Happiness
What makes you believe that you are a separate individual?
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The person is of little use. It is deeply involved in its own affairs, and is completely ignorant of its true being. Unless the witnessing consciousness begins to play on the person and becomes the object of observation rather than the subject, realization is not feasible. It is the witness that makes realization desirable and attainable. The person by itself will not become the witness. It is like expecting a cold candle to start burning in the course of time. The person can stay in the darkness of ignorance forever, unless the flame of awareness touches it. Once the candle is lighted, the flame will consume the candle.
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As a person, your existence is momentary. But are you a person only? Are you a person at all? "I am" and "the world is" are related and conditional. They are due to the tendency of the mind to project names and shapes.
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I only say that to find the immutable and blissful you must give up your hold on the mutable and painful. You are concerned with your own happiness and I am telling you that there is no such thing. Happiness is never your own, it is where the "I" is not. I do not say it is beyond your reach; you have only to reach out beyond yourself and you will find it.
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The mind needs a center to draw a circle. The circle may grow bigger and with every increase there will be a change in the sense "I am." A Yogi will draw a spiral; yet the center will remain, however vast the spiral. A day comes when the entire enterprise is seen as false and given up. The center point is no more and the universe becomes the center.
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Realization is of the fact that you are not a person. Therefore, it cannot be the duty of the person whose destiny is to disappear. Its destiny is the duty of him who imagines himself to be the person. Find out Who He is, and the imagined person will dissolve. Freedom is from something. What are you to be free from? Obviously, you must be free from the person you take yourself to be, for it is the idea you have of yourself that keeps you in bondage.
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Nisargadatta Maharaj from I AM THAT
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