Questioner: What kind of rule should a man choose for conducting himself in life?
Maharaj: This question emanates from your concepts. Throw out your concepts.
In the course of your study of spirituality, you have acquired many concepts which you call that knowledge. Do you want
me to be embroiled in your concepts?
That thought-flow is always there, except in deep sleep. Even for a jnani, the thought-flow is present but the thought has changed.
Most people are carried away by the thought-flow, but a rare person turns around, goes to the source and departs from the track of that original thought-flow, saying,
"It is not mine, not my affair.
This 'I Amness' is the product of objective material, it is not me. I am out of it."
The statements which come out of here will stick to you, and with that sticking, your spiritual job will be done. When you do anything it is for "me", but there is a limit to which that can go, isn't there?
Questioner: The needs are limitless.
Maharaj: I meet many people who, in the pursuit of happiness, are always miserable. Rarely do I encounter someone who says "I am content."
- The Final Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. Excerpt from: The Consciousness and the Absolute.
