THE PERSON IS BUT A NUISANCE TO THE GURU M: It will happen as soon as you remove the obstacles. Q: Which obstacles? M: Desire for the false and fear of the true. You, as the person, imagine that the Guru is interested in you as a person. Not at all. To him you are a nuisance and a hindrance to be done away with. He actually aims at your elimination as a factor in consciousness. Q: If I am eliminated, what will remain? M: Nothing will remain, all will remain. The sense of identity will remain, but no longer identification with a particular body. Being -- awareness -- love will shine in full splendor. Liberation is never of the person, it is always from the person. Q: And no trace remains of the person? M: A vague memory remains, like the memory of a dream, or early childhood. After all, what is there to remember? A flow of events, mostly accidental and meaningless. A sequence of desires and fears and inane blunders. Is there anything worth remembering? The person is but a shell imprisoning you. Break the shell. ~Nisargadatta Maharaj - I AM THAT no 71
Posted on: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 08:55:00 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015