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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
"REGARDING "IDENTIFICATION / PERSONALITY"
(Part Two)
"When
you put on an identity that is not yours. You are afraid."
He advised, die the death of false identity now to be at peace; then, you will
have "come to the end of personality and there is no more human being.
There is only impersonal consciousness."
"There is that intuitive sense of presence; you know you are
present."
"When your individuality is dissolved, you will not see individual
anywhere." You stop trying to "be something." You will
understand that "whatever you try to become, that is not You."
“To
that end, he offered this caution: "All your questions come from your
identification with the body. How can any questions relating to that which was
prior to the body and consciousness be answered?"
“From my angle, you are nothing. You have no identity.”
"Now the last traces of personality or individuality have left me."
"Personality
is merely a reflection of the real."
"Unmanifested, manifested, individuality, personality (nirguna, saguna,
vyakta, vyakti): all these are mere words, points of view, mental attitudes.
There is no reality in them. The Real is experienced in silence [but] you cling
to personality . . . . "
" . . . The personality is only an obstacle."
"The personality (vyakti) is but a product of imagination."
"It is the taking yourself to be what you are not that binds you."
"Your being a person is due to the illusion of space and time; you imagine
yourself to be at a certain point occupying a certain volume; your personality
is due to your self-identification with the body."
"How does personality, come into being? By memory. By identifying the
present with the past and projecting it into the future. Think of yourself as momentary,
without past and future and your personality dissolves."
"Self-limitation is the very essence of personality."
"The inner guru is not committed to non-violence. He can be quite violent
at times, to the point of destroying the obtuse or perverted personality.
Suffering and death, as life and happiness, are his tools of work. It is only
in duality that non-violence becomes the unifying law."
"As long as you are enmeshed in the tribulations of a particular
personality, you can see nothing beyond it."
"The dissolution of personality is followed always by a sense of great
relief, as if a heavy burden has fallen off."
"It is like washing printed cloth. First the design fades, then the
background and in the end the cloth is plain white. The personality gives place
to the witness, then the witness goes and pure awareness remains. The cloth was
white in the beginning and is white in the end; the patterns and colours just
happened - for a time."
"Just understand that it is not your personal action or choice. Do not get
involved as the doer. Why do you get involved in all these concepts? First,
find out what you consider yourself to be. Are you an entity? Get that problem
solved instead of getting involved in all kinds of concepts. What are you?" [meaning, "Where were 'you' and what were 'you' eight days prior to conception?" The answer: "A speck of always-having-existed conscious energy / matter which may manifest in the elemental plant food body of a composite unity after a sperm cell joins with an egg and triggers the fertilization and pregnancy process.]
You
cannot understand with your intellect; it is beyond the grasp of the
intellect."
"The core of this consciousness is knowingness, to know ‘I Am’. It is not
a personality, not an individual. It is total manifestation. Beingness is
there, it fills everything."
"All happenings are only in body consciousness. 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” . . . [the only difference from one composite unity to the next being the fact
that the consciousness (a) has been warped, blocked, and contaminated or (b)
has been restored - via the realization process - to its original, pure,
universal form.]
There is no imprint of personality; it is the manifest consciousness which is functioning. This dynamic, manifest consciousness is always in a fluid state. What will happen no one can say.”
“This
dynamic consciousness does not have any concept that something good or bad is
going to happen to it; it is just happening. No one is doing it."
"When you look at others, that other 'person' is just food essence, as
yourself."
"All knowledge is like the son of a barren woman. Presently there are only
beingness and the functioning. The individuality and personality are thrown
overboard. There is no personality, so there is no question of birth, life, or
death.”
“What remains is only the consciousness without name or form. There is no individuality at all. The form needs a name, but when both are not there, then the consciousness remains only so long as the body is there, but without any individuality.”
The
body is of as much use now as it was prior to the birth and after the death.
How do you know me? You know me only on the acquisition of body form, name and
form. Do you really see me as I am? I doubt it."
"Just understand that it is not your personal action or choice. Do not get
involved as the doer. Why do you get involved in all these concepts? First,
find out what you consider yourself to be. Are you an entity? Get that problem
solved instead of getting involved in all kinds of concepts. What are you? You
cannot understand with your intellect; it is beyond the grasp of the
intellect."
"There was a house, and in the house there was a person; now the person is
gone and the house is demolished. The sum total is, whatever experiences you
have, whether for a day or for years, it is all illusion.”
“The experiences begin with knowingness. What is the most ingrained habit you have? It is to say 'I Am'. This is the root habit. Words and experiences are unworthy of you.”
“This
habit of experiencing will not go until you realize that all this domain of the
five elements, and the experiences in the five elements, are unreal. This
'I-Amness' is itself unreal."
"You are not a personality. That birth principle which gives rise to the
consciousness is not conditioned; it has come spontaneously and manifests as
consciousness."
"The 'birth,' the 'parents,' all this is illusion. Taking the body as oneself
is the accident. If you don't cling to the body as your identity, everything is
all right."
" It is total freedom for one who does not identify with the body."
"Just now I was lying down in the waking state, but with no perceiving or
receiving of any words, something like a prior-to-words state. Now the last
traces of personality or individuality have left me."
“When you travel in a car, are you the car?”
“Every organic being, whether an insect or a human, depends on food. All these
flowers, this foliage, is our antecedent state.”
“Consciousness is present everywhere, but knowledge of that consciousness is
dependent on the form.”
“Before this knowledge ‘I Am’ appeared on you, you were absolutely unattached.
As soon as the knowledge dawned on you, you became attached to everything
around you. Only that false ‘I’ is attached. Everything is just happening, and
the false ‘I’ is taking the credit for doing things.”
“ . . . You are the light.”
“In order to manifest itself, the consciousness needs a frame, a particular
construct in which it can appear.”
"Understand that it is not the individual which has consciousness; it is
the consciousness which assumes innumerable forms."
"Both experience and experiencer will disappear."
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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