Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Quotes - Page 2

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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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• The silence before the words were spoken, is it different from the silence that came after?

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  Silence, Different, Silence Is

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• If you want to sin, sin wholeheartedly and openly. Sins too have their lessons to teach the earnest sinner, as virtues the earnest saint. It is the mixing up of the two that is so disastrous. Nothing can block you so effectively as compromise, for it shows lack of earnestness, without which nothing can be done.

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  Buddhist, Block, Two

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• Do you realize the unimaginable greatness, the holiness of what you so casually call 'consciousness'? It is the unmanifest Absolute aware of its awareness through the manifestation, of which your mind-body is presently a part.

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  Greatness, Mind, Body

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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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• Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers. When the centre of selfishness is no longer, all desires for pleasure and fear of pain cease; one is no longer interested in being happy; beyond happiness there is pure intensity, inexhaustible energy, the ecstasy of giving from a perennial source.

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  Pain, Love Is, Giving

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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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• There is no 'my self' and 'his self'. There is the Self, the only Self of all. Misled by the diversity of names and shapes, minds and bodies, you imagine multiple selves.

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  Self, Names, Diversity

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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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• Do not try to know the truth, for knowledge by the mind is not true knowledge. But you can know what is not true-which is enough to liberate you from the false. The idea that you know what is true is dangerous, for it keeps you imprisoned in the mind. It is when you do not know, that you are free to investigate. And there can be no salvation, without investigation, because non investigation is the main cause of bondage.

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  Ideas, Mind, Trying

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• My stand is clear; produce to distribute, feed before you eat, give before you take, think of others before you think of yourself. Only a selfless society based on sharing can be stable and happy. This is the only practical solution. If you do not want it, then - fight.

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  Fighting, Thinking, Giving

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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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• You need not know what you are. Enough to know what you are not. What you are you will never know, for every discovery reveals new dimensions to conquer. The unknown has no limits.

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  Discovery, Needs, Limits

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• Once you understand that the false needs time and what needs time is false, you are nearer the Reality, which is timeless, ever in the NOW.

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  Spiritual, Wisdom, Reality

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• Nothing can make you happier than you are. All search for happiness is misery and leads to more misery. The only happiness worth the name is the natural happiness of conscious being.

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  Spiritual, Wisdom, Names

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• Pure knowledge is not imparted by another; it comes unmasked. It is the one that is listening: it is your own true nature.

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  Listening, Pure, True Nature

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• You are really in search of yourself, without knowing it. You are love-longing for the love-worthy, the perfect lovable. Due to ignorance you are looking for it in the world of opposites and contradictions. When you find it within, your search will be over.

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  Ignorance, Knowing, Opposites

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• Nothing perceivable is real.Your attachment is your bondage. You cannot control the future.There is no such thing as free will. Will is bondage.You identify yourself with your desires and become their slave.

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  Real, Attachment, Desire

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• You want to know yourself. For this keep steadily in the focus of consciousness, the only clue you have: your certainty of being. Be with it, play with it, ponder over it, delve deeply into it, till the shell of ignorance breaks open and you emerge into the realm of reality.

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  Ignorance, Reality, Play

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• To deal with things knowledge of things is needed. To deal with people, you need insight, sympathy. To deal with yourself, you need nothing. Be what you are--conscious being--and don't stray away from yourself.

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  People, Needs, Conscious

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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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• You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.

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  Spiritual, Deep Thought, Know Yourself

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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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• Seeking out causes is a pastime of the mind. There is no duality of cause and effect. Everything is its own cause.

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  Mind, Causes, Cause And Effect

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• The legitimate function of the mind is to tell you what is not. But if you want positive knowledge, you must go beyond the mind.

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  Mind, Want, Function

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