Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Quotes - Page 5

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• See that you are not what you believe yourself to be. Fight with all the strength at your disposal against the idea that you are nameable and describable. You are not. Refuse to think of this or that. There is no other way out of misery, which you have created for yourself through blind acceptance without investigation. Suffering is a call for inquiry, all pain needs investigation. Don't be lazy to think.

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  Pain, Believe, Fighting

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• All will happen as you want it, provided you really want it.

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  Want, Happens

  "I Am That". Book by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj edited by Sudhakar S. Dikshit (p. 42), 1973.

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• To see myself in everybody, and everybody in myself, most certainly is love.

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  "I Am That" by Nisargadatta Maharaj, p. 91, 1973.

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• Our usual attitude is of 'I am this'. Separate consistently and perseveringly the 'I am' from 'this' or 'that', and try to feel what is means to be, just to be, without being 'this' or 'that'.

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  Attitude, Mean, Trying

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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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• To see the universe as it is, you must step beyond the net [the matrix]. It is not hard to do so, as the net is full of holes. Look at the net and its many contradictions. You do and undo at every step. You want peace, love and happiness, and work hard to create pain, hatred and war. You want longevity and you overeat. You want friendship and you exploit. See your net as made of such contradictions and remove them - your very seeing them will make them go away.

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  Pain, War, Hard Work

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• I am dead already. Physical death will make no difference in my case. I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future. Where there are no names and shapes, how can there be desire and fear? With desirelessness comes timelessness. I am safe, because what is not, cannot touch what is. You feel unsafe, because you imagine danger. Of course, your body as such is complex and vulnerable and needs protection. But not you. Once you realize your own unassailable being, you will be at peace.

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  Death, Peace, Fear

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• Don't ask the mind to confirm what is beyond the mind. Direct experience is the only valid confirmation.

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  Mind, Confirmation, Direct

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• 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.

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  Peace, Reality, Light

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

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• In nature nothing is at standstill, everything pulsates, appears and disappears. Heart, breath, digestion, sleep and waking - birth and death - everything comes and goes in waves. Rhythm, periodicity, harmonious alternation of extremes is the rule. No use rebelling against the very pattern of life.

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  Heart, Sleep, Use

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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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• If you could only keep quiet, clear of memories and expectations, you would be able to discern the beautiful pattern of events. Its your restlessness that causes chaos.

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  Beautiful, Spiritual, Memories

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• In the stillness of the mind I saw myself as I am - unbound.

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  Mind, Saws, Unbound

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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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• Stay open and quiet, that is all. What you seek is so near you that there is no place for a way.

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  Way, Quiet

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• You need not get at it, for you are it. It will get at you, if you give it a chance. Let go your attachment to the unreal and the real will swiftly and smoothly step into its own. Stop imagining yourself being or doing this or that and the realization that you are the source and heart of all will dawn upon you. With this will come great love which is not choice or predilection, nor attachment, but a power which makes all things love-worthy and lovable.

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  Letting Go, Real, Heart

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• When all names and forms have been given up, the real is with you. You need not seek it.

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  Real, Names, Needs

  "I Am That". Book by Nisargadatta Maharaj, p.38, 1973.

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• Consciousness is an attribute while awareness is not; one can be aware of being conscious, but not conscious of awareness. God is the totality of consciousness, but awareness is beyond all--being as well as not-being.

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  Consciousness, Awareness, Attributes

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• I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future.

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  Fear, Future, Past

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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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• Simply look at whatever happens and know that you are beyond it.

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  Looks, Whatever Happens, Happens

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• If you are angry or in pain, separate yourself from anger and pain and watch them. Externalization is the first step to liberation.

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  Pain, Watches, Firsts

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• 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.

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  Reality, Space, Mind

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• The sum and substance of my teaching is this: Don't be dishonest to your vital breath; worship that only, abide in that only, accept it as yourself. And when you worship in this manner, it can lead you anywhere, to any heights- this is the quintessence of my talks.

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  Spiritual, Wisdom, Teaching

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (2011). “The Ultimate Medicine: Dialogues with a Realized Master”, p.199, North Atlantic Books

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• The universe is but a partial manifestation of your limitless capacity to become.

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  Limitless, Capacity, Manifestation

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