What can I do to test these statements?
Nisargadatta
"The scriptures say so, but I know nothing about it. I know myself as I am; as
I appeared or will appear is not within my experience. It is not that I do not
remember. In fact there is nothing to remember. Reincarnation implies a
reincarnating self. There is no such thing. The bundle of memories and hopes,
called the 'I', imagines itself existing everlastingly and creates time to
accommodate its false eternity: To be, I need no past or future. All experience
is born of imagination; I do not imagine, so no birth or death happens to me.
Only those who think themselves born can think themselves re-born. You are
accusing me of having been born -- I plead not guilty!"
"By its very nature the mind is outward turned; it always tends to seek for
the source of things among the things themselves; to be told to look for the
source within, is, in a way, the beginning of a new life. Awareness takes the
place of consciousness; in consciousness there is the 'I', who is conscious
while awareness is undivided; awareness is aware of itself. The 'I am' is a
thought, while awareness is not a thought, there is no 'I am aware' in
awareness. Consciousness is an attribute while awareness is not; one can be
aware of being conscious, but not conscious of awareness. God is the totality
of consciousness, but awareness is beyond all -- being as well as not-being."
