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Copyright 2010 Stephen H. Wolinsky, PhD

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FORWARd

To t bov Sri Nisargaatta Maara

Rays o the Absolute: A Gita For Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj,

is an attempt to oer a song, prose, verses or sutras, tomy beloved Teacher, Guru and Spiritual Mentor, as a wayto honor him, (The Maharaj Principle) as the Absolute.It is with the deepest reverence that each sentence waswritten.

To My beloved Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj,

whose teachings have been with meand changed the course o this lie.

Some orty years ago, I longed or one document totell me the way it is. I always wanted to cut through allthe spiritual roundabout and be exposed to such a ormand Teacher. In the early 1970s, I read my rst copy o

the Bhagavad Gita, and rejoiced at its, beauty, I actuallyelt like Krishna was speaking to me, and it was all inone book. O course I came to realize that appreciatingand imbibing such a document was a lies work. By theearly 1970s, words o the Buddha rom the Heart Sutra,Form is emptiness, emptiness is orm, or the DiamondSutra, No being has ever entered Nirvana, began to all

into my hands at the now amous Bodhi Tree Bookstorein Los Angeles, Caliornia.

I began to antasize that more then likely theverses, gitas, sutras, etc, were attempts to write down inshort Zen like Koans, teachings that were brie sayings


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as a way to remember and preserve the teachings as wellas the teaching style itsel.

By the middle o 1975, I was involved withchanting sanskrit verses which gave a way to remember,and arguably disseminate both teachings in a ormwhich was easy or disciples to participate in, as well assomehow meditative. Still the metaphors used sometimeshit, and other times missed my window. In 1976 I wasortunate to receive a copy o the now amous, I Am

That by my beloved Sri Nisargadata Maharaj. This bookwas a turning point as his words were short, sutra like,easy to remember, and carried with them the power oa Zen Koan. Moreover, the metaphor-pointers caughthold o me, like a virus .

Maharaj used to say,

Forget me,orget Maharaj,

orget the teachings,Stay in the consciousness and

your own unique path will emerge or you.

In this way Maharaj presented powerul sutra-like

teachings as an umbrella. He would present a conceptas a thorn to remove a thorn.

To quote Maharaj:

My words i planted in you will destroyall other words and concepts.

So as not to recreate the wheel, Rays o the Absolutewas put together is an attempt to make available theteachings o Maharaj, in a concise, provoking, andmeditative way.


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This gita, prose, verses or sutras, are oered toNisargadatta Maharaj.

With my never ending gratitude and reverence tomy beloved Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj,Pranams

Your Guru brotherStephen H. Wolinsky

January 31st,2010


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dication

To my beloved Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, my all andeverything, may my lie and breath never deviate rom

reverence, gratitude and service to you.


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Acnowgmts

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To my sweet love Carol, or her willingness to go throughthe manuscript copyediting

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To Vijay Sawant, Maharajs trustee, who spent days withme, (us), just talking about Maharaj and sharing hisstories.

To all students and disciples everywhere who, even asthis is read, are devoting their, time, energy, and lie toMaharaj.


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60 hours o Maharaj audio tapes to convert to CDs.May Joze rest in the arms o Maharaj, the/his belovedAbsolute.


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ReCCOMMeNded uSe

Rays o the Absolute:The Gita For Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

This book and CD set has numerous applications.First and oremost it is an educational and meditativedevice, and as such it is recommended to rst sit andread the book, while listening to the CDs . In this waythe CDs (which are an audio version o the book) canguide you eortlessly through its content. (Please notethat the audio book will ollow the CDs about 95% o

the time. During the recording some slight alterationsmay be present).

Next, as the material becomes more and moreabsorbed, listen to the CDs while relaxing, duringHatha Yoga, or just quiet time can help to both relaxand realize its message. Please note the material is notrecommended while driving, or operating machinery.

Although there are no rules, the CDs and bookwill hopeully act as a study guide or appreciatingthe context o the extraordinary Teaching Master, thebeloved Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.

Nisargadata Maharaj Ki Jaya!


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NOTe ON The TexT

Please note, the book contains some quotations whichhave page numbers next to them. These quotes comedirectly rom the stared (*) books in the bibliography.


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RAYS OF THE ABSOLUTE.

A GITA FORSRI NISARGAdATTA MAhARA j

The SONG OF The AbSOluTe

INTROduCTORy OVeRVIeW

We come spinning out of nothingness,scattering stars like dust.

Rumi

All that is heard is nonexistent.

Understand that there is nothing upon whichto refect. The knowledge o the nonexistence o

anything upon which to meditate is the prooundmeditation on the Sel. Abidance in the Sel, is to be

ree o all errors and all misconceptions.Sri Shankara

Nisargadatta Maharaj,stay in the consciousness as a portal to the

absolute, be the consciousness as aportal to the absolute ... the Absolute is

prior to consciousness.


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All is an illusion,

Stay in the consciousness,

Prior to consciousness will be revealed.

Prior consciousness is the Absolute,

Nisargadatta Maharaj:All you can teach is understanding

the rest comes on its own.Discard all as not this not this, (neti-neti),

Be the consciousness, as the portalto the Absolute. All layers or veils are

consciousness to be discarded, The I Amand the sense o beingness is a temporary

state, Prior to them is the consciousness also

called the Sel o All.

Nisargadatta Maharajs Guru, Siddharameshwarcalledconsciousness the Supra-Casual Body

Stay in the consciousness, as a way to dissolve, netineti the mind. When the consciousness is seen astemporary the Absolute is revealed.


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NISARGAdATTA MAhARAj IN STAGeS

In the first stageThere is identication with systems, methods, paths,techniques, models, schools, and maps.

Nisargadatta Maharaj:I do not believe in spiritual paths

all paths lead to unreality ...Discard as not this not this.

The second stage

There is identication with, thoughts, memory,emotions, associations, eelings, perceptions,sensations, the body, and the perceiver. ForNisargadatta Maharaj, you are not the mind.

Nisargadatta Maharaj:What you know about yoursel came rom

outside o you, thereore discard it.

Maharaj states that the I Am, that sense o beingness,is that which the mind is dependent upon.

Nisargadatta Maharaj:hold onto the I Am, the sense o

beingness, discard all else.

By staying in the I Am, and discarding all else, thereis no longer a dependence upon thoughts, memories,emotions, associations, perceptions, even a perceiver.Then the stateless state o beingness, the sense o I Amappears. All experiences are dependent on I Am or thesense o beingness.


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Meditation

Without depending on thoughts, memory,emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver,the body, or what you have been told, are youperfect, imperfect or neither?

Without depending on thoughts, memory,emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver,

the body, or what you have been told, what doesperfect or imperfect even mean?

Without depending on thoughts, memory,emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver,the body, or what you have been told, are you

worthy, worthless or neither?

Without depending on thoughts, memory,emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver,the body, or what you have been told, what does

worthy or worthless even mean?

Without depending on thoughts, memory,emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver,the body, or what you have been told, are you adoer, a non-doer, or neither?

Without depending on thoughts, memory,emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver,the body, or what you have been told, what doesdoing or not doing even mean?

Without depending on thoughts, memory,emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver,the body, or what you have been told, are youadequate, inadequate or neither?


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the body, or what you have been told, what doesadequate or inadequate even mean?

Without depending on thoughts, memory,emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver,the body, or what you have been told, are you aknower, a not knower or neither?

Without depending on thoughts, memory,emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver,the body, or what you have been told, what doesa knower, or a not knower even mean?


the body, or what you have been told, are youalone, connected or neither?

Without depending on thoughts, memory,emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver,the body, or what you have been told, what doesalone or connected even mean?

Without depending on thoughts, memory,emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver,the body, or what you have been told, are youcomplete, incomplete or neither?

Without depending on thoughts, memory,

emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver,the body, or what you have been told, what doescomplete or incomplete even mean?


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the body, or what you have been told, are youpowerless, powerful or neither?

Without depending on thoughts, memory,emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver,the body, or what you have been told, what doespowerful or powerless even mean?

Without depending on thoughts, memory,emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver,the body, or what you have been told, are youlovable, loveless or neither?


the body, or what you have been told, what doesloveable, loveless, or love even mean?

Without depending on thoughts, memory,emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver,or the body:

NOTICE THE NO STATE STATE,THE STATELESS STATE OF I AM.

Stage 3:Identification with the I Am

Realize that the sense o I Am or beingness is atemporary state, a layer or veil made o consciousnesswhich is to be discarded as not this, not this,as conditioned states dissolve, the underlyingconsciousness is revealed.


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The Yxoga Vashistha, Everything is consciousnessnothing exists outside o consciousness.

Everything that appears to exist is made oconsciousness.

Nisargadatta Maharaj Pg. 84:The important thing is consciousness.

You must give your ull attention to theconsciousness itsel. That is the process o

meditation; then all the secrets are revealedto you by the consciousness.

Stage 4:Dissolving the OF Consciousness

Meditation:Dissolving the OF.

Part One: Reviewing the I Am.

Without depending on thoughts, memory,emotions, associations, perceptions, aperceiver, the body, or what you have beentold, are you crazy, sane or neither?

Without depending on thoughts, memory,emotions, associations, perceptions, a

perceiver, the body, or what you have beentold, what does crazy, or sane even mean?

Without depending on thoughts, memory,emotions, associations, perceptions, aperceiver, the body, or what you have been


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told, are you out of control, in control, orneither?

Without depending on thoughts, memory,emotions, associations, perceptions, aperceiver, or the body, what does out ofcontrol, or in control, even mean?

Without depending on thoughts, memory,emotions, associations, perceptions, a

perceiver, the body image, or what you havebeen told, notice the no state state of the IAm?

Notice the quiet, vastness, or spaciousness ofthe no state state of I Am without dependingon thoughts, memory, emotions, associations,

perceptions, a perceiver, the body, or whatyou have been told,

Part two: Realizing the Consciousness

Noticing the quite, vastness, or spaciousnessof the no state state of I Am,

Without depending on thoughts, memory,emotions, associations, perceptions, aperceiver, or the body or what you have beentold,

NOTICE THAT YOU ARE CONSCIOUS OFTHE NO STATE OF I AM

ALLOW THE OF TO DISSOLVE AND JUSTBE THE CONSCIOUSNESS

Realize you are the consciousness andthat everything that arises and subsides is


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dependent upon consciousness and is madeof consciousness which leads to the next

phase.

Stage 5

As the consciousness ades,not only are you not the beingness,

you are not the I Am,

you are not the consciousness,you are prior to consciousness, the Absolute.Nisargadatta Maharaj called it the Parabrahman.

Five Currents

This is where certain aspects o ve currents o

teaching meet,

Advaita: one substance, not two,

Vedanta: The end o the Vedas, neti neti, not this notthis. Neti Neti is the process o negating all names andorms, (nama rupa), in order to realize the Sel with a

Capital S.

Kashmir Shaivism: The Shiva Sutras, The disappearance othe universe as something separate rom consciousness.Its reduction to sameness with consciousness, and itsassimilation with consciousness itsel.

Buddhism: The Heart Sutra:Emptiness is orm, orm is emptiness

Emptiness is Consciousness, Consciousness isEmptiness


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Emptiness and Consciousness are two sides o onecoin.

Everything is Emptiness, Consciousness is condensedemptiness

Emptiness is a very subtle orm o Consciousness

Madhaymika Buddhism (Middle Way):

Nagarjuna The Eight Negations

Nothing arises,Nothing subsides,

Nothing comes,Nothing goes,

There are no similarities,there are no dierences,

There is no unity,

There is no duality

This is where certain aspects o the ve currents canbe seen as one with the Absolute Ocean,

The radical teachings o Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj,calledAtma Yoga or (consciousness yoga ), Nisarga orthe natural yoga, pointing to what Maharaj called thePrimodial Advaita (the ocean), prior to consciousness.

The AbSOluTepRIOR TO eMpTINeSS ANd CONSCIOuSNeSS

NeTI-NeTI beyONd CONSCIOuSNeSS-eMpTINeSS

The Absolute is prior to emptiness and consciousness,Emptiness, the no thingness, the vastness o void


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appearing as i separate rom consciousness,although they are both made o That One Substance.

Emptiness, the subtle side o consciousness is thebackground screen,

Consciousness being the oreground substance orsolidied emptiness,

Everything that appears to exist is made oconsciousness or condensed emptiness,

The emptiness is that substance on which theconsciousness appears to foat in or on.

Yet the consciousness is the same substance as theemptiness.

Everything is emptiness, consciousness is condensedemptiness

Everything is Consciousness, emptiness is a very subtleorm o consciousness.

Consciousness is called in The Shiva Sutras, the lighto emptiness.

The emptiness and consciousness appear as two,yet they are one and the same

Emptiness is Consciousness Consciousness isemptiness

The Absolute or Ocean o the Absolute is prior toconsciousnessemptiness,

Where the concepts o orm and emptiness orconsciousness- emptiness dissolve,

there is no knower or perceiver or concept o a knoweror perceiver to know or realize emptiness is orm, oremptiness and consciousness as the same substance.


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Nisargadatta Maharaj, In the Absolute I do not even know

that I am.

Buddhism: You may not necessarily be aware o yourown enlightenment.

For Maharaj: there is no such thing as enlightenment,because there is no entity to be enlightened.

The Buddha said it this way,Nirvana means extinction or annihilation.Thereore, No being has ever entered Nirvana.

All is consciousness, there is no separate individualindependent sel.

All is Emptiness there is no separate individualindependent sel.

Nargarjuna: Dependent origination or no independentorigination revisited

Nothing ever arises independently o something else,

Or nothing ever arises independently o emptiness-consciousness,

Or there is no independent sourcing or originationindependent o something else,

Or there is no independent sourcing or originationindependent o emptiness-consciousness.

The concept o source is a metaphor,The concept o source is consciousness,

There is no source.

All is emptiness-consciousness,


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Emptiness-consciousness are one and thereore arenot.

This is the Primordial Advaita,Prior to oneness.

Where the concept o oneness or nonduality dissolveas a concept,

Consciousness-emptiness is temporary and dependentupon the Absolute

Nisargadatta Maharaj:Enquire: On what does consciousness

depend upon?The consciousness-emptiness appear As I they aretwo,

The consciousness bubble appearing on the emptinessscreen AS IF they are two,

The two are one, one and the same.

Revealing the Absolute prior to the word Absolute,

Prior to consciousness,

Prior to emptiness.

The beGINNING STep

Everything that appears to exist is made oconsciousness or condensed emptiness.

Both consciousness-emptiness appear As I they aretwo, but they are one and the same.

Consciousness, the substance which gives theappearance o orm.


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Emptiness which gives the illusion o a subtleperceivable thing, appears as its screen,

a vast void-ness on which the consciousness appears tofoat,

the two are one.

All that appears has consciousness-emptiness as itsessential nature.

Anything that appears separate rom consciousness-

emptiness is an illusion.

All that appears to have a separate independentexistence is made o consciousness-emptiness, and is aripple on the ocean o consciousness.

All words and all examples that are given are onlymetaphors and are pointers.

And as such they are abstractions.

Zen Buddhism: the nger that points at the moon is notthe moon.

Thereore all sounds which produce letters whichproduce words,can only produce concepts,

and are metaphors-pointers,

and as such are not true,

there is only consciousness-emptiness, the two are onesubstance.

Nisargadatta Maharaj,All you can teach is understanding,

the rest comes on its own.


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All pointers-techniques are a thorn to remove a thorn,

Ater the thorn is removed, throw away the thorn,

technique or understanding.Prakashananda Baba: You cannot realize with aormula, use it and then throw it away.

Consciousness is the substance o all that appears toexist,

there are no concepts separate rom consciousness,

the appearance o the world is consciousness.

Within the consciousness bubble lies worlds, gods,bodies, layers, universes, veils etc.

Like peeling back the layers o an onion

All the layers are still the onion,

Peel back the layers; neti neti.

First see everything as consciousness, a supra-casualbubble

Until the Absolute is revealed,

Abide in that Absolute, prior to the onion itsel.

Deconstruct theories, metaphors or concepts throughidentication with the consciousness,

appreciate all is made o the same substance as theconsciousness.

A bubble which gives the illusionary appearance obeing separate rom the emptiness,

A bubble universe o consciousness appearing to foaton emptiness,

Emptiness appears as a conceivable-perceivable VOIDAs I it were an actual substance or thing.

Emptiness as well is the consciousness


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and all perceivables or conceivables is an illusionarymirage on the Absolute, prior to the word Absolute.

Nisargadatta Maharaj,when asked, Who Are You?, replied,Nothing perceivable or conceivable.

All perceivables or conceivables are to bediscarded as not this, not this.

Nisargadatta Maharajneti neti through negation, until the negator

too is discarded or negated.

Neti neti through seeing all as made o the sameconsciousness.

Neti neti until the emptiness-void and theconsciousness dissolve as one.

The consciousness bubble universe foating onthe knowable or perceivable Void is a picture to bediscarded.

All words and language are both binary and dualistic,

language produces metaphors which deludes bygranting thesense o isness or beingness,

and in a word existence,

describing things that do not exist as separateindependent things or beings separate rom theconsciousness.

The Rays o the Absolute, The Song o the Absolute, isnot to create a new system metaphor or school,

rather to give pointers metaphorical thorns or conceptswhich will destroy all other words and concepts.


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Nisargadatta Maharaj,My words i planted in you will destroy all

other words and concepts.

A thorn to remove a thorn.

Consciousness is the substratum, or substance that allthat appears to exist or be is made o.

Everything that appears to exist is made o

consciousness,any perceptions that demonstrate apparentdierences rom this underlying whole are illusions.

Consciousness, is the substratum o all perceivablesand conceivables,

as such metaphorically consciousness has many names

and is called The Sel o All, One Sole Being, or theSELF.

Siddharameshwarcalls Consciousness the Supra-casualbody.

Consciousness is the basic substance o all thatappears to exist,

prior to words and concepts,

prior to the I Am or beingness,

impossible to grasp through the vehicle o language.

There is only consciousness,

Anything that appears separate rom consciousness is

an illusion,Everything that appears to exist is made oconsciousness,

a bubble, a ripple on the ocean o consciousness.


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Nisargadatta Maharaj,By inquiry, deconstruction through a

process o negation, neti neti, (not this notthis), all conditioning that gives the illusionor appearances o dierence or separationrom the substratum that is consciousness.

Deconstruction through total identication withconsciousness is true renunciation.

Through total identication with consciousness, netineti occurs spontaneously, and eortlessly.

Anything which appears separate rom consciousness isan illusion,

anything that appears separate rom consciousness-

emptiness is an illusionThe perceiver is consciousness, and is an illusion.

You are an illusion,

I am an illusion.

All words and all examples that are given are onlymetaphors and as pointers are thereore not true. There

is only consciousness.

Nisargadatta Maharaj (pg. 176):To go beyond we must pass throughtotal negation o everything as having

independent existence.

Nisargadatta Maharaj (pg. 526):Resolutely reject what you are not untilthe real sel (The Absolute) emerges in itsglorious nothingness. Its not-a-thingness.


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Negate all attributes like there are separate individualsseparate rom consciousness-emptiness.

Ramana Maharishi: ater negating all as not this notthis, awareness o the Sel o All remains and THAT IAM.

Nisargadatta MaharajForget me,

orget the teachings,stay in the consciousness,

be the consciousness,as the portal to the Absolute.

All experiences are consciousness dependent,

a bubble made o consciousness appearing on itselAs I it is separate rom emptiness,

a temporary illusionarymirage appearing on theAbsolute,

as the Absolute neither are, or exist separate romitsel,

And thereore they are not---

you are not---

I am not

all separate individual experiences are an illusion.

Nisargadatta Maharaj (pg. 68):Once the attention is fxed on the

substratum o consciousness,there is nothing let.


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Nisargadatta Maharaj (pg. 21):In short, you liquidate that yardstick o

body-mind as your identity.

On the screen made o the subtle orm oconsciousness called emptiness,

Consciousness appearing as energy (also calledshakti ) is projected on the screen o the thinned-outconsciousness appearing as emptiness, (which is itsel).

Metaphorically, this is like a picture made o light(energy or shakti), which is consciousness.

The one consciousness appears as two, consciousnessand emptiness----orming a world picture

projected on the movie screen made o emptiness,

which is a subtle orm o consciousness.appearing as a picture,

Although the light/shakti, screen and world pictureappears separate rom consciousness,

All is still made o consciousness.

Realize that the screen, the pictures, and the light,

(shakti or energy), and the projector are all made othe same consciousness.

Prakashananda Baba, Shakti is Maya.

Nisargadatta Maharaj (pg. 39):

I see only consciousness and knoweverything to be but consciousness.

As you know, the picture on the cinemascreen to be light.


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All objects, people and events etc., derive theirillusionary sense o existence or is-ness rom the

energy/shakti,an emanation or ripple made o consciousness in andon the screen o consciousness, (called emptiness)which is consciousness.

Kashmir Shaivism The Spanda Karikas, Spanda thethrob or pulsation o the consciousness appearing onitsel,

The consciousness, whether called the Sel o All, orOne Sole Being

Is still only consciousness,

Appearing on the screen o the subtle consciousnesscalled emptiness,

As I it is made o a dierent substance then theconsciousness.

Metaphorically, when all pictures made o light orenergy or shakti are removed,

what remains is the consciousness-emptiness, as onesubstance,

In this way consciousness as the One Sole Being, theSel o All with nothing separate rom itsel is revealed.

The Absolute is revealed as the all, prior to the wordall.


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Meditation

Realizing the Spanda

The Spanda Karikas:

Focus your full attention on any, thought,memory, emotion, association, perception etc.

Notice when it changes.

That is the spanda, the throb or pulsation.

Realize the underlying movement prior to thechange.

NEXT

Focus attention on the attentioner, (one who isfocusing attention).

Notice the underlying movement prior to theattentioner, That is Spanda.

Like the ocean in constant movement,

Waves appearing on the ocean of Consciousness,

The movement is Spanda.


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SIddhARAMeShWAR ANdThe MeTAphOR OF The bOdIeS

The Gross Physical Body

Metaphorically, The gross physical body has noconsciousness. It is not an independent being.

It is an idea, a mirage giving the illusion AS I it is thesource or center o its world,

a separate, independent, individual entity that canachieve enlightenment or realization.

Nisargadatta Maharaj (pg. 35):It is not possible or a phenomenal object

to achieve something and this (body) is only

a phenomenal object.

The Mind:Subtle Body or dream body

Metaphorically, the mind also called the subtle body ordream body, bySiddharameshwar, contains thoughts,

memories, emotions, associations, perceptions, aperceiver, the body image.

The mind or subtle or dream body gives the illusionthat the body which is a thought or image isindependent containing a separate independent selwith its own sel nature independent o other selves.

Contained within this is the illusion that the mindresides in the body, in the skull,

rather than one mind, which contains everything.

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Giving the illusion o creating its own thoughts,memories, emotions, associations, perceptions, etc.

This is an illusion in the mind or subtle body.The body too is a thought orm in the mind, which ismade o consciousness.

Contemplate: Is there a mind prior to the word mind?

Nisargadatta Maharaj, pg. 427:In act, there is no body or a world to

contain it. There is only a mental condition,a dream-like state easy to dispel by

questioning its reality.

There is no separate independent existence separate

rom the consciousness

The Casual Body:The space between

Metaphorically, the space between two thoughts, orgap, or blank space between two breaths. Can be

reerred to as the space with a small s.or the gap with a small g

or the blank with a small b,

and metaphorically is prior to the mind or subtlebody,

and is called bySiddharameshwar, the Casual Body.

It appears as the space between two thoughts,

the space or gap between two breathes, but it too is anillusion.


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Ramana Maharishi: Trace the I thought

Meditation: from where does that thought arise?Meditation: To where is that thoughts subside?

The preliminary steps o most spiritual practice, is toshit attention away rom the gross physical body,

the subtle body or mind, thoughts, memory, emotions,associations etc.

and place the attention on the space with a small s,

the casual body or gap with a small g or blank witha small b, which is the gap or space between twothoughts.

Metaphorically, the subtle body or dream body or

mind o thoughts, memory, emotions, associations,perceptions, etc. originates rom the casual body.

Metaphorically, the observer as me, or the sense omy originates rom the casual body.

Metaphorically, the witness as me which witnessesmy thoughts memory etc. originates rom the casual

body.Metaphorically, the sense o presence originates romthe casual body.

Metaphorically, the one who is mindul originates romthe casual body.

Metaphorically, the knower o my mind originates

rom the casual body.Metaphorically, the subtle body or dream body or mindo thoughts etc. originates rom the casual body.This is why the mind persists.


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The Supra-casual body:The Consciousness

Metaphorically, The consciousness is called bySiddharameshwar, the Supra-Causal body.

Prior to the casual body is the consciousness, the Selo All, the One Sole Being,

which is the substratum o the other 3 bodies.

The consciousness contains the three bodies,The emptiness is the consciousness,

The consciousness-emptiness is the substance that allthat appears to exist is made o,

The consciousness including the emptiness with itsawareness nature also known as the Supra-Causal body

is prior to the space/gap/or blankness.For Nisargadatta Maharaj even the consciousness is atemporary appearance, an appearance on the Absolute.

Kashmir Shaivism The Vijnana Bhairava

Meditation

Notice an Object

Eyes closed see an image of the object.

Expand awareness and notice the space prior to

the image.See them all as consciousness


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THERE ARE NO SPACES BETWEEN THINGSTHERE IS ONLY CONSCIOUSNESS

In this way all gaps, spaces between thoughts, spacesbetween breaths, spaces between,

all spaces o the subtle body, casual body are made oconsciousness,

thereore their appearances as separate, independent,individual things is an illusion.

Meditation: Experience the space orgaps or blankness or in-between spaces asconsciousness.

Meditation: Experience the knower of the

space, or gap, or blank as consciousness.

There is only consciousness.

All gaps or spaces between, is an appearance made oconsciousness,

a ripple in the ocean o consciousness,

part o the bubble universe made o consciousness.

When the world o thoughts, memories, emotions,associations, perceptions, the body idea, the I Am,the sense o being, the observer, and even the gapwith a small g and the space with a small s and theconsciousness-emptiness dissolves

there is only the Absolute.

The Sel o All, the consciousness-emptiness, supra-causal body is without divisions,

Without a sense o doer-ship or another,


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Without a sense o things being separate or dierentrom other things or objects or people or events,

All perceivables or conceivables are theundierentiated consciousness which is the selo all which appear like a bubble universe made oconsciousness on the Absolute.

The great illusion, maya, which is dened bySiddharameshwar as that which does not exist,

is a mental conception,A superimposition on the super-causal body, theconsciousness, the Sel o All.

However, all superimpositions are, the Sel o All, theundivided consciousness

Nisargadatta Maharaj:Go in, prior to thoughts etc, prior to

beingness or consciousness itsel.

The Absolute prior to consciousness.

Metaphorically everything that seems to exist is made

o, and contained in the One Sole Being also called theconsciousness, the Supra-Causal body, the Sel o All.

All o this is consciousness, appearing like a bubblefoating on the emptiness, (the subtle orm oconsciousness).

The witness o the 4 bodies, is called the Supreme

Witness.The Supreme Witness can appear as though it isindependent,


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imagining it is witnessing the Absolute.

The Supreme Witness is a representation o

consciousness.It is consciousness appearing with a dual structure o:

1) witnessing the 3 bodies and the consciousnessas the Supreme Witness which is a perceptualconguration made o consciousness.

2) which imagines it is Witnessing the Absolute,

when it is actually, emptiness, (the subtle side oconsciousness), witnessing itsel.

In Kashmir Shaivism it is called the Supreme PerceiverThe witness and Supreme Witness are part o theconsciousness-emptiness and is an illusion.

The Vijnana Bhairava: When you have a desire toperceive this state you can only perceive it when itcomes down one step lower.

Any perception which utilizes a perceiver is anabstraction containing the automatic omitting processwithin the consciousness bubble.

As such, the perception o the Absolute as an object, is

an illusionary appearance made o consciousness.

In this way, whether we call it the Supreme Witnessor Supreme Perceiver it is still the consciousness,which perceives, witnesses, and is the knower o theperception, or is the experiencer o the Absolute.

The illusion is, that it is the consciousness perceiving/

witnessing/knowing the Absolute as it imagines itsel tobe. This is not the Absolute, rather it is consciousness-emptiness witnessing itsel, not the Absolute.

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imagines the Absolute is like unto the consciousness,which is actually itsel.

This is a perception o the Absolute NOT THEABSOLUTE.

The Vijnana Bhairava: When you have a desire toperceive this state you can only perceive it when itcomes down one step lower.

CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE PERCEIVEDEMPTINESS AND THE PERCEIVER OF THEEMPTINESS IS CONSCIOUSNESS,

CONSCIOUSNESS-EMPTINESS IS ANILLUSIONARY LAYER OR VEIL APPEARING ONTHE ABSOLUTE.

For Nisargadatta Maharaj the consciousness is not it.The consciousness is a temporary appearance aGigantic raud.

The consciousness-emptiness too is an appearance onthe Absolute.

The Absolute is reerred to by Nisargadatta as the

Parabrahman,

beyond or prior to Brahman (consciousness-emptiness),

and thereore is prior to consciousness.

That is The Primordial Advaita.

The Absolute is prior to this perceptual veil oconsciousness. The Supreme Witness, Awareness, andthe Emptiness


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A GITA FORSRI NISARGAdATTA MAhARAj

What is the Bhagavad Gita? Gita is thesong, sung by Lord Krishna. He sang thesong just as I am singing this talk to younow. This is the Gita. Now you are acingthe Bhagavad Gita. You read it, recite it,

remember it

That inant Lord Krishna is consciousnessAbout the inant Lord Krishnait will tellyou that the original state is timeless,ormless, and that what has come about is

merely an illusion.

Krishna said, Remember me, I am alwaysthere. What is that state o Krishna? He isbeyond the body- mind state; that means heis the consciousness. Further, Krishna is the

Absolute

VeRSe ONe

THE CONSCIOUSNESS

The substratum o all and everything

All perceived dierences,

all experiences o movement,

all that is seen, elt, heard, touched, smelled, orexperienced, is a superimposition, an illusion,contained within and made o consciousness.


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Consciousness is the substratum o all and everything

Ramana Maharishi:I am not the ve cognitive sense organs, I am notthe senses o hearing touch sight taste and smell I amnot sound color the tasted, odor, the organs o speechlocomotion grasping excretion procreation moving I amnot.

I am consciousness, The sense o I or I Amor beingness and all that appears separate romconsciousness is an appearance made o consciousness,a ripple on the ocean o consciousness.

Nisargadatta Maharaj pg. 81:

The spray o the ocean containsinnumerable droplets, but they arethe ocean only.

The Yoga Vashistha: Everything is consciousness,nothing exists that is separate rom consciousness.

Anything that appears to exist is made o

consciousness.

There is nothing that is not the undividedconsciousness; the Sel o All, the Supra-Casual body.

The consciousness gives orm to an object by looking.

Notice the consciousness prior to looking.

Nisargadatta Maharaj:The eye does not see, notice the

consciousness prior to the openingo the eye lid.


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There is nothing perceivable that is separate rom theconsciousness.

Consciousness is the substratum o all and everythingI am consciousness and there is nothing separate romthe consciousness.

I am consciousness and there is nothing separate romthe Sel o All.

I am consciousness, I have no meaning.

All is without meaning.

I am devoid o meaning.

All is just an appearance made o consciousness, aripple on the ocean o consciousness.

I am consciousness.

I am nothing.

I am the Sel o All.

You are not a being,You are not an I Am.

Nisargadatta Maharaj pg. 200:

the basic concept, beingness, is itselan illusion.

You are not the witness.

The you, you call yoursel is consciousness.

I am consciousness, the substratum o the perceiver

and all perceivables or conceivables.

The perceiver does not have a location in a body,

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There is only consciousness there are no good or badeelings.

There is only consciousness there are no good or badexperiences.


Kashmir Shaivism The Vijnana Bhairava: Take yourattention o o the story as to why you eel what you

eel, and put your attention on the eeling itsel asconsciousness.

Experience the eeling and the eeler as consciousness.

Experience the attentioner (one who puts attention onsomething) as made o consciousness.

All is just an appearance made o consciousness.

I am consciousness there is only consciousness.

All concepts are only consciousness.

The perceiver and the perceived are onlyconsciousness.

This phenomenological world is consciousness.

The world was never created nor does it ever exist.The world, people, the body and all perceivables, andconceivables are an abstraction.

Nothing is ever separate, or independent romconsciousness.

The concept o distance or separation is an illusion

Nothing can ever be separate, or have distance romsomething else since the substratum is consciousness.

The world is not separate rom consciousness.

The world picture appears on the screen made oconsciousness.


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The world picture and shakti is only consciousness.

All is an illusory appearance made o consciousness, a

ripple on the ocean o consciousness.There is no such thing as the past, the present, and theuture.

There is no present time, presence or Now,

They are illusions, superimpositions projected ontoconsciousness.


Nisargadatta Maharaj:The experience o presence is part o the I

Am, and should not be there.

Nisargadatta Maharaj (pg. 44):Jnaneshwar, a great sage, said I dont tell alie. Whatever exists has no substance. It is

unreal. The present moment is unreal.

Buddha: There is no undamental reality.

Time is an illusion.

Nisargadatta Maharaj (pg. 36):It is very simple: This is time-bound, and

anything that is time-bound is untrue.

All is an appearance made o consciousness, a rippleon the ocean o consciousness.

Whatever is perceivable or conceivable is onlyconsciousness.


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All that arises, all that subsides is just an appearancemade o consciousness.

There is only consciousness: The Sel o All.Consciousness is the substratum o all and everything.

Religions, gods, paths, rules and regulations are anillusory appearance made o consciousness.


I there is no consciousness there was noGod. The existence and essence o God are

both in this consciousness, andthereore in this body.

The body is consciousness.

The world is an illusory appearance made oconsciousness.

All states and stations. are an illusory appearance madeo consciousness.

Identities, personas, roles, the shadow, and all ways o

being, doing, and having are consciousness.The concept o creating is an illusory appearancesmade o consciousness.

There are no Identities, personas, roles and ways obeing, doing, having, and the concept o creating.

The shadow is made o consciousness.

There is no shadow,

There is no sel, or shadow.


Consciousness is the substratum o all and everything.


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Sound is consciousness.

Words are consciousness.

Speech is consciousness.

Sentences also are only consciousness.

The guru is consciousness.

Whatever is heard by the ears, observed by the eyesand senses , the sense o I Am or being in the body is

only consciousness.All is an illusory appearance made o consciousness.

A ripple on the ocean o consciousness.

All spiritual or psychological states, and practice isconsciousness,

Cause and eect is consciousness.

You cannot separate cause rom eect since there isonly consciousness.

There is no cause and eect.

Nisargadatta Maharaj (pg.78):I have come to the conclusion that the

world is spontaneously there without anyseed or cause; its creation is

causeless or seedless.

Nisargadatta Maharaj (pg. 66):Seeking out causes is a past time o the

mind. There is no duality ocause and eect.

The concept o purpose is only consciousness.

There is no such thing as purpose.


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All sense o a separate being separate, distant, dierentor special, is an illusion there is only consciousness.

All that appears to exist is within the consciousnessbubble, as an illusory appearance made oconsciousness.

The mind is only consciousness.

Consciousness is ormless, thereore there is no-thinglike a mind to think.

All thoughts are consciousness.

Experience thoughts as consciousness.

All is an illusory appearance made o consciousness.

The words o the guru and all words are consciousness.

A dog is barking.

Whatever is associated, and any associations areillusions.

Whatever things are perceived as associated with otherthings is an illusion, there is only consciousness.


That the experiencer is associated with the experience

is an illusion, there is only consciousness.

That the seer is associated with that which is seen is anillusion, there is only consciousness.

That things that happen now are or can be associatedwith some imaginary past, all these are illusions, thereis only consciousness.

All is an illusory appearance made o consciousness, aripple on the ocean o consciousness.


The doer is only consciousness.


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The giver and receiver is only consciousness.

The enjoyer is only consciousness.

Krishna: I am the doer and enjoyer o all actions.

Nisargadatta Maharaj:I do not say Krishna is a person. It is

consciousness, the same

consciousness is you.

All is an appearance made o consciousness.


The experience o a sel or mysel as a separate I isonly consciousness.

The body is only consciousness.


Nisargadatta Maharaj (pg. 253):You are neither body nor in the body. There

is no such thing as a body.

Nisargadatta Maharaj (pg. 75):Just as the universe is contained in

consciousness so to this physical body ismerely an appearance in consciousness

The perceiver is only consciousness.Experience the perceiver as made o consciousness.



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Nisargadatta Maharaj (pg. 48):The sum total is, whatever experiences you

have, whether or a day or or years,it is all an illusion.

The seer and seen are consciousness.

Experience the seer and seen as made oconsciousness.

Consciousness is the listener or hearer.Experience the smeller as consciousness.

The words and what is heard is consciousness.

Experience the taste and taster as consciousness.

Experience the knower and the knowable as

consciousness.

Everything known and knowable is temporary, and is anillusion to be discarded.

Nisargadatta Maharaj,I you can remember it or orget it,

it is not it.

Experience the body and the beingness asconsciousness.


The only solution is or you to give up youridentity with the body-mind.


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Nisargadatta Maharaj (pg. 68):Once the attention is fxed on the

substratum o consciousness, there isnothing let.

The sense o I Am is consciousness.

Experience the I Am and the beingness asconsciousness.

All is an illusory appearance made o consciousness,The Sel o All.

Form and ormlessness are consciousness.


Cause and eect are only consciousness.

The concept o a source, or location is consciousness,

Anything that appears to exist in a location is anillusion,

There is no such thing as causes and eect, merits anddemerit, good and bad

gain and loss are only consciousness.

All is an illusion made o consciousness appearingwithin the consciousness bubble

All interactions are only consciousness

All beings in the world are consciousness.

Breath is only consciousness.

The breather is only consciousness,

The I Am and the sense o being are consciousness.

Identities are consciousness, veils or layers areconsciousness.


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Mantra is consciousness.

The repeater o the mantra is only consciousness.

The deity or thing the mantra represents is onlyconsciousness.

What is imagined, what will happen rom doing themantra is consciousness.

The concept o a separate individual sel or individualsoul, called in Kashmir Shaivism the pseudo sel orempirical sel is an illusion there is only one undividedconsciousness.

Whatever can be spoken o is only consciousness.Thought is consciousness.


Nisargadatta Maharaj (pg.75):Just as the universe is contained in

consciousness so to this physical body ismerely an appearance in consciousness.

The Vijnana Bhairava: Experience the body asconsciousness, notice the edges, (boundaries) o thebody, and experience them as consciousness.

Yoga: I am not this body

The Guru is consciousness.

The witness is consciousness.

Friends and enemies are consciousness.

All is an illusory appearance made o consciousness,called the Sel o All, or the supra-casual body.


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The space with a small s called by Siddharameshwarthe casual body is made o consciousness, and appears

on the consciousness AS I it is separate rom theconsciousness, This is an illusion.

Consciousness is the mind o thoughts memoryemotions associations perceptions and perceiver and abody image called the subtle or dream body.

The concept o the mind exists in language only.

There is no mind, o thoughts memory emotionsassociations perceptions and perceiver and a bodyimage called the subtle or dream body that existsoutside o language.

All sense o a separate being, separate or dierent is anillusion. There is only consciousness,

All is contained within the consciousness bubble, anillusory appearance made o consciousness.

I am consciousness. I am without volition.

I am consciousness with no sense o a sel or mysel.


There is no body.

Nisargadatta Maharaj:You are not the body.

I am consciousness without anything in which to

inquire.

I am consciousness there is no inquirer.

All is an illusory appearance made o consciousnessalso called the One Sole being.


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The substratum o all perceivables and conceivables isthe non-dual consciousness.

Hearing this rom the mouth o a guru is hearing thisrom consciousness.

The doer doing individual actions are all an illusion.

There is no doer.


Consciousness is the substratum o all and everythingperceivable and conceivable.

There are no perceivables or conceivables separaterom consciousness

Anything perceived or experienced as separate romconsciousness is an illusion,a snake in a rope, the childo a barren woman.

Nisargadatta Maharaj (pg. 63):There is only one truth in the world and

that is that everything is unreal.

All the world, all beings,

All dharmas, all paths, all systems,

All schools, all models, all maps,

All philosophies, psychologies , all spirituality,

All learning and all ignorance are an illusion, like asnake in a rope.

Consciousness is the substratum o all and everythingperceivable or conceivable.

There are no perceivables or conceivables separaterom consciousness.


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Nisargadatta Maharaj (pg. 207):Once you understand the object o

spirituality, you will also understand thatspirituality is unreal.

Nisargadatta Maharaj (pg.10):All your activities, material and spiritual,

are in this illusion

Whenever you contemplate upon your thoughts,

whichever is at any time, whatever is decided upon bythe intellect is an illusion,

like asnake in a rope.

Nisargadatta MaharajThe child o a barren woman.

All is just an appearance on consciousness. A ripple onthe ocean o consciousness.

Whatever is explained by words is only consciousness.

All words and explanations are an illusion.There are no perceivables or conceivables separaterom consciousness.

Consciousness is the substratum o all and everythingperceivable and conceivable.

Nisargadatta Maharaj (pg.159):You must remember that you are prior tothe word; kill the words. Dont rame your

knowledge, dont condition it by words.Be prior to the words.


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No rames o reerence. No reerences to rame.

Whatever object is renounced, whatever one thinks

one is, or is ones own is consciousness.The concept I am the body is consciousness.

The concept o ownership is an illusion.

Like asnake in a rope, the child o a barren woman.


Nisargadatta Maharaj (pg. 69):I am telling you a simple thing. Get rid o

the notion that you are this corpse. The bodyis dead always. The body is inert

You are not the body

Nisargadatta Maharaj (pg. 92):Do nothing else except this; do not identiy

the consciousness with a body.

Vijnana Bhairava: experience all eelings and the senseo being as consciousness.

All past impressions are only consciousness.


Mind also called the subtle or dream body isconsciousness.

The inner subjective experience is consciousness.

The experiencer o the inner subjective experience isonly consciousness.

There is no subtle body, mind, dream body, orexperiencer o the inner subjective separate romconsciousness.


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The pairs o opposites and oppositional identities are

only consciousness: high and low, good and bad, rightand wrong, love and hate.


The veils or layers covering the consciousness isconsciousness.

Peel back the veils as consciousness.

Refection, refecting, the refector, is onlyconsciousness.

Listening and the listener is only consciousness.


The desire or liberation, the waking state called the

gross body, the dream state called the subtle body, dreambody, or mind, the sleep state called the casual body,

and any other states or stations are consciousness.



Without the experience o waking and sleepstates, try to explain what you are.

Space is consciousness.

Energy is consciousness.

Mass, solidness or matter is consciousness.

Time is consciousness.

Gravity is consciousness.

Electromagnetics is consciousness.

Sound and light are consciousness.


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Location is consciousness.

Distance and directions are consciousness.

Nisargadatta Maharaj (pg.101):The realized man has lost the capacity oidentiying himsel with anything. He is

without location, placeless, beyond spaceand time, beyond the world, beyond words

and thoughts is he.

Nisargadatta Maharaj (pg. 302):We are neither matter or energy,

neither body nor mind.

Nisargadatta Maharaj (pg. 115):Time is in the mind. Space is in the mind.The law o cause and eect is just

a way o thinking.

Location is consciousness.

All is an illusory appearance made o consciousness.the Sel o All.

All is contained within the consciousness bubble, anillusory appearance made o consciousness.

The witness is consciousness.

The witness is a veil o consciousness.

All is just an appearance on consciousness.There is no birth.

The concept o birth is consciousness.

Nisargadatta Maharaj called it: The myth o birth.

All interactions are consciousness.


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All images are consciousness.

Experiences and all images or antasies are

consciousness.Projections or superimpositions are veils made oconsciousness, to be pealed back.

They are an illusion, like asnake in a rope.

All is an illusory appearance made o consciousness theSupra-casual body.

Colors are unreal.

Types, categories, diagnosis, psychologies andspirituality is consciousness.

All explanations are consciousness.

Consciousness is the substratum o all and everything

perceivable or conceivable.There are no perceivables or conceivables separaterom consciousness.


The object o perception, the perceiver and theperceived are consciousness.

The world is consciousness.

In Sanskit drist shurti vada: the world is only there aslong as there is an I there to perceive it.

The perceiver is a veil made o consciousness,

Inquire into the perceivers nature as the key veil o thesubtle body or mind.

Location is conscousness,

Distance and directions are an illusion.


The perceiver has no location,


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The perceiver is consciousness,

There is no perceiver,

All is contained within the consciousness bubble anillusory appearance made o consciousness

thoughts are only consciousness,

the thinker is unreal only consciousness,

all action and inaction are unreal,

There is only consciousness,Consciousness is the substratum o all perceivablesand conceivables.

Experience the doer as consciousness

Krishna:I am the doer and enjoyer o all actions.

the power behind seeing or perceiving is onlyconsciousness

all causes and their eects are unreal there is onlyconsciousness


Things happen without cause

All knowledge and the knower is consciousness.


You are like thesnake in the rope.

I am like asnake in a rope.

Ramana Maharishi:The seer and the objects seen areboth like the rope and the snake.

Just as the knowledge o the rope which is thesubstratum will not arise unless the alse knowledgeo the illusory serpent. goes, so the realization o the


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SELF which is the substratum will not be gainedunless the belie that the world is real is removed..

All subjectivity is asnake in a rope.All is an illusory appearance made o consciousness.

There is no mind o mine or that belongs to a me.

Nisargadatta Maharaj (pg. 4):As to my mind, there is no such thing.

There is consciousness in whicheverything happens.

All superimpositions are just an appearance madeo consciousness, there is nothing perceivable,conceivable or experiencable that is not consciousness.

Consciousness has no purpose or source, and doesnot remember whatever has been discarded or notdiscarded.

I am the Sel o All

I am the Sel o All without time,

I am the Sel o All without cause and eect,the Sel o All devoid o God.

Nisargadatta MaharajThere is no entity that needs enlightenment.

There is no such thing as enlightenment!


Consciousness is the substance, the substratum thatorms themirage-world.


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The meditator and meditation,

and the witness is an appearance made o

consciousness.All people are consciousness, the Sel o All,

that which is living or dead is consciousness.

all is the Sel o All.

Consciousness is the substance, the substratum that

orms themirage-world.The individual sel is consciousness,

The idea o being a person is consciousness.

The Sel o All is devoid o all.

The Sel o All is without origin.

Nothing that exists, exists separate rom the Sel o All

the One Sole Being.

The Sel o All is the past.

The Sel o All is the present and uture and Now.

The Sel o All is presence, thereore all time isconsciousness.

Time is a superimposition, a veil made oconsciousness.

Now and the experience o presence is a veil made oconsciousness.

Nothing exists separate rom the consciousness,

the substance o which themirage is made.Time, presence, and Now are all superimpositions,

veils made o consciousness.

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There is no concept o permanence andimpermanence.

As consciousness there is no knower, nothing knowableand nothing known.

Consciousness the substance themirage is made o iswithout the concept o oneness.

Sound is made o consciousness.

Taste is is made o consciousness.

Touch is made o consciousness.

Smell is made o consciousness.

Skin and sensations are consciousness.

Consciousness is the substance.

the substratum that orms themirage world.

Yoga is consciousness.

The Yogi is consciouness.

The guru is consciousness.

All that is seen is consciousness, the Sel o All.

The Sel o All is mysel.

I am the Sel o All.

There is nothing separate rom the Sel o All.

All is the Sel o All.

All results o actions are unreal, there is only the Selo All.

The Sel o All is the Consciousness.Being the consciousness is the worship o consciousness.Being the consciousness is the worship o consciousness.Being the consciousness is the worship o consciousness.


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The Sel o All is consciousness the One Sole Being

Nisargadatta Maharaj (pg. 71): the worshiper is the consciousness and theobject o worship is also the consciousness.

The I Am and all identities are veils made oconsciousness.

The concept is, and is not, exists in language only.

Existence and non-existence exist in language only andis consciousness.

The illusion o action and the perormer o action isconsciousness.

Krishna:I am the doer o all actions.

There is only consciousness there is no world separaterom consciousness.

I am not separate rom consciousness.

I am not.

You are not separate rom consciousness.

You are not.All states and stations are consciousness, not separaterom consciousness.


Anything appearing as dierent rom consciousness isunreal.

Any sense o doers, or one doer being separate romanother doer is unreal.

One action being separate rom another action isunreal.


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Dierences o qualities o nature is unreal.

There is only consciousness,

the substratum o all that appears to be.

Dierences o characteristics is unreal.

All judgments this is good, this is bad, all is just anappearance made o consciousness.

All the evaluations, this means this about me is unreal.

All signicance, that this is better than this, or this ismore important than that is unreal.


Dierences as this and I and you and another are anillusion.

All is just an appearance made o consciousness, a

ripple on the ocean o consciousness.

The worship o God is only consciousness.

The concept o Great Beings, are temporaryappearances made o consciousness.

Understanding is only consciousness.

The one who understands or imagines he understandsis only consciousness.

The concept o an individual soul is onlyconsciousness.


I as consciousness am ormless and without a body.

There is no body.

There is just consciousness.

The Sel o All and the world is not somethingdierent.


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The Sel o All is not separate rom anythingperceivable or conceivable.

There is nothing separate rom the Sel o All.I am the Sel o All devoid o a separate, independent,individual existence.

Themirage selis an illusion and does not exist.

Consciousness is the substance, the substratum o allthat appears to be.

The illusion o mind does not exist.

The illusion o sel does not exist.

The mistaken sel o the world, the sel o the mind,the experience o the sel does not exist.

Nisargadatta Maharaj:personality is a mistaken identity.

All is just amirage made o consciousness.

The illusory sel is asnake in the rope.

a ripple on the ocean o consciousness

The conclusions o religion are unreal.

The world has not been created it is onlyconsciousness, trees and grass are not separate romconsciousness.

A dog is barking.

The results and consequences o actions areconsciousness.

All actions and outcomes o actions are an illusion.


The Sel o All has no divisions.


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Consciousness is the seed o the mind.

You are completely nonexistent.

All is just a mirage made o consciousness.

I am you, you are me

I am you, you are me

Jacque Derrida: You and I are in the text only.

Ludwig Wittgenstein: Nothing exists outside o

language. All is a language game.All is an illusory appearance made o consciousness.

Words and language are abstracted representations othings which do not exist.

I is not I.

I is not I.

I is not I.

There is no I prior to the word I.

There is no I prior to the word I.

There is no sel prior to the word sel.



Nisargadatta Maharaj:no you, no me, no you, no me,

no you, no me.


I am an appearance made o consciousness.

You are an appearance made o consciousness.

a ripple on the ocean o consciousness


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The concept o all is not real.

There is no such thing as all.

The concept o all is in the mind,


Once you see something, say something, eelsomething, or experience something, you assume that

it is real, it is unreal, an illusion.Only consciousness exists.

There is no reality or unreality.

Reality or unreality are words. They are nonexistent.

I am an appearance made o consciousness, a ripple onthe ocean o consciousness.

There is only consciousness, the substratum o all andeverything.

I am not I.

I do not have any name or orm.

I am not the hearer.

I am not the sound,Bishop Barkley: I a tree alls in the orest, and no oneis there, does it make a sound?

The veil o the breather and breathe is made oconsciousness.

I am not the veil o the mind.

The veil o the mind is made o consciousness.

As consciousness I am not the veil o intellectualknowledge.

The veil o intellectual knowledge is made oconsciousness.


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I am not the veil o bliss.

The veil o bliss is made o consciousness.

All veils are made o consciousness.

I am consciousness. The I and all is an appearancemade o consciousness.

a ripple on the ocean o consciousness.

The conceptual knowledge that duality or nonduality is

real is only due to language.

There is nothing prior to language or the labels thatlanguage represent.There is nothing prior to language or the labels thatlanguage represent.

There is nothing prior to language or the labels thatlanguage represent.

Nisargadatta Maharaj:BE the consciousness.

Renounce even the transcendence o all.

Stay in the consciousness.

Renunciation means ocusing on and being theconsciousness.

By being the consciousness, all else dissolves.

Being the consciousness is worshiping the consciousness.

Nisargadatta Maharaj (pg. 156):Abide only in consciousness. In your

attention, only consciousness should bethere. This is meditation.


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whatever has been told so ar is nonexistent,

there are no dierences there is only consciousness,

there is no high, no higher state

no person is stupid ,no person is wise, there is onlyconsciousness

Nisargadatta MaharajThere is no such thing as a person or sel

I am consciousness, The I and all is an appearancemade o consciousness, a ripple on the ocean oconsciousness

There is no event that occurs.

There are no conversations, only consciousness.

Nisargadatta Maharaj (pg. 76):You have only to abide in that

consciousness.

All images are unreal.

Nisargadatta Maharaj (pg. 99):Any image you have o yoursel is not true.

There is no standard or way o behaving or acting asthe consciousness.

There is no coming into being or a way o being.There is no deconstruction o ways o being oridentities there is only consciousness.

There is no letting go or working on Identities or a sel,there is only consciousness.


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There no avoiding o ways o being.

There no witness as a way o being.

There no eeling o onesel as a way o being.

There is only consciousness, the substratum o all.

I am consciousness, the I and all is an appearance onconsciousness, a ripple on the ocean o consciousness.


Consciousness has no dierentiation.Consciousness has no dierentiation as truth and non-truth.

Consciousness has no state such as understanding oran understander.

Nisargadatta Maharaj (pg. 35):Whatever you understand, you are not that.

Consciousness has no idea o an individual.Consciousness, is without a state o comprehension, ora comprehender.

Consciousness is without awareness.Consciousness is without a sel in the veil o the mind.

There is no conception o a sel that is in the veil o themind.

There is no conception o body.


I am consciousness, the I and all is an appearancemade o consciousness, a ripple on the ocean oconsciousness.

Consciousness has no interpretations or lessons.


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Consciousness has no sense o oneness.

The yoga o meditation and all yoga and experiences o

the eight limbs o yoga is only consciousness.All is an illusory appearance made o consciousness.

The body is an illusion,

associations and sensations with or without touch is anillusion there is only consciousness.

Meditation

Experience the skin boundary, touch andsensations as made of consciousness.

clear understanding is an illusion,

the urge or liberation and wanting to live to attainliberation is an illusion

The I and all is an appearance made oconsciousness,


The removal o all conceptual knowledge along with

the concept or belie that that will bring you liberationis an illusion.

This world is not created.

The world is not born.

You were never born.

There is no sentience or insentience there is onlyconsciousness.

Nisargadatta Maharaj (pg. 78):The world is not; it is a mere appearance.


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The concept o where is an illusion, there is onlyconsciousness.

The concept o how is an illusion, there is onlyconsciousness.

The concept o why is an illusion, there is onlyconsciousness.

The concept o whom is an illusion there is onlyconsciousness.

The concept o when is an illusion, there is onlyconsciousness.

All is made o consciousness.


There is no contemplation.

There is no contemplater, none who remembers, andno orgetulness.


Nisargadatta MaharajI you can orget it or remember it it is not

you, thereore discard it.

Nisargadatta Maharaj (pg. 92):You are and I am but only as points inconsciousness. We are nothing apart

rom consciousness. This must be well-

grasped. The world hangs on the thread oconsciousness. No consciousness, no world.

All dierentiations are consciousness,

dierent personalities, dierent ways o being, doing,or having,


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dierent thoughts, eelings, emotions, perceptions andmemory are an illusion.

There is only consciousness, the substratum o all.The dierentiation o elements air, earth, water, re,and ether.

All dierent qualities and conclusions are appearancesin consciousness.

There is only consciousness the substratum o all.

The concept o a guru, an I, and the student isconsciousness.

As consciousness you are I, and I am you , you are me,and I am you.

There is no I.

There is no you.As there is no such thing as the mind separate romconsciousness, thereore, there is no separate thing tothink or a thinker.


As consciousness, there are no creations and no

creator.

Nisargadatta Maharaj (pg. 25):There is no creator and nobody

created me.

There is no movable, or immovable.

All moving or movement is a perceptual illusion.


As consciousness, there is no way to judge anythinggood or bad.


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As consciousness, there is no such thing to call a judgeor a judger or judgmental.

As everything is consciousness there is no you, there isno I.

There is no you, there is no I.

There is no you, there is no I.

All is an appearance made o consciousness.

I am consciousness, the sense o I or I Am and all isan appearance made o consciousness,


Nisargadatta Maharaj:since the consciousness is ormless,

thereore there is no doer.there is no action that has been perormedby a doer, o a particular behavior

As there is only consciousness there is no being or IAm.

As there is only consciousness, there is no beginningmiddle or end.

For the consciousness, there is no such thing asidentities, trance states, antasies, thoughts, memories,emotions, associations, perceptions, a perceiver, aperceived, a body, an observer, and experience/er oloving kindness.

For the consciousness, there is no experience orexperiencer o mindulness, and there is no experienceor experiencer o compassion.

Experience the experiencer, the knower, or thatwhich is mindul as consciousness.


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Consciousness has no state or veil o perection orimperection.

Consciousness has no state or veil o worthy orworthless.

Consciousness has no state or veil o doing or notdoing.

Consciousness has no state or veil o adequate or inadequate.

Consciousness has no state or veil o knowing,knowledge or a knower or a not knower.

Consciousness has no state or veil o alone orconnected.

Consciousness has no state or veil o complete orincomplete.

Consciousness has no state or veil that eels powerlessor powerul.

Consciousness has no state or veil that eels loveunlovable.

Nisargadatta Maharaj: (pg. 101):Love to be is also to be discarded.

All veils are consciousness, and as such are illusions.

The Shiva Sutras: The entire universe appears as aorm o consciousness.

The Vijnana Bhairava: Experience the universe in onesweep as consciousness.

Nisargadatta Maharaj:there is no such thing as a person.


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Consciousness has no state or veil that eels crazy orsane.

Consciousness has no state or veil that eels out oorder, chaos, or in control, or out-o-control.

Consciousness has no state or veil called bondage, orliberation.

I am consciousness, the sense o I or I Am and all isan appearance made o consciousness, a ripple on the

ocean o consciousness.All veils are consciousness.

All that appears is an illusionary appearance made oconsciousness.

The eeler and that which is elt is consciousness.The one who understands and what is understood is

consciousness.

As consciousness, there is no internal processor, orinner experiencer.As consciousness, there is nothing that can be calledall.

As consciousness, there is no such thing as existence

or nonexistence there is only consciousness.All that appears is an illusionary appearance made oconsciousness.

As consciousness there is no conditioning.

As consciousness there is no dierent beings.

There is no cause-and-eect there is justconsciousness.

I am consciousness.

The sense o I or I Am and all is an appearancemade o consciousness,


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Knowledge or inormation you have about yoursel is

just consciousness.Shiva Sutras: Knowledge is bondage.

Consciousness is not associated in any way with theworld or any concept o individuals.

I am consciousness the witness is an appearancemade o consciousness.

Experience the witness, and that which is beingwitnessed as being made o the same consciousness.

The witness is only consciousness, an appearancemade o consciousness.

I am consciousness.

Consciousness is prior to sound, since sound is aperceivable it is an illusion.

The Shiva Sutras:the cause o bondage is sound.

Nisargadatta Maharaj (pg. 232):All knowledge is a orm o ignorance.

All objects are consciousness and as such they are anappearance made o consciousness.

All that is perceived or conceived is asnake in the rope.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

there is no birth there is no death there isno person its all concept its all an illusion.


There is no volition or ree will.


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As grass cannot will itsel into being green.

As the sun cannot will itsel into being hotter or cooler.

As a mountain cannot will or choose to be bigger.

Nisargadatta Maharaj:You are like grass growing.

The concept o volition, or ree will arises as an

explanation, an abstracted experience.All explanations and experiences are illusions,appearances made o consciousness.

There is no such thing as choice.

As an apple tree cannot choose to be a banana tree.

As a dog cannot choose to be a cat.

So to, you cannot choose to be anything other thenwhat you are already.

All experiences o choice are illusions,

appearances made o consciousness.

A dog is barking.As consciousness there are no reasons, or patterns.

All reasons and patterns are illusory appearances madeo consciousness.

Heraclitus, You never put your oot in the same rivertwice,

As consciousness there is no logic.

Logic is an illusion.

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The one who gives attention to is consciousness.

All is an appearance made o consciousness, a ripple in

the ocean o consciousness.Rules and regulations are only consciousness, thereorethey are an illusion.

As consciousness theres only consciousness.

As the layers o the onion are still the onion,

so too there no such thing as maya there is onlyconsciousness.

As consciousness there are no consequences oractions,

nor are there any connections rom one thing toanother,

nor are there any associations between things, events,perceptions,

nor are there any patterns.

There is no such thing as patterns there is onlyconsciousness.

Hericlitis: You never put your oot in the same river

twice.There is only consciousness.

All perceivables and conceivables are an illusion.


Nisargadatta Maharajwhen asked, who are you, he replied,nothing perceivable or conceivable.

I am consciousness, even the veils that cover me areillusions made o consciousness.


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The meditator and the meditation, and the object omeditation are only consciousness.

The ultimate meditation is to be the consciousness.God is consciousness appearing as something separaterom consciousness but is still only consciousness.

Thereore it is an illusion.

The concept o being a certain way or having anidentity is the consciousness and is an illusion.

all experiences and experiencers are onlyconsciousness.

Nisargadatta Maharaj (pg. 67):Whatever the experiencer eels or thinks is

all in the consciousness, and is not real.

Creating your experience, being responsible orappropriate are maps, ideas or models superimposed onconsciousness.


All experience is illusionary, limited andtemporal. Expect nothing rom experience.

The ocused attention o the mind is onlyconsciousness.

The one that gives attention to an object as well as theobject o attention is only consciousness.

The ocuser, ocusing, or object ocused upon is anappearance made o consciousness.

All is only consciousness, a ripple ocean oconsciousness.


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As consciousness, there is no waking state, dreamstate, or deep sleep state.

Consciousness is the substratum o these and allstates.

Nisargadatta Maharaj (pg. 281):The waking state, all the three states o

waking, dreaming and sleeping .

They all are contained within the lie bubblein consciousness called I.

The real world lies beyond the sel.

For the consciousness there is no you and no me,

there is no concept o you,

there no concept o me.As consciousness there is no name or orm or universe.As consciousness the universe has no orm.

Nisargadatta Maharaj:Consciousness has no shape or design.

Nisargadatta Maharaj:You are ormless consciousness, thereore

you can perorm no action, andhave no behavior.

The consciousness has no motivation, or reason to

perorm any action,nor is there any desired result rom action or work.

The consciousness has no inquiry or Inquirer withconclusions.


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The consciousness has no concept o one, or oneness.

The consciousness is without states.

The consciousness is without the veil o the sel.

The consciousness is without the veil o the body.

The consciousness is without the veil o the breath.

The consciousness is without the veil o the I Am.

The consciousness is without the veil o thoughts.The consciousness is without the veil o memory.

The consciousness is without the veil o emotions.

The consciousness is without the veil o lovingkindness.

The consciousness is without the veil o the server.

The consciousness is without the veil o themindulness.

The consciousness is without the veil o the ownership.

The consciousness is without the veil o the perceiver.

H. H. Dalai Lama, The mind is devoid o mind.

Nisargadatta Maharaj (pg. 72):Not only is the body-mind unreal, but this

maniest consciousness, this universe,is also unreal. The I am-ness is

dreamlike ephemeral.

The consciousness is without the veil o the conceiveror the conceived.

Ramana Maharis

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