Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Quotes

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• Know yourself to be the changeless witness of the changeful mind. That is enough.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Mind, Enough, Know Yourself

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• Instead of searching for what you do not have, find out what it is that you have never lost.

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  Lost

  "I Am That" by Nisargadatta Maharaj, p. 144, 1973.

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• Once you realize that the world is your own projection, you are free of it. You need not free yourself of a world that does not exist, except in your own imagination! However is the picture, beautiful or ugly, you are painting it and you are not bound by it. Realize that there is nobody to force it on you, that it is due to the habit of taking the imaginary to be real. See the imaginary as imaginary and be free of fear.

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  Beautiful, Fear, Real

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• When I look inside and see that I'm nothing, that's wisdom. When I look outside and see that I'm everything, that's love. And between these two, my life turns.

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  Love, Inspirational, Wisdom

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• Realize that your world is only a reflection of yourself and stop finding fault with the reflection. Attend to yourself, set yourself right; mentally and emotionally. The physical self will follow automatically.

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  Reflection, Self, World

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• Shift your attention from words to silence and you will hear.

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  Silence, Attention

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• To know that you are a prisoner of your mind is the dawn of wisdom.

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  Mind, Dawn, Prisoner

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• It is not what you do, but what you stop doing that matters.

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  Matter

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• If you seek reality you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling. Even the idea of being man or woman, or even human should be discarded. The ocean of life contains all, not only humans. So, first of all abandon all self-identification, stop thinking of yourself as such-and-such or so-and-so, this or that. Abandon all self-concern, worry not about your welfare, material or spiritual, abandon every desire, gross or subtle, stop thinking of achievement of any kind. You are complete here and now, you need absolutely nothing.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Thinking Of You, Ocean

  "I am That". Book by Nisargadatta Maharaj, p.316, 2005.

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• We miss the real by lack of attention, and create the unreal by excess of imagination.

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  Real, Imagination, Missing

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• You are not the mind. If you know you are not the mind, then what difference does it make if it's busy or quiet? You are not the mind.

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  Differences, Mind, Doe

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• Having never left the house you are looking for the way home

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  Home, House, Awakening

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• The ultimate point of view is that there is nothing to understand, so when we try to understand, we are only indulging in acrobatics of the mind. Whatever you have understood, you are not. Why are you getting lost in concepts? You are not what you know, you are the knower.

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  Spiritual, Wisdom, Views

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• You have projected onto yourself a world of your own imagination, based on memories, on desires and fears, and you have imprisoned yourself in it. Break the spell and be free.

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  Memories, Imagination, Desire

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• There is only one meditation - the rigorous refusal to harbor thoughts.

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  Inspiration, Meditation Practice, Refusal

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• Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy.

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  Simple, Goal, Tasks

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• It is the mind that tells you that the mind is there. Don't be deceived. All the endless arguments about the mind are produced by the mind itself, for its own protection, continuation and expansion. It is the blank refusal to consider the convolutions and convulsions of the mind that can take you beyond it.

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  Spiritual, Wisdom, Mind

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• When you sit quiet and watch yourself,
  many things may come to the surface.
  Do nothing about them, don't react to them.
  As they have come, so will they go, by themselves.
  All that matters is mindfulness, total awareness of oneself,
  or rather, of one's mind.

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  Mind, Watches, May

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• You will receive everything you need when you stop asking for what you do not need

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  Needs, Asking

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• Don't pretend to be what you are not. Don't refuse to be what you are.

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  Refuse

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• Our usual attitude is of 'I am this'. Separate consistently and perseveringly the 'I am' from 'this' or 'that', and try to feel what is means to be, just to be, without being 'this' or 'that'.

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  Attitude, Mean, Trying

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• Pain is physical; suffering is mental. Beyond the mind there is no suffering. Pain is essential for the survival of the body, but none compels you to suffer. Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting; it is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life.

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  Pain, Moving, Inspiration

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• In the mirror of your mind all kinds of pictures appear and disappear. Knowing that they are entirely your own creations, watch them silently come and go. Be alert, but not perturbed. This attitude of silent observation is the very foundation of yoga. You see the picture, but you are not the picture.

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  Attitude, Yoga, Knowing

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• You are not what you think yourself to be, I assure you. The image you have of yourself is made up from memories and is purely accidental.

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  Memories, Thinking, Made

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• You begin by letting thoughts flow and watching them. The very observation slows down the mind till it stops altogether. Once the mind is quiet, keep it quiet. Don't get bored with peace, be in it, go deeper into it.

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  Inspiration, Practice, Bored

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