I Am That

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Introducing "I Am That" by Nisargadatta Maharaj - Rated
This book is 'meaty' and intense. The questioner, asking just about every 'spiritual seeking' sort of question under the sun. The teacher, Nisargadatta Maharaj, at all times, focused fully in his Truth (that there is only one substance; that everything is part of the ocean of consciousness in which all happens; everything is 'I Am'). His answers always very clear and concise. Every answer, profoundly and wonderfully, liberating.
For the true 'seeker', experiencing for just one moment, the essense of this teaching, will be a real awakening, and nothing will ever be the same again.

Ulitmate Knowledge - Rated
This book is a collection of recordings of conversations between an Indian guru called Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, and vistors who came to see him at his Ashram in the slums of Bombay in the late 1960s.

It's not for everyone. But if you're a thinking person, thoughtful and reflective, and have grown tired of philosophy because it's not giving you the answers you seek concerning the nature of reality, God, the Universe and everything; and if you're skeptical of various religious systems, and Buddhism is not working for you; and if you want read the teachings of someone who knows the ulitmate, someone who talks only straight, someone with no self-interest at all -- then may have come to the right place with this book.

This book has the power to trigger shifts in consciousness. It may be the last book you ever read.

The Final Spiritual Teaching - Rated
Nisargadatta Maharaj's "I AM THAT" is the last spiritual book you'll ever need to read. Congratulations, you've reached the end of your search! Nisargadatta's words are alive and will cut like a razor to the core of your being. Get this book! Read it and be devoured by it. Here are a few quotes...

Nothing can trouble you but your own imagination. (I AM THAT p.113)

General knowledge develops the mind, no doubt. But if you are going to spend your life in amassing knowledge, you build a wall round yourself. To go beyond the mind, a well-furnished mind is not needed. (p50)

The window is the absence of the wall, and it gives air and light because it is empty. Be empty of al mental content, of all imagination and effort, and the very absence of obstacles will cause reality to rush in. (p260)

Leave it all behind you. Forget it. Go forth, unburdened with ideas and beliefs. Abandon all verbal structures, all relative truth, all tangible objectives. (p340)

All are mere words, of what use are they to you? You are entangled in the web of verbal definitions and formulations. Go beyond your concepts and ideas; in the silence of desire and thought the truth is found. (p295)

Too much analysis leads you nowhere. There is in you the core of being which is beyond analysis, beyond the mind. You can know it in action only. The legitimate function of the mind is to tell you what is not. But if you want possitive knowledge, you must go beyond the mind. (p341)

Before you can know anything directly, non-verbally, you must know the knower. So far, you took the mind for the knower, but it is not so. The mind clogs you up with images and ideas, which leave scars in memory. You take remembering to be knowledge. True knowledge is ever fresh, new, unexpected. It wells up from within. When you know what you are, you also are what you know. Between knowing and being there is no gap. (p520)

Consciousness, being a product of conditions and circumstances, depends on them and changes along with them. What is independent, uncreated, timeless and changeless and yet ever new and fresh is beyond the mind. When the mind thinks of it, the mind dissolves and only happiness remains. (p488)

[With self-awareness] you grow more intelligent. In awareness you learn, in self-awareness you learn about yourself. Of course, you can only learn what you are not. To know what you are, you must go beyond the mind. Awareness is the point at which the mind reaches out beyond itself into reality. In awareness you seek not what pleases, but what is true. (p346)

Stop making use of your mind and see what happens. Do this one thing thoroughly. That is all. (p197)

Stephen Wingate
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Dancing on fire - Rated
This are unique words from the real sage whose message can awaken you and you start wandering to know (not to blind belive) by yourself who you really are. Nisargadatta Maharaj is beside Gurdjieff and still alive Bodin of Bindu (dancingonfire.org) one of the rare real Men on this planet who has awaken from the dream of ignorance, from the veils of mind. And through his words he speaks unspeakable eternal truth. We are sleeping and transcendence from that state requires a specific inner work. And as Nisargadatta, Gurdjieff and Bodin say - act, not dream; experience, not think about what you should do, escape from old tricks of your mind and slavery of your body, and transform your inner being. For that grate endurance, will, heart and commitment are needed - first of all to yourselve. This is the only thing worth of living.

Dancing on fire - Rated
This are unique words from the real sage whose message can awaken you and you start wandering to know (not to blind belive) by yourself who you really are. Nisargadatta Maharaj is beside Gurdjieff and still alive Bodin of Bindu one of the rare real Men on this planet who has awaken from the dream of ignorance, from the veils of mind. And through his words he speaks unspeakable eternal truth. We are sleeping and transcendence from that state requires a specific inner work. And as Nisargadatta, Gurdjieff and Bodin say - act, not dream; experience, not think about what you should do, escape from old tricks of your mind and slavery of your body, and transform your inner being. For that grate endurance, will, heart and commitment are needed - first of all to yourselve. This is the only thing worth of living.