Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Quotes - Page 2

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• All will happen as you want it, provided you really want it.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Want, Happens

  "I Am That". Book by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj edited by Sudhakar S. Dikshit (p. 42), 1973.

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• The window is the absence of the wall, and it gives air and light because it is empty. Be empty of all mental content, of all imagination and effort, and the very absence of obstacles will cause reality to rush in.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Wall, Reality, Light

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• Freedom to do what one likes is really bondage, while being free to do what one must, what is right, is real freedom.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Real, Being Free, Likes

  "I Am That" by Nisargadatta Maharaj, p. 114, 1973.

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• The sum and substance of my teaching is this: Don't be dishonest to your vital breath; worship that only, abide in that only, accept it as yourself. And when you worship in this manner, it can lead you anywhere, to any heights- this is the quintessence of my talks.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Teaching

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (2011). “The Ultimate Medicine: Dialogues with a Realized Master”, p.199, North Atlantic Books

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• You cannot change the course of events, but you can change your
  attitude, and what really matters is the attitude and not the mere event.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Attitude, Events, Matter

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• Learn to look without imagination, to listen without distortion: that is all. Stop attributing names and shapes to the essentially nameless and formless, realize that every mode of perception is subjective, that what is seen or heard, touched or smelled, felt or thought, expected or imagined, is in the mind and not in reality, and you will experience peace and freedom from fear.

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  Reality, Names, Imagination

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• It has nothing to do with effort. Just turn away, look between the thoughts, rather than at the thoughts. When you happen to walk in a crowd, you do not fight every man you meet, you just find your way between. When you fight, you invite a fight. But when you do not resist, you meet no resistance. When you refuse to play the game, you are out of it.

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  Fighting, Men, Play

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• Simply look at whatever happens and know that you are beyond it.

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  Looks, Whatever Happens, Happens

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• Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far. The secret is in action - here and now. It is your behavior that blinds you to yourself. Disregard whatever you think yourself to be and act as if you were absolutely perfect - whatever your idea of perfection may be. All you need is courage.

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  Wisdom, Fun, Thinking

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• Watch your thoughts as you watch the street traffic. People come and go; you register without response. It may not be easy in the beginning, but with some practice you will find that your mind can function on many levels at the same time and you can be aware of them all.

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  Inspiration, Practice, People

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• The real does not die, the unreal never lived. Set your mind right and all will be right. When you know that the world is one, that humanity is one, you will act accordingly. But first of all you must attend to the way you feel, think and live. Unless there is order in yourself, there can be no order in the world.

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  Inspirational, Real, Thinking

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• The world does not yield to changing. By its very nature it is painful and transient. See it as it is and divest yourself of all desire and fear. When the world does not hold and bind you, it becomes an abode of joy and beauty. You can be happy in the world only when you are free of it.

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  Yield, Joy, Desire

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• Freedom is from something. What are you to be free from? Obviously, you must be free from the person you take yourself to be, for it is the idea you have of yourself that keeps you in bondage.

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  Ideas, Bondage, Persons

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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.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Fighting, Thinking, Giving

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• Whatever you may have to do, watch your mind. Also you must have moments of complete inner peace and quiet, when your mind is absolutely still. If you miss it, you miss the entire thing. If you do not, the silence of the mind will dissolve and absorb all else.

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  Inspiration, Practice, Silence

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• When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the supreme state will come to you uninvited and unexpected.

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  Spiritual, Yoga, World

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• There are no steps to self-realization. There is nothing gradual about it. It happens suddenly and is irreversible. You rotate into a new dimension, seen from which the previous ones are mere abstractions. Just like on sunrise you see things as they are, so on self-realization you see everything as it is. The world of illusions is left behind.

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  Self, Sunrise, Dimensions

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• It is only your self-identification with your mind that makes you happy or unhappy. Rebel against your slavery to your mind, see your bonds as self-created and break the chains of attachment and revulsion. Keep in mind your goal of freedom, until it dawns on you that you are already free, that freedom is not something in the distant future to be earned with painful efforts, but perennially one's own, to be used! Liberation is not an acquisition but a matter of courage, the courage to believe that you are free already and to act on it.

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  Spiritual, Wisdom, Believe

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• Do not neglect this body. This is the house of God; take care of it, only in this body can God be realized.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Inspirational, House, Body

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• Sometimes I feel I am everything, I call that Love.
  Sometimes I feel I am nothing, I call that Wisdom.
  Between Love and Wisdom
  my life continuously flows.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Flow, Sometimes, Feels

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• A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part

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  Light, Self, Effort

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• I simply followed (my teacher's) instruction which was to focus the mind on pure being 'I am', and stay in it. I used to sit for hours together, with nothing but the 'I am' in my mind and soon peace and joy and a deep all-embracing love became my normal state. In it all disappeared -- myself, my Guru, the life I lived, the world around me. Only peace remained and unfathomable silence.

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  Teacher, Love Is, Silence

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• Whatever happens, happens to you by you, through you; you are the creator, enjoyer and destroyer of all you perceive.

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  Whatever Happens Happens, Perceive, Creator

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• Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.

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  Imagining Yourself, Mind, Seeking

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• There is no need of a way out! Don't you see that a way out is also part of the dream All you have to do is see the dream as dream. ...Wherever it leads you, it will be a dream. The very idea of going beyond the dream is illusory. Why go anywhere Just realize that you are dreaming a dream you call the world and stop looking for ways out. The dream is not your problem. Your problem is that you like one part of your dream and not another. Love all, or none of it, and stop complaining. When you have seen the dream as a dream, you have done all that needs be done.

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  Dream, Ideas, Complaining

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