*Q: Who is the jnani? The witness or the supreme? Nisargadatta Maharaj : The jnani is the supreme and also the witness. He is both being and awareness. In relation to consciousness he is awareness. In relation to the universe he is pure being.*
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 4:17 PM, roomsearching <[email protected]>wrote: > Q: An opening is just void, absence. > Nisargadatta Maharaj : Quite so. From the mind's point of view, it is but > an opening for the light of awareness to enter the mental space. By itself > the light can only be compared to a solid, dense, rocklike, homogeneous and > changeless mass of pure awareness, free from the mental patterns of name and > shape. > > > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 4:16 PM, roomsearching <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Q: What then is in the centre of consciousness? >> Nisargadatta Maharaj: That which cannot be given name and form, for it is >> without quality and beyond consciousness. You may say it is a point in >> consciousness, which is beyond consciousness. Like a hole in the paper is >> both in the paper and yet not of paper, so is the supreme state in the very >> centre of consciousness, and yet beyond consciousness. It is as if an >> opening in the mind through which the >> mind is flooded with light. The opening is not even the light. It is just >> an opening. >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 4:06 PM, roomsearching >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> How is one to think of the Self? >>> >>> Ramana: The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the >>> reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it as >>> this or as that. The very thought of thinking will end in bondage. The >>> purport of meditation on the Self is to make the mind take the form of the >>> Self. In the middle of the heart-cave the pure Brahman is directly manifest >>> as the Self in the form 'I-I'. Can there be greater ignorance than to think >>> of it in manifold ways, without knowing it as aforementioned? >> >> >> >
