Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Quotes - Page 9

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

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  Unity, Trying, Enough

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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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• There are always moments when one feels empty and estranged.
 Such moments are most desirable, 
for it means the soul has cast its moorings and is sailing for distant places. 
This is detachment -- 
when the old is over and the new has not yet come. 
If you are afraid, the state may be distressing, 
but there is really nothing to be afraid of. 
Remember the instruction: 
Whatever you come across -- go beyond.

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  Mean, Soul, Sailing

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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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• My actual experience is not different. It is my evaluation and attitude that differ. I see the same world as you do, but not the same way. There is nothing mysterious about it. Everybody sees the world through the idea he has of himself. As you think yourself to be, so you think the world to be. If you imagine yourself as separate from 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.

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  Attitude, Thinking, Ideas

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

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  Believe, Energy, Waste

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• The legitimate function of the mind is to tell you what is not. But if you want positive knowledge, you must go beyond the mind.

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  Mind, Want, Function

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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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• 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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• Increase and widen your desires till nothing but reality can fulfill them. It is not desire that is wrong, but its narrowness and smallness. Desire is devotion. By all means be devoted to the real, the infinite, the eternal heart of being. Transform desire into love. All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be are expressions of your longing for happiness.

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  Buddhist, Real, Heart

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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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• 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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• The essence of saintliness is total acceptance of the present moment,
  harmony with things as they happen.

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  Acceptance, Essence, Moments

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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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• The unchangeable can only be realised in silence. Once realised,
  it will deeply affect the changeable, itself remaining unaffected.

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  Silence, Realised, Unchangeable

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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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• Find what is it that never sleeps and never wakes, and whose pale reflection is our sense of 'I'

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  Sleep, Reflection, Pale

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• The mind exists in two states: as water and as honey. The water vibrates at the least disturbance, while the honey, however disturbed, returns quickly to immobility.

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  Spiritual, Wisdom, Two

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• Your own self is your ultimate teacher. The outer teacher is merely a milestone. It is only your inner teacher that will walk with you to the goal, for he is the goal

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  Teacher, Self, Goal

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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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