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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 294.544
EAN num: 9781556436338
ISBN number: 1556436335
Label: North Atlantic Books
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Page Count: 240
Printing Date: September 28, 2006
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Release Date: September 28, 2006
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The Ultimate Medicine is not for those who like their spirituality watered down, but for serious students searching for awareness. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897-1981) lived and taught in a small apartment in the slums of Bombay. A realized master of the Tantric Nath lineage, he supported himself and his family by selling cheap goods in a small booth on the streets outside his tenement for many years. His life exemplified the concept of absolute nonduality of being. In this volume, Maharaj shares the highest truth of nonduality in his own unique way. His teaching style is abrupt, provocative, and immensely profound, cutting to the core and wasting little effort on inessentials. His terse but potent sayings are known for their ability to trigger shifts in consciousness, just by hearing or reading them.
'The point is that man freed from his fetters is morality personified. Such a man therefore does not need any moralistic injunctions in order to live righteously. Free a man from his bondage and thereafter everything else will take care of itself. On the other hand, man in his unredeemed state cannot possibly live morally, no matter what moral teaching he is given. It is an intrinsic impossibility, for his very foundation is immorality. That is, he lives a lie, a basic contradiction: functioning in all his relationships as the separate entity he believes himself to be, whereas in reality no such separation exists. His every action therefore does violence to other 'selves' and other 'creatures,' which are only manifestations of the unitary consciousness. So Society had to invent some restraints in order to protect itself from its own worst excesses and thereby maintain some kind of status quo. The resulting arbitrary rules, which vary with place and time and therefore are purely relative, it calls 'morality,' and by upholding this man-invented 'idea' as the highest good–oftentimes sanctioned by religious 'revelation' and scriptures–society has provided man with one more excuse to disregard the quest for liberation or relegate it to a fairly low priority in his scheme of things.'
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The Ultimate Medicine, Dialogues with a Realized Master, is Nisargadatta Maharaj in the final years of his life.
His earlier work, I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, is a classic and the core message of Advaita Vedanta. The Ultimate Medicine continues where I Am That leaves off, cutting to the core of the message.
Nisargadatta points directly at that I AM prior to thoughts, prior to the experience and idea of being a "person". His illness took away the patience to deal with the normal "spiritual" questions and forced the "seeker" to look straight in the direction of the looker, the witness, THAT which IS, the ACTUALITY of timeless being.
Most find the words of Nisargadatta difficult to understand - this is because the mind is utilized - isn't this the normal way of trying to attain, trying to add to the knowledge and wisdom to "get it"?
Nisargadatta would say that what you're seeking already IS, already is witnessing the very concept of a questioner. See the false as the false, the rest is irrelevant.
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randall
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Unlike the very first book produced on Nisargadatta, "I AM THAT" which was stripped bare of all religious trappings, the discussions recorded in "The Ultimate Medicine" between Nisargadatta and his visitors have many more references to Hindu terminology and concepts. I would therefore recommend that anyone new to Nisragadatta's teachings begin with "I AM THAT".
Something I found very interesting in this book were the discussions that centered around one understanding one's birth, which is not really discussed in "I AM THAT". Nisargadatta says several times that alöl will be clear when one can, underrstand, experientially, (through meditation), how this consciousness came about, how birth came about.
The book was written shortly before Nisargadatta died from cancer, and he was suffering from the illness at during these recordings. His comments concerning this illness are also something to ponder over.
This is really a unique and important book, and anyone who seeks enlightenment through *knowledge* should look at this and Nisargadatta's other books. You won't find these ideas more clearly expressed anywhere else.
Nisargadatta was a unique teacher, and we're fortunate indeed to have his teachings available in book form like this.
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After reading I AM THAT, I expected (based on readers' reviews) this book to be less tedious and more for advanced "seekers". I was disappointed. Maharaji gives us more detailed dialogues about who we really are. We are SPIRIT, not a body. He explains that consciousness comes into the body on birth and exits the body on "death". He tells us death is an illusion. In a nutshell, anything that is not REAL (eternal) does not come from God. Thus the body is an illusion because it does not last forever. If we identify with our real (eternal) Self, our desires leave us and we experience bliss. All of this could have been printed on one page. Many of the dialogues are convoluted and lack punch. Compare with Ramana Maharshi, who says you don't have to do anything, just be your Self. OK, easier said than done, because once we start working on being our Self, the ego takes over, we begin serious meditation, chanting, singing, and whatever. What a waste of time! The trick is, to kill the ego. This is not simple. If you study Ramakrishma, he tells us to love God. If we love God, all else is pushed aside, we become purified. To paraphrase the COURSE IN MIRACLES, as we get closer to God, He helps us by taking the final step.
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This book is a collection of some of the later question and answer sessions between Sri Nisargadatta and visitors from around the world. After finishing `I Am That' I read this book. There is a noticeable difference between the words of Nisargadatta in the two books. `I Am That' is unquestionably the better of the books, and the pinnacle of Maharaj's teachings.
During His earlier days, Maharaj was eager to teach, and would continually answer beginners questions. In this book, which collects talks during which He was ill and close to death (the body's death), he stated that he no longer desired to teach, and was a little intolerant of beginners unfamiliar with the basics of his teachings. So this book deals with some of Nisargadatta's more advanced teachings.
Maharaj in this book talks about the necessity of understanding your own incarnation, and what you were before the body was born. He talks about the interdependence of the vital breath and consciousness, stating that both consciousness and the sense of `I-Am-Ness' are dependent on the body. This book gave me a better understanding of the principle method taught by Sri Nisargadatta, which is holding onto the sense of `I Am.' He taught that this method will lead to the realization that you are not the body, but consciousness. However, He also said that this isn't the Ultimate, and that even the association with consciousness has to be given up eventually. If I understand correctly, realizing that you are consciousness is Brahman, and when this is realized you become the totality of manifestation. But the Ultimate, Parabrahman, is the witness of the Brahman and the full and final enlightenment. All of this is elucidated in `The Ultimate Medicine.'
So, while not the monumental work that `I Am That' is, this book is still very worth reading, especially if you want to go deeper, and read some of the more advanced teachings by this great Master, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.
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This book comes out of the twilight years of Nisargadatta. As some of the other reviewers made mention, there is no sugar-coating here. In fact, I will tell you right here and now all you have to know to understand Advaita, the rest is fluff (really)...You are awareness itself. Bang. That's it, the whole ball of wax. If you understand this, you understand all. In fact there is no need to read endlessly, endlessly, endlessly. You are not the body, nor the mind, you are aware of such things, and That gentle reader is what you are. This book lays it on the line. Everything he says points to this fact. Everything that happens in awareness is merely a play. There is good and there is evil -apparently - so play your role well - and purchase this book for the details. P.S. Oh by the way, your true nature - awareness - is that of bliss (love!) so don't worry, O.K.
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