Back to basics. -Right here and now there is the presence of awareness, livingness, pure being – you cannot grasp it with a thought or concept, yet you cannot negate it. – This livingness, knowing-ness – hearing sounds, seeing objects, feeling feelings, sensations etc, is all there is.- “THIS” is all there ever is. – This livingness is nothing, no thing – utterly empty, yet fullness,
empty pure intelligence energy – no beginning – no ending.
So all this is simply happening spontaneously. – It is not happening to anyone.
It is just happening ceaselessly and there is no person as such, that has or knows this.
This is a conversation about nothing – utterly absurd to a conditioned mind or person who mistakenly thinks that they have and are consciously living their own lives and running the show, as we say.
Just see that livingness “is”. – Don’t try to be or do anything special – just be – choice-less,effortless, awareness or being-ness.
What effort are you making right now to be aware?
No effort, of course, you just are infinitely and eternally – I am That – You are That – everything is THAT (as Nisargadatta pointed out to me).
Relax into this pure awareness.

Let go and just be THAT instead of the miserable sentient human being that you had, prior to this pointing out instruction; taken yourself to be.
Realize that you, as this pure awareness or knowingness, are prior to everything and the knower of it.
This is the path (of) wisdom – the wisdom of your own natural state.
Even before a thought arises,and you label something, calling it a chair or table, you already know what it is before you name it.
This knowing-ness or awareness is Omnipresent, or as we say in Advaita – One without a second.
SAT CHIT ANANDA – Existence, Consciousness, Bliss, Absolute.
Being, knowing, and loving to be.
They are not three things – they are all aspects of this ordinary everyday awareness that
you are presently and timelessly enjoying. – Realize it, acknowledge it, do not ignore or take it for granted. – It is the very livingness or power that is enabeling me to write these words and allowing you to read or hear them. – Awaken from this dream that you are mortal, fallible, and full of sin, and realize right now that you are this deathless essence or spirit that is enabeling everything to happen.

No one is doing anything to you – everything is happening spontaneously – there is no creator,
preserver, or destroyer. – No Ishwara, no Brahma, no God in heaven. – All these are only conceptual entites.
Everything arises without any cause and disappears into this empty living essence.
There is no reason for the appearance of the universe – it has no cause or creator.
It is just in the nature of things, that this “seems” to happen – nothing has happened at all.
All that you think you are seeing is appearance only – Maya – without any substance or independent nature apart from this empty essence or knowing-ness – Jnana Prajnana – that you cannot under any circumstances negate.

This is the greatest ‘good news’ that anyone (a so called ‘someone’) can ever have – “you have never been born,
and you will never die”.
This “is” the truth that will make you free – know it now if you will. – You yourself are what you are seeking – The non dual Absolute – Your nature is already perfect.

What can I do, where can I go when it is clearly seen that the “me” that I am referring to is only a mental conceptual entity? – If there were no Consciousness it would be impossible for me to have any thoughts or concepts. – So consciousness, awareness of presence, is fundamental to any sense of existence or non existence.
This conscious awareness is nothing in itself, it is the equivalent of space or emptiness, yet is is
the very sentience of all sentient beings. Space or pure space like awareness, has no center or circumference.
You cannot find a beginning to it – This empty cognizance is the fundamental reality and essence of all things.
This is basically what I am. – I am not a separate entity or thing. Things perish, they come and go,appear and disappear in this emptiness. – Everything in the manifestation is vibrating intelligence energy patterns.
Everything is basically energy,livingness – vibration – appearing as the manifest universe of so called separate entities.
This energy is infinite,boundless, whole, one without a second, as we say in Advaita.

Everything in the universe can be broken down into space or emptiness.
Everything is appearing in space and is nothing but space.
All that we are seeing is empty space appearing as people, animals, trees, mountains. – Space or awareness is unborn, boundless emptiness – energy,or pure intelligence.
So there is always the possibility that on hearing this message expounded and expressed, that there can be an undoing of this contraction called “me”, Mr and Mrs So and So, and a release into boundlessness.
This boundless essence, can never, ever be grasped by the limited mind of a human being.
It cannot be put into words – they can never hope to capture it – they can at best only point to it – This is it.
This is all there ever is. – Grace is – but not for any entity – hearing sounds, seeing sights, thoughts arising and passing away.
This very livingness – aliveness is all there is – wherever you go there is only this livingness or now-ness.

There is no coming or going except in the dream. – This livingness is everywhere, every when and it can’t know death – death is only for the character in the world dream.
Dream characters have no destiny or free will, except in the dream.Outside the dream, in awakening – Buddhahood, there are no people or things – there is no sun, moon,stars,or living beings. – Even within the dream or manifestation, this holds true.
Realize right now, that you are dreaming and being dreamed as this illusory entity and wake up! Don’t wait for another 1000 lifetimes. – Hear the words of the master issuing from the heart essence – “I am the self-luminous reality”.
Wake up and be free this very instant. – These boundless blessings flow from the glorious lineage of the Navanath Sampradaya – the group of 9 friends or masters reportedly beginning with Dattatreya, author of The Avadhuta Gita, back in antiquity; one truly great one from this same lineage, living in the last century, was Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, who I had the extreme good fortune to see, know, and love in this life.

There is just “what is”, always and ever.
There is no escape from what is nor anyone who needs to escape.
Who am I talking to when I say this, and who is saying it?
No one, it is just consciousness or “isness” talking to itself.
There is no benefit to anyone in this. – There is no profit or loss to anybody, so I am not talking to anybody or mind, there is just this I am-ness talking to itself. – Talking and listening, asking and answering just happen- nothing happens to me, the non dual Absolute.
Whether I exist or don’t exist, live a long time or not, doesn’t concern me.
I have no interest in being or non being, or even in nothingness or emptiness or what we call noumenon.
All these so called things are only of interest as long as the manifested being-ness or consciousness “I am” is present.

This consciousness of being a person and seeing a world is only possible while the food essence body-mind is in good order and is being supplied by a regular quantity of healthy and nourishing food and drink.
As long as that seed of consciousness, I am, is moist and nourished, you will experience this world and have all these concerns.
Once this seed is no longer moist and can no longer be sustained, this consciousness will disappear and merge into the
universal Consciousness. – This stateless state – Parabrahman – for your sake, I attach a label to it – is what is to be known and abided in.
This is what could be called heart to heart. – The words that are flowing out here are not coming from my intellect as such – they are coming from the heart of reality itself.
Heart means – this is the center, not the physical heart on the left, or the spiritual heart on the right, but from the very core of your being.
If they resonate, then you already know what I’m saying, so you are not getting anything from me personally.
This has nothing to do with Mark West or anyone else – this is utterly impersonal – though the words can seem to describe or point to it.

There is no me or you – there is only THAT, non dual Absolute communicating with Itself.
When this that I am pointing to presently is directly appercieved, you will never again fear a foe.
Then the riddle or mystery will be un-raveled and fully understood.
That is: from no- being to being and then again no – being.
How and why this happens will be fully revealed to you.
This alone is self – realization not god – realization.
The idea of god is there only when the manifested consciousness “I am” is present.
When the consciousness disappears and sets at the time of physical death, where is is the idea or need for god? God is only necessary or thought of when this fever (illusion) of being a
sentient human being or person comes over me and is mistakenly taken delivery of.
God is only necessary when the sense of duality or manifested consciousness is present – when this disappears there is no need for god, because I myself am God – the non dual Absolute.

How has this happened? – there was just bliss or nothingness – I didn’t know anything, I didn’t know I was – then for no known reason, and without my permission – this fever or sickness “I amness” came over me – I am So and So.
In my case, this fever or illusion of being a limited, separate, sentient human being has passed off and I am in my original or natural state of bliss or wholeness.
Call it grace, good luck or whatever, but this you can and must realize for yourself – you have to become your own proof of the non dual Absolute – there you will meet no other.

Not – two.

This may be misleading to a circumscribed intellect, so let it be seen (by no one) that the Absolute is not an object – a person, place or thing.
It is not an “it” – has no location, is Omnipresent – this is it – this is all there ever is – TAT TVAM ASI – thou art THAT.

Nirvana is the highest happiness – bliss – what the scripture refer’s to as the peace that passes all understanding – when you don’t know you are – the beingness has been transcended.
So long as there is interest in, and attachment to this beingness – wanting things to be different – feeling incomplete – wanting some thing – then this non dual essence is seemingly obsecured or not fully abided in.
Look and see who it is that is not complete – investigate for yourself and find the seeker.
Then the whole mystery is cleared up.
When you earnestly search for the seeker, you cannot locate or find it -it never existed – it’s a phantom.
This non existent phantom, prior to investigation, was the cause of a lot of unnecessary suffering, anxiety and endless conflict.

Ancients like Buddha, as well as contemporary Jnani’s like Nisargadatta Maharaj, tell us that this psychological suffering is unnecessary.
This cage that I had built around myself – a cage of words and concepts – the bondage of self – is non existent and without substance – if it is looked into.
Freedom is here for the taking – the release from contraction into boundlessness.
You were never that limited entity or person that you had taken yourself to be.
This is effortless – what effort are you making to be aware right now?
None, you already “are” what you are seeking.
In that inner core, that knowing-ness or “I am ness” there are no cages or shackles.
Once it is understood that I am is purely I am -formless – and not that shackled body form – then no liberation is called for.
To be stabilized in that being-ness, which has no name and form,that itself is liberation.
That which is de-conditioned from name and form is “PARAMATMAN” – UNIVERSAL ESSENCE.The vital force or prana is universal, it can’t know death – it has no shape or form – it is universal energy.
The corpse like physical body is only seemingly alive because of this vital breath.

Know and realize that you are this universal essence, life force or livingness, and not just this fleshly body-mind.
This is the primary obstacle to self realization – thinking that you are this body-mind (memory etc) and identifying with it, instead of the living vital force essence that is animating it, and allowing it to say and think “I am a separate person or individual.”
This is delusion,pride and ego – doer-ship. – You are the deathless animating essence, unlimited by any shape or form.
The vital breath is not confined to the body. – All the elements are moved, operated by the vital breath,but because it is inside the body you call it prana.
This vital breath is a vital energy and that qualitative principal is the “knowing-ness” that is in the vital breath.
Vitalness, intelligence energy,principal,spirit – that is what you are -not this limited body-mind entity, called Jiva or individual soul.
In order to know this, no effort needs to be made – just a clear seeing,knowing.
What effort am I making to be aware and present right now? – None at all.

When effort’s are needed effort’s will happen – when effortlessness is needed that will assert itself.
Everything happens spontaneously – effortless effort. – This pure functioning is being witnessed by no one.
Everything is unborn, unceasing, utterly non dual, without any origination or source as such.
This is utter freedom and effortless living. – Self knowledge and self realization.
I am the self luminous Reality. – The sun doesn’t need another light to make it shine – it is self shining
and your true nature or natural state is self knowing.

What I am in the absolute sense, is not possible to convey in any words. – In that ultimate awareness, nobody has any consciousness of being present. -
The presence itself is not there in the absolute. – The Absolute is Nirvana – no thing – no knowingness – extinction – no permanent self or individual.
This is what is to be abide-d in and real-ized – not by any entity or person, but by the “fact” that here and now this Absolute cannot be negated.
This very reality enables and empowers the dreamed character, the apparent sentient human being to appear.
It has no substance or independent nature apart from this unknowable and undeniable Absolute.
And this is the very ignorance – that to the so called person, this self-existing Absolute or Reality, doesn’t exist and is invisible,
and the illusory body-mind person, is taken to be real without question – the real is seen as unreal, and the unreal is seen as real.
This is the greatest mystery – That being the Self or Reality, one has lost hold of it, by falsely identifying with the body-mind,
and is now seeking it.
How can this be? – The answer is that it can’t be – nothing has happened at all – Reality can’t change – what changes is phenomena or dream.
This simply has to be seen, by no one. – No attempt to awaken within the world dream is necessary.

Just see this dream as dream and awakening will happen by itself. – There is no one who awakens or is enlightened -
You, the Absolute are always and ever aware. – You never change.
Sleeping and awakening happen in You, not you in them.- What remembers, understands, or forgets is not You.
You the Absolute remain unchanged, always and ever. – Understanding is a subtle form of seeking.
The universe is in You, the Absolute, not You in the universe. – You are more than you appear to be – all the world’s strength and
power rests inside You.
Don’t get caught in words.- They are only concepts or pointers. -For You there is no birth or death, no inside or outside. – You are nothing
perceivable or conceivable – unspeakable emptiness-fullness.
Here at this talking point the words have exhausted themselves and subside into the empty essence – ” To remain without thought in
the waking state is the greatest worship ” – Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.
This Love is impersonal, all inclusive. – Grace “is” – I am That – you are That – all is THAT.

What capital do I actually possess? – Waking, dreaming, sleeping states, plus the knowledge “I am” – Mr So and So. – All this has to go, or be seen to be utterly redundant, before there can be Atmajnana – Self knowledge.
This consciousness of being a sentient human being, is being sustained and depends upon food essence juices, that are constantly being imbibed. – The body itself is simply the result of vegetation – food essence. – The body is nothing but the elements, and has no independent nature apart from the consciousness, which itself is time-bound. – It appears and disappears.
Where is the individual or separate entity called “me” in all of this?
It has to be seen clearly by no one, that there is no entity with any substance apart from the consciousness which is fully manifest. – The consciousness is ample.
Everything exists in the very light of your consciousness.
Consciousness “is” it’s content. – No object,thing or person can exist apart from it. – When it is looked at carefully, it is seen that everything “is” consciousness.

See the Mahavakya or Great word or statement of Hinduism – Advaita – PRAJNYANAM ASMI. – I am Consciousness.
However, who is it that knows the consciousness? – that “must” be found out before the mystery will resolve itself.
Become one with the I am-ness, the fully manifested consciousness or being-ness, then you can transcend it, then “I” the Absolute, am not the I am.
Be devoted to yourself – I am THAT(ATMAN).
Another Mahavakya or Great Word is -AYAM ATMA BRAHMA -
This SELF is all REALITY.
“Be one with consciousness,worship it like God or Guru, and it will be pleased with you – this is Grace. – Grace is always present, but not in the form of an individual.” -Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.
The one who is up to his or her neck in water, claims that they are thirsty. – If you drink this water that “I am” is giving you, you will never thirst again.

The one who is thirsting is the son of a barren woman. – He never existed, he is a phantom, an illusion, a reflection, like the moon seen in water; not real even for an instant. – Hold one pointedly to this train of thought, and the belief that there is a separate entity is dissipated, and liberation is attained.
When this is realized there is a seeming energetic shift, from contraction and self-imprisonment in this cage like fleshly body, into boundlessness.
This is true freedom and liberation – to know that there is no person here who needs to be liberated – there never has been and there never will be.
Reality never changed – why did you change, oh man or woman? -If Reality never changed, which “I” the non dual Absolute now claim – then nothing ever happened!
Nothing has ever happened at all.
All this time, so called, you’ve simply been duped by illusion.
You ate of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (duality) and were expelled from the Garden of Eden.
But this event never really happened – it only appeared to happen, and you have been taken in by appearance.
Wakey, wakey!
Wake up right this instant!

The manifest universe has never really been created – it is unborn, uncreated, it only appears to be born.
This world is simply the shadow of Reality.
The world is your own reflection.
The world is in You the Absolute, you are not in it.
Stop taking the appearance to be real and reality is already here and now.
All problems are resolved in the unborn, why swap the unborn for thought?
Trying unsuccessfully to find the answer in the mind, in the thinking – you never will be able to find one there.
This is the fruit of Satsang – association with the wise – Sat – pure being – Nisargadatta – your true natural stateless state.
Nature is not concerned whether it is hot or cold, wet or dry.
Nature is infinite, boundless, untamed, wild, unconcerned with anything whatsoever.
Every living thing, no matter how great, famous, or important, must return to the wild, must become nothing!

How did I come to be?
First there was nothing and then spontaneously, without request, this “Iam” news, like magic has appeared. – Once it appears, amazingly, unquestioningly, it is taken to be real. – Because of the Absolute you come to know that you are, it is the Truth which knows, in that knowingness is the universe itself, that knowingness is all pervasive.
Whatever Lord Dattatreya (the first of the Navanath Sampradaya) did,I need to do now, only times change – knowing-ness never does. – We point to Advaita or non-duality in all these meetings and conversations – so called.
Why should I be concerned with others or here say?
They don’t exist apart from the non dual Absolute.
Ishwara, holy spirit, the gods in heaven, and the suffering in hell, are all my reflection only.

I have and need no religion. – Before there can be any god, I ( the Absolute) have to be there first.I am the proof of god and not the other way round.
There is nothing simpler than One – non duality. – Whatever I say of myself is true of you also,because everything is THAT, non dual Absolute – One without a second.
This message is nothing new, it has been pointed to throughout the ages.
However it is rare to hear it this way – stripped bare, straight from the horses mouth – as is.
There is no pride of knowledge here, no desire to gain a following or protect any self-image, no copyright. – This naked non-conceptual awareness is self-shining, self-knowing, nothingness – emptyness.
It cannot be grasped by a concept – it is nothing you can see, hear, smell, taste or touch – yet it is because of this pure awareness presence, that all of these things are possible.
You never leave this pure awareness, you only imagine that you do. – Mind as memory and anticipation is pure illusion, Maya, or imagination. – Stop imagining, stop pretending to be what you are not – a limited bound creature and simply “be” what you are -nothing and nobody, just this pure livingness.

Anyone without a deep urge to know their true nature, will not even listen to something like this. – The mind as it is constituted, can’t bear simplicity or no-thingness.
This will always be rejected in main stream spirituality and religion.
The mind will immediately come up with concepts and try to cover this bare naked awareness-knowingness.
This truth is written in the scriptures, but it is told in the form of palpable and is not understood, taught, or known in the organized religions. – All the religions in the world today are only concepts, built around the direct knowingness and pure experiencing, of their founders or originators. – All these religions are only someone’s idea or concept, and are taught and propogated as such.
They are empty consolations and have no basis in truth or actuality.
eg: “The stone that the builder refused will ‘always’ be the head corner stone.” – This rejected cornerstone will always be the head cornerstone of the temple of Truth.
This is how the parable speaks, and it has to speak this way because truth or nothingness cannot be grasped with any concept – hence it “has” to be rejected by the limited mind of convention, because that mind hates this and wants and insists on lies and concepts – organised religion, consoling concepts to cover up this simple, obvious, naked truth or essence, that no one can ever be apart from, now or ever.

There is no time at all, time is only mind – a mental concept.”Now is the time of salvation” – another parable pointing to this.
What’s wrong with right now, if you don’t think about it? – Sailor Bob Adamson – another not so well known exponent of this natural knowing-ness.
“Look not to the fields and say three months to the harvest – look again, the fields are in full bloom now” – Jesus in the new testament.
If I have the idea that yes, at some future time I will get enlightenment – this itself is a trap, because as all jnani’s have pointed out – there is no future time, there is only and ever this timeless moment – now – Omnipresence.
What you are seeking you already are – this is the message of Nisargadatta Maharaj and Sri Dattatreya. – The essence of what they are didn’t appear and disappear – they haven’t gone anywhere – they are here now – OMNIPRESENT.

It is necessary to see or notice that there is no one who gets enlightened.
Go along the lines that nothing can trouble you except in your own imagination.
This is the realization that there is actually no such thing as time.
This present moment is all there ever is – hearing sounds, mental conceptual images arising, endlessly changing and flowing sensations.  One seemingly follows a spontaneous chain of thoughts and a story develops to create an imaginary entity called “me”.
The story seems to possess a life of its own in a linear sequence – past,present,future – however there is no past or future except in imagination – there is always and ever only this present unfolding, this timeless instant right now.  This means that the past as such, has never happened, nor has the future, because it is always and ever this timeless now.In 60 years time it is NOW. – 2,000 years ago in Roman history is NOW.

So one can see that any and every “story” is just that – a story – an imagination – a recollection or an anticipation.
This means that there is no actual person who has any destiny or free will.
The “me”, the person as such is purely imaginary.The implications of this realization are explosive to the dreamed character.
This charade of being in control and running the show of one’s separate life is seen for what it is – a total fiction, an imagination, an illusion.There is nothing right or wrong with the appearance of a person or seeming sentient being.
This is just in the nature of manifestation – a spontaneous natural occurence.
However as soon as the I thought makes it’s appearance around the age of 3 years, there is a sense of loss or insufficiency.
Just a general sense of something missing or lacking.
Seeking starts from this point.
Not so much a spiritual search at this stage, but a longing to become whole or complete again.Everyone in the world is a seeker.
That is inevitable, because once this idea crystalizes into the certain conviction that I am a separate person – Mr or Mrs So and So, then that identity feels as though it could be threatened and then needs to be reinforced and made secure.  Stable job, home, loving family, nation, belief in god etc.

Now the majority of people seem to be happy or contented with the status quo – they are enjoying themselves and seem fully contented.However a small number of those so called people, who have everything that society deems desirable – success, fame, and everything that money can buy, find even this to be unsatisfactory and not fulfilling in an ultimate sense.
Those very people then commence what’s called the spiritual search, the search for a so-called higher power or reality, greater than their limited self or life.
They are then what we call genuine spiritual seekers or Sadhakas.  Sadhaka is a sanskrit term which means an ‘advanced’ seeker or spiritual aspirant (one that is very familiar looking at ‘this’ ).
This so called individual has an inclination, an intuition that there is something unlimited, boundless, infinite, that the worldly happiness and fullfillment can never equal and that the limited mind can never grasp – something that we commonly call God.This seeker ‘must’ and ‘ will’ continue to seek until he is annihilated and totally destroyed by the explosive shock of liberation or true spiritual awakening.

Let it be seen that this genuine awakening is not gradual, it is instantaneous and explosive.
There are thousands of spiritual experiences, but there is only ‘one’ spiritual awakening.When it happens one doesn’t have any words for it – it can’t be conveyed or explained to another, it can’t be taught to anyone, simply because this is directly seen to be redundant.  A mirage is insubstantial – reflections in a mirror can’t undertake to do away with themselves, help each other, or improve themselves.
The reason it can’t be taught or explained to another is because it is clearly apperceived that the so called other person is already that essence of all things, pretending or thinking that it is a separate entity.  Until the entity implodes spontaneously, or through grace of totality, is able to see the falseness of itself; it must continue to seek.
There is nothing good or bad about seeking, if it is taking place, it is just what is.
Seeking will continue, it cannot be stopped or started by any force of personal will.
The seeker has their head in the tiger’s mouth, and once this is the case one cannot escape ot turn back – one ( as a sense of separateness) is totally consumed by the Tiger – the tiger of Advaita – non duality.  This empty intelligent essence – Tao -suchness – this invisible changeless background in which everything appears and disappears is the unquestioned light in your own mind.
This LIGHT in oneself also includes darkness.Who would have suspected or even thought, that BUDDHA is the (source of the) LIGHT in your own mind? – you are THAT.

Where to go? – what to do? – when everything is seen in the clear, empty space of pure presence awareness?
See where you are looking from and you will notice that everything moves around you – but there is stillness and emptiness from which everything is being seen – nothing moves at all right there where you are, at ’0′ degrees of separation.  Where you are seeing from is totally stationary and never moves or changes at all.
This is the still changeless background that makes possible all (seeming) movement and change.When you are walking down a corridor, notice that in actuality, the corridor is walking down you – you as the emptiness- wholeness are still and never move or change at all.  When you are traveling in a motor vehicle or flying in a jet aircraft, it is only the vehicles that are moving, while you remain stationary and changeless. – That seemingly tiny pin prick or bindu “I am” contains all of reality – all that ever existed or will exist.Instead of being a limited bound creature, as you had taken yourself to be – you turn out to be something infinitely great – greater even than the God that you had believed was ruling over you.  We cannot even call this emptiness – wholeness, that we are actually seeing from; large, great or small, because really it has no dimensions, and is timelessly here and now – Omnipresent.This is what you are – boundless, awareness-knowing-ness.

If the implications of what is being pointed to really jell, then there is a release from the bondage of self – the entity or contraction called “me”, into boundlessness.It must be seen however that you already are boundlessness – therefore language itself-words-are limited – they are only pointers. – Don’t try to follow the words themselves, rather, just get a feel for what the words are describing – then there is always a possibility of an energetic shift from contraction – limited perspective to unlimited perspective ( pure witnessing, without any entity doing the witnessing ).This boundlessness – empty cognizance, is always and ever present.
This boundless pure knowing-ness is what everything already “is”.
Because of this Omnipotence – boundlessness, objects sentient and insentient are seemingly appearing and disappearing ( the world dream Jaganmaya ).

However everything that appears is nothing other than this one universal essence or Such-ness, itself appearing as other – this boundless natural essence can never be limited or confined to any shape or form.
Therefore it has to be clearly apperceived, that there is no separate entity or thing, even though there may appear, in this dream like consciousness to be such persons or things.The people you are seemingly seeing are apparitions, mental concepts, phantoms.There are no real people at all, there is only boundlessness – empty cognizance – cognizing emptiness.This alone is true liberation or self-realization – freedom from the bondage of self – freedom from this self contraction of being a VIP a “me” a self-satisfied separate person or entity.The freedom to be what you are – nothing and nobody – pure empty cognizance.This is utter freedom and effortless living and you already are THAT, so how can you find it?

Has anything ever really happened?
If in fact nothing has ever really happened, including the idea of the big-bang of science, and the earth being 4 billion years old, with a further 4 billion years before the present sun dies out or goes nova leaving this section of the galaxy lifeless; then this totally negates the idea of evolution and any and all conventional knowledge.What really did happen? – Did God create the world in 7 days? – Is there any god at all, apart from the consciousness or being-ness, which itself turns into non-being?If nothing has really happened, which I say is the actual situation, then all these ideas and concepts I’ve just mentioned are all invalid and bogus.
So anyone who associates with me will become totally bankrupt, all their concepts and ideas will be liquidated, utterly wiped out.
If this so called message is truly heard by an ardent spiritual seeker, there will be a sense of great loss, not gain.

Normally with the usual idea of spiritual awakening, there is a mis-perception that one is going to gain something.
If what is being said here is really taken on board, there will be at first great sadness and loss, the death of the false entity.
You will be relieved of the great conceptual burden that you have been carrying since time immemorial.
The death of the entity leaves a great emptiness in it’s wake.
Even though this is utter freedom; freedom from theknown, the dead past; this at first is a loss to the illusory person because, even though being a separate person is actually utter misery and suffering, this was all that entity ever knew.
Yes, even though I am miserable and limited, please don’t take my suffering and misery away because that is all I’ve got, and I’m going to hold on to it like grim death, in spite of what you or Nisargadatta or anyone else says.Let me assure you, no one is going to take your misery away, least of all me, but if you have had a gut full of this unnecessary psychological suffering, then perhaps these words might resonate very deeply with you and turn you around to look at what is keeping you in bondage.
Who was it that told you that you have been born and that at some future date you are going to die?Wasn’t it your parents originally, that told you all this nonsense?

“Anyone who loves his father, mother, husband, wife, son, daughter, friend, or even his own life more than me is not worthy of me.”
The me that is spoken about here is your own true Self – the non dual Absolute.
Wake up to your Self! – to Advaita – to non duality.
Don’t wait, don’t listen to any false guru, no one except your own Self can tell you if you are sinless or perfect.Who am I talking to?
I am not talking to any body or mind, I am talking to that deathless essence or non verbal I am-ness in you that I am.
This is awareness-knowing-ness talking to itself.
Everyone knows “I am”. but that I am is only a thought, however THAT by which I know I am is the great enlightenment that everyone is seeking, consciously or unconsciously.
I am THAT by which I know I am, is the whole of the teaching that is being expressed here.Be still and know that I am God ( THAT ). – be still and know – be still – be – that’s it in a nutshell.
What could be more simpler?
THIS is it – you don’t have to meditate, enquire, forgive your mother, fast, or stop eating choclate – This is it right now – hearing, seeing, breathing, being fullt aware and present.
Everlasting livingness – there is no one who has a life, there is only livingness, and this livingness-energy can’t know death.
Perfection can’t know imperfection ( life and death ).Even without a thought or concept, there is just a pure “isness”, you ‘ know ‘ you are, even if you don’t say I am.
This pure present knowingness, not knowing this or that. is what you always and ever are.
This Omniscience – all knowingness, can only know itself as an object when the consciousness manifesting as the body mind is available.

There is no one here or anywhere else who is not aware and knowing.
No one can know that they are a body-mind without this knowingness, so everyone, so called, is already THAT all knowingness.When the body-mind is not there, as in physical death, the knowing-ness is still there – all knowing without an object – the unlimited potential – boundless pure being – pure subjectivity without an object – knowing-ness is still there unknowingly.
This all knowing-ness doesn’t need to know itself, because there is nothing apart from itself to know.
One without a second as it is said in Advaita – utterly non-dual.When this is directly ap-perceived, you will realize that Reality never changed at all – that nothing ever happened at all, it only appeared to.
When self realization dawns for no one, you will realize that you were never born, nor have you carried out any worldly actions.