Maharaj: I have separated myself from the food-body. Flowers come in different colors, but they are made up of the same five elements. Why should I worry about differences?, from the same five elements arise all the forms with different time limits, no one has control over that time limit.
Different forms, as per their thinking have different activities.
About you all, you have a liking for truth; it has arisen from your individuality, so you are after it.
Visitor: Maharaj had worshipped Ishwara.
M: What is Ishwara? My Guru told me that the one who is listening is Ishwara itself. The ‘I am’ is Ishwara, there are various names given to that ‘I am’ but that ‘I am’ is not your body. Your knowledge ‘I am’ contains the whole universe, presently it is difficult for you to believe, so for the moment worship it. Beingness contains everything, worship that and all your
requirements will be met. Ultimately the knowledge is yours.
All forms have the five elements and water is there in all forms. The ignorance is yours because you believe that you are an individual, not mine.
As for me there is no birth, no death, creation, destruction and suffering
will go on.
The five elements, three gunas, and Purusha and Prakriti go on to make the nature, all forms arise and merge in it, Buddha too merged in nature. There is no individual, no manifestation without the elements and Purusha and Prakriti, the male and female aspects.
Because of your body-mind you cannot understand Purusha and Prakriti.
Because of their activity, creation goes on, in reality there is no male and female. There is steel and there are so many products made out of it, it depends on the use as to which we want to put it. Consciousness is the same in all forms, but the behavior of each is different, which is decided at the
time of birth, the differences last as long as the form is there.
Forms disintegrate, but there is no difference in my experience. There is no
difference between the quality of the born and the unborn child, this is the great news of enlightenment. One is born or unborn, the difference is only of birth or no birth, in reality, there is no difference. The born vanishes and again becomes identical with the unborn. The difference is temporary, my body is similar to the unborn, and so I am happy.
This existence is momentary, why give it importance? We believe it to be a long period, but it is momentary like a dream. A five minute dream, but a hundred years of life is contained in it. A movie depicts a life story, but it is the writer’s skill,
is it real? Life is like that.
All creatures, the world and Brahman are the result of you beingness.
Although it is difficult to believe, but do believe it. Only Krishna has expounded this knowledge, everything is me and I am everything.
When I talk to you, Joseph, I am giving you information about yourself.
You may think I am talking about somebody else. My guru said, I am talking about yourself and that is how I came to know, Joseph, you have that knowledge. Prior to death, will you say with conviction that all beings, the world and Brahman are me? Can you say that with conviction? This world is a dream, but it is I, whatever information I heard is information about myself, who can say this with confidence? It’s very difficult to hear such confidence anywhere.
We take ourselves to be a man or woman. It is a blunder that we commit because of our identification with our body. Brahman is neither a man nor woman. Having received this knowledge, by your own experience you shall become all expansive, pervasive. This body or man-woman experience is a
sickness. Don’t talk to people about others but get hold of yourself. Be established in the Knowledge, don’t talk about it, have a firm conviction.
When you understand, get established then you don’t need words, words are superfluous. Only a rare one will say all this,
Krishna said, ‘I saw myself, not the world, whatever I see, is myself.’ Once established in this knowledge, you can die any moment you wish. Prophet Mohammed and Christ were like this; my nature too is like that. They behaved like that, their nature is my nature. Make use of this knowledge, assimilate it and you will lose this habit to criticize others, Krishna said, when you are that, who will criticize whom?
Nisarga knows no rules of behavior, nature is like that, death is inevitable, so follow your Guru and die, the Guru says you are everything, be that.
Whatever knowledge I give is what flows spontaneously, I quote no one.
Whatever I do not know directly, I do not believe. My knowledge is not knowledge of Brahman or Ishwara, Brahman and Maya are natives of my nature only. Whenever I never felt any need, that state was perfect. When I felt needs, demands grew and I was imperfect. Death is inevitable so why not die with abidance in the Guru’s words, ‘I am Brahman’. This ‘Brahman’ as an individual consciousness is of course unreliable!
- I AM UNBORN. Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. Chapter: 9. Worship the ‘I am’
17th December 1979
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