Category: Nisargadatta Teachings

Awareness and Consciousness   Questioner: What do you do when asleep? Maharaj: I am aware of being asleep. Q: Is not sleep a state of unconsciousness? M: Yes, I am aware of being unconscious....

Responses of Memory   Questioner: Some say the universe was created. Others say that it always existed and is for ever undergoing transformation. Some say it is subject to eternal laws. Others deny even...

Are you not permanent   Questioner: When I look into myself, I find my strongest desire is to create a monument, to build something which will outlast me. Even when I think of a...

How can I gain peace   Questioner: If my real self is peace and love, why is it so restless? Maharaj: It is not your real being that is restless, but its reflection in...

Find your Real Self Questioner: As a child fairly often I experienced states of complete happiness, verging on ecstasy: later, they ceased, but since I came to India they reappeared, particularly after I met...

The Mind   Questioner: There are very interesting books written by apparently very competent people, in which the illusoriness of the world is denied (though not its transitoriness). According to them, there exists a hierarchy...

Meditation Questioner: All teachers advise to meditate. What is the purpose of meditation? Maharaj: We know the outer world of sensations and actions, but of our inner world of thoughts and feelings we know...

What is born must die   Questioner: Is the witness-consciousness permanent or not? Maharaj: It is not permanent. The knower rises and sets with the known. That in which both the knower and the...