Nisargadatta and the Painter
Nisargadatta Maharaj Visitor: I am a painter, and I earn my money by painting pictures. Has it any value from the spiritual point of view? Maharaj:' When you paint, what do you think about? " V: When I paint, there is only the painting and myself. M:" What are you doing there? " V: I paint. M:" No, you don't. You see the painting going on. You are watching only, all else happens. " V: The picture is painting itself? Or, is there some deeper 'me', or some God who is painting? M:" Consciousness itself is the greatest painter. The entire world is a picture. " V Who painted the picture of the world? M:" The painter is in the picture. " V: The picture is in the mind of the painter and the painter is in the picture, which is in the mind of the painter, who is in the picture! Is not this infinity of states and dimension absurd? The moment we talk of a picture in the mind, which itself is in the picture, we come to an endless succ...