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Maharaj: Beingness has the quality to become whatever you think of. 

Whatever concept you feed  to the consciousness, 

the consciousness will provide you with that. 

Whatever you hold on to  intensely, 

you are bound to be that, 

that is the quality of your consciousness. 

You should never think that you are the body.

Consciousness is not the body. 

As a result of the body the beingness is felt, but beingness is all-pervasive.

Consciousness alone feels the expanse of consciousness, 

but I, the Absolute, am not that.

Whatever is known is known by consciousness, is in the field of consciousness. 

The consciousness and the knowledge will subside when the food body dies. 

The Absolute always remains. 

The seed of knowledge is planted in you by these talks; 

now you have to follow it up. 

You must nurse it, 

ruminate over it, 

so that the tree of knowledge will grow.

🕉 Consciousness and  the Absolute

The final talks of 

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Edited by Jean Dunn