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| The Ultimate Medicine: Dialogues with a Realized Master | 
 enlarge | Author: Nisargadatta Sri Maharaj
Creators: Peter Madill, Robert Powell
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
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Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.6
ISBN: 1556436335
Dewey Decimal Number: 294.544
EAN: 9781556436338
ASIN: 1556436335
Publication Date: September 28, 2006
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 Cutting to the core! March 11, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Ultimate Medicine, Dialogues with a Realized Master, is Nisargadatta Maharaj in the final years of his life.
His earlier work, I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, is a classic and the core message of Advaita Vedanta. The Ultimate Medicine continues where I Am That leaves off, cutting to the core of the message.
Nisargadatta points directly at that I AM prior to thoughts, prior to the experience and idea of being a "person". His illness took away the patience to deal with the normal "spiritual" questions and forced the "seeker" to look straight in the direction of the looker, the witness, THAT which IS, the ACTUALITY of timeless being.
Most find the words of Nisargadatta difficult to understand - this is because the mind is utilized - isn't this the normal way of trying to attain, trying to add to the knowledge and wisdom to "get it"?
Nisargadatta would say that what you're seeking already IS, already is witnessing the very concept of a questioner. See the false as the false, the rest is irrelevant.
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randall
http://avastu0.blogspot.com
The key to Self-Realistaion through knowledge March 20, 2007
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Unlike the first book produced on Nisargadatta, "I AM THAT" which was stripped bare of all religious trappings, the discussions recorded in "The Ultimate Medicine" between Nisargadatta and his visitors have many more references to Hindu terminology and concepts. I would therefore recommend that anyone new to Nisragadatta's teachings begin with "I AM THAT".
Something I found very interesting in this book were the discussions that centered around one understanding one's birth, which is not really discussed in "I AM THAT". Nisargadatta says several times that alöl will be clear when one can, underrstand, experientially, (through meditation), how this consciousness came about, how birth came about.
The book was written shortly before Nisargadatta died from cancer, and he was suffering from the illness at during these recordings. His comments concerning this illness are also something to ponder over.
This is really a unique and important book, and anyone who seeks enlightenment through *knowledge* should look at this and Nisargadatta's other books. You won't find these ideas more clearly expressed anywhere else.
Nisargadatta was a unique teacher, and we're fortunate indeed to have his teachings available in book form like this.
 More Dialogues about Self January 21, 2006
8 out of 27 found this review helpful
After reading I AM THAT, I expected (based on readers' reviews) this book to be less tedious and more for advanced "seekers". I was disappointed. Maharaji gives us more detailed dialogues about who we really are. We are SPIRIT, not a body. He explains that consciousness comes into the body on birth and exits the body on "death". He tells us death is an illusion. In a nutshell, anything that is not REAL (eternal) does not come from God. Thus the body is an illusion because it does not last forever. If we identify with our real (eternal) Self, our desires leave us and we experience bliss. All of this could have been printed on one page. Many of the dialogues are convoluted and lack punch. Compare with Ramana Maharshi, who says you don't have to do anything, just be your Self. OK, easier said than done, because once we start working on being our Self, the ego takes over, we begin serious meditation, chanting, singing, and whatever. What a waste of time! The trick is, to kill the ego. This is not simple. If you study Ramakrishma, he tells us to love God. If we love God, all else is pushed aside, we become purified. To paraphrase the COURSE IN MIRACLES, as we get closer to God, He helps us by taking the final step.
Beyond Consciousness November 16, 2005
27 out of 27 found this review helpful
This book is a collection of some of the later question and answer sessions between Sri Nisargadatta and visitors from around the world. After finishing `I Am That' I read this book. There is a noticeable difference between the words of Nisargadatta in the two books. `I Am That' is unquestionably the better of the books, and the pinnacle of Maharaj's teachings.
During His earlier days, Maharaj was eager to teach, and would continually answer beginners questions. In this book, which collects talks during which He was ill and close to death (the body's death), he stated that he no longer desired to teach, and was a little intolerant of beginners unfamiliar with the basics of his teachings. So this book deals with some of Nisargadatta's more advanced teachings.
Maharaj in this book talks about the necessity of understanding your own incarnation, and what you were before the body was born. He talks about the interdependence of the vital breath and consciousness, stating that both consciousness and the sense of `I-Am-Ness' are dependent on the body. This book gave me a better understanding of the principle method taught by Sri Nisargadatta, which is holding onto the sense of `I Am.' He taught that this method will lead to the realization that you are not the body, but consciousness. However, He also said that this isn't the Ultimate, and that even the association with consciousness has to be given up eventually. If I understand correctly, realizing that you are consciousness is Brahman, and when this is realized you become the totality of manifestation. But the Ultimate, Parabrahman, is the witness of the Brahman and the full and final enlightenment. All of this is elucidated in `The Ultimate Medicine.'
So, while not the monumental work that `I Am That' is, this book is still very worth reading, especially if you want to go deeper, and read some of the more advanced teachings by this great Master, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.
 This is the truth are you prepared? September 7, 2005
15 out of 22 found this review helpful
This book comes out of the twilight years of Nisargadatta. As some of the other reviewers made mention, there is no sugar-coating here. In fact, I will tell you right here and now all you have to know to understand Advaita, the rest is fluff (really)...You are awareness itself. Bang. That's it, the whole ball of wax. If you understand this, you understand all. In fact there is no need to read endlessly, endlessly, endlessly. You are not the body, nor the mind, you are aware of such things, and That gentle reader is what you are. This book lays it on the line. Everything he says points to this fact. Everything that happens in awareness is merely a play. There is good and there is evil -apparently - so play your role well - and purchase this book for the details. P.S. Oh by the way, your true nature - awareness - is that of bliss (love!) so don't worry, O.K.
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