Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Quotes - Page 4

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• Would people know that nothing can happen unless the entire universe makes it happen, they would achieve much more with less expenditure of energy.

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  Inspirational, People, Energy

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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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• Everybody does the same mistake: refusing the means, but wanting the ends. You want peace and harmony in the world, but refuse to have them in yourself.

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  Peace, Mistake, Mean

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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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• I am that by which I know 'I am'

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  Knows

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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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• 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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• Punishment is but legalized crime. In a society built on prevention, rather than retaliation, there would be very little crime. The few exceptions will be treated medically, as of unsound mind and body.

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  Punishment, Mind, Would Be

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• Discard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen, and you need not search for truth; truth will find you.

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  Self, Needs, Motive

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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.

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  Inspirational, House, Body

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• You are so accustomed to think of yourselves as bodies having consciousness that you just cannot imagine consciousness as having bodies. Once you realize that bodily existence is but a state of mind, a movement in consciousness, that the ocean of consciousness is infinite and eternal, and that, when in touch with consciousness, you are the witness only, you will be able to withdraw beyond consciousness altogether.

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  Ocean, Thinking, Mind

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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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• 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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• 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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• Meditation is a deliberate attempt to pierce into the higher states of consciousness and finally go beyond it. The art of meditation is the art of shifting the focus of attention to ever subtler levels, without losing one's grip on the levels left behind. (...) Save all your energies and time for breaking the wall your mind had built around you. Believe me, you will not regret.

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  Art, Wall, Regret

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

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  Looks, Whatever Happens, Happens

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• Reality is neither subjective nor objective, neither mind nor matter, neither time nor space. These divisions need somebody to happen to, a conscious separate center. But reality is all and nothing, the totality and the exclusion, the fullness and the emptiness, fully consistent, absolutely paradoxical. You cannot speak about it, you can only lose yourself in it.

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  Reality, Space, Mind

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

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  Want, Happens

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

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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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• Who was born first, you or the world? As long as you give first place to the world, you are bound by it; once you realize, beyond all trace of doubt, that the world is in you and not you in the world, you are out of it. Of course your body remains in the world and of the world, but you are not deluded by it.

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  Inspirational, Long, Giving

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• The problem is not yours - it is your mind's only. Begin by disassociating yourself from your mind. Resolutely remind yourself that you are not the mind and that its problems are not yours.

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  Mind, Problem

  "I am that". Book by Nisargadatta (Maharaj), Chetana, p. 144, 1973.

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• See that you are not what you believe yourself to be. Fight with all the strength at your disposal against the idea that you are nameable and describable. You are not. Refuse to think of this or that. There is no other way out of misery, which you have created for yourself through blind acceptance without investigation. Suffering is a call for inquiry, all pain needs investigation. Don't be lazy to think.

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  Pain, Believe, Fighting

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