Miguel Amez Alonso - Wisdom to Reach the Eternal. The Keys of the Nisargadatta Maharajs Teaching

MIGUEL AMEZ ALONSO

Original Title: Sabidura para alcanzar lo Eterno. Las claves de la enseanza de Nisargadatta Maharaj

2016, Miguel Amez Alonso

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2017, Miguel Amez Alonso

Edition translated into english

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To Rodrigo, to Bibi and to Rosita.

The most beautiful manifestations of the Absolute.

That sage achieves peace whom approaching of kinds of enjoyable sense objects remains unaffected, like unto the ocean being always being filled by approaching rivers and not that person desirous of sense enjoyment .That person attains peace who giving up all material desires for sense gratification lives free from attachment, free from false ego and sense of proprietorship.

Bhagavad Gita, Chapter II, 70-71

That man with piercing eyes sold cigarettes to earn his living. He lived in a poor neighborhood of Bombay. Nothing indicated that, in the attic of his house, that man imparted a Supreme teaching. Some rare people used to go to hear him, only those interested in scrutinizing the mysteries of existence. They called him Nisargadatta Maharaj. At first glance he seemed a normal man, like the rest of his neighbors. Yet appearances deceive. Pleasure or pain, joy or misery, nothing could reach him. He had penetrated the Absolute, the Unborn, that which has no beginning or end, which is always present and is witness to all. He had left what is false, and no longer had the slightest implication in the mundane. His legacy is present, his teaching is available to anyone: the way to Eternity, the end of the problems and miseries of life. Only a few chosen people, thirsty for the transcendent, will stop to drink at his source. Everyone else, intoxicated by the pleasures of life at the same time that crushed by its miseries, will continue thirsty".

Miguel Amez

CONTENTS

Nisargadatta Maharaj (April 17, 1897, Bombay, India September 8, 1981, Bombay, India), is considered one of the most prominent masters of Advaita Vedanta. Nisargadatta, who had spiritual concerns, led a normal life until one day, when he was 35, a friend took him to visit the one who would be his Guru: Siddha Rameshuar Mahars. This encounter changed everything. Three years later his Guru died, but the teachings that Nisargadatta had received from him would be definitive, taking him to reach spiritual enlightenment when he was 37. Thereafter he lived a simple life. Once his son could take charge of the familiar business, a shop of bidis (handmade Indian cigarettes), Nisargadatta spent most of the time (usually mornings and afternoons) in transmitting his supreme knowledge to all those interested in reaching the Absolute. He never talked about mundane aspects nor answered questions related to banalities such as physical or mental well being, or material gains. His advices are aimed to reach the most transcendent. I think finding his teachings is to find the most valuable and precious treasure. His advice dynamites everything that does not work, all that keeps us prisoners of the illusion: the strange and alien to our true nature, the illusory and superfluous. The death of the physical body is seen now as what it actually is: merely the shadow of a bad dream, something unreal. The world, with its show of lights and shadows, with its constant illusion, no longer fascinates, once it is unmask and is discovered what it really is: a mirage. It would have been a luxury to have met in person to Nisargadatta, to have had the opportunity of being present in some of their satsang . But it is not less luxury to have the opportunity to come closer to his doctrine and his talks through the books written by his disciples and followers.

This book is my humble tribute to the Satgur, to the Absolute revealing its secrets through its manifestation in a human body: the body of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. I will talk about their most fundamental advice, on which he insisted more, and I will add to my comments some of his sentences, which do not leave anyone indifferent. I do not intend to explain the teachings of Nisargadatta, because he explained better than anybody else what has to be understood, and how to reach it, breaking into a thousand pieces the veils of illusion and ignorance in all those who approach firmly to his teaching. Different words will be used throughout this book to designate the Absolute: the Eternal, the Ineffable, the Unlimited, the Self, the Real, our true natureThey are different ways of referring to what cannot be described with words and is beyond any concept or idea, whichwe have never ceased to be, which we are always but that, paradoxically, we have forgotten and that remains veiled by the phenomenal, the so-called world.

For those who are not familiar with the teachings of Advaita Vedanta in general, and of Nisargadatta Maharaj (N. M.) in particular, the reading of this book can be traumatic or releasing, heretical or enlightening, inadmissible or hopeful, everything will depend on the maturity of the readers and on their willingness to see the reality as it is. This book will certainly be difficult to assimilate for all those who have put all their hopes in the material, physical and tangible world. The teachings (not theories) exposed here will break all the schemas of those who consider themselves as people in a world, subject to birth and death. All the concepts, theories, ideas, dreams and fears that the reader may have will be reduced to ashes, except for those readers that think they know everything, and consider the contents of this book a mad thing and prefer to live deceived in their world of artifice, slaves of their vices, passions and fears, of which the fear of death has no doubt a prominent position not to say the first.

The lines that follow bring to light everything we have assumed as real because everyone told us it was real, which has kept us trapped in a farce from the beginning, and had never been questioned in our environment. A trap, Maya, of which few people are willing to break free because very few are aware of being imprisoned in it. We will dissect this trap, we will see its mechanisms, its operation, where its hypnotic power resides and, above all, how to rid of it. In fact, all analyses, studies and dissections on this Maya have already been made by the greatest Gurus of all times. We only have to pay attention to their master lessons and try to understand. Among all of them, I have preferred to Nisargadatta Maharaj because of his direct, simple and accessible ways, free of artifice and complexity. Extremely incisive, sublime until the unimaginable, Nisargadatta presents thereby the way out of that labyrinth in which our lives have become, through which we wander stunned without considering to escape of it. A network of paths through we wander, from one concern to another, from one hope to the next, passing through different mental states. Death is that event that will come sooner or later and will make us disappear forever. Attachment to the image we have of ourselves makes the idea of disappearing cause us fear. Generally speaking, this is the theory accepted by almost everyone, because it is the story that implicitly or explicitly our environment has transmitted us. Few people have had the curiosity or the courage to question whether this is really so. A chosen few have deciphered the mystery of existence, knowing their true nature, eternal, without birth, without death, ineffable. These brave people, at the time of the death of the physical body, have detached of the body like the one who takes off an article of clothing. The death of the material, of the physical, of the body, does not affect in the least that one who has established in the Absolute, in the Eternal. That is your same abode, your true Self.