On Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj: Pleasures of consciousness vs pleasures of the body

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

Throw out concepts like: ‘I have become virtuous’ or ‘I am a sinner’.

What is the entity that senses this?

Body-consciousness will not lose its grasp on you with the thought that your well-being is the result of some spiritual activity.

All you need is to keep observing yourself.

Do not befriend anything that is visible to you.

If you have to act at all, do only this: please your consciousness.

It is very merciful. It will show you all that is, directly.

~ Sri Nisargdatta Maharaj

Questioner: Acharya Ji, Pranaam! How is it possible to please the consciousness without getting pleased in turn? Moreover, the sense of correlation between spiritual activity like listening to talks and reading spiritual books, and the…