Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Quotes - Page 6

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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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• Whatever comes and goes, is not reality. See the event as event only. Then you are vulnerable to reality, no longer armoured against it, as you were when you gave reality to events and experiences.

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  Reality, Events, Vulnerable

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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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• Leave greatness to others. Become so small that no one can see you. This conviction results from growing devotion to the supreme reality.

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  Spiritual, Wisdom, Reality

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• Contemplate life as infinite, undivided, ever present, ever active, until you realize yourself as one with it. It is not even very difficult, for you will be returning only to your own natural condition.

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  Realizing, Infinite, Natural

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• Whatever can be understood or perceived can never be the eternal Truth. The Unknown is the Truth.

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  Understood, Eternal

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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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• 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.

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  Spiritual, Wisdom, Love You

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• I am that by which I know 'I am'

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  Knows

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• It is your fixed idea that you must be something or other, that blinds you.

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  Ideas, Fixed

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• You're free. You've taken this burden of being a human being on yourself. You're free.

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  Taken, Burden, Humans

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• Awareness neither dies nor is re-born. It is the changeless reality itself.

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  Reality, Awareness, Born

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• Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it. By being a slave to your desires and fears, you disturb peace.

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  Inspiration, Practice, Meditation

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• I am dead already. Physical death will make no difference in my case. I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future. Where there are no names and shapes, how can there be desire and fear? With desirelessness comes timelessness. I am safe, because what is not, cannot touch what is. You feel unsafe, because you imagine danger. Of course, your body as such is complex and vulnerable and needs protection. But not you. Once you realize your own unassailable being, you will be at peace.

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  Death, Peace, Fear

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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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• Refuse all thoughts except one: the thought 'I am'. The mind will rebel in the beginning, but with patience and perseverance it will yield and keep quiet. Once you are quiet, things will begin to happen spontaneously and quite naturally, without any interference on your part.

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  Perseverance, Yield, Mind

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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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• When I say 'I am', I do not mean a separate entity with a body as its nucleus, I mean the totality of being, the ocean of consciousness, the entire universe of all that is known. I have nothing to desire for I am complete forever

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  Ocean, Mean, Forever

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• Concentration, Full Confidence, Pure Will. With these 3, what cannot be accomplished?

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  Attitude, Accomplished, Concentration

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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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• The world you perceive is made of consciousness; what you call matter is consciousness itself.

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  World, Matter, Consciousness

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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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• To understand suffering, you must go beyond pain and pleasure. Your own desires and fears prevent you from understanding and thereby helping others. In reality there are no others, and by helping yourself you help everybody else. If you are serious about the suffering of mankind, you must perfect the only means of help you have, yourself.

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  Pain, Mean, Helping Others

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• You need not get at it, for you are it. It will get at you, if you give it a chance. Let go your attachment to the unreal and the real will swiftly and smoothly step into its own. Stop imagining yourself being or doing this or that and the realization that you are the source and heart of all will dawn upon you. With this will come great love which is not choice or predilection, nor attachment, but a power which makes all things love-worthy and lovable.

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  Letting Go, Real, Heart

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• Even for a moment do not think that you are the body. Give yourself no name, no shape. In the darkness and the silence reality is found.

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  Spiritual, Reality, Thinking

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