Nisargadatta Maharaj quotes - page 2

(...) As it is natural for the incense stick to burn out, so it is natural for the body to die. Really, it is a matter of very little importance. What matters is that I am neither the body nor the mind. I am. (Nisargadatta Maharaj)
One thing is quite clear to me; all that is, lives and moves and has its being in consciousness and I am in and beyond that consciousness. (...) View quote
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Everything is subjective, but the real is objective. (...) It does not depend on memories and expectations, desires and fears, likes and dislikes. All is seen as it is. (...) It is solid, steady, changeless, beginningless and endless, ever new, ever fresh. (...) Desirelessness and fearlessness will take you there. View quote
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Meditation will help you to find your bonds, loosen them, untie them, and cast your moorings. When you are no longer attached to anything, you have done your share. The rest will be done for you. (...) By the same power that brought you so far, that prompted your heart to desire truth and your mind to seek it. It is the same power that keeps you alive. You may call it Life or the Supreme. View quote
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(...) Can there be renewal without death? Even the darkness of sleep is refreshing and rejuvenating. Without death we would have been bogged for ever in eternal senility. (...) When life and death are seen as essential to each other, as two aspects of one being, that is immortality. (...). View quote
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(...) Those who make plans will be born to carry them out. Those who make no plans need not be born. View quote
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(...) as long as you cling to the idea that only what has name and shape exists, the Supreme will appear to you non-existing. When you understand that names and shapes are hollow shells without any content whatsoever, and what is real is nameless and formless, pure energy of life and light of consciousness, you will be at peace – immersed in the deep silence of reality. View quote
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(...) To the Self the world is but a colourful show, which he enjoys as long as it lasts and forgets when it is over. Whatever happens on the stage makes him shudder in terror or roll with laughter, yet all the time he is aware that it is but a show. Without desire or fear he enjoys it, as it happens. View quote
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(...) Sin and virtue refer to a person only. Without a sinful or virtuous person what is sin or virtue? At the level of the absolute there are no persons; the ocean of pure awareness is neither virtuous nor sinful. Sin and virtue are invariably relative. View quote
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(...) Desire what is worth desiring and desire it well. Just like you pick your way in a crowd, passing between people, so you find your way between events, without missing your general direction. It is easy, if you are earnest. View quote
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(The gnani) "(...) tastes of the pure, uncaused, undiluted bliss. He is happy and fully aware that happiness is his very nature and that he need not do anything, nor strive for anything to secure it. It follows him, more real than the body, nearer than the mind itself. (...)." (Nisargadatta Maharaj)
As he (the gnani) gets older he grows more and more happy and peaceful. After all, he is going home. Like a traveller nearing his destination and collecting his luggage, he leaves the train without regret. (...) The mist of bodily existence is lifting – the burden of the body is growing less from day to day. (...) Every sensation is contemplated in perfect equanimity. There is no desire for it, nor refusal. It is as it is and he looks at it with a smile of affectionate detachment. (...) He is alone, but he is all. He is not even a being. He is the beingness of all beings. (...). View quote
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(...) Just like a deficiency disease is cured through the supply of the missing factor, so are the diseases of living cured by a good dose of intelligent detachment (viveka-vairagya). View quote
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People are afraid to die, because they do not know what is death. The gnani has died before his death, he saw that there was nothing to be afraid of. The moment you know your real being, you are afraid of nothing. Death gives freedom and power. (...) The happiness of being absolutely free is beyond description. (...). View quote
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The source of consciousness cannot be the object in consciousness. To know the source is to be the source. When you realize that you are not the person, but the pure and calm witness, and that fearless awareness is your very being, you are the being. (...) View quote
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(...) Watch your mind, how it comes into being, how it operates. As you watch your mind, you discover your self as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover your self as the light behind the watcher. (...). View quote
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(...) Pain and suffering are only the body and the mind screaming for attention. To go beyond the body you must be healthy; to go beyond the mind, you must have your mind in perfect order. (...). View quote
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God is only an idea in your mind. The fact is you. The only thing you know for sure is: ‘here and now I am.' Remove the 'here and now' the ‘I am' remains, unassailable. (...). All I can say truly is: ‘I am,' all else is inference (...). The sense ‘I am' is the manifestation of a deeper cause, which you may call self, God, Reality or by any other name. (...). View quote
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The gnani is afraid of nothing. But he pities the man who is afraid. After all, to be born, to live and to die is natural. To be afraid is not. (...). View quote
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(...) Theories are neither right nor wrong. They are attempts at explaining the inexplicable. It is not the theory that matters, but the way it is being tested. (...) Experiment with any theory you like – if you are truly earnest and honest, the attainment of reality will be yours. (...) It is the earnestness that liberates and not the theory. View quote
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(...) if you can change yourself you will find that no other change is needed. To change the picture you merely change the film, you do not attack the cinema screen! (...) Clarify your mind, purify your heart, sanctify your life – this is the quickest way to a change of your world. (Nisargadatta Maharaj)
(...) I am all and all is me. Being the world I am not afraid of the world. Being all, what am I to be afraid of? Water is not afraid of water, nor fire of fire. (...) It is attachment to a name and shape that breeds fear. I am not attached. I am nothing, and nothing is not afraid of no thing. On the contrary, everything is afraid of the Nothing, for when a thing touches Nothing, it becomes nothing. (...) View quote
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You will receive everything you need when you stop asking for what you do not need. View quote
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(...) It is like taking food. All you can do is to bite off, chew and swallow. All else is unconscious and automatic. Listen, remember and understand – the mind is both the actor and the stage. All is of the mind and you are not the mind. (...). View quote
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Your mind projects a structure and you identify yourself with it. It is in the nature of desire to prompt the mind to create a world for its fulfillment. Even a small desire can start a long line of action; what about a strong desire? Desire can produce a universe; its powers are miraculous. Just as a small matchstick can set a huge forest on fire, so does a desire light the fires of manifestation. (...) View quote
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