Question:
How is it that the question 'Who am I' attracts me little?
Maharaj:
If you have no problem of suffering and release from suffering, you will not find the energy and persistence needed for self-enquiry. You cannot manufacture a crisis. It must be genuine.
Question:
How does a genuine crisis happen?
Maharaj:
It happens every moment, but you are not alert enough. A shadow on your neighbor's face, the immense and all-pervading sorrow of existence is a constant factor in your life, but you refuse to take notice. You suffer and see others suffer, but you don't respond.
Question:
What you say is true, but what can I do about it? Such indeed is the situation. My helplessness and dullness are a part of it.
Maharaj:
Good enough. Look at yourself steadily -- it is enough. The door that locks you in, is also the door that lets you out. The 'I am' is the door. Stay at it until it opens. As a matter of fact, it is open, only you are not at it. You are waiting at the non-existent painted doors, which will never open.
From ""I am That"
Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj,
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