I Am Not the Body: Discovering the Truth Beyond Bondage by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj [Maharaj, Sri Nisargadatta]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nisarga Yoga
Published: 2020-12-07T07:00:00+00:00

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Stabilise and Observe

“The ‘I am’ concept is the last outpost of the illusion, hold on to it, stabilize in the ‘I am’, then you are no more an individual.”

- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

You may ask while busy with daily activities, ‘How should I remember my beingness, how should I meditate?’ You are concerned that meditation will be disturbed by such activities. Even when the body has no pain, the ‘I am-ness’ in the body is troublesome, full of disturbance. The love for beingness can often irritate a person, driving one to busy themself to forget this trouble.

To make the news ‘I am’ steady and fearless, I advise you to worship God and Guru, and you will realise your being as God. When you adhere to your form as consciousness, your worthiness will improve day by day, and you will realise your true identity. You will become increasingly more joyful when you become established in consciousness and forget the body identity.

As long as you identify yourself as the body, you will be conscious of the body, and your beingness will seem unbearable; to tolerate this, you have to immerse yourself in activity. This discomfort demands action—it seems every living being has to stay busy to put up with its consciousness. Try to face it without doing anything.

I wish to repeat that you must learn to meditate on your consciousness. As you stabilise in consciousness as your true identity, you will not need hopes, desires, and cravings, just as when your stomach is full, you stop eating. Meditating on our Self and abiding by our Self is our religion. Abiding in the Self is to follow our true religion. Conversely, following our mind is to have a downfall. The Self does not need the mind, hence my advice to abide in your Self only. Remember the Self and its luminosity, purity, and holiness. It will only serve you well.

‘That Self, that Atma, is what I am.’ Say this before drifting into deep sleep, or at least while going to bed. Even now, if you see yourself as aloof from the mind, you will discern the falsehood of your assumed birth.

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