Voices of the Eternal – Nisargadatta Maharaj
- Sukhdev Virdee
- Jul 28
- 3 min read
I never met Nisargadatta Maharaj in the body.
But I meet him in Silence… every single day.
He didn’t sugarcoat it.
Didn’t entertain philosophical games.
Didn’t care about your spiritual résumé.
He spoke like fire.
Like someone who had nothing to prove, because he had dissolved entirely.
Just raw, uncompromising truth.
And in that intensity — that ferocity — was deep compassion.
No coddling.
Just freedom.
Who Was Nisargadatta?
A simple beedi seller from Mumbai.
A householder.
A man with a wife, children, a shop, and bills to pay.
And yet, out of that small room in Khetwadi Lane,
a thunderous voice rang out across the world:
“You are not the body.
You are not the mind.
You are the formless awareness in which both appear and disappear.”
That’s it.
Over and over.
He didn’t preach.
He pointed.
Straight to the heart of reality.
What Hit Me the Hardest
It wasn’t his words — although they are sharp, clear, and absolute.
It was his presence.
Even reading I Am That today, you don’t just hear his voice…
you feel the cutting away of all that’s false.
No story survives.
No excuse remains.
There’s just the naked awareness that you are.
Timeless.
Thoughtless.
Weightless.
The Day I Truly Heard Him
Years ago, I was wrestling with the classic Advaita dilemma:
“If I’m already the Self, why do I still suffer?”
Then I stumbled across this passage:
“Pain is physical. Suffering is mental. Beyond the mind, there is no suffering. Pain is merely a signal that the body is in danger and requires attention.”
And boom.
It clicked.
I had been trying to drag Awareness into my personal storyline —
but Maharaj was asking me to drop the story altogether.
Not improve the dream.
Wake up from it.
A Dialogue from the Beyond
Sometimes, late at night, I hear him.
Not literally, but like an energetic echo:
“Why do you insist you are not free?
Who told you this story?
Drop it.
Drop even the one who wants to drop it.”
His words aren’t for the faint-hearted.
They’re for the ones who are done.
Done with self-improvement.
Done with enlightenment as a goal.
Done with themselves.
What Maharaj Taught Me About ‘Sukhdev’
There is no Sukhdev.
Not really.
There’s just Consciousness playing dress-up — wearing a Kenyan-Indian face, speaking English, quoting Sanskrit, pretending to be someone.
All of it is the dance of appearances.
And yet… none of it touches Me.
Not the body.
Not the story.
Not the voice that says “I.”
I am the Seeing.
Just as you are.
The Gift He Left the World
Nisargadatta didn’t found a lineage.
He didn’t start a cult.
He didn’t leave behind temples or rituals.
He left behind Truth.
Raw.
Immediate.
Undeniable.
“The search for reality is the most dangerous of all undertakings,
for it will destroy the world you know.”
He wasn’t joking.
And yet… in that destruction,
a vast, unshakeable peace emerges.
A Word to the Seeker (From Both of Us)
You won’t find yourself in the mirror of time.
You won’t awaken by becoming better.
You awaken by letting go of the idea that you are someone who awakens.
Drop the seeker.
What remains is Reality —
silent, still, eternal.
This is what Nisargadatta points to.
Not a belief.
A direct Knowing —
as simple and obvious as your own existence.
You are.
Before the mind.
Before thought.
Before “me.”
That’s it.
That’s Home.
🤍 Download My Free Guide
The 5 Illusions That Keep You from Awakening – And The One Truth That Sets You Free
Cut through the noise. Return to the silent truth you already are.
🧘♂️ Book a 1:1 Session or Dive into the 8-Week Course
You’re not a seeker. You’re what the seeker is seeking.
📚 Explore My Books on Amazon
Words may point, but silence reveals.
Comentarios