Gifts With No Giver: A Love Affair With Truth
By Nirmala
I have fallen in love with the truth
I only want to be with her
I can not stand to be apart
I would gladly go to the ends of the earth
or I would never again move from this spot
just to be sure to inhale her fragrant perfume
with my dying breath
I have fallen in love with the truth
her every wish my command
I must obey
for she has captured my soul
and taken complete control
of even my innermost thoughts
freeing me to find repose
in her unadorned splendour
I have fallen in love with the truth
with exquisite tenderness, she shows me
the perfection in my every flaw
There is no need for pretense
for she knows everything about me
and yet takes me in her arms
with complete abandon…
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Biography.
Born—The United States. Who are you? Are you your body, mind, and personality? Or are you the spacious awareness in which they appear? Questions like these point us to the infinite Presence, the trustworthy source of peace, happiness, and fulfilment. Nirmala is a spiritual teacher in the Advaita tradition of nondual wisdom and the author of several engaging and practical books about our spiritual nature.
“The beauty of this collection of Nirmala’s talks and dialogues is that it covers much of the spectrum of spiritual awakening, from the initial experience of one’s true nature to the practical challenges, which always call for a deeper seeing and deeper understanding of how spirit manifests as all of life and beyond. Within these talks and dialogues, you, the reader, will find Nirmala a living invitation to look within. Nirmala welcomes whatever arises within the field of experience. Amid this, welcoming is always an invitation to inquire deeply within, to the core of who and what you are. Again and again, Nirmala points the questions back to the questioner and beyond to the very source of existence itself–to the faceless awareness that holds both the question and the questioner in a timeless embrace.” -from the Foreword by Adyashanti to Nirmala’s book, Nothing Personal
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