-- Nisargadata Maharaj is one of those Neo-Advaitin "Nihilists" who
states that he's Pure Consciousness, but refuses to acknowledge his
existence in the relative world. (these teachings are inconsistent
with what MMY says...since Brahman has two aspects in One, not one
aspect in One.). Thanks anyway for the quote...a good illustration
of a 100% teaching, as opposed to MMY's 200%. Buddhism, BTW on the
whole; has a "pure Consciousness only" school; but on the whole (C.f.
the statements of the Dalai Lama) is more down to earth than Nis.'s
pie in the sky Nihilism.
>
> By looking tirelessly, I became quite empty and with that
emptiness
> all came back to me except the mind. I find I have lost the mind
> irretrievably. I am neither conscious nor unconscious, I am beyond
the
> mind and its various states and conditions. Distinctions are created
> by the mind and apply to the mind only. I am pure Consciousness
> itself, unbroken awareness of all that is. I am in a more real state
> than yours. I am undistracted by the distinctions and separations
> which constitute a person. As long as the body lasts, it has its
needs
> like any other, but my mental process has come to an end. My
thinking,
> like my digestion, is unconscious and purposeful. I am not a person
in
> your sense of the word, though I may appear a person to you. I am
that
> infinite ocean of consciousness in which all happens. I am also
beyond
> all existence and cognition, pure bliss of being. There is nothing I
> feel separate from, hence I am all. No thing is me, so I am nothing.
> Life will escape, the body will die, but it will not affect me in
the
> least. Beyond space and time I am, uncaused, uncausing, yet the very
> matrix of existence.
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