Idle musings: Nisargadatta Maharaj
If you could only keep quiet, clear of memories and expectations, you would be able to discern the beautiful pattern of events. It is your restlessness that causes chaos.
~Nisargadatta Maharaj, “I Am That” Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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The crystal clarity that erupted through Nisraga was usually corrupted by the very process with which it was recorded. Nisarga not only had no English, he spoke in a dialect of an Indian language known as Marathi, in response to a question posed in English by a Pole.
The above quote would appear to suggest that there is an individuated entity which can work to keep quiet, be clear of memories and expectations. Whereas the very sense of striving to be quiet, to be clear of memories and expectation, ……..that very sense of striving is the very sense of expectation, which is the sense of the entity.
You cannot be quiet.
You are the very disturbance seeking an end of that disturbance, the seeking being more of the same disturbance.
Yes quietude flowers but there is none to note this.
And this very quietude is the very pattern of events. A pattern of events which includes a sense of restlessness for which chaos is chaotic. Akin the quietude of the sleeping form in a 6 X 4 cot, which remains unaffected while the ethos, pathos and frenzy of the sleep dream drama is getting played out.
Author: Sandeep Chatterjee
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