When the spirit appears, the world appears.

            Everything exists within the Clear Being and this neither dies nor is it reborn. This is
the unchanging Reality (TRUTH) itself. The entire creation of our experience is born with the
body and dies with the body; it arises from this Clarity and dissolves into it again, but this
Clarity has no beginning and no end.
Until I met my guru I knew a great deal. Now I know nothing, for all knowing is part of the
dream and has no value whatsoever. I know myself and within myself I find neither life nor
death, only Being itself — not being this or that, only Being. But from the moment the mind
begins to operate on the basis of its memories and begins to imagine, it fills space with
things and time with events. The mind is itself movement and therefore sees everything in
motion; once it has created time, it begins to worry about the past and the future.

The entire creation is embedded in Consciousness, which appears where perfect order and
harmony prevail. Just as all waves are located in the sea, so all things, physical and spiritual,
exist in Clear Consciousness. Therefore, this Clarity is of the utmost importance, and not the t
hings that appear within it. Deepen and broaden the clarity of your Self-awareness, and all
good flows from it naturally. There is nothing you need to seek; everything will come to you
in a very natural way and without you having to make any effort. The five senses and the four
modes of functioning (of the mind: memory, thinking, understanding, and self-awareness),
the five elements (earth, water, fire, air, and ether), and both aspects of creation (spirit and
matter) are all located within Clear Consciousness.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj was drawn to his master from an intuitive knowing. The story of the
elements was enlivened in his perception. That perception is like a witness to all that comes
and goes; this witnessing has no duality, is simply Being — without explanation or analysis.

Contemplation on the words of his master brought him to single-pointed attention, the loss
of individuality (the insight not to exist individually), and the silence/the whole.

“What you are is the perceiving point, the timeless, spaceless, formless source from which
time and space arise. You must learn to know yourself as the whole.”

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj