“The Absolute Cannot Be Remembered Because It Cannot Be Forgotten.”

Without remembering that, and without putting in any efforts, the experience of the world happens.

Now, for those who have identification with the body, this knowledge has no meaning  -  it cannot act.  Despite this fact, the visits these people make will not be totally in vain; they will bear fruit at some future time.  The effects of these visits will be like the aftermath of the rains: grass and plants will be seen coming out automatically, sprouting.”

These above words of Nisargadatta Maharaj are extremely profound and poignant, for I am one of those so called people he is referring to who visited him in the final years of his earthly existence.  What he said and the seeds of consciousness that he planted at the time have come to fruition and born fruit here, so to speak.  What he said, his powerful words penetrated into me, lay dormant and finally germinated and bore fruit many years later, and seemingly after the fact,

They worked in spite of me, not because of me.  The “me” that I am referring to is the identification with the body-mind that I had taken myself to be at that time.  This identification has now resolved itself and disappeared and left me with what I truly and ever am – THIS impersonal awake or aware nothing, the no thing that I always and ever am.  I never existed as that entity or body-mind appearance that I took myself to be – I only appeared to, and even the appearance(reflection) would not have been possible without this empty, colorless, formless space of all knowing awareness or infinite intelligence.

Just as the reflections are not apart from or independent of the spotless mirror and are in the final analysis nothing but the mirror, even so whatever seems to appear or disappear in the so called manifestation is nothing but THIS impersonal non dual essence or Absolute.  Without this impersonal empty space of knowing awareness, prior to, during, and after the appearance of consciousness, which is time-bound mind; nothing could be seen to appear or disappear ( apparent birth and death ) for that matter.
This is what needs to be seen or re-cognized and that is that Reality or simply “what is”, pure being, Non duality, does not change.  How could it if it is Reality or what we call THAT, in Advaita – even in the Biblical injunction “I am THAT I am.  You can call THAT Tao, Christ, Krishna, or Allah, any of these terms will serve equally as well.  Aren’t you THAT, right here and now, presently?  Can you say I am not existing?  If so, who would be saying that?  Isn’t it THAT or the Reality of Non Duality itself that enables the expression through the time-bound mind of the thought or concept I am?

Is there any duality in non duality?  You may say, there certainly appears to be, however the ‘fact’ is that there is no duality in THIS non dual Absolute that you truly and ever are; therefore there is no relationship in THIS that you truly and ever are.  Relationship is dualism, me and the so called other, and there is no other now or ever.  You , as that non dual essence alone exist, there ‘are’ no others.  Nothing ever happened, reality never changed and you are THAT whether you know it or not.  The most important thing is  the very ‘fact’ of your own being; start from the fact that you already are THAT, the very First Person Singular – I am, infinitely and eternally.

So, all this time, and I should not be even using that word(time), you have simply been duped by illusion, because in spite of all the apparent movements and changes, reality or “what is” has remained unchanged.  Now is the time to stop ignoring THIS and simply be what you truly are.  There is no becoming in this timeless being or Omnipresence.  Acknowledge it, re-cognize it and be – I am THAT by which I ‘know’ I am.

Has anything ever happened, has reality ever changed?  Turn your attention around one hundred and eighty degrees and directly look and see for yourself, what you are looking out of.  Isn’t it clear and empty there, color-less, form-less, aware emptiness or a fully awake nothing, that the seeing, hearing, and pure functioning is taking place from?  Isn’t it a fact that there where the actual seeing and knowing is taking place from on present evidence, that you are the very opposite of what society and others, including your family and friends have told you that you look like?

Everyone has to look and see this for themselves so to speak.  No one else can see this for you, each has to see it for him or her self.  Just talking about it conceptually is useless, although the words as pointers spoken from this direct knowingness can, if taken on board, cause a resonating or recognition in the hearer of the truth of what is being referred to.  This awareness that you truly and ever are has never changed or altered in any way, and it is closer to you than your own breathing, closer even than your own hands and feet.  THIS is the silence and stillness at the very core of your being, the truth and home of non duality.

Non conceptual, ever fresh, presence awareness is nothing perceivable or conceivable, yet it always and ever “is”.  This awake nothing that you truly are can never be made into a separate person, thing, or object and it is not something that you can attain or become, so we say, start from the fact that that you already are THAT non dual Absolute or changeless reality that you, as the apparent separate entity are seeking.  We are talking about and pointing to the actuality of non duality here, and if reality “is” non dual One without a second as countless sages have pointed out, then that means that duality is only conceptual or imagined, and has never for a moment existed in reality for the simple and obvious reason that there is no duality in non duality, even though it will always appear to be there, just as the mirror is always covered in reflections which in themselves have no separate existence or independent nature of their own, and are nothing but the mirror itself.

Just as the mirror itself is never truly seen because of the countless reflections appearing in and on it, this awake nothing, or boundless aware no thing is never seen and is being ignored, because this “me” of memory or the acquired mind which is time, does not want to be nothing, does not want to disappear and simply be the the timeless space less essence – THAT which never changes.  This made up entity the “me” or time bound mind does not have any power to do anything, although it has been believed all along that it does have power of its own.

So this is what we are seemingly asking you to do, and that is to question this belief that you are a separate entity who has destiny and free will, that you began at some time in the past, that you were born and that you will die at some future time.  What I am suggesting is that there is no time at all, and that beginning and ending are only mental concepts and that what you are is the timeless – you in essence are timeless and space less!  You never had any beginning and you will never have any ending, you were never born nor will you as THAT non dual Absolute, pure awareness or consciousness ever die.

Quite a bit to swallow at one go, isn’t it?  Go into it, question it, find out the truth for yourself.  See THIS for yourself and actually realize the unquestioned assumptions and limitations that you have placed upon yourself with the help of society, culture, and religious beliefs and conditioning’s.  Question all this and see the prison of all these concepts and beliefs vanish before your very eyes.  You are not what you have taken yourself to be – a limited, enclosed, sentient, human being, but the unlimited all knowing potential itself, what we call THAT in the great word or statement of Advaita Vedanta – I am THAT!

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Non-conceptual, ever fresh presence awareness is the reality of “what is”.  This reality that is presently being pointed to can never change or alter in any way shape or form otherwise it would not be real or fit the definition of reality; which is THAT which never changes.  This ever fresh, naked, all knowing, non-conceptual essence of pure awareness is the very fact and truth of Advaita or non duality.  This that is being pointed to is a boundless emptiness suffused with all knowing awareness or intelligence.

Everything that seemingly appears and disappears can be nothing but that self shining emptiness.  Form is none other than emptiness and emptiness is none other than form.  This statement attributed to the Buddha is nothing but a confirmation of the reality of non duality.  Everything, literally everything is THAT self same one essence expressing and appearing as other in the seeming pairs of opposites.  There is no other way that anything can appear and that is dualistic ally, I and other than I, day and night, man and woman etc.

The manifestation of consciousness takes place dualistic ally in the pairs of opposites and without this contrast there could be no phenomenal appearance at all.  If there wasn’t day there couldn’t be night, wasn’t sound there couldn’t be silence etc.  Even though consciousness manifests in the pairs of opposites, it never changes its true nature as the pure non-dual essence, as pure consciousness or awareness, non dual One without a second as it is stated in Advaita.  This of course is paradoxical to the mind which is of the nature of time and is composed of memories, concepts and images from a past that is already dead and gone.

The mind as we are referring to it here is a useful instrument for daily functioning, yet it has no substance or independent nature of its own and is only a reflection or shadow of the ever present consciousness that animates all things.  This pure consciousness or awareness is the Supreme Reality, God, or Truth if you want to give it that label, however no name or label can ever explain or define THIS that you truly and ever are.  Consciousness is not a thing or object, it is actually an aware no thing, a vast boundless emptiness suffused with intelligence or knowing.

This unlimited potential which is the reality of “what is”, can never be grasped by any limited thought, word or concept and that is why we say that you will never be able to find the answer to this mystery of your true identity in the mind of memory, the acquired mind of the imagined entity “me”.  Consciousness contains the mind, the mind does not contain it and there is no one who is not conscious or aware.  Therefore I say, hold on to this consciousness I am. love this consciousness, be warm towards it, worship this consciousness and there is nothing that you will not be able to know.

The mystery will be revealed to you and there will be no door that will remain closed to you.  This knowledge I am is utter freedom and effortless living, but you have to acknowledge it, love it, worship it and be one with it instead of ignoring it, as you as that separate entity have all along up till now, been doing.  Ignorance is not bliss, it is darkness, stupidity and the pride of doer ship.  To think that you are separate, apart, small and limited is not true humility as it pretends to be, but actually pride and arrogance.  True humility is to see and acknowledge your own unlimited potential and immortality as pure conscious awareness.

Non-dual devotion is devotion to your own Self.  Who do you love most of all?  You love your own Self and there is no greater love that THAT.  It is not for the sake of the wife that the wife is dear.  It is not for the sake of the husband that the husband is dear.  It is not for the sake of the child that the child is dear.  It is not for the sake of the friend that the friend is dear.  It is for the sake of of your own non-dual Self that all these things are dear.  This statement from the Upanishads, a pure expression of Advaita Vedanta in Hinduism is a direct acknowledgement of your true nature or natural primordial state, so simply be as you are in this ever present natural stateless state – I am THAT.
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How did I come to be, and what does this being-ness depend on? This is what needs to be known or realized. Non being to being, and then again non being, on what does it depend? Don’t you, as that naked, non conceptual aware presence have to be there first or prior to all these seeming happenings? First person singular, I am. Examine THAT, investigate THAT non dual essence, pure, naked all knowing presence awareness. This knowledge “I am”, is the only true knowledge, all other knowledge is only a form of ignorance, a dualistic expression appearing in the changeless, formless, boundless all knowing awareness that you always and already are.

Are you aware right now? How do you know that you are aware? You just simply know by noticing that you are not asleep or unaware. It is as simple as that, but do we pause there and stay with the subtlety, with the actuality of this that is being pointed to, or do we immediately rush off into the habit energy of the me of memory or the so called mind which is time, the dead past, and try to seek the answer there? This is what we usually do, go off into mind stuff and endless mental conceptualization, trying in vain to find what we have never lost, this deathless, timeless, essence of naked knowing awareness.

You can try endlessly to seek the answer in the mind, continually analyzing and dividing things up because this is the very nature of the mind, and that is to analyze, reason, and divide, it is dualistic in all its functioning. There is no other way that the mind can think, except in the pairs of opposites. The mind is not our enemy as it is useful for daily functioning, but it can never grasp or know its origin, which is non dual non conceptual awareness. This emptiness or aware no thing that you truly are can never be known mentally or conceptually. This is the crux of what needs to be seen and realized.

All other problems will resolve themselves spontaneously once this is truly seen and acknowledged. Know your Self before you know others. Directly know your Self and there ‘are’ no others. There is no duality in non duality or pure Advaita, which simply put means “not-two”. See that all your so called problems are because of this separate entity “me” that you have erroneously taken to be yourself. What you truly are can not be separate or apart from the life essence that is effortlessly functioning and animating the world appearance.

See that this entity me is a made up thing, a phantom, the child of a barren woman without any substance or independent nature of its own apart from this deathless essence of pure knowing awareness that you don’t have to attain or acquire, as it is always and ever present with you and ‘is’ you. This awareness that you ever are is nothing perceivable or conceivable, a void of boundless, limitless intelligence, an endless activity of knowing. Even though this that is being pointed to is a vast emptiness, it is not a total vacuum or void because it is the very livingness or reality of everlasting life that is referred to in the scriptures of the major religions.

No matter how hard you try, you cannot notice this that is being referred to because it is not a thing or object and is the ever present subject of any and every object. The First Person Singular, I am THAT I am. Full stop there! Remain as that pure all encompassing being – I am, without words or concepts. Give up becoming and simply be as you are in the natural state. You exist infinitely and eternally as this already pure non conceptual awareness which in Dzogchen, the highest expression of Buddhism is called The Great Perfection. – End.

Notes from Kings Cross Sunday 3rd May 09 By Mark West.
To come to the conclusion that I am apart from every manifest thing and without any qualities or qualifications is the realization of the ultimate principal, the natural or primordial state. This natural state that is being pointed to is endless capacity or boundless emptiness suffused with awareness, the Base or foundation of everything – an aware no thing. To impose boundaries on this ever present aware no thing is nothing but ignorance.
This boundless, empty, space-like awareness ( Rigpa in Dzogchen, the highest expression of Buddhism ), is what you truly and really, really are; and because this is self existing and self originating, it is timelessly present without any beginning or ending, and this alone is Advaita ( not two ), non duality or reality and I am THAT, and not what I appear to be as this miserable, limited, sentient human being.
Quite a shock to hear this expounded and proclaimed so simply and directly, particularly for any dream character who hears what is being said and mistakenly thinks that he or she has destiny and free will. If this illusion ( destiny and free will ) is persisted in, then you are just a dreamer trying to change the dream. And every dream is but a dream of fear no matter what the form it may appear to take. Dreams have a beginning ( birth ) and ending ( death ), but what you truly are has no beginning or ending.

Can you find where space begins and ends? This naked, non conceptual, all knowing space-like awareness that you always and already are also has no beginning and ending and is totally ineffable and inalienable. Aren’t you already aware right here and now? Of course you are, wake up! There is nothing else to be done but to acknowledge that yes, I am aware, I am awake and then remain ‘as you are’ unaltered, unmodified, uncorrected, in your natural state and simply abide as THAT.
Do not move away from this pure Omnipresent aware naked knowing into conceptual thought, trying in vain to find the answer to this open secret or seeming mystery in the acquired mind of memory. Mind as we generally know it is time, memory and anticipation, and you will never find the timeless, the non dual Absolute in time, no matter how long or hard you look there. So I say full stop! No what about this and what about my personal problems blah, blah, blah, just drop all that even if it is only for a split second and where does that leave you? You have not disappeared or fallen apart, you are still seeing, breathing, and functioning quite effortlessly without the input of any conceptual thought, person, or entity, are you not?
You are left here and now present and aware as you have always been. So if you find yourself being carried away by conceptual thinking, just pause for an instant and come home to the place you have never really left – the here and now of the immediacy of THIS presence awareness. What could be more simpler? There is nothing simpler than non duality. Reality is non dual, non conceptual, ever fresh, presence awareness, just THIS, nothing else!

This is a direct introduction to your primordial, natural state – “what is” always and ever, or what is referred to in Dzogchen as the Base or foundation of every apparent thing – vast emptiness, nothing sacred. There are no gods in THIS that you truly are. God and gods are in time and you as this essence are timeless – don’t pretend to be what you are not, and don’t refuse to be what you are – THAT, the supreme reality.
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What we talk about is always the same subject, call it Advaita or non duality and it is nothing new. This has been pointed to and expounded by the ancients down throughout the ages and does not need to be attained or realized by anyone. Simply see and acknowledge that yes, I am aware, I am awake and directly realize that you are choice-lessly and effortlessly aware and knowing. This activity of knowing in this immediacy ‘is’ the very livingness itself or the everlasting life that is referred to in the scriptures. Can you find a beginning to this “isness” or undeniable presence awareness that you are and cannot negate? Is there an ending to this present moment?

No beginning, no ending, isn’t that what you truly are, this timeless, formless, quality less awareness that doesn’t begin or end? Don’t take my word for it, but look and see for yourself. No one else can see this that is being pointed to for you. This naked, non conceptual aware capacity or impersonal essence, the knowledge I am is the Charan-Amrita, the nectar of immortality. If you see what is being pointed to and imbibe this nectar you will never again fear a foe and you will be beyond the need for further help, just as Nisargadatta Maharaj told me that I would be, and I am. By abiding in this always present knowledge “I am”, transcend the experience of death and attain immortality.
Do not remain as the limited bound creature that you appear to be, but simply abide as THAT, the knowledge I am prior to the arising of any thought or concept. This knowledge I am which expresses through the mind as the thought or concept I am, has no shape, design, form or quality of its own and is the reality or non dual Absolute that you have been unsuccessfully seeking in the illusory play of the manifest phenomenal world, which is appearing as a Lila or play of opposites. Everything in the manifest consciousness is appearing dualistically – day, night, hot, cold, man, woman etc, but even though there is an appearance of opposites in this play of consciousness; it has never changed its true nature and remains non dual or One without a second, as it is pointed to in Advaita. Knowing the truth about reality one can never be decieved by appearance, as it is seen for certain, not by any separate entity or person, that there is in actuality no duality in non duality. There is nothing simpler than non duality. If it is clearly seen that this is always and ever the case then who or what is this separate person or entity, this limited creature that, prior to this seeing, I had taken myself to be?

Isn’t this separate entity that was seemingly born and dies a total fiction, a non existing phantom? Have a good look at it, don’t believe what I am saying or take my word for it, but investigate this for yourself. No one else can see this for you. If your time has not come, what is being said here or pointed to will hold no interest for you at all and you will be indifferent or even hostile to what is being expressed. Everything is in your hands so to speak.
Therefore, betake yourself to no external refuge. Look not for refuge to anyone besides your Self. Hold fast to truth as a lamp, the naked non conceptual knowledge I am, infinitely and eternally. This alone, non dual limitless, quality less capacity suffused with awareness is the truth that makes you free from the bondage of limited and limiting self. – End.

What we point to here in these or any gatherings is undivided empty cognizance of One Taste, suffused with knowing, or what Nisargadatta calls the Natural State. – There is nobody reading or listening to this who is not aware or conscious. – This present fresh wakefulness that everyone is already enjoying is what we call in Dzogchen (the very highest expression of Buddhism) – Rigpa – Emptiness suffused with awareness – The Great Perfection.

So let us start from the “fact” that we “are” That. – The Great Perfection or Natural State is already present and is our own true essence – This is the ‘pointing out’ – an instruction -acknowledge that simple fact that you are present and aware – that pure knowing-ness is non dual, effortlessly arising, pure from the very beginning and is the primordial Buddhahood. (Buddha means ‘awake’)
There is nothing to do or become. – ‘Becoming’ implies ‘change’ and ‘time’. – Just realize I am That ‘I am’ (presence) and be what you already are – You cannot say “I am not”. – Realize that here and now, without a concept, there is just a pure knowing-ness or “is” ness.
Now this pure “is”ness is what everyone is seeking and yet they already “are”, so this seeking is like a dog chasing it own tail – Seeking must take place in the mind – which is time (process).

The pure awareness that everyone is already enjoying is timelessly present, or as the Ancient’s say Omnipresent – So mind or time is only a mental concept – There is nothing inherently wrong with concepts ,they are useful but they are only pointers – This pure awareness that everyone is enjoying is there prior to and after any and every concept – So this non conceptual awareness “is” The Great Perfection of Dzogchen and is our true essence here and now – So it must be seen from this logical step by step inquiry that the search for Truth, God, or enlightenment is a trap, as we are already That – However no one can see it for anyone else – each must see it for him or her self, so to speak.

So I say happy hunting – closer than hands and feet – can’t see the forest for the trees – there is only seeing, hearing. etc, there is no seer or hearer etc – The answer is not in the mind. so stop looking there – full stop! – Find the seeker – have a good look and everything will resolve itself and be clear – Everything is happening spontaneously, without a doer – you so called are being lived period.
Realize that you are the pure awareness – The Supreme Principal, beyond mind and body and abide as That.

Where to start? – Start from the fact that here and now there is (a) presence of awareness which can not under any circumstances be negated. – You know “I am”- but since when did you know or have this consciousness “I am’? — Also this consciousness”I am” is a temporary thing; it comes and goes. – When it comes it’s called birth and when it goes it’s called death; but my question is – who knows this? – Who is aware of these happenings which we are all are witnessing from day to day?

Isn’t there (an) awareness of the very sentience or consciousness that we are all enjoying presently? -Isn’t everything appearing and disappearing on and in this pure awareness or knowing-ness; this changeless background? – Now this awareness is ever present or
Omnipresent because it allows me to say “I am” – It is totally impersonal and invisible and no matter how hard you try, you cannot notice It or see It as an object.

- This pure non dual awareness or knowing-ness has always and ever been with you, but you as that imagined entity “me” have through inadvertence been ignoring it and “this” is the very ignorance that is keeping you in bondage. – This pure awareness which is your Natural or Original State or condition is neither sentient nor insentient.

Please note that all these words I am using are only concepts or pointers, they are not (the) Reality itself – that being said, we can use the words instead of ‘the words using us’. – So if what we have just pointed out is the Truth or Reality that ever seeker is seeking and I can assure you from direct experience that it is;- then this person or sentient human being that I had prior to this realization taken myself to be, is totally false or illusory. -So with just a simple looking I see that what was born is this consciousness or concept “I am” and that is what is going to die, and that can die right now if I actually see that it is false – So this pure awareness unaware of itself is my true or Natural State.

It can only know itself when a vehicle ie body-mind organism, consciousness is present or available. – And truly this pure awareness is here and now untouched and totally unaffected – it is birth-less, deathless, body-less, mind-less, time-less, and space-less and I, the true formless I am That – Right from the beginning -nothing(no thing) is -nothing has ever existed apart from That.

This is self realization not god realization, because that will get you nowhere.

I have never seen any god I am only telling you about myself.

Before there can be any God you the Self or non dual Absolute have to be their first. -You are the proof of God not the other way round.- You as pure awareness are prior to everything and that includes the ‘knower’ of it.- This is wisdom and self knowledge. – Nisargadatta Maharaj told me the only way you can help anyone is to take them beyond the need for further help and he did that by showing me what I was not….this body and mind. – He did not and could not show me or explain to me what is the Truth or actual Reality of all things. because That cannot be put into words or seen as an object. – I had to do my own inner work and see the Truth for myself. – See and acknowledge this present awareness that you cannot negate or grasp and you too will be beyond the need for further help. – No guru, new age spiritual master, or outer teacher can do it for you, you have to see it for yourself………….

What we talk about here is Advaita—-Truth or Reality. – Now the definition of Reality is That which does not change. – Everything apart from this Omnipresent Awareness is a was-ing—past or an if-ing—-future.
So this that we talk about, is the only thing worth talking about. – It must be seen very clearly that past or future, are only in imagination and never ever actual–Apart from thought, memory and anticipation, there is no past or future. – As Sailor Bob says, what’s wrong with right now if you don’t think about it? – And I think it is fairly obvious that there can be nothing wrong or right if I don’t think about it. – Also Nisargadatta Maharaj would often point out to me that nothing can trouble you except in your own imagination–read thought–read time–read mind. – So mind as we ordinarily use the term is time–memory of past or anticipation of some coming event — future.

Mind is time and time is fear because it is circumscribed–it has a beginning and an end. – However this pure Presence Awareness is timelessly present or Omnipresent–but usually it’s being ignored or overlooked, taken for granted, we might say. – The “me”, Joe Blogs is time or memory and it wants to continue for all time–it doesn’t want to disappear. – I, Joe Blogs love to be—I am so and so and I’ll do anything to stay alive for as long as possible. – This desire to be and continue endlessly is Thana (sanskrit term meaning thirst for existence), suffering and delusion.
There is no need for me to continue to be or not to be as Shakespeare said, because I am, infinitely and eternally as this pure Presence Awareness that no one can ever, under any circumstances, negate this pure awareness that (they are) I already am is Omnipresence, Omniscience, Omnipotence–All Presence–All Knowing–All Power, and the “me” as Joe Blogs is only a mental concept, a bunch of memories, which ultimately has no substance or independent nature apart from the pure awareness or knowingness which I already am and can’t negate.
So there is no need to get rid of the me or ego, because it never existed–or as Nisargadatta says is the child of a barren woman—and after all a barren woman has never had a son in the first place! – So where is the need to get rid of it, because it is appearance only?
Don’t take my word for it–investigate and find out for yourself. – Who am I? – Who and where is this separate I (Joe Blogs that I have taken myself to be?

Right here and right now, without a word or concept there is just a pure “is” ness or as we say in Dzogchen, the highest expression of Buddhism, non-conceptual awareness.
Dzogchen translated means The Great Perfection. – This pure “is” ness or knowingness that you are That is this present experiencing–without a word or concept, you can’t sat it is good or bad happy or sad–it just “is”–even without a concept
–this non-conceptual awareness that you presently cannot negate is The Great Perfection and you already are That.
The manifest universe (Phenomena) has appeared on and will disappear into this non-dual Noumenon—–read Absolute. – So really, as far as I’m concerned, nothing has ever happened at all—all this discussion, all actions good or bad, everything I am saying is for entertainment only–whirling away the illusory time. – A Jnani knows and I know that all this (whatever anyone says or doesn’t say) is nothing but pure ignorance.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it! -See what it does to your pride of doership and arrogance. – As Nisargadatta pointed out –you as that separate entity, are the result of spit (or sperm, or dirt), so how can you even entertain ego or doership, when this is seen?
What will happen to your self-esteem if you are exposed to this actuality–how can you have ego? Full stop!
Yes sir! – That’s the reason why there doesn’t seem to be many takers for this. – No one wants to be nothing or no thing, and that’s exactly what you are — not a vacuum or a void—pure emptiness suffused with intelligence or knowingness—not a dead thing— pure boundless self-shining intelligence energy–no beginning, no ending — ineffable, unborn, unspeakable, non-conceptual awareness.
Nothing perceivable or conceivable–inconceivable–unknowable–so give up trying to grasp ‘This’ with the mind, you can’t grasp it because you are it!

Vedanta is the study of the Vedas in Hinduism–The 4 principal Vedas are the core of their sacred scriptures. – Veda means the “word” of God or Truth as revealed to man. – However Vedanta itself means the end of the Vedas– the end of words or concepts. – What we point to in Advaita Vedanta is that the Vedas or sacred scriptures are powerless to reveal this Absolute, or what we commonly call God.
This is beyond words, so Advaita that we point to here is beyond or prior to, words, concepts, or the Vedas as such. Advaita Vedanta means the end of the Vedas-the end of words or concepts. – Also Advaita means total unicity-not two–In that how can there be two: one asking about another?
Realize that prior to the arising of a single word or thought, there “is” an unspeakable, unknowable essence that enables this present expression to take place.
Pause, just for a split second, and relax into that essence–Now without a thought or concept, what can you say about this Omnipresence?
You cannot say anything about it without a thought, yet undeniably it “is”- thought or no thought. -This Natural State or essence cannot be approached positively–you cannot say what it is–it is a mystery–unknowable by any entity or concept–yet you who are reading this cannot be apart from it.
Approach it negatively. – Neti Neti–not this, not this–not the body, not the mind.
Keep negating until you come to something that you cannot negate–I am–even without a word. – That itself leads you to the Mahavakya—the great Word or Upanishad– TAT TVAM ASI–Thou art THAT!–You “are” THAT—I am THAT, as Nisargadatta and other Jnanis’ proclaim.

You are what you are seeking.  Seeing that clearly the search for Truth is brought to an end. – You put an axe to the concepts at the very root, and firmly abide as That. – No more sprouting, no more rebirth can take place because you have gone to the very root. the source of the concepts and destroyed that root by firmly inhering and abiding in the state 3 days prior to conception. – This state or essence, prior to conception as a sentient human being, is your true eternal state–That state prevailed thousands of years ago, right now, thousands of years hence, it will prevail–It always and ever prevails. (It is state-less)
Know it and abide in it–all your problems will be solved and all your desires will be fulfilled. – The scriptural passage Proverbs3:56 “Lean not not unto thine own understanding, in all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct thy paths” becomes true. – The true meaning of this statement doesn’t mean acknowledge some person–it simply means acknowledge this unspeakable essence that is living you, breathing you, thinking you, performing all your bodily functions, beating your heart etc, moving the galaxies–you don’t exist apart from it–you are being dreamed–a dream character.
Also “He will perfect that which concerneth me”. – You have no free will-”Take no thought for the morrow”. – Don’t try to reason anything out. – The answer is not in the mind. – This nothingness contains the mind, the mind doesn’t contain it. – So stop looking there.

No sage, saint, or saviour has ever touched this nothingness or Noumenon–no one, not – Jesus, Buddha, Mahavira or anyone else has ever gone beyond nothing or such-ness.
When this fully dawns you will realize that you were never born, nor have you carried out any worldly actions—everything that you ever thought you did or was done to you—never happened at all–all that you imagined you did was pure ignorance, dream and illusion.
This is the secret of the Siddhas –you’re just pissing in the wind–if you ever find a friend who tells you this and you take direct delivery of it, you will be blessed beyond words.
This is Salvation, Liberation, Nirvana,
the Kingdom of Heaven–accept it now if you can.
If there is still a you there wanting enlightenment–then this is also just what is–don’t fight with it–just notice it, be aware of it and in due course it will vanish by itself without any personal effort. – Stop playing God and let Him run the universe.