Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• If you seek reality you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling. Even the idea of being man or woman, or even human should be discarded. The ocean of life contains all, not only humans. So, first of all abandon all self-identification, stop thinking of yourself as such-and-such or so-and-so, this or that. Abandon all self-concern, worry not about your welfare, material or spiritual, abandon every desire, gross or subtle, stop thinking of achievement of any kind. You are complete here and now, you need absolutely nothing.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Thinking Of You, Ocean

  "I am That". Book by Nisargadatta Maharaj, p.316, 2005.

• Time is in the mind, space is in the mind. The law of cause and effect is also a way of thinking. In reality all is here and now and all is one. Multiplicity and diversity are in the mind only.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Reality, Thinking, Law

• 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.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Inspirational, Memories, Unique

• You want to know yourself. For this keep steadily in the focus of consciousness, the only clue you have: your certainty of being. Be with it, play with it, ponder over it, delve deeply into it, till the shell of ignorance breaks open and you emerge into the realm of reality.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Ignorance, Reality, Play

• To see Reality is as simple as to see one’s face in a mirror. Only, the mirror must be clear and true. A quiet mind, undistorted by desires and fears, free from ideas and opinions, clear on all the levels, is needed to reflect the Reality. Be clear and quiet; alert and detached, all else will happen by itself.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Simple, Reality, Mirrors

• Your weakness is due to your conviction that you were born into the world. In reality the world is ever recreated in you and by you. See everything as emanating from the light which is the source of your own being.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Peace, Reality, Light

  "I am that". Book by Nisargadatta Maharaj, 1973.

• Whatever comes and goes, is not reality. See the event as event only. Then you are vulnerable to reality, no longer armoured against it, as you were when you gave reality to events and experiences.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Reality, Events, Vulnerable

• Awareness neither dies nor is re-born. It is the changeless reality itself.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Reality, Awareness, Born

• 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.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Pain, Mean, Helping Others

• The search for Reality is the most dangerous of all undertakings, for it destroys the world in which you live.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Reality, World, Dangerous

• To know the self as the only reality and all else as temporal and transient is freedom, peace and joy. It is all very simple. Instead of seeing things as imagined, learn to see them as they are. When you can see everything as it is, you will also see yourself as you are. It is like cleansing a mirror. The same mirror that shows you the world as it is, will also show you your own face. The thought 'I am' is the polishing cloth. Use it.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Simple, Reality, Mirrors

  "I Am That". Book by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, 1973.

• 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.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Buddhist, Real, Heart

• Learn to look without imagination, to listen without distortion: that is all. Stop attributing names and shapes to the essentially nameless and formless, realize that every mode of perception is subjective, that what is seen or heard, touched or smelled, felt or thought, expected or imagined, is in the mind and not in reality, and you will experience peace and freedom from fear.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Reality, Names, Imagination

• 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.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Memories

• 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.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Reality, Thinking

• Once you understand that the false needs time and what needs time is false, you are nearer the Reality, which is timeless, ever in the NOW.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Reality

• 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.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Time, Lying, Reality

• When you believe yourself to be a person, you see persons everywhere. In reality there are no persons, only threads of memories and habits. At the moment of realisation the person ceases.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Memories, Believe, Reality

• In reality, time and space exist in you. You do not exist in them.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Reality, Space, Time And Space

• The window is the absence of the wall, and it gives air and light because it is empty. Be empty of all mental content, of all imagination and effort, and the very absence of obstacles will cause reality to rush in.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Wall, Reality, Light

• Leave greatness to others. Become so small that no one can see you. This conviction results from growing devotion to the supreme reality.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Reality

• 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.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Sweet

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

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Reality, Helping, Spirituality

• 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.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Reality, Silent, Here And Now

• 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.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Reality, Space, Mind

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