The natural state...

You will recognize that you have returned to your

natural state by a complete absence of all desire

and fear.

After all, at the root of all desire and

fear is the feeling of not being what you are.

Just

as a dislocated joint pains only as long as it is out

of shape, and is forgotten as soon as it is set

right, so is all self-concern a symptom of mental

distortion which disappears as soon as one is in

the normal state.


Nisargadatta