Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Quotes - Page 8

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• You have put so much energy into building a prison for yourself. Now spend as much on demolishing it.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Energy, Prison, Building

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• If you imagine yourself as separate from the the world, the world will appear as separate from you and you will experience desire and fear. I do not see the world as separate from me and so there is nothing for me to desire, or fear.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Desire, World, Imagine

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• When you know beyond all doubting that the same life flows through all that is, and you are that life, you will love all naturally and spontaneously.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Doubt

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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?'

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Giving Up, Ideas, Identity

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• Abandon false ideas, that is all. There is no need of true ideas. There aren't any.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Ideas, Needs, Abandon

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• Just keep in mind the feeling 'I am', merge in it, till your mind and feeling become one. By repeated attempts you will stumble on the right balance of attention and affection and your mind will be firmly established in the thought-feeling 'I am'. Whatever you think, say, or do, this sense of immutable and affectionate being remains as the ever-present background of the mind.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Thinking

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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.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Wisdom, Love You, Like Love

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

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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

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Heart, Remembrance, Secret

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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.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Consciousness, Awareness, Attributes

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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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• To go beyond the mind, you must be silent and quiet. Peace and silence, silence and peace - this is the way beyond. Stop asking questions.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Asking Questions, Silence, Mind

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• Even faith in God is only a stage on the way. Ultimately you abandon all, for you come to something so simple that there are no words to express it.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Simple, Way, Faith In God

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• In your world everything must have a beginning and an end. If it does not, you call it eternal. In my view, there is no such thing as beginning and end - these are all related to time. Timeless being is entirely in the now. Being and not-being alternate and their reality is momentary. The immutable Reality lies beyond space and time.

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  Time, Lying, Reality

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• No particular thought can be mind's natural state, only silence. Not the idea of silence, but silence itself. When the mind is in its natural state, it reverts to silence spontaneously after every experience, or, rather, every experience happens against the background of silence.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Ideas, Silence, Mind

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• Surely the memory of an event cannot pass for the event itself. Nor can the anticipation. There is something exceptional, unique, about the present event, which the previous, or the coming do not have. There is livingness about it, an actuality; it stands out as if illumined. There is the "stamp of reality" on the actual, which the past and future do not have.

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  Inspirational, Memories, Unique

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• Do what you believe in and believe in what you do. The rest is a waste of time and energy.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Believe, Energy, Waste

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• What you need will come to you if you do not ask for what you do not need.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Needs, Asks, Ifs

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• The only difference between us is that I am aware of my natural state, while you are bemused.... We discover it by being earnest, by searching, enquiring, questioning daily and hourly, by giving one's life to this discovery.

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  Discovery, Differences, Giving

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• Once you say 'I want to find Truth', all your life will be deeply affected by it. All your mental and physical habits, feelings and emotions, desires and fears, plans and decisions will undergo a most radical transformation.

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  Spiritual, Wisdom, Decision

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• These moments of inner quiet will burn out all obstacles without fail. Don't doubt its efficacy. Try it.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Doubt, Trying, Obstacles

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• All that a guru can tell you is:
  'My dear Sir, you are quite mistaken about yourself.
  You are not the person you take yourself to be.'

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Self, Guru, Dear

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• All separation, every kind of estrangement and alienation is false. All is one.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Kind, Separation, Alienation

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• Unless you know yourself, what else can you know?

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Know Yourself, Knows

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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.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Play, Division, Consciousness

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• The real you is timeless and beyond life and death.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Real, Real You, Life And Death

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