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?

We are all intelligent people so called, and we have solved a lot of problems with our mind, but we have never solved this problem of the mystery of being – ‘who and what am I?’ – we have never solved it with the mind.
Having looked endlessly in the mind, which is itself time, and not having found any solution there, wouldn’t it dawn on us that perhaps the answer is not there? When this dawns on you and you cease looking in the mind for an answer, where does that leave you? – here and now present and aware as you have always and ever been.This presence awareness, Is-ness, pure non-conceptual knowing-ness, is exceedingly subtle.
So subtle in fact, that we cease to notice it at all and instead look outward and fixate on the gross experiences – food, sex, music, sensory perceptions and objects, ignoring the very subtle space of knowing-awareness that everything is taking place in.In fact everything, including sentient beings and apparent separate objects are nothing but this self-shining empty cognizance appearing as other.This emptiness suffused with awareness is utterly non dual.
This is what Advaita, meaning not-two, really is.

This uncompromising pointing to this ever present principal is the genuine article of all true and authentic Advaita teaching.
In this there is no teacher nor is there any teaching – everything “is” this non dual Absolute, that no can at any time, ever negate.
No one can say – I am not, because you, as the Absolute, would have to be there to say it.That being said, let us investigate this presence awareness that everyone, so called, is enjoying.
Can you ever remember a time when conscious knowing presence was not there?
As far back as you can remember it was there, and if you receed even further back prior to your own birth or conception in the womb, all you can say is, I don’t remember or I don’t know.
Realize however, that it is this ever present awareness that is allowing you to say, I don’t know or I don’t remember.By awareness we mean just this pure activity of knowing that you are.
Not knowing this or that, but just bare naked knowing – even without a thought or concept.
Even without a thought arising or being present, there is still a pure knowing-ness or ‘is-ness’ present.
There is a pure knowing there, prior to consciousness of being a person, or labeling and naming something eg – saying that is a chair, that is a tree etc.There is a knowing there even before a thought says that is So and So etc.
This pure unadulterated “isness”, knowing is the Jnana of a Jnani.
This is the lost innocence or wholeness that everyone is seeking.
We actually know what everything is even before we name or label it.
We think we know something by calling it a chair, but the word or concept “chair” is only a label, and you can’t sit on a concept or label.

The word chair is not the actuality, only a name, a description.Therefore a chair is not actually a chair, it is simply vibrating pure intelligence energy – awareness, appearing as a chair.
The chair is only a momentary appearance in the changeless space like awareness. – Awareness is self-knowing, self-shining.
Emptiness suffused with awareness is the non dual Absolute.
Because awareness as we are using the term, is non dual – Advaita – it cannot know itself as an object.
If something is not two or One without a second as Advaita claims, it cannot and need not know itself.
Note, that in using language, the very language itself has an inbuilt limitation and implies in it’s very use a duality that doesn’t really exist.However language or words are the only tool we have to point to this TRUTH or non duality that you have never ever left, except in your own mind or imagination; which is itself only an aspect of this non dual Absolute.
When I said in the previous paragraph – if something is non dual or Absolute, there is an implication that REALITY or TRUTH is a thing or an it, and THIS is not an it or a thing as such.

Things come and go, but what we are pointing to here, doesn’t come or go.
Let’s clarify our terms here. – REALITY is THAT which never changes.
This empty space of knowing that you are enjoying right now as you are reading these words is timelessly present, has no dimensions, is Omnipresent, Omniscient, Omnipotent, and I am THAT, you are THAT, there is nothing that is not THAT.Your (original) name is I AM THAT I AM, not Mr or Mrs So and So.
So what do you need to attain? – or to seek, to become enlightened or fulfilled?
How can you ever find yourself if you “are” yourself?
How can you ever become what you already are?
It is impossible to be in need of getting something extra to be added (to you), in order to become what you already are.

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.

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.