Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Quotes - Page 3

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• Leave your mind alone, that is all. Do not go along with it. After all, there is no such thing as mind apart from thoughts which come and go obeying their own laws, not yours. They dominate you only because you are interested in them.

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  Law, Mind, Comes And Goes

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• Give up all ideas about yourself and simply be.

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  Giving Up, Ideas, Giving

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• Only the people who have gone beyond the world can change the world.

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  People, Gone, World

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• You are not what you think yourself to be, I assure you. The image you have of yourself is made up from memories and is purely accidental.

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  Memories, Thinking, Made

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• Freedom is from something. What are you to be free from? Obviously, you must be free from the person you take yourself to be, for it is the idea you have of yourself that keeps you in bondage.

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  Ideas, Bondage, Persons

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• There is nothing to do, just be. Do nothing. Be. No climbing mountains and sitting in caves. I do not even say "be yourself" since you do not know yourself. Just be.

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  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Climbing

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• In peace and silence, the skin of the 'I' dissolves and the inner and the outer become one.

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  Silence, Skins

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• You are not in this world. This world is inside you.

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  World, This World

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• Don't pretend to be what you are not. Don't refuse to be what you are.

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  Refuse

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• Do not try to know the truth, for knowledge by the mind is not true knowledge. But you can know what is not true-which is enough to liberate you from the false. The idea that you know what is true is dangerous, for it keeps you imprisoned in the mind. It is when you do not know, that you are free to investigate. And there can be no salvation, without investigation, because non investigation is the main cause of bondage.

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  Ideas, Mind, Trying

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• Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting. It is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life

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  Moving, Suffering, Flow

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• Love.. is seeing the unity under the imaginary diversity.

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  Love Is, Diversity, Unity

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• You are not the body. You are the immensity and infinity of consciousness.

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  Body, Infinity, Consciousness

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• It has nothing to do with effort. Just turn away, look between the thoughts, rather than at the thoughts. When you happen to walk in a crowd, you do not fight every man you meet, you just find your way between. When you fight, you invite a fight. But when you do not resist, you meet no resistance. When you refuse to play the game, you are out of it.

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  Fighting, Men, Play

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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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• You begin by letting thoughts flow and watching them. The very observation slows down the mind till it stops altogether. Once the mind is quiet, keep it quiet. Don't get bored with peace, be in it, go deeper into it.

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  Inspiration, Practice, Bored

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• Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.

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  Imagining Yourself, Mind, Seeking

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• You are so accustomed to think of yourselves as bodies having consciousness that you just cannot imagine consciousness as having bodies. Once you realize that bodily existence is but a state of mind, a movement in consciousness, that the ocean of consciousness is infinite and eternal, and that, when in touch with consciousness, you are the witness only, you will be able to withdraw beyond consciousness altogether.

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  Ocean, Thinking, Mind

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• To believe that you depend on things and people for happiness is due to ignorance of your true nature; to know that you need nothing to be happy, except Self-knowledge, is wisdom.

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  Believe, Ignorance, Self

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• The way to truth lies through the destruction of the false. To destroy the false, you must question your most inveterate beliefs. Of these the idea that you are the body is the worst. With the body comes the world, with the world - God, who is supposed to have created the world and thus it starts - fears, religions, prayers, sacrifices, all sorts of systems - all to protect and support the child-man, frightened out of his wits by monsters of his own making. Realize that what you are cannot be born nor die and with the fear gone, all suffering ends.

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  Prayer, Children, Lying

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• Meditation is a deliberate attempt to pierce into the higher states of consciousness and finally go beyond it. The art of meditation is the art of shifting the focus of attention to ever subtler levels, without losing one's grip on the levels left behind. (...) Save all your energies and time for breaking the wall your mind had built around you. Believe me, you will not regret.

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  Art, Wall, Regret

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• Watch your thoughts as you watch the street traffic. People come and go; you register without response. It may not be easy in the beginning, but with some practice you will find that your mind can function on many levels at the same time and you can be aware of them all.

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  Inspiration, Practice, People

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• You have put so much energy into building a prison for yourself. Now spend as much on demolishing it.

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  Energy, Prison, Building

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• When you know beyond all doubting that the same life flows through all that is, and you are that life, you will love all naturally and spontaneously.

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  Spiritual, Wisdom, Doubt

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• Who was born first, you or the world? As long as you give first place to the world, you are bound by it; once you realize, beyond all trace of doubt, that the world is in you and not you in the world, you are out of it. Of course your body remains in the world and of the world, but you are not deluded by it.

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  Inspirational, Long, Giving

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