It took me only three years to realise my true nature. My Guru died soon after I met him, but it made no difference. I remembered what he told me and persevered. Q: The mind is so absolutely restless. For quieting it what is the way? M: Trust the teacher. Take my own case. I just obeyed. I did not follow any particular course of breathing, or meditation, or study of scriptures. My only reason for doing it was that my Guru told me so. Yet it worked! Obedience is a powerful solvent of all desires and fears.
Just turn away from all that occupies the mind; do whatever work you have to complete, but avoid new obligations; keep empty, keep available, resist not what comes uninvited. In the end you reach a state of non-grasping, of joyful non-attachment, of inner ease and freedom indescribable, yet wonderfully real. My Guru, before he died, told me: Believe me, you are the Supreme Reality. I am telling you the truth — act on it.
I could not forget his words and by not forgetting — I have realised. I lived my life, plied my trade, looked after my family, and every free moment I would spend just remembering my Guru and his words. He died soon after and I had only the memory to fall back on. It was enough. M: I found it all in the holy presence of my Guru — I did nothing on my own. He told me to be quiet — and I did it — as much as I could.
M: None. Believe it or not, I was not even anxious to realise. He only told me that I am the Supreme and then died. I just could not disbelieve him. The rest happened by itself. I found myself changing — that is all. As a matter of fact, I was astonished. But a desire arose in me to verify his words. I was so sure that he, could not possibly have told a lie, that I felt I shall either realise the full meaning of his words or die.
I was feeling quite determined, but did not know what to do. I would spend hours thinking of him and his assurance, not arguing, but just remembering what he told me.
Q: What happened to you then? How did you know that you are the Supreme? M: Nobody came to tell me. Nor was I told so inwardly. In fact, it was only in the beginning when I was making efforts, that I was passing through some strange experiences; seeing lights, hearing voices, meeting gods and goddesses and conversing with them.
Like Liked by 1 person. Thanks for your comment. I think perhaps you are taking the words too literally. Like Like. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Maruti worked on the farm as a boy. Although he grew up with little or no formal education, he was exposed to religious ideas by his father's friend Visnu Haribhau Gore, a pious Brahman.
Maruti's father died when the boy was eighteen, leaving behind his wife and six children. Maruti and his older brother left the farm to look for work in Mumbai. After a brief stint as a clerk, Maruti opened a shop selling children's clothes, tobacco, and leaf-rolled cigarettes, called beedies, which are popular in India.
The shop was modestly successful and Maruti married in A son and three daughters soon followed. When Maruti was 34, a friend of his, Yashwantrao Baagkar, introduced him to his guru, Sri Siddharameshwar Maharaj, the head of the Inchegeri branch of the Navanath Sampradaya. The guru gave a mantra and some instructions to Maruti and died soon after. I just obeyed. I did not follow any particular course of breathing, or meditation, or study of scriptures.
It may look too simple, even crude. My only reason for doing it was that my Guru told me so. Yet it worked! I Am That , Chapter Within three years, Maruti realized himself and took the new name Nisargadatta. He became a saddhu and walked barefoot to the Himalayas, but eventually returned to Mumbai where he lived for the rest of his life, working as a cigarette vendor and giving religious instruction in his home. The success of I Am That , first published in , made him internationally famous and brought many Western devotees to the tenement apartment where he gave satsangs.
He was 84 years old. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. Sri Nisargadatta's teachings defy summarization, but he frequently recommended the practice that had led to his own realization in less than three years: Just keep in mind the feeling "I am," merge in it, till your mind and feeling become one.
By repeated attempts you will stumble on the right balance of attention and affection and your mind will be firmly established in the thought-feeling "I am. Maharaj: Is a match-stick dangerous when the house is on fire? The search for reality is the most dangerous of all undertakings for it will destroy the world in which you live. But if your motive is love of truth and life, you need not be afraid. The language is terse and powerful; the three clashing ideas in the answer pop one after another like firecrackers or the voltas of sonnets.
And the metaphors! In fact the analogy is so clever that I suspect the author thought of it first and contrived the question afterward to introduce it.
For the sake of his family he conducted the business but devoted all his energy to spiritual sadhana. He built himself a mezzanine floor as a place for meditation this is the room where we all used to gather to listen to him talk.
Find out what you are. All my spare time I would spend looking at myself in silence…and what a difference it made, and how soon! It took me only three years to realize my true nature. Stop imagining yourself to be something else. Let go your attachment to the unreal. From to , when Sri Maharaj died from cancer of the throat, his talks were so much deeper than in the previous years that, with the help of a few other devotees, the tape recordings were again resumed and I transcribed and edited them, with the blessings of Sri Maharaj, and these were published under the titles of Seeds of Consciousness and Prior to Consciousness; both titles were suggested by Sri Maharaj.
The ever-awaited first moment was the moment when I was convinced that I was not an individual at all. The idea of my individuality had set me burning so far. The scalding pain was beyond my capacity to endure; but there is not even a trace of it now, I am no more an individual. There is nothing to limit my being now. The ever present anxiety and the gloom have vanished and now I am all beatitude, pure knowledge, pure consciousness. I am ever free now.
I am all bliss, sans spite, sans fear.
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