From “I Am That Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj”

Chapter 72: What is Pure, Unalloyed, Unattached is Real

Questioner: Is it not natural to be active?

Maharaj: Everybody wants to be active, but where do his actions originate? There is no central point: each action begets another, meaninglessly and painfully, in endless succession. The alternation of work and pause is not there. First find the immutable center where all movement takes birth. Just like a wheel turns round an axle, so must you always be at the axle in the center and not whirling at the periphery.

© 1973 by Nisargadatta Maharaj