Apte - The Nisargadatta Ultimatum

The Nisargadatta Ultimatum

By

Pradeep Apte

The Nisargadatta Ultimatum

C Pradeep Apte Jan 2021

Apte98@gmail.com

You destiny is not death but

the disappearance of I am

Introduction

I have called this work The Nisargadatta Ultimatum because that was the feeling I got while preparing this text. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj is giving us an ultimatum: Look here, I am handing you over something directly, either you take it or continue to suffer and lead a miserable life as an individual.

These short quotes have the power to take you straight to the Parabrahman or the Absolute.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj has himself said:

Take one sentence of what has been said here, and stay with it. That is enough; that will lead you to your source.

The sentence could be a question or a statement; either, if closely observed and pondered over, have the ability of right away catapulting you into the Parabrahman or the Absolute, which you actually are.

These short quotes have been collected from the seven famous books on the dialogues of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj beginning with I Am That. Most of the quotes are as such while in some there have been minor alterations from the original without changing the meaning or the idea that Sri Maharaj aims to convey.

Sri Maharaj says: Accepting the gurus words with total conviction can transform your entire destiny, entire life.

Pradeep Apte

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What were you before you were born?

The Nisargadatta Ultimatum

By

Pradeep Apte

One: I Am That

1. Are you a mere body or something else? Or, maybe nothing at all?

2. Before all beginnings, after all endings I am.

3. What you are, you already are.

4. Everything is local and temporary, except you. Dont forget what you are.

5. Ultimately I am beyond being and non-being.

6. Find him who was present at your birth and will witness your death.

7. Stop imagining that you were born, have parents, are a body, will die and so on.

8. You were never born nor will you ever die.

9. There is a state beyond forgetting and remembering.

10. The beginningless begins forever.

11. Find what is it that you have never lost.

12. Overlook the movable and you will find yourself to be the ever-present.

13. Whatever happens, I remain.

14. I was never born. How can I grow old?

15. I am neither born nor can I die. I have nothing to remember or to forget.

16. You are beyond the experiencer, ever unborn and deathless.

17. Reality is not an event, it cannot be experienced, for reality neither comes nor goes.

18. There is no such thing as experience of reality. 19. Only reality is , there is nothing else.

20. There was no coming. It was so always.

21. You can only be what you are in reality; you can only appear to be what you are not.

22. What comes and goes has no being.

23. What changes is not real, what is real does not change.

24. Dont pretend to be what you are not, dont refuse to be what you are.

25. Life will escape, the body will die, but it will not affect me in the least.

26. The real does not die, the unreal never lived.

27. You are neither the body nor in the body there is no such thing as body.

28. The Absolute precedes time. The Absolute is .

29. Your body is short of time, not you. Just understand yourself that itself is eternity.

30. I know for myself. I was never born.

31. Both the subject and the object exist in you, but you are neither.

32. You are complete here and now, you need absolutely nothing.

33. That which makes you think you are human is not human.

34. The real is always with you; you need not wait to be what you are .

35. You are not what you perceive.

36. You are yourself without knowing.

37. No happening affects your real being this is the absolute truth.

38. Transiency is the best proof of unreality.

39. You cannot know your real being. You can only be what you are.

40. Whatever you are changelessly, that you are beyond all doubt.

41. To be , you must be nobody.

42. To Know that You do not Know, is True Knowledge.

43. In reality you were never born and shall never die.

44. Be nothing, know nothing, have nothing.

45. One can only be it, without knowing.

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Two: Seeds of Consciousness

1. What you dont know, that is prior-most.

2. Before you acquired this knowledge I am, that is the real state.

3. Come to the conclusion that you are not the consciousness.

4. The Absolute doesnt know itself at all.

5. When the body dies, you do not die.

6. When everything goes you are the real.

7. Your true identity is beyond this quality of I amness.

8. The state before you were born and after you die is your permanent property.

9. Before the knowledge I am appeared on you, that is Parabrahman .

10. If you revert properly, the consciousness I am will disappear.

11. The Parabrahman does not know that it is.

12. You are the underlying principle of consciousness, be in that.

13. The eternal One is that which you have never forgotten.

14. Go back to the source, take your stand in the original state.

15. Beingness is the child of no-beingness, the Absolute.

16. Prior to witnessing you are.

17. Something prior to the creation of the body knows that there is a body.

18. When you did not have the body, complete satisfaction existed.

19. The one who knows these appearances is the Sadguru Parabrahman .

20. I amness is a part of the play. You are prior to the I amness.

21. You are not the sound from the Brahma-randhra which says I am.

22. The arrival of my beingness without my knowing constitutes my parents.

23. How can that which depends on the body be the truth?

24. I prevail prior to anything, I ever exist.

25. Prior to the appearance of childhood, that is my eternal state.

26. I only observe the appearance and disappearance of beingess.

27. When you didnt know that you were, that is your true state.

29. The one who observes the being and no-being state is the True state.

30. Only what was before the body came into existence will remain after the body dies.

31. Lord Krishna was the unborn, the Nirguna principle, just as you are.

32. You are unborn and shall ever remain unborn.

33. The world and the mind everything are unreal, but I am not those.

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Three: Prior to Consciousness

1. Prior to this identification with the body, you must recede into that.

2. Witnessing of the beingness happens to the eternal principle, the Absolute.

3. I, the Absolute never had any experience that I was alive.

4. I, the Absolute have no needs, I ever prevail.

5. The non-attention Parabrahman state has no attention I am.

6. Before the beingness was there, look at that, be in that state.

7. Timeless, spaceless existence doesnt know it is. That is reality. That is truth.

8. As the eternal principle you prevail in spite of all happenings.

9. To the Absolute witnessing of the I amness occurs, this is the siddha standpoint.

10. I, the Absolute am not this I amness.

11. Not-knowing is perfection, knowing is imperfection, fraudulent.

12. When the I am goes into oblivion, that is the eternal state, no form, no beingness.

13. There is no question of going into that state; you are in the Supreme state.

14. Without reason or cause the consciousness spontaneously appears on the Absolute.

15. As you get closer to the truth, you will loose interest in worldly affairs.

16. My true nature is that which was before the body and consciousness came into being.