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The Last Days: Last Teachings
Ch. 56 from "Pointers from Nisargadatta Maharaj" by Ramesh S. Balsekar 
Dark and dismal clouds overhung the horizon and there was the distant rumbling of thunder and lightning. We knew the storm was coming — the inexorable
nality, the relentless leveller who holds nothing as sacrosanct.Our beloved Master's vitals had been consumed by cancer and we knew his frail body  would fall soon, perhaps sooner than we feared. But we were afraid of showing our fear to him for he would be hurt to
nd that his teaching was wasted on us. He had taught us that human beings were mere conceptual forms, no more real than dream-
gures, that it is only the body that is subject to birth and death and not the self, which is not only ageless but birthless and deathless. And he was the Supreme Self. Yes, we knew all this, and yet at the prospect of his passing away we had started feeling like orphans, for we loved him too! It was di
cult to rise above the human feelings and failings!During his last days — from May-June to 8 September, 1981, when he dropped his mortal coil, his body had visibly withered day after day, but his spirit remained indomitable till the end. He continued to talk, though in a weak voice, with inherent authority, and at his mere word, as it were, the listeners' illusions and delusions shrivelled.I give below verbal cameos from some of his talks during these last days. He could not
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speak for long; he had to be brief, but whatever he said was seminal in nature and a sort of catalyst for the listeners. It was the Great Beyond speaking, not a frail old man in the clutches of death!For over a fortnight now 
 
— June 1981
 
 
Maharaj has not been able to talk to visitors  with his old zest. At the insistent request from many of us he has agreed to limit the discourses to a half hour, and it is just as well that he has done so, because even thirty minutes of talking has been exhausting him physically so much that he is unable to sit up thereafter.Maharaj's words, though fewer, are more pregnant now. He has been saying that his physical weakness prevents him from elaborating what he wants to convey. He adds that this is a sort of blessing in disguise because the listeners would now have to pay greater attention to what he says, without letting their mind wander about much. Also they  would do a certain amount of thinking for themselves!Many of the visitors, in view of the extremely weak physical condition of the Master, now restrict their questioning to a minimum, even though Maharaj presses them to get their di
culties cleared up. "
ere's so little time now," he says.
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One morning, one of the regular visitors, perhaps with a view to keep Maharaj's mind away from his physical su
ff 
ering, started talking on various matters and asking rather super
cial questions. Maharaj, of course, was quick to see through the device and sat erect in his easychair. I know what you are trying to do, he said, but you forget that I am not what you think I am. I do not su
ff 
er; I cannot su
ff 
er because I am not an object. Of course there is su
ff 
ering. But do you realize what this su
ff 
ering is ?
I am the su 
 ff  
ering.
  Whatever is manifested, I am the functioning. Whatever is perceptible I am the perceiving of it. Whatever is done I am the doing of it; I am the doer of it, and, understand this, I am also that which is done. In fact,
I am the total functioning 
.If you have apperceived this, you need to know no more.
is is the Truth. But the meaningful word is 'apperceived'. What I have said I have said for myself. But if you have apperceived this, you too can say the same thing. You and I are not two, but the same Absolute Unicity.
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If this apperception prevails, you could not possibly have any quarrel with anyone,  whatever he does or does not do. Why? Because you will then have realized that whatever happens is part of the general functioning in consciousness and that no phenomenal object (which is in e
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ect merely an appearance in someone else's consciousness) can possible have any independence of existence or volition of action. Ponder over this deeply.
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 Another morning, Maharaj sat half-reclined in his bed, with his eyes closed. Visitors had arrived one by one and had quietly taken their seats. Seeing the Master resting, they sat in meditation with their eyes closed. It is astonishing how easy it is to go into the state of the 'fasting' mind in the Master's presence. Suddenly, Maharaj started speaking though in a very weak voice. You people come here wanting something. What you want may be knowledge with a capital 'K'
 
 
the highest Truth
 
 
but nonetheless you do want something. Most of you have been coming here for quite some time. Why ? If there had been apperception of  what I have been saying, you should have stopped coming here long ago! But what actually has been happening is that you have been coming here day after day, identi
ed as individual beings, male or female, with several persons and things you call 'mine'.  Also, you think you have been coming here, of your own volition, to see another individual
 
 
a Guru
 
 
 who, you expect, will give you 'liberation' from your 'bondage'.Do you not see how ridiculous all this is? Your coming here day after day only shows that you are not prepared to accept my word that there is no such thing as an 'individual'; that the 'individual' is nothing but an appearance; that an appearance cannot have any 'bondage' and, therefore, there is no question of any 'liberation' for an appearance.Do you even now realize that if the very basis of your seeking is wrong, what can you achieve? Indeed, is there anything to be achieved? By whom? By an appearance?
is is not all. Whatever I say is being tape-recorded by some people; some others take down their own notes. For what purpose? To make the conditioning even more powerful ? Do you not realize that there never has been any question of 'who'? Whatever has happened (if at all anything has happened) has been spontaneous.
ere never has been any room for an individual in the totality of manifestation; all the functioning is at
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