Nisargadatta Contemplation - What Is Born Must Die

Listen to Ektaji's meditation on Nisargadatta Contemplation: What is born must die from the book 'I am That.' This contemplation is allowing the being devoid of thinking and analysis - simply diving deep into yourself.

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Contemplation Meditation Nisargadatta Maharaj, Name of the book I am that. Chapter 5, What is born must die. In contemplation meditation, One must avoid going to sleep, One must avoid getting lost in a trance, And one must avoid from wandering away in thoughts. Avoid judging, Analyzing, Speculating. Instead, Let the words just dissolve into you. Allow them to enter, Allow the blossoming to happen. Remain aware throughout the meditation. What is born must die. Is the witness consciousness permanent or not? The witness consciousness is not permanent. The knower rises and sets with the known. That in which both the knower and the known arise and set is beyond time. The knower rises and sets with the known. That in which both the knower and the known arise and set is beyond time. The words permanent or eternal do not apply there. In sleep, There is neither the known nor the knower. What keeps the body receptive? What keeps the body sensitive then? In sleep, You cannot say the knower was absent. The experience of things was not there. The experience of thoughts was not there. That is all that happens in sleep. But the absence of experience too is experience. Deep sleep is like entering a dark room and saying, I see nothing. A man blind from birth knows not what darkness means. Similarly, Only the knower knows that he does not know. Sleep is merely a lapse in memory. Sleep is merely a lapse in memory, But life goes on. What is death? Death is the change in the living process of a particular body. Integration ends and disintegration sets in. What about the knower? With the disappearance of body at death, Does the knower disappear? Just as the knower of the body appears at birth, So he disappears at death. So does nothing remain? Nobody, No knower, Nothing? Life remains. Consciousness needs a vehicle and an instrument for its manifestation. When life produces another body, Another knower comes into being. So is there a causal link between the successive body knowers or body minds? Yes, There is a causal link between the successive body knowers or body minds. There is something that may be called the memory body or causal body. This causal body or memory body is a record of all that was thought, Wanted and done. It is like a cloud of images held together. What is the sense of a separate existence? The sense of I, The separate self. This sense of a separate existence is merely a reflection. It is a reflection in a separate body of the one reality. In this reflection, The unlimited and the limited are confused. The limited and the unlimited are taken to be one. They are taken to be the same and to undo this confusion is the purpose of yoga. Does not death undo this confusion? In death only the body dies. Life does not. Consciousness does not. Reality does not. And the life is never so alive as after death. But then does one get reborn? What was born must die. Only the unborn is deathless. Find what is it that never sleeps in you, That never wakes in you, And whose pale reflection is the sense of I. How am I to go about finding this out? How do I find that which never sleeps in me, That which never wakes in me, And that whose pale reflection is the sense of I? How do you go about finding anything? By keeping your mind and heart on it. There must be interest. There must be a steady remembrance. To remember what needs to be remembered is the secret of success. You come to the secret only through earnestness. Is mere wanting to find out enough? Aren't qualifications needed? Aren't opportunities needed to be able to find this out? These will come with earnestness. What is supremely important is to be free from contradictions. The goal and the way must not be on different levels. Life and light must not quarrel. Behaviour must not betray belief. Call it honesty, Integrity, Wholeness. You must not go back. You must not undo. You must not uproot. You must not abandon the conquered ground. Tenacity of purpose and honesty in pursuit will bring you to your goal. And honesty of purpose and honesty in pursuit will bring you to your goal. Tenacity and honesty may seem to not be there, But don't worry. All will come as you go on. Take the first step first. All blessings come from within. Turn within. Look within. I am. Be with it all the time you can spare. Be with it all the time you can spare until you revert to it spontaneously. There is no simpler and easier way. Turn within. Turn within. I am. Be with it all the time. All the time. All the time. I am.

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