Nisargadatta on himself - paradoxical
Maharaj on Himself, again
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What knowledge can I give to the people who come here seeking knowledge, said Maharaj one evening.
Most of those who come here are so completely identified with their bodies that in spite of all their sincerity what I say they must surely find unacceptable. Even those who may 'sense' the subtlety and depth in the teaching may not be able to apperceive its real significance. But those who
do intuitively apprehend what I say will need but one session with me.
How many will understand me if I say that —
1. I am always present because I am always absent; and I am only present when I am absent.
To elucidate this, I would add that I am always present absolutely, but relatively, my apparent presence is my apparent absence as I
(confusion worse confounded!);
2. I, who am no 'thing', is everything I am not, but the apparent universe is my self;
3. After all the you's and me's have negated one another, I shall remain as 'I';
4. How could you love me?
You are what I am.
How could I hate you?
I am what you are;
5. Never having been born, how could I die? Never having been bound, where is the need for me to seek liberation?
6. How can the relative judge the Absolute? The Absolute is indeed the relative when the relative no longer is relative — when the relative gives up all that makes it relative.
In the absence of the physical form, consciousness is not conscious of itself.
7. What were you before you were born?
8. Preferences or differences are all conceptual balderdash. They can only appear relatively.
Absolutely, there can be no appearance, and, therefore, no preferences or differences;
9. Collect all the knowledge you want — both worldly and unworldly — and then, offer it as a sacrifice to the Absolute, and so on.
What will a listener think of me?
What can he think of me?
Is it not the only conclusion he could come to, said Maharaj with a mighty laugh, that I am absolutely —
as well as relatively — crazy!
~ POINTERS
FROM NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ
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What knowledge can I give to the people who come here seeking knowledge, said Maharaj one evening.
Most of those who come here are so completely identified with their bodies that in spite of all their sincerity what I say they must surely find unacceptable. Even those who may 'sense' the subtlety and depth in the teaching may not be able to apperceive its real significance. But those who
do intuitively apprehend what I say will need but one session with me.
How many will understand me if I say that —
1. I am always present because I am always absent; and I am only present when I am absent.
To elucidate this, I would add that I am always present absolutely, but relatively, my apparent presence is my apparent absence as I
(confusion worse confounded!);
2. I, who am no 'thing', is everything I am not, but the apparent universe is my self;
3. After all the you's and me's have negated one another, I shall remain as 'I';
4. How could you love me?
You are what I am.
How could I hate you?
I am what you are;
5. Never having been born, how could I die? Never having been bound, where is the need for me to seek liberation?
6. How can the relative judge the Absolute? The Absolute is indeed the relative when the relative no longer is relative — when the relative gives up all that makes it relative.
In the absence of the physical form, consciousness is not conscious of itself.
7. What were you before you were born?
8. Preferences or differences are all conceptual balderdash. They can only appear relatively.
Absolutely, there can be no appearance, and, therefore, no preferences or differences;
9. Collect all the knowledge you want — both worldly and unworldly — and then, offer it as a sacrifice to the Absolute, and so on.
What will a listener think of me?
What can he think of me?
Is it not the only conclusion he could come to, said Maharaj with a mighty laugh, that I am absolutely —
as well as relatively — crazy!
~ POINTERS
FROM NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ
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