Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
WIZARD: Ganesan spent a lot of time with Nisargadatta, and one
time he offered a tithing, and the tithing was accepted and
Nisargadatta didn't move from the scene or anything. But before
Ganesan left he stopped him and said, come back, and he handed
him a sealed envelope. And when he left the Satsang and he
opened it up it was this same exact amount of money that he had
offered [laughs].
NIRMALA: When you do operate this way, what you find is that
you're supported very well, and often in very mysterious ways that
have nothing to do with money.
WIZARD: Right on.
NIRMALA: Things show up, and I'm always amazed. I'll just have
an idle thought about something I might need or that would make
the work I do easier, and it will literally appear, out of the blue.
And then other things that I enjoy but that I don't really need,
they'll still just appear. So I live a strangely comfortable and even
at times luxurious life, yet when I actually look at my tax return at
the end of the year I have very little income. [Laughs]
TRIP: Hey, did you hear about the nonduality and science
conference in San Rafael?
NIRMALA: I did, I've been hearing about that for a couple of
years now.
TRIP: I think you should be a headliner there, man.
WIZARD: Yes, I do too.
TRIP: I think you'd be like the top dog, the alpha spiritual.
WIZARD: It was a lot of fun.
NIRMALA: I'm sure it was fun. I've been in a funny place with the
traveling. For the first 10, 11 years that I was teaching, I was
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