100 FREE PODCASTS The Urban Guru Cafe was created 2007-08. The origins of the concept for a podcast sprang up out of conversations between Areti Alexova and Gilbert Schultz. A dutch visitor, Eric, who was attending Bob Adamson’s meetings offered to do the technical side of constructing a podcast site. Eric also translated one of […]
17 Dec 2010
98. Prior to Consciousness – Nisargadatta – 6th Jan 1980
” Is there a world outside (of) your knowledge? Can you go beyond what you know? You may postulate a world beyond the mind, but it will remain a concept, unproved and unprovable. Your experience is your proof …and it is valid for you only. Who else can have your experience, when the other person is only as real as he (or she) appears in your experience” – Nisargadatta.
“You have projected onto yourself a world of your own imagination, based on memories, on desires and fears, and you have imprisoned yourself in it. Break the spell and be free.” – Nisargadatta
Where were you on the 6th of January 1980? On that day a few visitors were in a small attic room in the back streets of Bombay, in an area called Khetwadi. They had come from distant places to ask their questions, addressed to one who did not speak English. Somehow word had reached them, that this ‘teacher’ was someone extraordinary. Without a trace of sentiment, Nisargadatta turned many lives around and often with just a few words. Following on from the last program, we present digitally cleaned up audio from the meetings that were held everyday, year after year. This recording features Ramesh Balsekar and S.K. Mullarpattan as the main translators. These programs may require a few careful ‘listenings’ to catch everything they offer, but it is all clear, especially if you listen a few times. Many would have loved to have been able to attend the meetings. These recordings give an opportunity that is otherwise not available. Each meeting is unique and the way that Maharaj conducts himself is never predictable. He would not allow anyone to continue asking ‘spiritual kindergarden’ questions. Obviously he was keenly aware of where the visitor was ‘coming from’ and although he never spoke English, except for a word here and there, he probably understood the language reasonably well. That is neither here nor there, as we say. The atmosphere of that small room is captured on these recordings.
Music includes: Jefferson Airplane and a piece by Pepe Habichuela
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8 Dec 2010
97. The Seed of everything is this Consciousness.
“What contradicts itself has no being. Or it has only momentary being, which comes to the same. For what has a beginning and an end has no middle. It is hollow. It has only name and shape given to it by the mind, but it has neither substance nor essence.” – Nisargadatta.
“Once you realize that the world is your own projection, you are free of it. You need not free yourself of a world that does not exist, except in your own imagination! However is the picture, beautiful or ugly, you are painting it and you are not bound by it. Realize that there is nobody to force it on you, that it is due to the habit of taking the imaginary to be real. See the imaginary as imaginary and be free of fear.” – Nisargadatta
The ONLY time there ever is is the Immediate Presence which we commonly call NOW.
These programs on Nisargadatta are very potent for those who are interested in this material. It may take a few listenings to get the full potency of the pointing. I myself have been struck by certain passages, by the simple and yet ‘deep’ significance of what Nisargadatta is saying. – Gilbert
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj – First a recording from 1980 with Ramesh Balsekar translating and then a recording from the 11th of January 1981 in which the voice of S.K. Mullarpattan appears as translator. This is a short selection from a series of tape recordings which I have digitally cleaned up and edited for archival purposes. There may be more to come. Some of the many tapes were used for transcribing purposes by Jean Dunn and Dr. Robert Powell who both produced excellent books on Nisargadatta. The first book ‘I am That’ was transcribe by Maurice Freeman in the early seventies. Dates for all the passages transcribed from the tapes are mentioned in the various books.
Music: Vikingo de Jerez from brand new released CD titled “Buleriando” by Rowland Schultz – available via his website – click HERE.
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Season Greetings to all the listeners and to everyone at 93.1 CFIS-FM – Prince George Community Radio Society – the ONLY Radio Station on the planet to have the nerve, the audacity and the gumption to air these programs for the general public. Sunday mornings at 8.30 – 93.1 CFIS-FM. Good on ya gals and guys. I hear there is a bit of a following developing there in BC. Be great if some other brave Radio Stations came on board too.
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