Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Quotes - Page 10

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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 does not die, the unreal never lived.

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  Real, Doe, Unreal

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• The personal needs a base, a body to identify oneself with, just as a colour needs a surface to appear on.

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  Spiritual, Wisdom, Needs

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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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• 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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• There is no 'my self' and 'his self'. There is the Self, the only Self of all. Misled by the diversity of names and shapes, minds and bodies, you imagine multiple selves.

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  Self, Names, Diversity

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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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• 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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• 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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• You merely dream that you roam about. In a few years your stay in India will appear as a dream to you. You will dream some other dream at that time. Do realize that it is not you who moves from dream to dream, but the dreams flow before you and you are the immutable witness. No happening affects your real being-that is the absolute truth.

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  Dream, Real, Moving

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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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• The desire for truth is the highest of all desires, yet, it is still a desire. All desires must be given up for the real to be.....When all search ceases, it is the Supreme State.

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  Spiritual, Real, Desire

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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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• If you believe in God, work with Him. If you do not, become one.

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  Believe, Believe In God, If You Believe

  "I am That". Book by Maharaj Nisargadatta, p.156, 2005.

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• It is your restlessness that causes chaos.

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  Causes, Chaos, Restlessness

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• Suffering is primarily a
  call for attention, which itself is a movement of love. More than
  happiness, love wants growth, the widening and deepening of awareness and consciousness and being. Whatever prevents that, becomes a cause of pain, and love does not shirk from pain.

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  Pain, Suffering, Growth

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• Multiplicity without strife is joy.

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  Joy, Strife, Multiplicity

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• In the light of consciousness all sorts of things happen and one need not give special importance to any. The sight of a flower is as marvelous as the vision of God. Let them be. Why remember them and then make memory into a problem? Be bland about them; do not divide them into high and low, inner and outer, lasting and transient. Go beyond, go back to the source, go to the self that is the same whatever happens.

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  Peace, Memories, Flower

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• The mind is what it thinks. To make it true, think true.

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  Thinking, Mind

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• You will get to your maturity quickly if you stay in the nothingness.

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  Maturity, Ifs, Nothingness

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• The first steps in self-acceptance are not at all pleasant, for what one sees is not a happy sight. One needs all the courage to go further.

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  Inspiration, Acceptance, Sight

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• Easier to change, than to suffer. Grow out of your childishness.That is all.

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  Suffering, Your Children, Easier

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• Get hold of the main thing: That the world and the self are one and perfect. Only your attitude is faulty and needs readjustment.

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  Attitude, Self, Perfect

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• Your burden is of false self-identifications—abandon them all.

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  Self, Burden, Identification

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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.

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  Wisdom, Love You, Like Love

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

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