The Maharaj had once been told by someone, You will die. He retorted: I am dead already. Physical death will make no difference in my case. I am timeless being. (I Am That, dialogue 55) On the morning of Tuesday, September 8, 1981, the Maharaj, knowing that the end of the physical body was near, invited a few close associates to come visit him later in the evening. That night he went into the “no-mind” state: his breathing grew shallower and shallower, finally stopping altogether at 7:32 p.m. Back in the 1960s, Sri Nisargadatta had one afternoon fully witnessed his own death, and now he had dropped the dream-like body with the greatest ease and peace, to abide as the videhamukti state, the all-pervasive, free state of Absolute Awareness, before/beyond the body. With him at the end were his remaining family members, two close attendants, his long-time friend and chief translator, Saumitra Mullarpattan, and another translator-friend of more recent years, Ramesh Balsekar. The next day a funeral procession, involving many hundreds of devotees and a lorry gorgeously decked out with roses and garlands, started at 12:15 p.m. and, amidst a musical band and dancers, made its way to the Banganga cremation ground, where the mahasamadhi (resting) site of Nisargadattas guru Sri Siddharamesvar is also located. At 3:40, Maharaj’s son Chittaranjan Maruti Kambli lit the funeral pyre and the body of Sri Nisargadatta was placed on it, to dissolve into the elements from whence it came. The physical body is gone, but the powerful spiritual influence of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj lives on. - About Nisargadatta
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 08:40:46 +0000
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