By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: December 9, 2024
I only learned about Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj in 2024, but his teaching have made a huge impression on me. To that end, here are some of my favorite quotes related to his famous saying, “I am not the body,” from the book, Consciousness and the Absolute: The Final Talks of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:
- The very idea that you are the body is ridiculous. Consciousness is experiencing its manifestation.
- Just as I see you, I look at this body, but I am apart from it. I am not identified with the body.
- (A jnani) watches the play as a witness.
- ... this consciousness functions through millions of forms.
- A jnani’s state remains the same with or without the body.
- Disassociate from the body.
- There is no otherness; you are everything.
There are many more great quotes in that book, but these are the ones that really strike me today (December, 2024).