Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Quotes - Page 9

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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 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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• 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.

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  Reality, Silent, Here And Now

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• Pure knowledge is not imparted by another; it comes unmasked. It is the one that is listening: it is your own true nature.

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  Listening, Pure, True Nature

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• Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it. By being a slave to your desires and fears, you disturb peace.

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  Inspiration, Practice, Meditation

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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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• Just as every drop of the ocean carries the taste of the ocean, so does every moment carry the taste of eternity.

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  Ocean, Doe, Taste

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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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• You may die a hundred deaths without a break in the mental turmoil. Or, you may keep your body and die only in the mind. The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom.

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  Mind, Body, May

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• Seeking out causes is a pastime of the mind. There is no duality of cause and effect. Everything is its own cause.

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  Mind, Causes, Cause And Effect

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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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• Laugh with people laughing, cry with people crying, but don't fall into the river of world illusion. Stay on the banks.

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  Fall, Rivers, Laughing

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• You must realize first of all that you are the proof of everything, including yourself. None can prove your existence, because his existence must be confirmed by you first. Your being and knowing you owe nobody. Remember, you are entirely on your own. You do not come from somewhere, you do not go anywhere. You are timeless being and awareness.

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  Knowing, Remember You, Remembers You

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• You are so used to the support of concepts that when your concepts leave you, although it is your true state, you get frightened and try to cling to them again.

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  Support, Trying, Frightened

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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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• I simply followed (my teacher's) instruction which was to focus the mind on pure being 'I am', and stay in it. I used to sit for hours together, with nothing but the 'I am' in my mind and soon peace and joy and a deep all-embracing love became my normal state. In it all disappeared -- myself, my Guru, the life I lived, the world around me. Only peace remained and unfathomable silence.

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  Teacher, Love Is, Silence

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• The world you perceive is made of consciousness; what you call matter is consciousness itself.

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  World, Matter, Consciousness

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• Unless you make tremendous efforts, you will not be convinced that effort will take you nowhere. The self is so self-confident that unless it is totally discouraged it will not give up. Mere verbal conviction is not enough. Hard facts alone can show the absolute nothingness of the self-image.

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  Giving Up, Self, Effort

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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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• 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.

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  Reality, Events, Vulnerable

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• Once you say 'I want to find Truth', all your life will be deeply affected by it. All your mental and physical habits, feelings and emotions, desires and fears, plans and decisions will undergo a most radical transformation.

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  Spiritual, Wisdom, Decision

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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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• How do you go about finding anything?
  By keeping your mind and heart on it.
  Interest there must be and steady remembrance.
  To remember what needs to be remembered
  is the secret of success.
  You come to it through earnestness

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  Heart, Remembrance, Secret

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• To be a living being is not the ultimate state; there is something [the Reality] beyond, much more wonderful, which is neither being nor non-being, neither living nor not-living. It is a state of Pure Awareness, beyond the limitations of space and time.

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  Reality, Space, Wonderful

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• There is no such thing as a person. There are only restrictions and limitations. The sum total of these defines the person. The person merely appears to be, like the space within the pot appears to have the shape and volume and smell of the pot.

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  Smell, Space, Identity

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