Nisargadatta Maharaj

Remember, you are not the mind which is nothing but the content of consciousness.

As long as you identify yourself with the body-mind, you are vulnerable to sorrow and suffering.

Outside the mind, there is just being.

Once you realize that there is nothing in this world that you can or need call your own, you will look at it from the outside as you look at a play on the stage or a movie on the screen, admiring and enjoying, perhaps suffering, but deep down,

There is something which has remained unchanged all these years.

While everything else has been changing.

And that is the constant sense of presence.

You are sitting in front of me.

You know it beyond doubt, without any need of confirmation from anyone else.

We only exist as one another's objects and as such

only in the consciousness that cognizes us.

When objectification ceases, as in deep sleep, the objective universe disappears

So long as one imagines oneself as a separate entity, a person, one cannot see the total picture of the impersonal reality.

and the idea of a separate personality is due to the illusion of space and time which by themselves have no independent existence for they are only instruments

mere media to make manifestation cognizable.

you are beyond time and space in contact with them only at the point of now and here but otherwise timeless spaceless and invulnerable

Witnessing happens to the state prior to your saying the words, I am.

Right now, right here, you are the Absolute, the Parabrahman.

Be a true devotee by abiding in the knowledge I am

thereby transcending the experience of death to attain immortality.