Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Quotes - Page 8

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

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  Doubt, Trying, Obstacles

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• In reality there are no others, and -helping yourself you help everybody else.

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  Reality, Helping, Spirituality

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• If you want to sin, sin wholeheartedly and openly. Sins too have their lessons to teach the earnest sinner, as virtues the earnest saint. It is the mixing up of the two that is so disastrous. Nothing can block you so effectively as compromise, for it shows lack of earnestness, without which nothing can be done.

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  Buddhist, Block, Two

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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.'

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  Self, Guru, Dear

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

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  Needs, Asks, Ifs

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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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• 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.

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  Simple, Way, Faith In God

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• The root of fear is the feeling of not being what you are.

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  Roots, Feelings

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• You are not in the world...the world is in you," what did he mean? [That is, you are not in the world," that is, there is no "you" that is real or in any world. "The world is in you" means that the world is in your "mind" and is nothing more than a figment of your programming-and-conditioning-induced imaginings.]

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  Real, Mean, Mind

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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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• 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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• 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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• When all names and forms have been given up, the real is with you. You need not seek it.

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  Real, Names, Needs

  "I Am That". Book by Nisargadatta Maharaj, p.38, 1973.

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

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  Real, Real You, Life And Death

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• To know that you are neither the body nor mind, watch yourself steadily and live unaffected by your body and mind, completely aloof, as if you were dead. It means you have no vested interests, either in the body or in the mind.

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  Spiritual, Wisdom, Mean

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• To be a living being is not the ultimate state; there is something [the Reality] beyond, much more wonderful, which is neither being nor non-being, neither living nor not-living. It is a state of Pure Awareness, beyond the limitations of space and time.

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  Reality, Space, Wonderful

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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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• Just as every drop of the ocean carries the taste of the ocean, so does every moment carry the taste of eternity.

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  Ocean, Doe, Taste

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• The world is like a sheet of paper on which something is typed. The reading and the meaning will vary with the reader, but the paper is the common factor, always present, rarely perceived. When the ribbon is removed, typing leaves no trace on the paper. So is my mind - the impressions keep on coming, but no trace is left.

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  Reading, Mind, World

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• You must realize first of all that you are the proof of everything, including yourself. None can prove your existence, because his existence must be confirmed by you first. Your being and knowing you owe nobody. Remember, you are entirely on your own. You do not come from somewhere, you do not go anywhere. You are timeless being and awareness.

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  Knowing, Remember You, Remembers You

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• Playing with various approaches may be due to resistance to going within, to the fear of having to abandon the illusion of being something or somebody in particular.Of all the affections the love of oneself comes first. Light and love are impersonal.When you do not think yourself to be this or that, all conflict ceases. Any attempt to do something about your problems is bound to fail, for what is caused by desire can be undone only in freedom from desire. You cannot be rid of problems without abandoning illusions.

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  Thinking, Light, Desire

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• With self-awareness you grow more intelligent. In awareness you learn, in self-awareness you learn about yourself. Of course, you can only learn what you are not. To know what you are, you must go beyond the mind. Awareness is the point at which the mind reaches out beyond itself into reality. In awareness you seek not what pleases, but what is true.

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  Intelligent, Reality, Self

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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 are too much concerned with past and future. It is all due to your longing to continue, to protect yourself against extinction. And as you want to continue, you want others to keep you company, hence your concern with their survival. But what you call survival is but the survival of a dream.

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  Dream, Future, Past

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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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