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    Wisdom to Reach the Eternal. The Keys of the Nisargadatta Maharaj's Teaching
    Wisdom to Reach the Eternal. The Keys of the Nisargadatta Maharaj's Teaching
    Wisdom to Reach the Eternal. The Keys of the Nisargadatta Maharaj's Teaching
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    Wisdom to Reach the Eternal. The Keys of the Nisargadatta Maharaj's Teaching

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    That man with piercing eyes sold cigarettes to earn his living. He lived in a poor neighborhood of Bombay. Nothing indicated that, in the attic of his house, that man imparted a Supreme teaching. Some rare people used to go to hear him, only those interested in scrutinizing the mysteries of existence. They called him Nisargadatta Maharaj. At first glance he seemed a normal man, like the rest of his neighbors. Yet appearances deceive. Pleasure or pain, joy or misery, nothing could reach him. He had penetrated the Absolute, the Unborn, that which has no beginning or end, which is always present and is witness to all. He had left what is false, and no longer had the slightest implication in the mundane. His legacy is present, his teaching is available to anyone: the way to Eternity, the end of the problems and miseries of life. Only a few chosen people, thirsty for the transcendent, will stop to drink at his source. Everyone else, intoxicated by the pleasures of life at the same time that crushed by its miseries, will continue thirsty.

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    PublisherMiguel Amez Alonso
    Release dateDec 5, 2017
    ISBN9781370968510
    Wisdom to Reach the Eternal. The Keys of the Nisargadatta Maharaj's Teaching
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    Miguel Amez Alonso

    Miguel Amez Alonso (Pola de Laviana, Asturias) descubrió las enseñanzas de Nisargadatta y puso en práctica los consejos del maestro, trascendiendo el mero entendimiento intelectual de las mismas. Su obra "Sabiduría para alcanzar lo Eterno: las claves de la enseñanza de Nisargadatta Maharaj", sintetiza las claves del mensaje de eternidad que transmitió uno de los más grandes maestros espirituales de todos los tiempos.

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      Wisdom to Reach the Eternal. The Keys of the Nisargadatta Maharaj's Teaching - Miguel Amez Alonso

      WISDOM

      TO REACH

      THE ETERNAL

      THE KEYS OF THE NISARGADATTA

      MAHARAJ’S TEACHING

      MIGUEL AMEZ ALONSO

      Original Title: Sabiduría para alcanzar lo Eterno. Las claves de la enseñanza de Nisargadatta Maharaj

      © 2016, Miguel Amez Alonso

      Original edition

      © 2017, Miguel Amez Alonso

      Edition translated into english

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the author.

      Contact the author:

      e-mail: info@alcanzarloeterno.com

      Cover photo: www.pixabay.com

      To Rodrigo, to Bibi and to Rosita.

      The most beautiful manifestations of the Absolute.

      That sage achieves peace whom approaching of kinds of enjoyable sense objects remains unaffected, like unto the ocean being always being filled by approaching rivers and not that person desirous of sense enjoyment .That person attains peace who giving up all material desires for sense gratification lives free from attachment, free from false ego and sense of proprietorship.

      Bhagavad Gita¹, Chapter II, 70-71

      That man with piercing eyes sold cigarettes to earn his living. He lived in a poor neighborhood of Bombay. Nothing indicated that, in the attic of his house, that man imparted a Supreme teaching. Some rare people used to go to hear him, only those interested in scrutinizing the mysteries of existence. They called him Nisargadatta Maharaj. At first glance he seemed a normal man, like the rest of his neighbors. Yet appearances deceive. Pleasure or pain, joy or misery, nothing could reach him. He had penetrated the Absolute, the Unborn, that which has no beginning or end, which is always present and is witness to all. He had left what is false, and no longer had the slightest implication in the mundane. His legacy is present, his teaching is available to anyone: the way to Eternity, the end of the problems and miseries of life. Only a few chosen people, thirsty for the transcendent, will stop to drink at his source. Everyone else, intoxicated by the pleasures of life at the same time that crushed by its miseries, will continue thirsty.

      Miguel Amez

      CONTENTS

      Preface

      1. I am, the illusion that gives rise to the world

      Without I am there is no world

      You were always in the Absolute state, without knowing it

      The cigarette lighter

      2. The I am the body idea, the great trap

      The person is a concept, it is unreal

      Misery began with the arrival of the body

      The wise pariah

      3. The path to the Absolute: abiding in the I am

      The master key

      The I Amness: entrance and exit door

      The full cup

      The best advise

      The temptation of the miraculous: road to perdition

      4. You are unborn

      The lion who believes he was a sheep

      False self-identification

      The state prior to the conception of the body

      5. What is not born cannot die

      Your body is short of time, not you

      The death of the body does not affect your true nature

      Dying to the world

      6. Any experience is an illusion

      Experiences come and go. You remain unchanged

      The movie ends. The screen remains

      The dove and the rose

      7. The Absolute is the true peace and happiness

      The world cannot give you what it does not have

      Freedom is not to desire

      Looking for what we have never lost

      8. Remember: you are not the doer

      Luggage on the head

      From doer to witness

      The rooster that made the sun rise

      9. All your problems are unreal

      Just being

      A house full of mice

      The Absolute has no problems

      You are dreaming

      10. Portrait of a jnani

      The jnani is not a person

      The mirror

      The satisfied fisherman

      The monk and the general

      11. The world of Nisargadatta

      The phone call

      Do not ignore your peace

      The key of the palace

      12. The void filled to the brim

      Holding on to the right rope

      Faith in the Guru

      The signpost

      The Nothingness is full

      Glossary

      Bibliography

      Preface

      Nisargadatta Maharaj (April 17, 1897, Bombay, India – September 8, 1981, Bombay, India), is considered one of the most prominent masters of Advaita Vedanta². Nisargadatta, who had spiritual concerns, led a normal life until one day, when he was 35, a friend took him to visit the one who would be his Guru: Siddha Rameshuar Maharás. This encounter changed everything. Three years later his Guru died, but the teachings that Nisargadatta had received from him would be definitive, taking him to reach spiritual enlightenment when he was 37. Thereafter he lived a simple life. Once his son could take charge of the familiar business, a shop of bidis (handmade Indian cigarettes), Nisargadatta spent most of the time (usually mornings and afternoons) in transmitting his supreme knowledge to all those interested in reaching the Absolute. He never talked about mundane aspects nor answered questions related to banalities such as physical or mental well being, or material gains. His advices are aimed to reach the most transcendent. I think finding his teachings is to find the most valuable and precious treasure. His advice dynamites everything that does not work, all that keeps us prisoners of the illusion: the strange and alien to our true nature, the illusory and superfluous. The death of the physical body is seen now as what it actually is: merely the shadow of a bad dream, something unreal. The world, with its show of lights and shadows, with its constant illusion, no longer fascinates, once it is unmask and is discovered what it really is: a mirage. It would have been a luxury to have met in person to Nisargadatta, to have had the opportunity of being present in some of their satsang ³. But it is not less luxury to have the opportunity to come closer to his doctrine and his talks through the books written by his disciples and followers.

      This book is my humble tribute to the Satgurú⁴, to the Absolute revealing its secrets through its manifestation in a human body: the body of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. I will talk about their most fundamental advice, on which he insisted more, and I will add to my comments some of his sentences, which do not leave anyone indifferent. I do not intend to explain the teachings of Nisargadatta, because he explained better than anybody else what has to be understood, and how to reach it, breaking into a thousand pieces the veils of illusion and ignorance in all those who approach firmly to his teaching. Different words will be used throughout this book to designate the Absolute: the Eternal, the Ineffable, the Unlimited, the Self, the Real, our true nature…They are different ways of referring to what cannot be described with words and is beyond any concept or idea, whichwe have never ceased to be, which we are always but that, paradoxically, we have forgotten and that remains veiled by the phenomenal, the so-called world.

      For those who are not familiar with the teachings of Advaita Vedanta in general, and of Nisargadatta Maharaj (N. M.) in particular, the reading of this book can be traumatic or releasing, heretical or enlightening, inadmissible or hopeful, everything will depend on the maturity of the readers and on their willingness to see the reality as it is. This book will certainly be difficult to assimilate for all those who have put all their hopes in the material, physical and tangible world. The teachings (not theories) exposed here will break all the schemas of those who consider themselves as people in a world, subject to birth and death. All the concepts, theories, ideas, dreams and fears that the reader may have will be reduced to ashes, except for those readers that think they know everything, and consider the contents of this book a

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