What process did nisargadatta want through ??

[Alex bliss]

What process did nisargadatta want through  in order to realize the true nature within 3 years ...here I'm already in 2 years and still feels like beginners... what am I doing wrong ...what did he actually practiced??? What type of self enquiry.....

[eputkonen]

1 hour ago, Alex bliss said:

What process did nisargadatta want through  in order to realize the true nature within 3 years ...here I'm already in 2 years and still feels like beginners... what am I doing wrong ...what did he actually practiced??? What type of self enquiry.....

The story is pretty well recounted in Wikipedia...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisargadatta_Maharaj

His guru told him, "You are not what you take yourself to be...".  Siddharameshwar initiated him into the Inchegiri Sampradaya, giving him meditation-instruction and a mantra, which he immediately began to recite. Siddharameshwar gave Nisargadatta instructions for self-enquiry which he followed verbatim, as he himself recounted later:

"My Guru ordered me to attend to the sense 'I am' and to give attention to nothing else. I just obeyed. I did not follow any particular course of breathing, or meditation, or study of scriptures. Whatever happened, I would turn away my attention from it and remain with the sense 'I am'. It may look too simple, even crude. My only reason for doing it was that my Guru told me so. Yet it worked!"

Following his guru's instructions to concentrate on the feeling "I Am", he used all his spare time looking at himself in silence, and remained in that state for the coming years, practicing meditation and singing devotional bhajans:

"My Guru told me: "...Go back to that state of pure being, where the ‘I am’ is still in its purity before it got contaminated with ‘I am this’ or ‘I am that.’ Your burden is of false self-identifications—abandon them all." My guru told me, "Trust me, I tell you: you are Divine. Take it as the absolute truth. Your joy is divine, your suffering is divine too. All comes from God. Remember it always. You are God, your will alone is done." I did believe him and soon realized how wonderfully true and accurate were his words. I did not condition my mind by thinking, "I am God, I am wonderful, I am beyond." I simply followed his instruction, which was to focus the mind on pure being, "I am," and stay in it. I used to sit for hours together, with nothing but the "I am" in my mind and soon the peace and joy and deep all-embracing love became my normal state. In it all disappeared—myself, my guru, the life I lived, the world around me. Only peace remained, and unfathomable silence. (I Am That, Dialogue 51, April 16, 1971).

 

[SriBhagwanYogi]

 

something like this, this guy reads / knows a lot of Nisargadatta a

 

[Petals]

@Alex bliss I read it somewhere and I could also recognize in one of his answers that he was already highly advanced before he met his guru.

So he was very advanced and he met a genuine guru who knew exactly what Nisargadatta had to hear. That's a great recipe for awakening.

So try not to compare yourself with him and, as Nisargadatta would say, 'earnestness' will get you there too.

Edited September 24, 2019 by Petals