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Atanta Advaita Talks
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I cannot ‘do’ Presence, simply because I already am Presence. So there is no process to learn because I cannot learn or achieve something that I already am. Presence is totally effortless and is nearer to me than breathing or thinking. Presence requires nothing from the "me concept" to BE what It is - your "Self."
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David Hargrove
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Do we actually create our own search for truth or does it just happen within us? Before the body was born did we really plan to misconceive our True Identity and then mentally suffer for it? Did we plan to have fun in suffering? Did we really have a choice about anything (gender, language,mental conditioning) before this body came into being?
All of these questions were posed to me in one way or another from all of the
Sages on the home page.
I began reading Nisargadatta Maharaj (I Am That) in the early 80's which
started the seemingly endless question (Do I really know what I think I know).
Slowly but surely I was made to discover I did not! I began to experience the
less I thought I knew via concepts the better it got. What a surprise indeed!
In the fall of 1990 I was lucky enough to meet Chariji from Madras India. I say
lucky because upon meeting Chariji I began to experience a Love and
Devotion I had never known and it was clear I had nothing to do with it. This Love and Devotion was the Grace of the Guru that I had only read about.
In November of 1996 I was walking back to my desk at work and suddenly and
from nowhere the simple understanding happened. All things conceivable or
perceivable are contained in the "One Effortless Awareness." I found myself to Be what I had always been "Simple Being."
In the words of Ramesh Balsekar "The seeker IS the sought". Consciousness is already conscious of ItSelf! This is Self Realization!
David
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Who Am " I " Really?
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