The Ultimate Medicine Dialogues with a Realized Master The Ultimate Medicine is not for those who like their spirituality watered down but for serious students searching for awareness Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj lived and taught in a small apartme
The Ultimate Medicine is not for those who like their spirituality watered down, but for serious students searching for awareness Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj 1897 1981 lived and taught in a small apartment in the slums of Bombay A realized master of the Tantric Nath lineage, he supported himself and his family by selling cheap goods in a small booth on the streets outsideThe Ultimate Medicine is not for those who like their spirituality watered down, but for serious students searching for awareness Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj 1897 1981 lived and taught in a small apartment in the slums of Bombay A realized master of the Tantric Nath lineage, he supported himself and his family by selling cheap goods in a small booth on the streets outside his tenement for many years His life exemplified the concept of absolute nonduality of being In this volume, Maharaj shares the highest truth of nonduality in his own unique way His teaching style is abrupt, provocative, and immensely profound, cutting to the core and wasting little effort on inessentials His terse but potent sayings are known for their ability to trigger shifts in consciousness, just by hearing or reading them The point is that man freed from his fetters is morality personified Such a man therefore does not need any moralistic injunctions in order to live righteously Free a man from his bondage and thereafter everything else will take care of itself On the other hand, man in his unredeemed state cannot possibly live morally, no matter what moral teaching he is given It is an intrinsic impossibility, for his very foundation is immorality That is, he lives a lie, a basic contradiction functioning in all his relationships as the separate entity he believes himself to be, whereas in reality no such separation exists His every a
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Nisargadatta Maharaj Peter Madill Robert Powell
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj was an Indian spiritual teacher and philosopher of Advaita Nondualism , and a Guru, belonging to the Navnath Sampradaya Sri Nisargadatta, with his direct and minimalistic explanation of non dualism, is considered the most famous teacher of Advaita since Ramana Maharshi In 1973, the publication of his most famous and widely translated book, I AM THAT , an English translation of his talks in Marathi by Maurice Frydman, brought him worldwide recognition and followers.According to Sri Nisargadatta, the purpose of spirituality is to know who you are His discussions are not for academic scholars He is a rebellious spirit, abrupt in his style of discussion, provocative, and immensely profound, cutting to the core and wasting little effort on inessentials His terse but potent sayings are known for their ability to trigger radical shifts from philosophical mind games to the purity of consciousness, just by hearing or even reading them.He talked about the direct way of knowing the Final Reality, in which one becomes aware of one s original nature through mental discrimination, breaking the mind s false identification with the ego, knowing that You are already That The scene for these talks was a small upstairs room at his humble flat in Khetwadi, used for his own meditation and also for daily chantings A simple man, Nisargadatta was a house holder and a petty shop keeper selling bidis hand made leaf rolled cigarettes.