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Summary: Not one of the better works
Review: I'm glad this isn't the only Nisargadatta book I've looked at because It might have been the last. In this book of Q/A sessions it's not hard to tell he has grown weary of the questions. He seems to have been ill during much of the time that this book transpired and mentions several times he is tired of physical existence and wants to go. he even goes as far as to tell a few seekers to give up and persue some type of social work. Not at all the exciting and profound work of "I am That" which looks to rival most of Maharshi's teaching.
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Summary: Who experiences nothingness?
Review: Nothingness is only known within the context of somethingness. Therefore there cannot be an "experience" of nothingness, if so it is no longer nothing. One does not ever realize the infinite. When the realizer is destroyed the infinite Is. But it is no longer infinite. Nor does it fail to be infinite. Infinity is only known withing the context of the finite. I feel the author didn't stress the Paradox of non-dualiam enough. He instead took the classic "identify with consciousnesss" approach. This is ok and fine because if one points out the impossibility of non-dualism in ones speech they'll sound like me!
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Summary: Who experiences nothingness?
Review: Nothingness is only known within the context of somethingness. Therefore there cannot be an "experience" of nothingness, if so it is no longer nothing. One does not ever realize the infinite. When the realizer is destroyed the infinite Is. But it is no longer infinite. Nor does it fail to be infinite. Infinity is only known withing the context of the finite. I feel the author didn't stress the Paradox of non-dualiam enough. He instead took the classic "identify with consciousnesss" approach. This is ok and fine because if one points out the impossibility of non-dualism in ones speech they'll sound like me!
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Summary: The Powerful Discources of Nisargadatta Maharaj
Review: These are among the final talks that Nisargadatta gave in the last year of his life or so. In this powerful book of Q & A between teacher and seeker we have some extremely detailed and terse teachings on the Nature of Reality.
Nisargadatta's answers cut to the chase and go right to the Heart of the Absolute. One of the reasons for the sharpness of the teachings is because he is physically suffering due to throat cancer and nevertheless continues to teach throughout his illness (he continued to teach until hours before his physical death).
For those that don't know his work too well, what is considered his main work is I AM THAT, which is recommended to begin the study of his teachings, after I AM THAT came a series of about 6 books, all within the last 2 years of his life. The post I AM THAT books are all uncompromisingly direct and sharp. He speaks only from realization of the Unborn state and gives all his discources from there, making it tricky to understand for some. With the combination of being ill and with 42 years of teaching experience at this point, he keeps his talks very focused.
In this great work, we see his expertise in that he doesn't just point to the Absolute reality with a lot of poetic words, he also deconstructs your preciously held self. He tirelessly breaks down concepts and spiritual ideas we don't want to let go of. One can say in this work we are privledged to see very "advanced" teachings. Teachings that will appeal to seekers that can go beyond just pretty ideas of spirituality, bliss out states, any form of personal gain whatsoever (because you're understanding yourself as the Impersonal Reality). He even challenges one particular seeker in this book to leave spirituality because he knows that this particular seeker is caught up being a "spiritual seeker" and isn't ready to go beyond the body-mind sense, he fears death of the personality. No flowery, superficial hand holding here!
The essence of his teachings is: understand your "I am-ness" or consciousness, go deeply into that and awake from your daydream as that body-mind entity you think you are and apperceive yourself as the Unborn.
I felt deeply privledged to read this wonderful book. "What do you understand by the word dream? Is not the dream something like a drama, a play?...To one who really understands what has been said here, a dream is no different from what is seen in the waking state: both are plays of consciousness... We call one thing the waking state, another thing the dream, but in essence both are events happening in the consciousness and essentially they are not different." " When you are liberated from the body/mind sense, so that you are not the body mind, that itself is liberation."<BR Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Summary: The Powerful Discources of Nisargadatta Maharaj
Review: These are among the final talks that Nisargadatta gave in the last year of his life or so. In this powerful book of Q & A between teacher and seeker we have some extremely detailed and terse teachings on the Nature of Reality.
Nisargadatta's answers cut to the chase and go right to the Heart of the Absolute. One of the reasons for the sharpness of the teachings is because he is physically suffering due to throat cancer and nevertheless continues to teach throughout his illness (he continued to teach until hours before his physical death).
For those that don't know his work too well, what is considered his main work is I AM THAT, which is recommended to begin the study of his teachings, after I AM THAT came a series of about 6 books, all within the last 2 years of his life. The post I AM THAT books are all uncompromisingly direct and sharp. He speaks only from realization of the Unborn state and gives all his discources from there, making it tricky to understand for some. With the combination of being ill and with 42 years of teaching experience at this point, he keeps his talks very focused.
In this great work, we see his expertise in that he doesn't just point to the Absolute reality with a lot of poetic words, he also deconstructs your preciously held self. He tirelessly breaks down concepts and spiritual ideas we don't want to let go of. One can say in this work we are privledged to see very "advanced" teachings. Teachings that will appeal to seekers that can go beyond just pretty ideas of spirituality, bliss out states, any form of personal gain whatsoever (because you're understanding yourself as the Impersonal Reality). He even challenges one particular seeker in this book to leave spirituality because he knows that this particular seeker is caught up being a "spiritual seeker" and isn't ready to go beyond the body-mind sense, he fears death of the personality. No flowery, superficial hand holding here!
The essence of his teachings is: understand your "I am-ness" or consciousness, go deeply into that and awake from your daydream as that body-mind entity you think you are and apperceive yourself as the Unborn.
I felt deeply privledged to read this wonderful book. "What do you understand by the word dream? Is not the dream something like a drama, a play?...To one who really understands what has been said here, a dream is no different from what is seen in the waking state: both are plays of consciousness... We call one thing the waking state, another thing the dream, but in essence both are events happening in the consciousness and essentially they are not different." " When you are liberated from the body/mind sense, so that you are not the body mind, that itself is liberation."
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