Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Quotes - Page 7

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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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• Having realized that you cannot influence the results, pay no attention to your desires and fears. Let them come and go. Don't give them the nourishment of interest and attention.

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  Giving, Desire, Attention

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• Life is worthy of the name only when it reflects Reality in action. No university will teach you how to live so that when the time of dying comes, you can say: I lived well I do not need to live again. Most of us die wishing we could live again. So many mistakes committed, so much left undone. Most of the people vegetate, but do not live. They merely gather experience and enrich their memory. But experience is the denial of Reality, which is neither sensory nor conceptual, neither of the body, nor of the mind, though it includes and transcends both.

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  Spiritual, Wisdom, Memories

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• Let the dream unroll itself to its very end. You cannot help it. But you can look at the dream as a dream, refuse it the stamp of reality.

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  Dream, Reality, Looks

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• You are so used to the support of concepts that when your concepts leave you, although it is your true state, you get frightened and try to cling to them again.

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  Support, Trying, Frightened

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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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• 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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• I do not suffer; I cannot suffer because I am not an object. Of course there is suffering. But do you realize what this suffering is? I am the suffering. Whatever is manifested, I am the functioning. Whatever is perceptible I am the perceiving of it. Whatever is done I am the doing of it; I am the doer of it, and, understand this, I am also that which is done. In fact, I am the total functioning.

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  Suffering, Done, Doers

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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.

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  Real, Being Free, Likes

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

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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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• 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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• As long as the mind is there, your body and your world are there. Your world is mind-made, subjective, enclosed within the mind, fragmentary, temporary, personal, hanging on the thread of memory.

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  Memories, Long, Mind

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• "I AM" itself is God. The seeking itself is God. In seeking you discover that you are neither body nor mind, but the love of the self in you for the self in all. The two are one. The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity, and that is love.

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  Self, Two, Unity

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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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• 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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• Laugh with people laughing, cry with people crying, but don't fall into the river of world illusion. Stay on the banks.

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  Fall, Rivers, Laughing

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• You take yourself to be limited, but you are not. Discover this. Stay silent and attentive. Be earnest about it. Just be aware of your being here and now. Reality will find you.

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  Reality, Silent, Here And Now

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• Consciousness is an attribute while awareness is not; one can be aware of being conscious, but not conscious of awareness. God is the totality of consciousness, but awareness is beyond all--being as well as not-being.

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  Consciousness, Awareness, Attributes

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• There is nothing wrong with duality as long as it does not create conflict. Multiplicity and variety without strife is joy. In pure consciousness there is light. For warmth, contact is needed. Above the unity of being is the union of love. Love is the purpose of duality.

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  Spiritual, Love Is, Light

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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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• All is a play in consciousness. All divisions are illusory. You can know the false only. The true you must yourself be.

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  Play, Division, Consciousness

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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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• Words can bring you only up to their own limit; to go beyond, you must abandon them. Remain as the silent witness only.

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  Limits, Silent, Abandon

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• I found myself desiring and knowing less and less, until I could say in utter astonishment: "I know nothing, I want nothing." Earlier I was sure of so many things, now I am sure of nothing. But I feel I have lost nothing by not knowing, because all my knowledge was false. My not knowing was in itself knowledge of the fact that all my knowledge is ignorance, that "I do not know" is the only true statement the mind can make....I do not claim to know what you do not. In fact, I know much less than you do.

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  Ignorance, Knowing, Mind

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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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