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Prior to Consciousness
Prior to Consciousness: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The conversations of the last eighteen months, when the cancer was already advanced. The master shifts the emphasis from the "I am" to what precedes it: consciousness is a passing product of food and body, and the absolute does not know that it is. Many answers are dry and polemical; the book also shows how he received visitors and how he rejected practices turned into routine. Alongside I Am That, it is the most read book for knowing his mature teaching.
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Authorship note
Conversations from April 1980 to 1981 edited by Jean Dunn. Open Library records The Acorn Press (1985); Wikipedia, Grove Press.
Editions and translations
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English
Prior to Consciousness
Nesma Books India, 1999
ISBN 9788185300351
Prior to Consciousness
The Acorn Press, Durham, 1990
ISBN 0893860247
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Prior to Consciousness
The Conscious LibraryPrior to Consciousness
The Acorn Press, Durham, 1985
Primera edición, sin ISBN en el registro de Open Library.
Español
Antes de la consciencia
Sanz y Torres, Madrid, 2006
ISBN 9788496094970
Other works by Nisargadatta Maharaj
- Self Knowledge and Self Realisation · 1963
- I Am That · 1973
- Pointers from Nisargadatta Maharaj · 1982
- Seeds of Consciousness · 1982
- The Blissful Life · 1984
- The Nectar of the Lord's Feet · 1987
- The Ultimate Medicine · 1994
- Consciousness and the Absolute · 1994
- The Experience of Nothingness · 1996
- Atmasparsha (Marathi talks) · 1992
- The Wisdom-Teachings of Nisargadatta Maharaj: A Visual Journey · 2003
- Gleanings from Nisargadatta · 2006
- Beyond Freedom · 2007
- I Am Unborn · 2007
- The Nisargadatta Gita · 2008
- Meditations with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj · 2014
- Nothing is Everything · 2014
- Self-Love: The Original Dream · 2017
- The Earliest Discourses · 2020
- Amrutvarsha (Shower of Grace: Meditations with Shri Nisargadatta Maharaj)
Sources
- Nisargadatta Maharaj. Prior to Consciousness: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. Ed. Jean Dunn. Durham (Carolina del Norte): The Acorn Press, 1985; y Seeds of Consciousness, ed. Jean Dunn, Nueva York: Grove Press, 1982.
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