Wisdom of the Masters
Nisargardatta Maharaj ~ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ฏ๐ ๐๐จ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ ~ A Guided Meditation
13 Mar 2022
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Chapter 1: How can I stabilize in meditation?
Stabilize in meditation. Have conviction that you are not your body, but only pure consciousness.
Then the fountain of self-knowledge will start flowing from within.
Think only about what you are really. Forget the rest.
Think about how you came to know your existence and when. One with a sharp intellect becomes free in a short time.
just by listening. You have already read a lot and heard a lot.
Now, get acquainted with the reader and listener, truly and everlastingly.
You were never the doer.
Things happen and you just become instrumental to the happening of these events. There is no doer or arranger of any of our experiences, including that of the world. It is all the spontaneous happening. The fact is that in reality there is nothing.
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Chapter 2: What does it mean to be pure consciousness and not just a body?
Where is the middle when there is neither the beginning nor the end? Even then, people get busy with their practices as per their concepts. It is difficult to remain quiet. Hence, it is natural and convenient to get involved in activities. After listening to this if someone really remembers only a few sentences there will be no need for any more spirituality.
You are not your body, but you are the consciousness in the body because of which you have awareness of I am. It is without words. Just pure beingness. It has become the soul of the world. In the absence of your consciousness, the world will not be experienced. Hence, you are the consciousness Remember what you have heard. Meditate on it.
Meditation means you have to hold consciousness by itself. The consciousness should give attention to itself.
Chapter 3: How do I recognize my existence and its significance?
This consciousness is Ishwara. As there is no God other than this consciousness, worship it. the self-love that has appeared in the body, that is Ishwara. In order to propitiate that love, consider it as guru, knowledge, devotion, and worship it. It is futile to say that one is grieved, because in the absence of me as an individual, there are no others, and I see myself mirrored in all of you.
One goes through life year after year, enjoying the usual pleasures and suffering the usual pains, but never once seeing life in its true perspective. And what is the true perspective? It is this. There is no me. Nor you. There never could be any such entities. Everyone should understand this and have the courage to live their life with this understanding.
Do you have this courage, my friend? Or must you wallow in what you call your grief?
What do you have to do exactly?
Chapter 4: What is the role of the doer in our experiences?
Absolutely nothing. Just see the transient as transient. The unreal as unreal. The false as false. And you will realize your true nature. You have mentioned your grief. Have you ever looked at grief in the face and tried to understand what it really is? Now we shall come to the truth. Please understand as truth that you are not an individual, a person.
the person that one thinks one is, is only a product of imagination.
And the self is the victim of this illusion. Person cannot exist in its own right.
It is the self, consciousness, that mistakenly believes that there is a person and is conscious of being it.
Change your viewpoint. Don't look at the world as something outside of yourself.
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Chapter 5: How can understanding the transient help me in life?
See the person you imagine yourself to be as a part of the world, really a dream world. which you perceive as an appearance in your consciousness. And look at the whole show from the outside.
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.
Not him or her, father or son, mother or daughter, this or that.
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,
Quite unmoved.
There is something which has remained unchanged all these years. While everything else has been changing. And that is the constant sense of presence.
The sense that you exist. This sense or feeling I am has never changed. This is your constant image.
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Chapter 6: What is the truth about individual identity and grief?
You are sitting in front of me. You know it beyond doubt, without any need of confirmation from anyone else.
Similarly, you know that you are, that you exist. All existence is a continuous process of objectifying.
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
to any experience. Understand this and grieve no more.
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