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YOUR WILL ALONE IS DONE.... IT KINDA MAKES YOU THINK GJ ".......focus the mind on pure being, ‘I am’ and stay in it." ================================= "I am now 74 years old. And yet I feel that I am an infant. I feel clearly that in spite of all the changes I am a child. My Guru told me that the child, which is you even now, is your real self (‘swarupa’). Go back to that state of pure being, where the ‘I am’ is still in its purity before it gets contaminated with ‘this I am’ or ‘that I am’. Your burden is of false self-identification – abandon them all. My Guru told me – ‘Trust me. I tell you, you are divine. Take it as the absolute truth. Your joy is divine; your suffering is divine too. All comes from God. Remember it always. You are God, your will alone is done.’ I did believe him and soon realized how wonderfully true and accurate were his words. I did not condition my mind by thinking: ‘I am God, I am wonderful, I am beyond.’ I simply followed his instruction, which was to focus the mind on pure being, ‘I am’ and stay in it. I used to sit for hours together, with nothing but the ‘I am’ in my mind and soon peace and joy and a deep all-embracing love became my normal state. In it all disappeared - myself, my Guru, the life I lived, the world around me. Only peace remained and unfathomable silence." ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Via Dear Sir Manoj Sethi 💙 "I AM" is the Ultimate fact; "WHO AM I?" is the Ultimate question to which everybody must find an answer. ❤ Nisargadatta Maharaj Prior to birth where was the ‘I am’? Don’t contaminate the ‘I am’ with the body idea, I as the Absolute am not the ‘I am’. In the absence of ‘I am’ nothing is required, the ‘I am’ will go with the body, what remains is the Absolute. You must not only have the conviction that ‘I am’ but also that you are free from the ‘I am’. ❤ Nisargadatta Maharaj You have to be there before you can say ‘I am’, the ‘I am’ is the root of all appearance. The ‘I am’ is the sum total of all that you perceive, it’s time-bound, the ‘I am’ itself is an illusion, you are not the ‘I am’ you are prior to it. ❤ Nisargadatta Maharaj You need not worry about your worries. Just be. Do not try to be quiet; do not make 'being quiet' into a task to be performed. Don't be restless about 'being quiet', miserable about 'being happy'. Just be aware that you are and remain aware -- don't say: 'yes, I am; what next?' There is not 'next' in 'I am'. It is a timeless state. ❤ Nisargadatta Maharaj