I AM UNBORN (Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj)

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I AM UNBORN

Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

One. The Elemental Play

Maharaj: It is the pleasure of two that is the cause of this birth, this body and the result is lifelong suffering for someone. Only the rare one comes here, the Guru shows him the result of this pleasure. He shows him a mirror that reflects the true picture. For a Jnani, death is the highest pleasure. As soon as Consciousness stirs, the mind creates the Universe. Creation is Prakriti, Purusha (Consciousness) and Prakriti (Nature) as such have no name or form.

This body has a feeling that the end is coming. I know that the body is the essence of five elements. The five elements are always in flux in relation to one another. The body results from the essence of them. The individual considers the body to be his own. We think that we see with our ear and eyes, but what really sees and hears is beingness.

The five elements never die. If you identify with your body, you are sinning and you will suffer at the time of death. The centre of Consciousness is the crest of your head. The quintessence of the five elemental activity is Consciousness, and quintessence knows no death. Beingness is not a personality, understand beingness and death. Finally, you the Absolute are not the beingness. The five elements are constantly at war in you and everywhere. Conflict is incessant, space is at war with air, air with fire, fire with water, water with earth and so forth, and all these are expressed in the body.

The interaction of four elements results in their subsiding into the earth. Then we have vegetation and food species, we have individual formations. The elemental conflict is expressed in the human body and the human being says "My bad luck". The four elemental interactions subside in the womb of the earth. Out of the juice of vegetation come the species but the forms embrace their identity. Thus we have eighty-five million species, that's the story of this earth.

One who cognizes this principle, what would be his quality? One who understands Consciousness will be beyond Consciousness, beyond the five elements. He, at death becomes an ocean of bliss. Others, who take themselves to be body-mind, will undergo a traumatic experience of suffering. Mind-body identification is the result of bliss of just a fraction of a second.

Contrast the Jnani's pleasure to that of the pleasure of two. Saint Jnaneshwara wrote a commentary on the Bhagwad Gita ("Jnaneshwari"). Then he wrote 'Amruta Anubhava" - Experience of Immortality (Mrit = Death, Amrita = No death) - bottomless ocean of bliss.

The five elements and three gunas are creating havoc in the universe. But how is a Jnani affected by all this? Having recognized this elemental play, he has transcended it. This business of looking and the looked, observer and the observed will go and nothing will remain. Just be, just be quiet. Don't get disturbed and let the mind be. On which principle will there be a dent? Only time and time will disappear. The one who observes change, can he change? Only the changeless can see the change.

Two. No-beingness

Three. The Brahma Aperture

Four. This 'I am' business

Five. A Kohinoor Diamond

Six. Unborn Children

Seven. Beyond Concepts

Eight. Beingness

Nine. Worship the 'I am'

Ten. It's kept in your Palm!

Eleven. A Wound

Twelve. Nisargadatta

Thirteen. Take it('I am') as Destiny

Fourteen. Mind cannot interpret You

Fifteen. The Beingness Dynasty

Sixteen. Everybody listens, few Practice

Seventeen. Kick the Thoughts out!

Eighteen. Knowledge has no form

Nineteen. Birth is an illusion

Twenty. Falseness begins with your Parents

Twenty-one. Paul's Redemption

Twenty-two. A Village without Day or Night

Twenty-three. The 'I am' is God

Twenty-four. The self-annihilator's cry ('Har Har Mahadev!')

Twenty-five. You are Limitless

Twenty-six. Annihilate yourself by your own identity

Twenty-seven. The Soundless Sound

Twenty-eight. Just be, to realize No-beingness

Twenty-nine. The Telescope

Thirty. You are not whatever you Experience

Thirty-one. How you met your Parents?

Thirty-two. The 'I am' is the Primary Illusion

Thirty-three. Meditation means merging with Beingness

M: Meditation means merging with beingness, abiding in beingness is 'Dhyana'.

Thirty-four. Swallow the Beingness

Thirty-five. Body identity is an Illusion

Thirty-six. The 'I am' is temporary in the Infinite

Thirty-seven. Transcend the 'I am'

Thirty-eight. The Python's Breath

Thirty-nine. The age of an Unborn child

Forty. I am not whatever I think

Forty-one. You are, so just be

Forty-two. Your destiny is not death, but the disappearance of 'I am'

Forty-three. You are the Principle that rejects the Body

Forty-four. I am Unborn

Forty-five. From no-knowingness, suddenly 'I am'.

Forty-six. The Witnessing principle ever prevails

Forty-seven. The I am is formless

Forty-eight. Guru means, not an individual

Forty-nine. There is no other Brahman greater than you

Fifty. The touch of 'I amness' is unreal

Fifty-three. Awakened Knowledge is Meditation

Fifty-four. Nothing .... 'Something for sometime' .... Nothing

Fifty-five. The Color of The 'Seer'

Fifty-six. Everything happens in the Knowledge 'I am'

Overview

"I AM UNBORN" offers insights into the philosophical teachings of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, focusing on the nature of existence, identity, and spiritual enlightenment. Edited by PRADEEP APTE and composed from notes by Vijayendra Deshpande, the text serves as a guide to understanding the transient nature of life and consciousness.

Key Points

1The concept of beingness is temporary and creates an illusion of identity
2Death is viewed as a blissful transition for the enlightened
3Identity with the body leads to suffering at the time of death
4Understanding the illusion of self can lead to spiritual liberation
5Suffering stems from attachment to the transient nature of existence

Details

Authors: Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, Pradeep Apte, Vijayendra Deshpande
Category: Humanities

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