WHEN I READ THIS, I LAUGH, BECAUSE WE'RE ALL BEING PLAYED & EVEN THO WE MAY KNOW IT

 

WHEN I READ THIS, I LAUGH, BECAUSE WE'RE ALL BEING PLAYED & EVEN THO WE MAY KNOW IT WE'RE STILL BEING PLAYED... THANK GOD FOR TRANSCENDING & TRANSFORMINGJ

NON-DUAL(ADVAITA) WISDOM · Manoj Sethi · December 2 at 6:49 PM · People repeat God’s name in various ways, as they are taught. According to my experience if the mantra is recited with proper breathing, the mind becomes silent and samadhi ensues. Even when Arjuna was fighting a war, his peace was not shaken. Without peace there is no samadhi. The peace that results from Self-realization is the real samadhi. The rest are mental constructs. Know that you are not the body or the mind or prana, and be quiet. Then the actions performed by the body-mind will not affect you. To whom has birth happened? To whom does old age come? Think about that. All good and bad habits come with the body, and go with the body. But you are not the body. As long as you take yourself as the body, there will be a sense of being a man or a woman with the accompanying pains and pleasures. All attributes depend upon body-consciousness. Our true nature has no attributes. The ultimate Truth, Paramatman, has no caste or creed. The one who is the knower recognizes this and keeps silent. If I tell you to do some ritual you will do it, but it will not be of any use to you. Your miseries are because of your consciousness, not because of the world. Knowledge that can be spoken is of the nature of ignorance. Any action in the world is just entertainment. Unless you forget this entertainment, there will be no peace. The real jnani does not see the world as true at all. A jnani has no problem of whether to act or not to act. Hence, nothing can be said about his household. Just saying, ‘I am not the body, I am not the mind’, is not sufficient. It should be known whose attributes are the body and the mind. Only wordy knowledge will not do. Consciousness in the body is the characteristic of the essence of food. It will last as long as the essence is there. All things are contained in consciousness. Prana and consciousness arise out of the food essence. How long will they last? Consciousness through which you experience the world is not everlasting. !!! MEDITATIONS with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. Nirupana 90. An excerpt. Thursday, February 1, 1979.