' Why not the Real ? '...

By itself nothing has existence.

Everything needs
its own absence.

To be, is to be distinguishable,
to be here and not there, to be now and not then,
to be thus and not otherwise.

Like water is shaped
by the container, so is everything determined by
conditions (gunas).

As water remains water
regardless of the vessels, as light remains itself
regardless of the colours it brings out, so does the
real remain real, regardless of conditions in which
it is reflected.

Why keep the reflection only in the
focus of consciousness?

Why not the real itself?



- Nisargadatta Maharaj

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