Friday, August 23, 2019

Is there an eternal soul?

Chapter 5 of I am That  by Nisargadatta Maharaj addresses this question

Questioner: Is the witness-consciousness permanent or not?

Maharaj: It is not permanent. The knower rises and sets with the known. That in which both the knower and the known arise and set, is beyond time. The words permanent or eternal do not apply.
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