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Nisargadatta Maharaj : " How long have you been wearing this garb (ochre robes)?"

V: Twenty-five years.

M: "Have you realised your Self?"

V: I am not realised. I am just wandering about, as you say, in the dark jungle, going here and there.

M:" Who is it that says this?"

V: Probably the Self.

M:" Remember that whatever is called God or Self in the body, and as long as He is there, that beingness will be also. When beingness is not there, there will be no God no Self. When a person dies it is not the Self that is turned into a corpse, it is the body."

V: It is true. You see, I understand all that theoretically, I know it as a philosophy, but to experience the void, to know the Real, I am as far off as possible.

M:" Whatever is called God or Self is because there is the beingness, the feeling that ' I Am'. That is the fundamental principle, the basis behind all knowledge, but you are identifying yourself with the body."

V: True.

M:" When there is no soul there is no God, and when you are not there, your feeling of beingness is not there, there is nothing."