Just Nothing ~ In deep Silence
Heart and Beyond
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Be careful. The moment you start talking, you create a verbal universe, a universe of words, ideas, concepts and abstractions, interwoven and inter-dependent, most wonderfully generating, supporting and explaining each other and yet all without essence or substance, ...
There is no other reality behind it. Its meaning is purely conventional, to be remembered. A language can be easily forgotten, unless practised.
Words serve their limited purpose of inter-personal communication.
.. mere creations of the mind. Words create words, reality is silent.
When I talk you hear is a fact. What you hear -- is not. The fact can be experienced, and in that sense, the sound of the word and the mental ripples it causes are experienced.
Visitor: "You seem to give no importance to the Guru. He is merely an incident among others. Everybody sings the glories of the Guru, while you compare him to a milestone. Don't we need a Guru? What do I gain by learning to use my mind?"
Don't we need a milestone? Yes and no. Yes, if we are certain; no, if we know our way. Once we are certain in ourselves, the Guru is no longer needed, except in a technical sense.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Visitor: "As I am here, looking at you, I cannot locate the event in space and time. There is something eternal and universal about the transmission of wisdom that is taking place. Ten thousand years earlier, or later, make no difference -- the event itself is timeless. ..
Man is the unconscious, conscious and the super-conscious, but you are not the man. Yours is the cinema screen, the light as well as the seeing power, but the picture is not you.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Visitor: "There was a time when I was most displeased with myself. Now I have met my Guru and I am at peace, after having surrendered myself to him completely. As I sit here, I see the room, the people. I see you too. How does it look at your end? What do you see?"
If you watch your daily life, you will see that you have surrendered nothing. You have merely added the word 'surrender' to your vocabulary and made your Guru into a peg to hang your problems on.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Visitor: "When you sleep, are you conscious or unconscious? I find I have no more questions to ask. When there is no 'I', who is free?"
When there is no 'I', the world is free of a mighty nuisance -- good for everybody. It is like a rope stretched across the street; it snarls up traffic. Roll it up, it is there, as mere identity, useful when needed.
Nisargadatta Maharaj