[.ca] I Am That: Talks With Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (ISBN 8185300534)

The Final Spiritual Teaching:
Nisargadatta Maharaj's "I AM THAT" is the last spiritual book you'll ever need to read. Congratulations, you've reached the end of your search! Nisargadatta's words are alive and will cut like a razor to the core of your being. Get this book! Read it and be devoured by it. Here are a few quotes... Nothing can trouble you but your own imagination. (I AM THAT p.113) General knowledge develops the mind, no doubt. But if you are going to spend your life in amassing knowledge, you build a wall round yourself. To go beyond the mind, a well-furnished mind is not needed. (p50) The window is the absence of the wall, and it gives air and light because it is empty. Be empty of al mental content, of all imagination and effort, and the very absence of obstacles will cause reality to rush in. (p260) Leave it all behind you. Forget it. Go forth, unburdened with ideas and beliefs. Abandon all verbal structures, all relative truth, all tangible objectives. (p340) All are mere words, of what use are they to you? You are entangled in the web of verbal definitions and formulations. Go beyond your concepts and ideas; in the silence of desire and thought the truth is found. (p295) Too much analysis leads you nowhere. There is in you the core of being which is beyond analysis, beyond the mind. You can know it in action only. The legitimate function of the mind is to tell you what is not. But if you want possitive knowledge, you must go beyond the mind. (p341) Before you can know anything directly, non-verbally, you must know the knower. So far, you took the mind for the knower, but it is not so. The mind clogs you up with images and ideas, which leave scars in memory. You take remembering to be knowledge. True knowledge is ever fresh, new, unexpected. It wells up from within. When you know what you are, you also are what you know. Between knowing and being there is no gap. (p520) Consciousness, being a product of conditions and circumstances, depends on them and changes along with them. What is independent, uncreated, timeless and changeless and yet ever new and fresh is beyond the mind. When the mind thinks of it, the mind dissolves and only happiness remains. (p488) \oWith self-awareness\c you grow more intelligent. In awareness you learn, in self-awareness you learn about yourself. Of course, you can only learn what you are not. To know what you are, you must go beyond the mind. Awareness is the point at which the mind reaches out beyond itself into reality. In awareness you seek not what pleases, but what is true. (p346) Stop making use of your mind and see what happens. Do this one thing thoroughly. That is all. (p197) Stephen Wingate livinginpeace-thenaturalstate.com

A paperbound nuclear reaction for your mind.:
In the last year, I've read some of the most powerful books ever written on spiritual awakening / realization / enlightenment. None so far, has surpased what these concatenated symbols found in this book have emoted within me. He speaks from the Ultimate Ground of Being and addressing that same Ground within me - it's like I'm listening to a recorded message I've left myself to remind myself of who I am. \oIf you've ever had a lucid dreaming experience, I can tell you that his message/Self-reminder will probably elicit the same feeling-realization you had upon achieving consciousness inside a dream for the very first time.\c His words cut through the ego, makes ashes of spellbounding psychological time in order to reveals what is naked, true, brilliantly vivid and Real; your own true being which cannot be described, only experienced. I feel as though my whole search has lead me to this point. If you find yourself here reading this review then congratulations! It's time to wake up sunshine because you've been dreaming for far too long.

The only book i need - NOW -:
I find after 30 years of seeking and thousands of books, this book is the ONE book I want and need now. The timeless wisdom of Infinite Silence given form for sincere seekers is at once inspiring and deadly: Inspiration to continue in the face of endless failure through knowing that THAT does exist ... in fact ONLY THAT exists ... but certain Death to my "knowing," my many concepts of what spirituality is. Unlike teachers like Muktananda or the many others who prescribe arduous practices with a promise that "I" will get "Enlightened" if I just keep going, Maharaj and his kindred spirits like Ramesh Balsekar and Wayne Liquorman hold out no such phony carrots. The essence of their teaching is, the I that wants Enlightenment simply DOES NOT EXIST expect as a dreamed character in a vast dream of THAT. I love it. Charlie (Ishan) Hayes Costa Mesa California 7 June 2004

Dancing on fire:
This are unique words from the real sage whose message can awaken you and you start wandering to know (not to blind belive) by yourself who you really are. Nisargadatta Maharaj is beside Gurdjieff and still alive Bodin of Bindu one of the rare real Men on this planet who has awaken from the dream of ignorance, from the veils of mind. And through his words he speaks unspeakable eternal truth. We are sleeping and transcendence from that state requires a specific inner work. And as Nisargadatta, Gurdjieff and Bodin say - act, not dream; experience, not think about what you should do, escape from old tricks of your mind and slavery of your body, and transform your inner being. For that grate endurance, will, heart and commitment are needed - first of all to yourselve. This is the only thing worth of living.

The last book to be read:
It truly is the last book to be read for a purpose. If you find yourself still looking for more spiritual literature, after having read this book, re-read it. You may have missed the point. There is nothing to seek. This book is the best pointer to reality. I urge you to own it, read it, and remember it all the time.