coming here because you want to gain
knowledge."
"Try to understand all this knowledge which you are now gathering. The
so-called 'knowledge' you get elsewhere talks only about ignorance; it cannot
talk about [authenticity, the real]."
"Once it is known what is temporary and what one's original state is, no
further knowledge is needed."
"Whatever you have placed before me as knowledge are all mistaken
concepts."
"During these talks you have gotten very angry; this is in the zone of
mind modifications - it is not a reflection of your consciousness. The one who
understands that anger is the message 'I Am'. All your spiritual studies are
conducted with your identification with the body-mind."
"When I shall be totally in my “ultimate state” when this consciousness is
finally extinguished, THAT is my total, perfect state.”
[Of his cancer and its accompanying pain]: “When will I have no experience of this illness? Just as the sun sets, only when this consciousness sets will there be perfect health or no experience of this sickness.”
[And he could have as easily asked, "When will I have no experience of the Ultimate Sickness? Just as the sun sets, only when this consciousness sets will there be perfect health or no experience of the Ultimate Sickness.”]
“So
long as the consciousness is there the sickness must be experienced. What is my
pleasure or happiness? Nothing other than this knowledge 'I Am', this
consciousness."
Thus his earlier advice: "Go to zero concepts" and his pointers that
"all my knowledge has gone into liquidation" and "I have no
mind."
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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