Q: What is the use of a quiet mind?
M: When the mind is quiet, we come to know ourselves as the pure witness.
We withdraw from the experience and its experiencer and stand apart in pure awareness, which is between and
beyond the two.
The personality, based on self-identification, on imagining oneself to be something:
‘I am this, I am that’, continues,
but only as a part of the objective world.
Its identification with the witness snaps.
Q: How to strengthen and purify the sattva?
M: The sattva is pure and strong always. It is like the sun. It may seem obscured by clouds and dust, but only from the point of
view of the perceiver.
Deal with the causes of obscuration, not
with the sun.
Q: What is the use of sattva?
M: What is the use of truth, goodness, harmony, beauty?
They are their own goal.
They manifest spontaneously and effortlessly, when things are left to themselves, are not interfered with,
not shunned, or wanted, or conceptualized, but just experienced in full awareness. Such awareness itself is sattva.
It does not make use of things and people — it fulfils them.
Q: Since I cannot improve sattva, am I to deal with tamas and rajas only?
How do I deal with them?
M: By watching their influence in you and on you. Be aware of them in operation, watch their expressions in your thoughts,
words and deeds, and gradually their grip on you will lessen and the clear light of sattva will emerge. It is neither a difficult, nor a protracted process; earnestness is the only condition of success.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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