THE TASK SEEMS HOPELESS UNTIL SUDDENLY ALL BECOMES CLEAR AND SIMPLE AND SO WONDERFULLY EASY...

Q: The ‘I am’ is the foundation of all experience. What you are trying to describe must also be an experience, limited and transitory. You speak of yourself as immutable. I hear the sound of the word, I remember its dictionary meaning, but the experience of being immutable I do not have. How can I break through the barrier and know personally, intimately, what it means to be immutable?

Nisargadatta Maharaj: The word itself is the bridge. Remember it, think of it, explore it, go round it, look at it from all directions, dive into it with earnest perseverance: endure all delays and disappointments till suddenly the mind turns round, away from the word, towards the reality beyond the word.

It is like trying to find a person knowing his name only. A day comes when your enquiries bring you to him and the name becomes reality.

Words are valuable, for between the word and its meaning there is a link and if one investigates the word assiduously, one crosses beyond the concept into the experience at the root of it.

As a matter of fact, such repeated attempts to go beyond the words is called meditation. Sadhana is but a persistent attempt to cross over from the verbal to the non-verbal.

The task seems hopeless until suddenly all becomes clear and simple and so wonderfully easy.

But, as long as you are interested in your present way of living, you will shirk from the final leap into the unknown.

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