Nisargadatta Maharaj

and after the birth and death of any other concept that is projected in the consciousness.

Time has brought all of this about, and time will end it.

All you can say is that it has happened.

It will continue for a while and then it will go away.

In your original state, there is no awareness of awareness.

As the absolute, you are infinite, timeless.

As infinity, you express yourself as space,

As timelessness, you express yourself as time.

Unless there is space and time, you cannot be conscious of yourself

When space and time are present, there is consciousness.

You descend into this consciousness and express yourself in manifold ways

in innumerable forms.

In that total manifestation various phenomena come into being but there is nothing separate.

When the universal consciousness manifests itself as a phenomenon, the phenomenon is that limited form which thinks that it is independent.

But it is not.

There is never an independent entity.

There can be no separate individual.

Eventually, the one who gets liberated is the consciousness.

Whatever demands you make I am not going to fulfill.

I am not going to meet your demands.