Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Quotes - Page 9

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• The primary purpose of meditation is to become conscious of, and familiar with, our inner life. The ultimate purpose is to reach the source of life and consciousness.

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  Meditation, Purpose, Consciousness

  "I Am That" by Nisargadatta Maharaj, p. 13, 1973.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• To find reality you must be real in the smallest daily action; there can be no deceit in the search for truth.

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  Real, Deceit, Action

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• Earnestness is the most important thing.

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  Important, Important Things, Earnestness

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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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• 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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• The real is behind and beyond words, incommunicable, directly experienced, explosive in its effect on the mind. It is easily had when nothing else is wanted.

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  Real, Mind, Wanted

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• To see the unreal is wisdom. Beyond this lies the inexpressible.

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  Lying, Unreal

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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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• 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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• 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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• Don’t try to understand! It’s enough if you do not misunderstand.

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  Unity, Trying, Enough

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• What is the worth of a happiness for which you must strive and work?
  Real happiness is spontaneous and effortless.

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  Real, Spontaneous, Strive

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• I ask you what is the taste of your mouth all you can do is to say: it is neither sweet nor bitter, nor sour nor astringent; it is what remains when all these tastes are not. Similarly, when all distinctions and reactions are no more, what remains is reality, simple and solid.

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  Spiritual, Wisdom, Sweet

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• You can become a night watchman and live happily. It is what you are inwardly that matters. Your inner peace and joy you have to earn. It is much more difficult than earning money. No university can teach you to be yourself.

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  Being Yourself, Night, Joy

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• Truth gives no advantage. It gives no higher status, no power over others; all you get is truth and freedom from the false.

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  Giving, Advantage, Higher

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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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• Your first task is to see the sorrow in you and around you; your next, to long intensely for liberation. The very intensity of longing will guide you; you need no other guide.

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  Spiritual, Long, Sorrow

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• Pleasure puts you to sleep and pain wakes you up. If you don't want to suffer, don't go to sleep.

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  Pain, Sleep, Suffering

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• True happiness cannot be found in things that change and pass away. Pleasure and pain alternate inexorably. Happiness comes from the Self and can be found in the Self only. Find your real Self and all else will come with it.

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  Spiritual, Pain, Real

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