Consciousness and the Absolute

Digital Blackboard - August 4, 2004

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The core of conscious is knowingness, to know "I Am". It is not a personality, not an individual. It is total manifestation. Beingness is there, it fills everything.

Nevertheless, this quality "I Am" is the result of the material, objective body. In the seed, the whole tree is latent; in the droplet "I Am", all three worlds are squeezed in.

The highest state is the state of a jnani. The first step is to be that "droplet". In the process of knowing that "droplet", you are out of it, and that is a jnani. A jnani is not obsessed by any calamities or any problems, because he has transcended the "I Am" principle. He watches the play as a witness.

Now, understand clearly. This "droplet" of knowingness is a result of the food essence body; in understanding it, your are out of it. If this last step is taken, knowing that I, the Abslolute, am not that "droplet", the consciousness, it has to happen only once. There is no more involvement with the play of consciousness. You are in a state of no return, the eternal state.

Whatever you think of as spiritual knowledge was gained in the realm of consciousness; such knowledge is merely a burden upon your head and it is going to add more misery. It is nothing more than spiritual jargon. This "I Amness" is the very source of all misery.

Are you in such a position that you cannot employ any words to express your Self? When I answer your questions at such length, you should be reduced to a quietude out of which no words can come.

Shri Nisargadatta Maharaj - From a talk on April 18, 1981

From Consciousness and the Absolute - The final talks of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Edited by Jean Dunn