The corner stone of every religion or genuine spiritual teaching is this ordinary everyday naked non-conceptual awareness that is common to all.
However this ever-present knowingness, “isness”, is always rejected by the conventional mind.
(It only appears to be rejected and that mind has no power of itself to reject or accept)
The mind as it is constituted cannot bear simplicity.
It hates this simple naked presence-awareness, because the mind as it is, is time – a bunch of dead memories and worn out concepts, and it seeks straight away to cover up this obvious awareness with a smoke screen or veil of ideas, dogmas, rules or admonitions, which it calls Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and a hundred other isms’.
You don’t have to do anything to reach the Kingdom of Heaven of Christianity or the Pure Land of Buddhism.
How far do you have to go to reach space? You are already in it! – This is it right here and now – you’ve never left it, you only ‘ think’ you have.
No one can say “I am not” because it’s this naked awareness that is allowing you to say it.

Realize that this naked awareness that you already are is always present, unoriginated, un-ceasing.
This activity of knowing that you are didn’t have any beginning, so it can have no ending.
Beginning and ending are in time, which doesn’t exist.
There is only THIS Omnipresence.
Once the “I” thought comes over us around the age of 3 years there is from then onwards a sense of incompleteness, sin or separation.
I and the other.
As soon as the consciousness begins operating. separation becomes seemingly entrenched and an everlasting search for wholeness or completeness begins.
Everyone in the world is a seeker either consciously or un-consciously.
There is this continuous sense of lack or something missing.
This sense of lack is reinforced by everyone and everything in the world.

If you look at the world in general, it’s whole purpose is to uphold and continue this restless becoming, and endless desire for even more – fame, success, money, sex, possessions etc.
However no matter how much one gains, amasses or accumulates, it will never be enough and can never make us whole or complete; because on earnest investigation you will find that you were never separate in the first place.
This Divine Spirit that is animating your body-mind “is” what you are seeking.
THIS is closer that hands and feet, nearer than breathing, but through the practiced habit of identifying with the body-mind organism, it is being ignored.
However it has to be realized that in liberation, there is no awareness of anything.
Awareness in the ordinary sense of the term, or even consciousness, does imply duality, because there is still awareness of someone or some thing.
Pure, impersonal awareness, unaware of itself is the Absolute.
Immortality is beyond time and space; in that timeless existence (SAT or pure BEING – beyond being and non being) there is no entry for the five elements, for light or darkness, for the Sun, Moon, or Planets.
Timeless spaceless existence doesn’t know that it is.
THAT is reality, THAT is the truth.
If there is awareness of objects, perceiver and perceived, people and animals that need to be converted or saved etc, this is duality, maya, delusion.

This is not liberation or true awakening.
This rare uncompromising pointing or message is pure Advaita and is radically different from what is put forward as Advaita at present in popular culture and most so called spiritual teachings.
This energetic shift from the contraction of being a separate “me” out into boundlessness is always a possibility when this genuine teaching or message is being expounded.
The realization or even the hint of the possibility that there is no one writing these words and that there is no person sitting in this room, or anywhere else for that matter, is utter freedom.
THIS is it, nothing has to be accomplished, there is nowhere to
go.
Living just happens by itself, you as that entity don’t need to make it happen.
Everything happens in spite of the illusory entity “me” who thinks mistakenly that he or she is running the show and has destiny and free will.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
No one has control over life and death, so called – the appearance and disappearance of objects and things in this changeless, deathless non dual Absolute.
This activity of knowing, this pure life force or infinite energy, is an endless movement without beginning or end.
The mind as such, is only a by product or reflection of this boundless everlasting life energy, and so can never know or capture it.
A reflection doesn’t affect or contaminate the mirror it appears on.
A shadow can’t know it’s (own) substance.
Therefore it must be said by no one, that the answer or solution to this mystery of true identity is definitely not to be found in the mind.
This is all the truth that anyone needs to know.

If the incessant and constant looking and searching, seeking in the mind stops or ceases, then Reality or non duality is present here and now – Omnipresent – THIS is it.
It is so simple that it is constantly over-looked.
All this time, so called, that you were seeking God Truth or Reality in the mind
(time) you had never ever left it.
There was no fall from grace or expulsion from Paradise, from the Garden of Eden, after eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
This event never happened, it only appeared to.
Nothing ever happened at all – Reality never changed.
Reality is THAT which never changes.
Be assured that you are THAT.

To know when enough is enough is contentment.
No millionaire can equal the deep peace and contentment that wisdom and genuine spiritual understanding brings.  The middle path or balance of equanimity between the opposite extremes of loving and hating is Yoga.Yoga in Sanskrit means union or joining of the individual and supreme Soul.  However the true yoga or the Nisarga yoga, referred to by Nisargadatta Maharaj as your ‘Natural State’, is this awareness-knowing-ness which is ever-present – and to which everyone is – and always and already joined – never dis-joined.This supreme yoga is always and already accomplished.Hence true yoga is no-yoga.

True Self is no self or Anatman in Sanskrit.  To realize that there is no “me” apart from consciousness is real freedom.  If there is no separate “me’ there can be no problem.  All problems are problems of relationship, me and the other.If I can directly see that this empty essence from which everything springs is, as we say in Advaita, non dual, unicity, not two, then all so called problems can be resolved, not by any person, but simply by seeing the falseness of this me or person that, previous to this, I had taken to be myself.
If there is no separate “me”, there can be no problem, and there is no relationship because everything is non dual – empty cognizance appearing as duality or multiplicity.  Even though it may appear as persons and things, it never changes it’s true non-dual nature.  A quote – “In the experience of yogins who do not perceive things dualistically, the fact that things manifest without truly existing is so amazing they burst into laughter.” – from ancient Dzogchen masters notes.  A day will dawn when you will laugh at your past efforts.  What you realize on the day you laugh is also present here and now – Omnipresent.You can’t get out of this awareness-knowingness, so what is the need to search for it?  This is the cosmic joke, that that awareness or oneness imagines itself as a separate person and then proceeds to find itself.Oneness arises as two, duality or multiplicity, and then searches for it’s own absence.There is no reason for the arising of consciousness as “I am” – the manifested universe.Life has no purpose, it needs no purpose it just “is”.

Everything is causeless and un-originated.It is simply in the nature of things that endless numbers os universes into being and then pass away. – No one created this world that we seemingly inhabit, everything happens spontaneously by itself.  Everything is appearing as a dynamic display of this limitless empty cognizance.  This cognizing emptiness is what everything is.In this dynamic display of boundless, pure, self-shining intelligence, there is every possibility that one could conceive of , as well as possibilities that one is not even aware of.  Any and everything perceivable or conceivable is always already present in this dynamic display of awareness.  Awareness is nothing, no thing – not a vacuum or a void but the very animating essence or livingness of everlasting, ever-increasing life.  This Life cannot know death.  – Life lives on life and that is why it appears as ever-increasing –  The sword can’t cut it, the fire can’t burn it, the water can’t drown it and the wind can’t dry it, simply because it contains all those things – those things do not contain it.  Impersonal space like empty cognizance, and no one, not Buddha, Krishna, Christ or anyone else has ever gone beyond this nothingness, simply because it has no dimensions, no center or circumference. – And any and every reference point like me, he, she, it is invalid, because it measures itself against some other reference point eg: here and there, us, them etc.

All these reference points are only seeming reference points, imaginary, mind made creations.This being clearly seen by no one, the puppet dance of Shiva or manifestation can be enjoyed and seen for what it is – a passing show, glittering and empty of any ultimate substance – a phantom and a dream.  No longer a nightmare but simply a happy dream to be enjoyed while it lasts.  This doesn’t diminish the uncaused joy of life, because as it is seen that there is no free will or doer-ship there is utter freedom and spontaneous relaxation into this boundless pure livingness.  One is not then living a separate life to defend or feel threatened by seeming others; there is direct realization that you as that seeming separate entity are spontaneously ‘being lived’ or ‘dreamed of’ in this limitless essence.  This is freedom from the known.The known is the dead past, only dead memory and images – all your so called knowledge is only ignorance.  The mind is only memory and it is clearly seen that there is no mind at all, apart from thinking or thought.

Mind is time and time is an illusion, a mental concept, there is really no such thing.Concepts and thoughts are useful in daily life, but they cannot conceive the inconceivable, they cannot grasp or understand this self-shining deathless essence that all things already are. – Knowing that, the mind gives up it’s hold over us and then becomes our servant instead of our master as it had been up until this realization.

How do I know I am?  Doesn’t it imply a conscious presence of awareness or pure being prior to the arising of the thought “I am”, or any thought at all for that matter?   Now isn’t it a fact that I am even before, during and after the thought or concept “I am” arises? Once the “I” thought arises, then for practical purposes a name has to be added to it, eg I am John.  The name is given at birth but the “I am” thought doesn’t become active until around the age of 3 years.No one can grasp the thought “I”, so other concepts are added on to it or acquired by the seeming separate entity, eg I am a man, I am a Christian, I am good at sports etc.   All this so called knowledge about myself is acquired or added on to the original concept in order to give it some substance.  However, what is the truth of my original, unchanging condition?  Isn’t all this knowledge that I have acquired after the fact of the arising of the I am thought around 3 years of age, invalid and a form of ignorance?  Originally there was bliss, the peace that passes all understanding.  I did not have this so called knowledge, “I am So and So” and I did not know of any such thing as existence or non existence.Prior to the arising of this “I am” thought, I didn’t know I was and there were no problems as such.   As soon as this I am news arose, so did all the problems.For example – the need to sustain myself, to maintain my health, to compete for rewards with so called others, to conform to society, and also the need to search for and believe in God.

The idea of god arises only in conjunction with the arising of body-mind consciousness. Without the body mind vehicle there is no need for or question of god.  THIS is what is to be abided in – this non conceptual pure awareness knowingness, unaware of itself, what Nisargadatta Maharaj referred to as the natural state – Niarga means natural as in nature – the non experiential, stateless, natural state – the non dual Absolute.  This is paradoxical to the mind and can never be grasped or comprehended by any thought or concept.  That is why you will never find any solution in the mind which is time – memory and anticipation.  This Absolute is always and ever present, but is not limited to any object or thing.  There is no coming or going in this ever present, Omnipresent Absolute.

It is because of this ever present Absolute that I am able to know that “I am So and So”.  n other words I am THAT by which I know I am.So my question is where am I proceeding to?  From where have I arrived and to where am I proceeding?  Isn’t all this coming and going just pure ignorance?  Isn’t it a fact that in actuality I haven’t moved an inch, and that I am THAT I am infinitely and eternally?  What had I hoped to achieve here struggling in this Adamic dream of opposites, trying in vain to acquire some thing ( perfection ) that I have never lost?  Have I (the non dual Absolute) been born?Am I going to die?  If there is authenticity in the pursuit of spiritual understanding, shouldn’t I ask myself these questions, look, enquire and find out for myself without going through the intermediary of any external authority?  Surely no one from outside can tell me or confirm my own perfection?

If I alone am, then there are no other’s apart from me to tell me.I now know for certain that no one ever did exist before me and that I alone exist, non dual One without a second.  This is Advaita ( unicity, not two ), and there is no compromise – duality never existed, it only appeared to.  Nothing ever happened.  Reality never changed.  That is the very definition of reality – THAT which never changes.  How can reality change?  Only in a dream and dreams are not real or substantial.  Isn’t it time to give up this children’s game of believing in and depending on a mother – father god, watching over you as the helpless child?  Perhaps the truth is that you yourself are limitless and even greater than the parent god that you imagined in your ignorance was ruling over you?
These are the questions that a genuine spiritual aspirant must consider and look into.The realization of this knowledge (Jhana) which is ever-present and expresses through the mind as the thought “I am”, and which you cannot negate or grasp with any concept or thought ‘is’ spiritual childhood’s end.

How was I before this consciousness arose, and how will I be after it departs?What is my original face prior to this mask (persona) of consciousness?Isn’t it clear and obvious that right here at zero degrees from where I am actually seeing or looking that there is clear boundless empty space out of which the so called seeing is happening? Isn’t it a fact that my original face is actually no face at all but simply clear empty space like awareness or knowing without any knower or seer at all?If this is the case and it is obvious and clear that it is.So obvious in fact that we don’t usually notice this fact.Then in truth I have never been face to face or confronted anyone in my entire life.The situation is that there is face out there to space here at my end.I am space – for every face, as well as the entire universe to appear in.Space like awareness or knowing-ness – I am this aware no thing – emptiness suffused withawareness. – I never move or change.I am the unspeakable non dual Absolute or non conceptual awareness as is pointed out in Dzogchen – the highest expression of Buddhism.Dzogchen translated means The Great Perfection and The Great Perfection of Dzogchen is just this, in one sentence – non-conceptual awareness.Isn’t this what everyone already is? Aren’t you aware right now, even without a thought or concept? Without a thought or concept where are you? Aren’t you here and now present and aware? What world is there without a concept or thought? There is no world, there never has been, there is only this boundless pure being or empty non conceptual awareness in which any and every world or universe is only an appearance or reflection.A reflection or appearance is not the reality.Like the night time dream seems real while it is taking place, but disappears as if it never existed on waking.This awareness is unborn, unceasing, it never began because it is outside time and mind, and it never ends because it has no known boundaries.Aren’t you THAT?This consciousness – “I am” So and So, is not what I am.This consciousness is in duality and reality or what I truly am is non dual One without any second at all.This consciousness which everyone loves and would like to continue forever is suffering and misery, it isnothing but ignorance; ignorance of my true and natural state of absolute pure being beyond the being and non being of this limited time bound consciousness.This consciousness, I am So and So, or even just I am is only a concept, not a reality.Reality is non dual, non conceptual – ever shining,Omnipresence awareness – just THIS – which you have never been apart from – nothing else.What do you need to do, where do you need to go to reach thisempty space of pure knowing that you already are? The answer is obvious isn’t it?What I am telling you is absolutely open, obvious, not hidden – an open secret.So obvious that it can’t be seen by the mind which is made up of concepts and acquired knowledge which is only ignorance.The mind tends to reject this and resists what is being said because the mind is time, a bunch of dead memories and concepts and can only think in terms of time and in duality in the pairs of opposites.There is no point in fighting with your mind or trying to control it.Leave it alone and it will assume it’s correct place as a servant to this space like non conceptualawareness which is your natural or original face.Your original face is no face, nothing – This ever present empty space of knowing – impersonal pure self-shining intelligence that you cannot negate or grasp with any concept or thought.The very fact that you ‘know’ that you exist is an indication of your true or original condition which is real,unshakable, and unchanging.This non dual Absolute that you already ‘are’, cannot know limitation or corruption ( birth and death ) because there is nothing apart from itself, as it is pointed to in Advaita, it is One without any second.It is only when consciousness manifests as body-mind in seeming duality orseeming pairs of opposites that it seemingly becomes conscious of itself – self conscious or self aware.When this consciousness exposes itself to you andshows you your true nature, then you have no form.Without a form can there be an image or self centre? The entire manifestation of consciousness – “I am aseparate entity which is born and afterwards dies, is an hallucination, the nature of which is to be inconstant.

Can I maintain my identity as Mr or Mrs So and So indefinitely?
Even the Pharaohs’ in their pyramids have turned to dust!
Is there anything permanent, anything that lasts forever?
The truth is that there is nothing that lasts forever, including the consolation created by invented religions of some permanent soul or spiritual entity and the illusion of reincarnation.
The person who is dead doesn’t know that he or she is dead, and doesn’t have any knowledge of his existence or non-existence.
It is only the others who say that he or she is dead.
However there is a boundless aware, pure knowing presence or pure functioning that you cannot negate on the one hand, and at the same time can never be grasped by any concept or man made thought or invention.
This conscious or all knowing presence, which is referred to in Advaita as non-dual One without a second ‘is’ the reality that every so-called seeker is seeking.

This non dual Absolute is fathomless pure being and can never be known by anyone so called, simply because there is no one who is actually apart from it who could know it.
So start from the ‘ fact’ that you already are THAT (God, Truth, or Reality) that you are seeking.
This reality or Absolute is nothing, no one and no thing as such, but at the same time it is everything.
Vast emptiness suffused with awareness or pure knowing, boundless pure intelligence or spirit utterly incorporeal.
These words are only describing THIS, they are not the reality they are pointing to, they are only concepts, however what they are referring to – this conscious presence of awareness that you are presently experiencing and which you cannot under any circumstances negate, is the very reality or truth that you are seeking and is certainly not a concept or image.
The reason that this non-dual Absolute is not a thing or soul that lasts forever is because it is outside time altogether.
It is timelessly present – Omnipresent, One without any second at all.
It is eternal, always and ever present – birthless, deathless, body-less, mindless, timeless and space-less, and this can never be grasped by the mind or any concept whatsoever.

This is unfathomable mystery – you as that entity can never know this, but you can ‘be’ this.
So that is the solution – just be what you already are – I am THAT – and give up becoming as becoming implies time which is only a mental concept.
Even though this may seem mysterious to the mind and paradoxical, yet what I am pointing to completely obvious, clear and open and known to everyone – an open secret – seemingly hidden yet obvious.
There ‘is’ no becoming because becoming is in time and you are timeless Omnipresence – just this and nothing else.
You cannot negate your being-ness and you can never grasp it with any concept, so just be as you are in this natural state of Omnipresence.
Realize the actuality and becoming and seeking will fall away without any effort on your part. Again, this is totally obvious to everyone and yet seemingly hidden at the same time – an open secret ripe to be exploited by unscrupulous new age gurus.
Realize that there is no teacher nor is there any teachings, there is just this boundless space of pure knowing awareness, which you already are.

So what you are seeking you already are.
So where is the need to continue the search?
It is impossible to become what you already are.
You know you are – I am – full stop!
That is not I was or I will be, it is simple, non-conceptual, non-verbal, pure being, always and ever, infinitely and eternally.
You alone are non-dual One without any second.
Reality did not change, it cannot change.
So nothing has happened at all, the manifest universe has not been created at all because moreover you cannot pinpoint the origin of anything in this world, because everything is beyond arising, beyond dwelling and ceasing – all is unborn, unceasing, beginning-less, endless.
This being the case, why did you change Oh man and woman?

What we talk about here is something that can’t really be talked about at all. – It cannot be expressed in words or concepts, but language is the only tool we have at our disposal to point to THIS. – The words we are using are not the actuality but are useful simply as pointers to what is. – Call it Advaita, non-duality, Truth or any other concept you would like to apply to this ever-present awareness – knowingness that you cannot negate or deny. What is being said presents a whopping paradox to the everyday acquired mind or what we refer to as the “me” of memory. – This ordinary mind that we make use of to function in everyday life, tries to make sense of everything and uses logic and acquired knowledge to know about the external world of things in order to be able to control things and events so that it can feel safe and secure.

The mind as we generally refer to it is a thing, a bunch of memories and concepts, and being a thing it doesn’t want to know about, and can never grasp, nothing or this aware no thing of pure ever present non conceptual awareness – such-ness that constitutes the truth of non-duality called Advaita. – As long as this illusory entity “me” is not seen through, all your actions will reinforce and perpetuate the seeming reality of this separate person or entity. – This activity is neither good or bad, it is just what is – pure ignorance masquerading as knowledge.There are no real people at all, they are simply dream characters, images appearing on the screen of this aware no thing; without any substance or independent nature at all, apart from this empty awareness, which is nothing at all to the acquired mind of man, so called. – On investigation you will find that there is no separate independent entity that has ever done anything. – Yes, that’s it, nothing has ever happened – it only seemed to.

The manifest universe is appearance only; it is unreal, illusionary, like the reflection of the moon seen in a pool of water.The story of your life is just that, a story, it is imaginary. – There is no one there ever, there is just this boundless, empty, pure aware no thing. – So you as the entity can’t meditate or become enlightened, you can’t do anything, you are being done. – Whatever seemingly happens is what is meant to happen. – There are no mistakes because there is no independent entity there to make a mistake. – This completely confounds the educated mind. – The mind hates this and will do everything it can to resist or avoid what is being said here. – However if this is being read or heard it is already too late to turn back to duality, Maya, or delusion because your head is in the tiger’s mouth, and once in the tiger’s mouth of Advaita there can never be any escape.A cardinal rule of what is being expounded is that you will never find or solve the profound mystery of existence by looking in the mind. – The answer is not in the mind – so full stop! Stop trying to reason out or grasp the ungraspable. – Give up this mental gymnastics. – Stop thinking that at some future time I will be fulfilled and find what I am endlessly seeking through my wife, husband, family, nation, culture, religion or any other imaginary external thing.Your happiness or salvation does not lie in any external person or thing. – It is already with you, it is you. – The Mahavakya or great word of Hinduism, of Advaita is TAT TVAM ASI – Thou Art THAT.

You already are THAT non-dual pure essence that you are seeking. – This is so obvious, so simple, that you have been ignoring this self-shining empty cognisance that is your natural stateless state. – Whenever you think, usually it is always in duality, you always think on another – eg Joe, Julie, or some other so called person or thing. – Try to think on yourself and see what happens! I know a lot about others, history, science, technology, medicine, etc – all hearsay, acquired second hand – intellectual knowledge – mind stuff, but who or what am I? When you are turned around and begin to look along these lines, along the lines of Advaita, your progress, so called will be very swift.

Who am I? – Whence am I? – Has anything happened in reality or have I simply been duped by illusion? – When I look for myself I can’t find myself as any separate entity or thing, there just seems to be empty space or boundless presence without any entity that knows this pure being or presence.

So isn’t it a fact that I am nothing perceivable or conceivable, yet I still am? – Nothing can know me or fathom me because I contain all – the sword can’t cut me, the fire can’t burn me, the wind can’t dry me, the water can’t drown me, simply because I contain all these things, they don’t contain me as I am non-dual, One without any second at all.What is true of me is also true of you who are seemingly hearing this pointing out instruction.
Know this truth for yourself and THAT will make you free, not any external guru or thing.
Nothing has ever touched me as THAT and I am infinitely expansive without any beginning or ending.
When you see me dead I am more alive than ever, and when you see me as a living body-mind I am dead as that; how muddled up you are!

It is your own reflection as mind or consciousness that has caused this confusion or psychological suffering, no one else is doing anything to you or causing you suffering or unhappiness.Realize that you will never find any solution or answer to the riddle of existence in the mind of memory and anticipation. -This acquired mind is a useful tool for functioning in daily life, but it is worse than useless as an instrument for discovering your true nature or ultimate reality.
The mind or “me” as such is made up of ideas and concepts and has no substance or independent existence apart from this space of pure knowing awareness upon which it is appearing like a reflection in a mirror.
This mirror like knowing presence is ineffable and unknowable and certainly cannot be grasped by any person, concept or thing.Once this is clearly seen by no one, all attempts at grasping, understanding or knowing this boundless space of awareness fall away spontaneously and you are left here and now present and aware as you have always been.
You, even though there ‘is’ no you, (I still have to use words to point to THIS) leave everything ‘ as it is’, unaltered, unmodified, uncorrected, without preference, partiality, or comparison.
You cease running the show and playing god and let THIS conscious presence – awareness, which you already are, run the universe.It is clearly seen that there isn’t any entity there to control or do anything. – A bit hard to swallow at one go isn’t it?
It puts a bit of a dent in the old pride and demolishes the fictitious story of your life that you have been boring everyone with for so long.

This destiny or story is totally false and there has been no entity that has ever done anything.
You are not beating your heart, digesting your food or circulating your blood, this is all taking place quite spontaneously in spite of, rather than because of you as that ego or entity.Do I want to hear all this; am I ready to hear this? – If you are still with this pointing out, then there may be a resonation with what is being said.
If this is resonating at your end then you already know the truth of what is being said and you are not getting anything from me personally.
Everyone (so-called) already knows THIS. – This is definitely known by everyone but it has seemingly been forgotten.
Even the learning’s of a lifetime can’t stand up once that bell starts to ring.
If this rings a bell with you then you know the truth for yourself.
There is resonation with what is being pointed out. I am that ringing bell of utter freedom and effortless living.
Wake up right this instant, this very first and only instant, and be what you are – the non-dual Absolute.

How did I come to be? – Do I personally play any part in the appearance and disappearance of this consciousness “I am”, or did all this play ( Lila ) of consciousness and it’s content come about spontaneously without any volition, choice, or knowledge of any so called separate individual?
The consciousness itself is fully manifest.
Everything exists in the light of this conscious knowing-ness.
In other words consciousness is everything there is.
It is important to see that there is nothing apart from consciousness and no object,person or thing can exist apart from this conscious presence.Consciousness is it’s content, therefore nothing has ever existed,because for something to exist permanently it would have to be apart or separate from consciousness and this is an impossibility, for everything is consciousness as we have just pointed out.
This consciousness expressing as the concept I am So and So, is illusory, time bound, impermanent.There is no thought or concept that can stand on it’s own apart from the being-ness – consciousness which is itself time – bound.However THAT which knows the consciousness is the reality or non-dual Absolute that everyone, so called is seeking.

All the play in the consciousness including the illusory separate individuals and the phenomenal universe is Maya – ignorance.
So when the consciousness disappears do I who know this disappear? Whatever is happening from the Absolute standpoint, without the knowledge “I am”, is very profound,unlimited,expansive.
This is what is to be abided in, not by any entity or person, but by the apperception that there is only One state or reality, not two.
This is genuine Advaita (Unicity).There is no compromise, simply because there ‘is’ no duality in non-duality.In the Absolute the I am-ness arises spontaneously and then experience of duality takes place.
In the Absolute there is no individuality, no memory that I am this or that, but there is a continual stirring,an endless activity or movement without beginning or end, and this the mind of the individual or person (so called) can never comprehend.The Absolute state, so called cannot be obtained.
THAT is your state – THIS is it.

To the Absolute state witnessing of the consciousness happens.
Nothing needs to be done by anyone, just be as you are in this natural stateless state,unperturbed by the ceaseless arising and passing away of conceptual thoughts and images.What remembers and forgets is not you.
You are the changeless background or screen upon which all these changing things of phenomena, are projected.
Do not think of even the actual act of seeing all these changing things of life, birth, death and phenomena, but rather of THAT which makes all these things possible.
Keep your mind fixed on THAT Omnipresence that is untouched any passing thought, thing or fancy.
This may seem impossible at first,because of the incessant habit energy of belief that has been invested in these conceptual thoughts and images.However the false can not stand up to investigation, and when the falseness of these changing phenomena are directly seen,they will lose their power to distract from this ever present awareness,that prior to this investigation had been ignored, taken for granted, or simply overlooked.

Relax without conception or reference point in un-distracted non meditation.
Don’t even bother to meditate.If there is no distraction – moving away in thought from this Omnipresent I am-ness, then meditation is spontaneously taking place – the meditation of being, or what in Dzogchen, the highest expression of Buddhism refers to as ‘un-distracted non-meditation’. – Effortless presence with what is!Meditation is your natural condition, and it is taking place ceaselessly, like oil being poured into oil – an endless unbroken movement without beginning or ending.
Nirvana is extinction – no permanent entity or thing to meditate or not meditate – unborn,unceasing beyond all transformation – the highest happiness, the peace that passes all understanding – the Buddha smile – the unborn Buddha mind or essence which Nisargadatta Maharaj calls your natural state.
Why swap THIS for thought, trying unsuccessfully to find this boundless space of non conceptual knowing awareness which cannot be found because it was never lost, as it is every-where – every-when?

What is my true position? – Where am I actually located? – Isn’t it a fact that I exist in and as space itself? – Does space have any centre or circumference? – For anything to exist it would have to be in space, and space itself is nothing, it has no location and is all pervasive. Everything arises and is finally subsumed in that sky like space. – This space that you are seeing right in front of you is indestructible and invulnerable because it has no dimensions and is nothing or no thing. – Things perish, but the space that they are appearing in is imperishable – vast emptiness that wasn’t created by anyone or anything.This space-like awareness which expresses through the mind as the thought “I am” is formless.

The basis of this knowledge “I am” is unborn empty-awareness-knowing-ness. – True knowledge (Janna) has no shape or form. – I am THAT by which I know I am. – I am infinitely and eternally without any shape or form; nothing can touch me or know me because I alone Am – One without a second. – THIS activity of knowing, the knowledge “I am”, doesn’t have any shape, form, or design. – Trace any thought back to its origin, there you have all the love, all the power, all the knowledge and abundance you can ever need. – Eg: you are! Always and ever.Realize that what you are seeking – perfection – you already are. – The concept or thought “I am’ is the news spontaneously announcing your true condition or natural state of perfection, which in fact, you have never left. – Have a look at that – I am is not I was ( past ) or I will be ( future ), but I am here and now Absolutely and eternally – before Abraham was I am. – A step closer – before Jesus Christ was I am. – I am always and ever, and so are you. – I am THAT, you are THAT, there is nothing now or ever that is not THAT. – Isn’t this clear and obvious to no one by now?You know ‘ you are ‘. – That is the teaching in a nutshell. – Has anyone ever left that pure being-ness (Sat)? – Can anyone negate their being-ness? – It is quite obvious that they cannot. – However Being-ness or the non dual Absolute cannot know itself objectively

That which is seeking is that which is sought. – Objectively it’s not there. – That’s why you will never find the answer you are seeking in the mind, because you cannot find something that you have never lost – your own Being, your true identity – I am.You are not what you have taken yourself to be – this corpse like physical body and it’s illusory mind – the “me” of memory. – The past is dead and never really happened, so who are you? – What do you hope to achieve? – From where have you come and to where are you proceeding? – Ask these questions of yourself and the vice-like grip of the illusory self-centre will loose its hold on you and fall away without any effort on your part, leaving you here and now, Omnipresent, awake, and aware as you have always been.You have never left this presence awareness except in conceptual speculation and memory. – Even then when the past is being recalled or the future is being anticipated, this is only happening presently. – You never actually go to the future or return to the past except in conceptual thinking (mind). – You can never live in the past or future, you can only live presently.

The past is dead and the future has not yet arrived.When the future arrives it will be presently – NOW. – This is the only instant there ever is, there is no other time but now no matter what position the hands of the clock are in, and every instant is the best instant, the first instant of knowing, ever fresh, ever new, uncontaminated by any imaginationThe Omnipresent, unchanging equal-ness of this space like activity of pure knowing is Advaita. – This knowing has nothing to do with the knowing of the mind which is time, past and future, knowing facts like this or that, he or she, the duality of phenomena. – No one can negate this presence of awareness nor can it be grasped with a thought or concept. – Therefore it is immediately seen to be true, as it is continually pointed out and alluded to in Advaita, that you will never find the answer to the riddle of existence and non existence in the mind as such. – This is all anyone, so called, needs to know.

Is there anything to know, anywhere to go, anything to do?
The answer is, no, there is not. -There is just this ever present being which is always and ever whole or complete in itself, what is referred to in Advaita as One without a second.
If there is no second or other to this being that you already are right here and now, who then is the separate person with destiny and free will that you presently and mistakenly take to be your identity?
Look into this for yourself and solve this riddle of apparent separation or sin, as it is referred to in some of the religious traditions. – Are you separate, are you a miserable sinner or a virtuous saint? – Perhaps you are neither? – Are you separate from the animating life force, or what we refer to as consciousness?

Is consciousness personal (yours or mine) or is it universal? – I think it is rather obvious that consciousness, sentience, nature or life itself is universal and isn’t the property of any person or individual.
No separate person or individual has control over life and death, so called.
Life has us, we as these seeming separate entities, don’t have it. – That means that we as these phenomenal objects, humans, animals, nature in general, are being lived or animated by this utterly impersonal life force or universal consciousness. – If this is fact is realized, it results in freedom from this bondage of self, this phantom entity “me” that we had been shoring up, protecting, and investing all of our energy into.
This frees everything up and life or living becomes an effortless, endless flow of pure functioning without beginning or ending – a timeless throb (Sphurana) of pure presence awareness. -This infinite vibration, this ever fresh, ever new, ceaseless I – I, this unbroken and formless I that is always and ever present, pure functioning, cognizing emptiness, is what you truly ‘are’. – THIS is nothing to the mind and that is why it is constantly being ignored.
THIS that is being pointed to is nothing perceivable or conceivable.

THIS emptiness suffused with awareness, this aware no thing cannot be understood or grasped by the mind of the so called individual simply because the mind as such is a thing, a bundle of memories, past experiences and concepts and it does not want to know or be introduced to this aware no thing which is the actual non dual Absolute or reality that alone can resolve or solve all problems and bring about genuine liberation and spiritual satisfaction.
The reason why the mind the mind doesn’t want to know about what is being pointed to here is that it will loose it’s illusory power and will no longer be running the show as it had always mistakenly assumed itself to be doing. – No “me”, no problem!
All problems are problems of relationship – “me” and the so called other, but if there is no me there with any substance or independent nature of it’s own, then how can there be any problems? The simple answer is – there can’t be!
THIS all-knowing presence awareness is no thing to the mind or the so called “me” of memory. -This reference point, this acquired me of dead memories, concepts and past experiences is invalid; it doesn’t exist when it is fearlessly looked into.
So when I say I like this or I don’t like something else, what is this ‘I’ that I am talking about? -Isn’t it just a dead image, a concept given by your parents and society to which you then added all the past events and experiences of your made up life story?

Have a good look at it, don’t just go off half baked, don’t run back into the mind of dead language and acquired thoughts, learning and concepts and say, yes, but what about this and what about my bad childhood etc, etc? That’s just a cop out, a load of make belief and untruth, because in truth nothing has happened at all. -THIS self-shining, non dual pure knowing awareness has never ever changed or been affected by anything; it’s undeniable. – intangible presence is enabling you to read these words here and now. -You have never left this all knowing awareness.
THIS is THAT non dual Absolute.
The TRUTH that makes you free, but do you want the TRUTH or do you prefer the lie of limitation (birth and death) and separation (sin)?