It is the nature of the earth to return to you many times more than what you sow. When consumed, that becomes a part of you. What the earth returns after sowing the seeds, that becomes your food. From earth you get flowers, fruits and varieties of grains. She is always ready to give more and more. This rich wealth of the Self is always full with nectar and it is without any ‘I’ and ‘mine’. When you trust It, it becomes your own direct experience. In Nivruttinath is the eternal state of Sadguru. Thereafter the Universal Atman blesses the atman or consciousness to have contentment with this spiritual knowledge and to pass this on to the individual souls for their benefit. When one experiences the complete state of full bliss, one also gets conviction about the Self. Nivruttinath was Paramatma itself for him. With his Guru’s grace Jnaneshwar completed this work, which is a profound commentary on Self-knowledge. Sage Nivruttinath, the Guru of Sage Jnaneshwar, instructed him to translate Bhagavad Gita, the dialogue in Sanskrit between Shrikrishna and Arjuna, into Marathi language. Read moreĢ6 SEPTEMBER 1954 Nivruttinath is eternal Sadguru As a sidelight, these early talks are an interesting indication of the nature of Maharaj’s audience in the 1950s. Since the Source spoke through Maharaj, his talks were Self-tuned to the need and capacity of his listeners. They are also remarkable because they indicate how his Teaching intuitively evolved over the years. These earliest discourses of Nisargadatta Maharaj are noteworthy because they reveal a new facet of his teaching, including a deeper flavour of bhakti. These were then translated into English by Shri Mohan Gaitonde, Maharaj’s ‘evening’ translator, into the present work. These talks were first published in Marathi as ‘Sadguru Nisargadatta Maharaj Yanchi Durmil Nirupane’. He later shared these 45 discourses with his friend and Guru Bandhu Shri Dinkar Kshirsagar who edited them slightly, taking great care “not to add our own concepts to the text.” In 1954 Shankarrao Bajirao Dhaygude, one of Maharaj’s senior disciples, started noting down Maharaj’s discourses in their original language, Marathi. Just as you hear them, I too am their witness.’ Maharaj used to say, ‘I am not speaking these words they are coming from the Absolute.

A few years later the subject matter of his talks spontaneously broadened up and by mid-1950s Maharaj was speaking less about the scriptures and more from his direct experience. Initially he would speak on popular scriptures like Sage Eknath’s Bhagwat and Sage Ramdas’ Dasbodh.

Nisargadatta Maharaj started speaking sometime in the early 1950s.

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