Awaken to the Eternal: Nisargadatta Maharaj: a Journey of Self Discovery

Awaken to the Eternal: Nisargadatta Maharaj: a Journey of Self Discovery

This video is a reverential tribute to the Advaita Sage Nisargadatta Maharaj. It includes film of his daily activities, including answering seeker’s questions. A number of black-and-white photographs are shown and the narration attempts to summarize the teaching, drawing mostly on the book I AM THAT. Several well-known American disciples are interviewed about their experiences at his feet.

“Ultimately, one must go beyond knowledge, but the knowledge must come, and knowledge can come by constant meditation. By meditating, the knowledge I AM gradually settles down and merges with universal knowledge, and thereby becomes totally free like the sky or space. Those who come here with the idea of getting knowledge, even spiritual knowledge, come here as individuals aspiring to get something. That is the real difficulty - the seeker must disappear.”

This is a unique opportunity to catch Maharaj in his Mumbai loft in the middle of a spirited conversation. Although he had a Hindu background and upbringing, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj's teachings have a universal appeal. His genius is in making abstract ideas clear to everyone. He explained that the purpose of advanced spirituality is to simply know who you are. Through his many talks given in his humble flat in the slums of Bombay, he showed a direct way in which one could become aware of one's original nature. Many of these talks were recorded, and these recordings form the basis of I Am That and his other books. His words are free from cultural and religious trappings, and the knowledge he expounds is stripped bare of all that is unnecessary.

In the words of Advaita scholar Dr. Robert Powell, "Like the Zen masters of old, Nisargadatta's style is abrupt, provocative, and immensely profound -- cutting to the core and wasting little effort on inessentials. His terse but potent sayings are known for their ability to trigger shifts in consciousness, just by hearing, or even reading them."

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I purchased a used copy of one of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj's books once and read it. I can confirm from experience his words hit you in a certain way that can produce shifts in consciousness and he does have a certain Zen style of presentation. That I got just from reading one of his books.

Nirvana Means Extinction - Stephen Wolinsky

Nirvana Means Extinction - Stephen Wolinsky

Following his mentor, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj's basic premise, "All you can teach is understanding, the rest comes on its own", Dr. Stephen Wolinsky takes us on a three hour excursion traversing the roots of Advaita-Vedanta, neuroscience, philosophy, linguistics and tantric yoga, to provide a long neglected understanding which lies at the core of all of these teachings; "All spirituality and psychology are dependent on the existence of a separate independent individual self." BUT what if this self is an illusion, a product of the nervous system, a miss-perception, then not only does the "I" disappear, but so does the foundation and basic premise of all spirituality, spiritual paths and psychology. Thanks to Mark for sharing these links.

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I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta - Nisargadatta Maharaj

I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta - Nisargadatta Maharaj
A simple man, Nisargadatta Maharaj, was a householder and petty shopkeeper in Bombay where he lived, and died in 1981 at the age of 84. He had not been educated formally, but came to be respected and loved for his insights into the crux of human pain and the extraordinary usidity of his direct discourse. Hundreds of diverse seekers traveled the globe and sought him out in his unpretentious home to hear him. To all of them he gave hope that "beyond the real experience is not the mind, but the self, the light in which everything appears...the awareness in which everything happens." "I Am That" preserves Maharaj's dialogues with the followers who came from around the world seeking his guidance in destroying false identities. The sage's sole concern was with human suffering and the ending of suffering. It was his mission to guide the individual to an understanding of his true nature and the timelessness of being. He taught that mind must recognize and penetrate its own state of being, "being this or that, here or that, then or now," but just timeless being.

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