The discussions held here and teachings given would have been the same ten
thousand years ago and will be the same ten thousand years hence. There
will always be conscious beings wondering about the fact of their being
conscious and enquiring into its cause and aim. Who am I?
This question have no beginning and no end. And it is
crucial to know the answer, for without a full understanding of
oneself, both in time and in timelessness, life is but a dream, imposed
on us by powers we do not know, for purposes we don't grasp.
This book consists of dialogues between people who come from around
the world in search of self-realization and the nature of
consciousness and Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.
His answers have the depth of the most sacred texts of the world. This
is a book for someone who has no fear to plunge into the unknown with
the tool of his or her own awareness, awakened and sharpened by
Maharaj's insights, which carry our consciousness far beyond its
persistent perception of reality.
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Seeds of Consciousness
The wisdom contained in this collection, edited by Jean Dunn,
emerged from dialogues with those who came from all over the world
to learn the mysteries of life at the feet of Sri Nisargadatta
Maharaj, one of the most revered holy men of India.
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Prior To Consciousness
In one way the core of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj's teaching is
easy to grasp, and extremely difficult in another. It is easy if
we are willing to be completely honest with ourselves, to look at
the concepts of others with which we have built our own prisons.
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The Ultimate Medicine
The talks found in this volume are carefully edited transcripts
of the tapes made of conversations I and others had with Maharaj.
It is apparent that in these works following I Am That Maharaj,
given his age and medical condition, was addressing his visitors
much more tersely and with less patience.
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The Nectar of Immortality
The essence of yoga is to let Reality be realized. Letting-be is
not to do or to make anything. What is left? These transcripts
edited by Dr. Robert Powell are in themselves sufficient to make
this question and its answer clear.
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Consciousness and the Absolute
Abiding in the "I Amness" is all. At the present time,
Consciousness is what we are, not personal Consciousness, but
impersonal, universal Consciousness. In course of time, the
Consciousness will show us that we are not even this, but we are
that Eternal Absolute, unborn, undying.
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The Experience of Nothingness
These final conversations with visitors of all kinds, which took
place in the year of his death, were exclusively directed at the
goal of awakening or self-realization. Maharaj talked with
visitors until the very day of his death of cancer on September
8th. 1981. at the age of 84.