Enlightenment - The Supreme Conspiracy

Enlightenment - The Supreme Conspiracy

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj - Video and Books

About the Author

A simple man, Nisargadatta Maharaj, was a householder and petty shopkeeper in Bombay where he lived, and died in 1981 at the age of 84. He had not been educated formally, but came to be respected and loved for his insights into the crux of human pain and the extraordinary usidity of his direct discourse. Hundreds of diverse seekers traveled the globe and sought him out in his unpretentious home to hear him. To all of them he gave hope that "beyond the real experience is not the mind, but the self, the light in which everything appears...the awareness in which everything happens."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Nisargadatta_Maharaj

Book Descriptions

I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta

This collection of the timeless teachings of one of the greatest sages of India, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, regarded by many as a "modern spiritual classic" is a testament to the uniqueness of the seer's life and work

"I Am That" preserves Maharaj's dialogues with the followers who came from around the world seeking his guidance in destroying false identities. The sage's sole concern was with human suffering and the ending of suffering. It was his mission to guide the individual to an understanding of his true nature and the timelessness of being. He taught that mind must recognize and penetrate its own state of being, "being this or that, here or that, then or now," but just timeless being.

The Ultimate Medicine

Compiled during the last year of Nisargadatta 's life, The Ultimate Medicine provides advanced instruction for spiritual aspirants. Not for those who like their spirituality watered down, but for serious students seeking powerful antidotes to unawareness. Edited by Robert Powell, renowned spiritual author.

Consciousness and the Absolute

Consciousness and the Absolute were recorded shortly before Nisargadatta's death in 1981, and translated directly to English with no changes. In a question and answer format the visitors and devotees accompanied this great master during his final teachings. His message uncompromisingly remained the same to the end, to dwell only on our beingness, giving it no attributes, dwelling prior to our thoughts.

The Nectar Of Immortality

Nisargadatta Maharaj questioning and pushing his listeners and devotees further and further back, into their I-am-ness; asking them to discover who they were 100 years before, dealing with the principle prior to mind, not allowing any concepts to settle there. These books remind us of the non methods of Zen and Chan Masters; and their direct approach to this great matter force us as the reader to go beyond merely reading, and enter into that which we call "I".

Prior to Consciousness

These talks took place between April1980 and July 1981 between seekers from all over the world and Nisargadatta Maharaj. He continues to hammer at our egos, insisting that we can only know through our personal experience, not through the second-hand knowledge of others and of books. His words are used like a surgeons scalpel, used to cut away the concepts we have been given since birth. Before this form came - what was I? He was very sharp with his answers. In the last two years of his life he would not entertain any questions pertaining to this worldly life and it's improvement. He spoke only the plain truth.

Seeds Of Consciousness

This collection of talks occurred between July 7th 1979 and April 2nd 1980 in the same setting as the other books. Daily, visitors would enter the ground floor residence in Khetwadi, Bombay, and either remain silent in Maharaj's presence or pose questions to him to bring forth his wisdom. He would say he is not a learned man and therefore can only speak from his own experience, and that whatever he has been able to know about his true being applies to everyone else. This series of questions and answers bears the same stamp of authenticity that all these books share. The editor, Jean Dunn has done the world a great service by bringing these talks to light, in translation from the original Marathi language.

Video Description

Awaken to the Eternal
Nisargadatta Maharaj: A Journey of Self Discovery
Inner Directions Foundation
VHS - 57 Minutes

To my knowledge, Awaken to the Eternal is the only VHS video available that contains the footage of Maharaj. Several people who had the opportunity to be with Maharaj discuss the impact of his teaching. Included are interviews with Jean Dunn, Jack Kornfield, Robert Powell Stephen Wolinsky and others. It's a unique opportunity to peek at Maharaj's loft in Bombay and watch him in the midst of a spirited conversation.

Meher Baba

Who is Meher Baba:

Born on 25 February 1894, Meher Baba attained God-realization at the age of 19. He embarked on his mission as a Spiritual Master in the early 1920s. On 10 July 1925 he began his silence and did not speak again for the remainder of his physical lifetime. The decades that followed witnessed the establishment of centers at Meherabad and Meherazad (near Ahmednagar, India) and other places. He worked intensively with the poor, lepers, and with spiritually advanced souls known as masts. Meher Baba held many mass darshan programs. Toward the end of his life he remained in seclusion, for the most part, to complete his Universal Work. In 1954 Meher Baba declared that he is Avatar of the age. He dropped his physical form on 31 January 1969.

GOD SPEAKS: The Theme of Creation and Its Purpose

Text sample:

'ALL souls (atmas) were, are and will be in the Over-Soul
(Paramatma).
Souls (atmas) are all One.
All souls are infinite and eternal. They are formless.
All souls are One; there is no difference in souls or in their being
and existence as souls.
There is a difference in the consciousness of souls;
there is a difference in the planes of consciousness of souls;
there is a difference in the experience of souls and thus
there is a difference in the state of souls.
Most souls are conscious of the gross body (sthul sharir);
some souls are conscious of the subtle body (pran);
a few souls are conscious of the mental body (mind or mana);
and
a very few souls are conscious of Self.
Most souls have experience of the gross sphere (world);
some souls have experience of the subtle sphere (world);
a few souls have experience of the mental sphere (world); and
a very few souls have experience of the Over-Soul.
Most souls are on the gross plane (anna bhumika);
some souls are on the subtle plane (pran bhumika);
a few souls are on the mental plane (mano bhumika); and
a very few souls are on the plane beyond the mental plane
(vidnyan).' Meher Baba

Files:

Part 1: godspeaks_p1.pdf - 2.0 MB - 198 pages
Part 2: godspeaks_p2.pdf - 2.3 MB - 163 pages

Meher Baba - The Everything and the Nothing

People ask God for forgiveness. But since God is everything and
everyone, who is there for Him to forgive? Forgiveness of the
created was already there in His act of creation. But still people
ask God's forgiveness, and He forgives them. But they, instead of
forgetting that for which they asked forgiveness, forget that God
has forgiven them, and, instead, remember the things they were
forgiven — and so nourish the seed of wrongdoing, and it bears its
fruit again. Again and again they plead for forgiveness, and again
and again the Master says, I forgive.

But it is impossible for men to forget their wrongdoings and the
wrongs done to them by others. And since they cannot forget,
they find it hard to forgive. But forgiveness is the best charity.
It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty,
but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it.

Instead of men trying to forgive one another they fight. Once they
fought with their hands and with clubs. Then with spears and
bows and arrows. Then with guns and cannon. Then they
invented bombs and carriers for them. Now they have developed
missiles that can destroy millions of other men thousands of miles
away, and they are prepared to use them. The weapons used
change, but the aggressive pattern of man remains the same.

Now men are planning to go to the moon. And the first to get there
will plant his nation's flag on it, and that nation will say,
It is mine. But another nation will dispute the claim and they will
fight here on this earth for possession of that moon. And whoever
goes there, what will he find? Nothing but himself. And if people
go on to Venus they will still find nothing but themselves. Whether
men soar to outer space or dive to the bottom of the deepest ocean
they will find themselves as they are, unchanged, because they will
not have forgotten themselves nor remembered to exercise the charity
of forgiveness.

Supremacy over others will never cause a man to find a change in
himself; the greater his conquests the stronger is his confirmation
of what his mind tells him — that there is no God other than his
own power. And he remains separated from God, the Absolute Power.
But when the same mind tells him that there is something which
may be called God, and, further, when it prompts him to search
for God that he may see Him face to face, he begins to forget
himself and to forgive others for whatever he has suffered from
them.

And when he has forgiven everyone and has completely forgotten
himself, he finds that God has forgiven him everything, and he
remembers Who, in reality, he is.

Meher Baba