The Supreme State...

The supreme state] is not perceivable, because it is what makes perception possible.

It is beyond being and not being.

It is neither the mirror nor the image in the mirror.

It is what is - the timeless reality, unbelievably hard and solid.

The timeless knows the time, the time does not know the timeless.

All consciousness is in time and to it the timeless appears as unconscious.

Yet, it is what makes consciousness possible.

Light shines in darkness.

In light darkness is not visible.

Or you can put it the other way: in the endless ocean of light, clouds of consciousness appear, dark and limited, perceivable by contrast.

There are mere attempts to express in words something very simple, yet altogether inexpressible.


-Nisargadatta Maharaj