My friend Bill had a conversation with Francis Bennett, one of Rick's BATGAP guys - Bennett has some friends who were around Nissy in the last years of his life and spent a good bit of time with him.
They all told Bennett that Nissagardatta was profane when talking with his male friends and that after his wife died he visited hookers regularly. I have never seen any confirmation of that anywhere online but that's what Bennett told Bill. ________________________________ From: "TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 12:31 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] thoughts on samskaras and enlightenment - CC to UC I'm not Curtis, but I'll provide my short answer to Nisargadatta below: ________________________________ From: Duveyoung <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 6:16 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] thoughts on samskaras and enlightenment - CC to UC Curtis, would you be comfortable saying the same words as Nisargadatta below? Nisargadatta: You think you are coming and going, passing through various states and moods. I see things as they are, momentary events, presenting themselves to me in rapid succession, deriving their being from me, yet definitely neither me nor mine. Among phenomena I am not one, nor subject to any. "Fine, Nissy Baby...let's put this to the test, shall we? Leave your comfy home and walk out to a main street in Mumbai and step out in front of a bus that is traveling towards you at a fairly rapid rate. Then come back and tell me how you're not subject to any phenomena just because you think you aren't." I am independent so simply and totally, that your mind, accustomed to opposition and denial, cannot grasp it. I mean literally what I say; I do not need oppose, or deny, because it is clear to me that I cannot be the opposite or denial of anything. I am just beyond, in a different dimension altogether. Do not look for me in identification with, or opposition to something: I am where desire, and fear are not. Nisargadatta died of throat cancer in 1981, probably still believing that he was neither a phenomenon nor subject to any phenomena. You seem to like the fact that he can "talk the talk" of having no self. But the person who talked like that clearly had enough of a self to die when its body did. I guess I'm suggesting that I see no reason to believe that the stuff he wrote about what he believed about himself (or his lack of one) is to be paid attention to. It's just talk.
