Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Quotes - Page 6

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• When the mind is kept away from its preoccupations, it becomes quiet. If you do not disturb this quiet and stay in it, you find that it is permeated with a light and a love you have never known; and yet you recognise it at once as your own nature. Once you have passed through this experience, you will never be the same man again; the unruly mind may break its peace and obliterate its vision; but it is bound to return, provided the effort is sustained; until the day when all bonds are broken, delusions and attachments end and life becomes supremely concentrated in the present.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Love You

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• The innermost light, shining peacefully and timelessly in the heart, is the real Guru. All others merely show the way.

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  Real, Heart, Light

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• How do you go about finding anything?
  By keeping your mind and heart on it.
  Interest there must be and steady remembrance.
  To remember what needs to be remembered
  is the secret of success.
  You come to it through earnestness

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  Heart, Remembrance, Secret

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• To see the universe as it is, you must step beyond the net [the matrix]. It is not hard to do so, as the net is full of holes. Look at the net and its many contradictions. You do and undo at every step. You want peace, love and happiness, and work hard to create pain, hatred and war. You want longevity and you overeat. You want friendship and you exploit. See your net as made of such contradictions and remove them - your very seeing them will make them go away.

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  Pain, War, Hard Work

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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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• Only the people who have gone beyond the world can change the world.

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  People, Gone, World

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• You know that you are. Don't burden yourself with names, just be. Any name or shape you give yourself obscures your real nature.

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  Real, Names, Giving

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• When the mind is quiet, we come to know ourselves as the pure witness. We withdraw from the experience and its experiencer and stand apart in pure awareness, which is between and beyond the two. The personality, based on self-identification, on imagining itself to be something: 'I am this, I am that', continues, but only as a part of the objective world. Its identification with the witness snaps.

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  Two, Self, Personality

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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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• Give all your attention to the question: 'What is it that makes me conscious?', until your mind becomes the question itself and cannot think of anything else.

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  Thinking, Giving, Mind

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• Give up the idea of being a person, that is all. You need not become what you are anyhow. There is the identity of what you are and there is the person superimposed on it. All you know is the person, the identity - which is not a person - you do not know, for you never doubted, never asked yourself the crucial question: 'Who am I?'

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  Giving Up, Ideas, Identity

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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.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Meditation, Done, Helping

  "I am That" by Nisargadatta Maharaj, p.54, 1973.

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• Earnestness is the most important thing.

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  Important, Important Things, Earnestness

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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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• I find that somehow, by shifting the focus of attention, I become the very thing I look at, and experience the kind of consciousness it has; I become the inner witness of the thing. I call this capacity of entering other focal points of consciousness, love; you may give it any name you like. Love says "I am everything". Wisdom says "I am nothing". Between the two, my life flows. Since at any point of time and space I can be both the subject and the object of experience, I express it by saying that I am both, and neither, and beyond both.

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  Wisdom, Love You, Like Love

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

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• When effort is needed, effort will appear. When effortlessness becomes essential, it will assert itself. You need not push life about. Just flow with it and give yourself completely to the task of the present moment.

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  Life, Giving, Effort

  "I am That". Book by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, p.140, 1973.

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• When you believe yourself to be a person, you see persons everywhere. In reality there are no persons, only threads of memories and habits. At the moment of realisation the person ceases.

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  Memories, Believe, Reality

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• Don't ask the mind to confirm what is beyond the mind. Direct experience is the only valid confirmation.

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  Mind, Confirmation, Direct

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• Real happiness is not vulnerable, because it does not depend on circumstances.

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  Happiness, Real, Doe

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• Unless you make tremendous efforts, you will not be convinced that effort will take you nowhere. The self is so self-confident that unless it is totally discouraged it will not give up. Mere verbal conviction is not enough. Hard facts alone can show the absolute nothingness of the self-image.

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  Giving Up, Self, Effort

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• There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.

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  Being Yourself, Business, Practice

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• The universe is but a partial manifestation of your limitless capacity to become.

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  Limitless, Capacity, Manifestation

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• In peace and silence, the skin of the 'I' dissolves and the inner and the outer become one.

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  Silence, Skins

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• To see Reality is as simple as to see one’s face in a mirror. Only, the mirror must be clear and true. A quiet mind, undistorted by desires and fears, free from ideas and opinions, clear on all the levels, is needed to reflect the Reality. Be clear and quiet; alert and detached, all else will happen by itself.

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  Simple, Reality, Mirrors

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• In nature nothing is at standstill, everything pulsates, appears and disappears. Heart, breath, digestion, sleep and waking - birth and death - everything comes and goes in waves. Rhythm, periodicity, harmonious alternation of extremes is the rule. No use rebelling against the very pattern of life.

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  Heart, Sleep, Use

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