Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj – författare

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."From the Trade Paperback edition.

Nach dem Erfolg von "Ich Bin" nun endlich das wohl noch wichtigere und detailliertere Buch in deutscher Sprache von einem der großen Erleuchteten unserer Zeit. Maharaj selber sagte zu diesem Buch, dass es "Ich bin" in vielen Punkten vertieft, ergänzt aber auch darüber hinaus geht. Advaita-Lehre pur und at its best!

Nisargadatta Maharaj pasó casi cincuenta años de su vida compartiendo sus enseñanzas con todos los buscadores espirituales que se acercaban a su pequeño piso en una estrecha callejuela de Bombay. Él respondía a todas las preguntas y dudas teniendo en cuenta la capacidad y el estado mental de su interlocutor.Este libro es un registro directo de sus enseñanzas. Se presentan aquí en forma de Nirupanas, es decir, pasajes o textos para la meditación. Sus palabras pretenden destruir nuestros mecanismos de defensa para dejar al desnudo el núcleo más íntimo de nuestro ser.Se trata de meditaciones que proceden directamente de la experiencia de un maestro iluminado y que fueron expresadas espontáneamente. Un testimonio único de uno de los grandes místicos de nuestro tiempo.Suresh Mehta ha realizado la labor de edición a partir del material original en lengua marathi.