𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬, 𝐓𝐚𝐭 𝐓𝐰𝐚𝐦 𝐀𝐬𝐢 - तत्तवमसि!

𝐌𝐚𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐣: I am not concerned with the miracles happening outside, but only with those happening within me. In my original non-knowing state I did not know the sense of my being. But all of a sudden the beingness was felt spontaneously; this is the first miracle. Then in a flash I observed this enormous manifest world and also my body. Later, I conceived that the entire universe has manifested in the speck of my beingness only! 

Why not pay attention to these miracles? A lot of miracles happen, each greater than the other. But what about these ones, I repeat. First, there was no message "𝐈 𝐚𝐦" and also there was no world. Instantly, the message "𝐈 𝐚𝐦" and this magnificent world materialized out of "𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠"! How amazing! This message "𝐈 𝐚𝐦" is nothing other than the advertisement of the Eternal Truth. Similarly, the names, titles and forms of sages, seers and M? 

Just ponder on this. A lifeless puny ant was lying on the ground, almost invisible. While I looked at it, it showed signs of life and all of a sudden, a formidable lion emerged out of it! How can I take such a lion as real? On similar reckoning, how can I take the world as real? All this creation and that which is called God are worshipped, but since when? That God emanated from the fluid energy and assumed a form. Though it is honoured and revered, it is the product of spit. Is it not? Prior to my assuming a body form, I had no information as to who or from when or where I was. But the moment my guru aroused me with a call, everything was revealed. 

This beingness of mine, the experiential state, is mean, low and despicable. The tiny ant referred to earlier was nearly dead. It had a fluid form, as a result of emission. Out of its wetness and fluid energy sprang the lion. This fluid was nothing but something like spit. Out of the same fluid energy, a body form assumed a shape and it turned out to be a dwelling-place for the beingness; that is the state of "love to be." For that matter, whatever is created has the wetness of self-love, the "love to be," as its basis. 

The very wetness is also capable of manifesting itself into the entire movable and immovable world! In the body dwells the fluid energy and in the fluid energy dwells a latent body. This fluid energy is ethereal, subtle and most potent!

~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj