Nisargadata in his book "I am that" Chapter 23
23. Discrimination leads to Detachment
Maharaj: You are all drenched for it is raining hard. In my world it is
always fine weather. There is no night or day, no heat or cold. No
worries beset me there, nor regrets. My mind is free of thoughts, for
there are no desires to slave for.
Questioner: Are there two worlds?
M: Your world is transient, changeful. My world is perfect, changeless.
You can tell me what you like about your world -- I shall listen
carefully, even with interest, yet not for a moment shall I forget that
your world is not, that you are dreaming.
Q: What distinguishes your world from mine?
M: My world has no characteristics by which it can be identified. You
can say nothing about it. I am my world. My world is myself. It is
complete and perfect. Every impression is erased, every experience --
rejected. I need nothing, not even myself, for myself I cannot lose.
Q: Not even God?
M: All these ideas and distinctions exist in your world; in mine there
is nothing of the kind. My world is single and very simple.
Q: Nothing happens there?
M: Whatever happens in your world, only there it has validity and evokes
response. In my world nothing happens.
Q: The very fact of your experiencing your own world implies duality
inherent in all experience.
M: Verbally -- yes. But your words do not reach me. Mine is a non-verbal
world. In your world the unspoken has no existence. In mine -- the words
and their contents have no being. In your world nothing stays, in mine
-- nothing changes. My world is real, while yours is made of dreams.
Q: Yet we are talking.
M: The talk is in your world. In mine -- there is eternal silence. My
silence sings, my emptiness is full, I lack nothing. You cannot know my
world until you are there.
Q: It seems as if you alone are in your world.
M: How can you say alone or not alone, when words do not apply? Of
course, I am alone for I am all.
Q: Are you ever coming into our world?
M: What is coming and going to me? These again are words. I am. Whence
am I to come from and where to go?
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