Nisagardatta On Self-Inquiry

By Leo Gura - July 4, 2025

Very direct self-inquiry instructions. Cuts through all the fluff and BS.

Use this to ground and focus your inquiry.

Note: The way Nisagardatta uses the terms “consciousness”, “awareness”, “Self”, and “absolute” is different from how I use them, so don’t ask me about that. I have a different framework but what he says is still useful.

The essence of Nisagardatta’s method is to focus like a motherfucker on your sense of I-AM-ness until all sensory experience is penetrated and Nothingness is realized. You must focus on your sense of I-AM-ness for crazy amounts of time. It will not work focusing on it for a few hours. You must focus on it for a few weeks non-stop. The reason your inquiry is failing is because you aren’t doing it for weeks at a time. You wonder why you don’t get results. That is why. You have to sit and focus on I-AM-ness for so long that it kills your mind. Which, of course, your mind will never tolerate, so it creates clever distractions and excuses.

If you want to do some serious spiritual work and cut all the bullshit, create a space of 2-weeks where you do nothing but sit and focus on I-AM-ness nonstop. If you’re not planning this, you aren’t serious about this work.

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