' Are we born to suffer and die '...

In the great mirror of consciousness images arise and
disappear, and only memory is material--destructible,
perishable, transient.

On such flimsy foundations we
build a sense of personal existence--vague, intermittent,
dreamlike.

This vague persuasion: "I am so and so"
obscures the changeless state of pure awareness and
makes us believe that we are born to suffer and to die.



- Nisargadatta Maharaj

"I Am That"
Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The Acorn Press, 1973