My true nature

Your true nature is beyond description.
It cannot be known by the mind, yet it exists.
It is the source of everything.

--- Nisargadatta Maharaj

Who am I?

The Sense of "I am" (Consciousness)

When I met my Guru, he told me:

"You are not what you take yourself to be.
Find out what you are.
Watch the sense 'I am',
find your real Self."

I obeyed him, because I trusted him. I did as he told me. All
my spare time I would spend looking at myself in silence. And what a
difference it made, and how soon!

My teacher told me to hold on to the sense 'I am' tenaciously and not
to swerve from it even for a moment. I did my best to follow his
advice and in a comparatively short time I realized within myself the
truth of his teaching. All I did was to remember his teaching, his
face, his words constantly. This brought an end to the mind; in the
stillness of the mind I saw myself as I am -- unbound.

I simply followed (my teacher's) instruction which was to focus the
mind on pure being 'I am', and stay in it. I used to sit for hours
together, with nothing but the 'I am' in my mind and soon peace and
joy and a deep all-embracing love became my normal state. In it all
disappeared -- myself, my Guru, the life I lived, the world around
me. Only peace remained and unfathomable silence.

--- Nisargadatta Maharaj

... The lineage of nine gurus ... Navnath Sampradaya:

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj belongs to the Navnath Sampradaya, the lineage which originated from the nine gurus. Nisargadatta himself did not stress his lineage with most of his western devotees

External Links

DVD"S about Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

http://www.maharajnisargadatta.com/

http://www.nisargadatta.net/

Remembering Nisargadatta Maharaj, reflections of David Godman

Various articles on Sri Nisargadatta

Videos about Sri Nisargadatta

Who am I?

"You are not what
you take yourself to be.

Find out what you are.

Watch the sense 'I am',
find your real Self."