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“(…) Just like a deficiency disease is cured through the supply of the missing factor, so are the diseases of living cured by a good dose of intelligent detachment (viveka-vairagya).”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Detachment
Source: I am That, P.116.

“(…) To be nothing, to have nothing, to keep nothing for oneself is the greatest gift, the highest generosity.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Nothingness
Source: "I am That." P.107.

“(…) It is like taking food. All you can do is to bite off, chew and swallow. All else is unconscious and automatic. Listen, remember and understand – the mind is both the actor and the stage. All is of the mind and you are not the mind. (…).”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Mind
Source: I am That, P.156.

“Your mind projects a structure and you identify yourself with it. It is in the nature of desire to prompt the mind to create a world for its fulfillment. Even a small desire can start a long line of action; what about a strong desire? Desire can produce a universe; its powers are miraculous. Just as a small matchstick can set a huge forest on fire, so does a desire light the fires of manifestation. (…)”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Desire and fear
Source: "I am That." P.87.

“(…) Is not meanness also a form of madness? And is not madness the misuse of the mind? Humanity’s problem lies in this misuse of the mind only. All the treasures of nature and spirit are open to man who will use his mind rightly. (…) Fear and greed cause the misuse of the mind. The right use of mind is in the service of love, of life, of truth, of beauty.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Mind
Source: I am That, P.128.

“Do not undervalue attention. It means interest and also love. To know, to do, to discover, or to create you must give your heart to it – which means attention. All the blessings flow from it.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Attention
Source: I am That, P.126.

“(…) Devotion to your goal makes you live a clean and orderly life, given to search for truth and to helping people, and realization makes noble virtue easy and spontaneous, by removing for good the obstacles in the shape of desires and fears and wrong ideas.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Clean, well-ordered life
Source: "I am That." P.31.

“Reality can neither be proved nor disproved. Within the mind you cannot, beyond the mind you need not. In the real, the question ‘what is real?’ does not arise. (…)”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Reality
Source: "I am That." P.94.

“When I say I am free, I merely state a fact. If you are an adult, you are free from infancy. I am free from all description and identification. (…).”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Freedom
Source: I am That, P.152.

“That which sees all this, and the nothing too, is the inner teacher. He alone is, all else appears to be. He is your own self (swarupa), your hope and assurance of freedom, find him and cling to him and you will be saved and safe.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Guru/Gnani
Source: "I am That." P.51.

“Whatever name you give it; will, or steady purpose, or onepointedness of the mind, you come back to earnestness, sincerity, honesty. (…) We are complex beings, at war within and without. We contradict ourselves all the time, undoing today the work of yesterday. No wonder we are stuck. A little of integrity would make a lot of difference.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Will
Source: I am That, P.119.

“(…) the supreme state (…) is entirely one and indivisible, a single solid block of reality. The only way of knowing it is to be it. The mind cannot reach it. To perceive it does not need the senses; to know it, does not need the mind.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Reality
Source: "I am That." P.36.

“Whenever a form is infused with life (prana), consciousness (chetana) appears by reflection of awareness in matter.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Awareness and consciousness
Source: "I am That." P.65.

“(…) everything is inter-linked. And therefore everything has numberless causes. The entire universe contributes to the least thing. A thing is as it is because the world is as it is. (…)”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Inter-connectedness
Source: "I am That." P.40.

“(…) Just know that you are above and beyond all things and thoughts. What you want to be, you are it already. (…) desire nothing, for you lack nothing. The very seeking prevents you from finding.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Self-identification
Source: I am That, P.185.

“(…)The body-mind is like a room. It is there, but I need not live in it all the time.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Body
Source: I am That, P.153.

“In the case of a beginner the practice of Yoga is often deliberate and requires great determination. But those who are practicing sincerely for many years are intent on self-realization all the time, whether conscious of it or not. Unconscious sadhana is most effective, because it is spontaneous and steady.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Sadhana - spiritual practice
Source: "I am That." P.74.

“(…) Life itself is the Supreme Guru; be attentive to its lessons and obedient to its commands. (…).”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Guru/Gnani
Source: I am That, P.131.

“What has been attained may be lost again. Only when you realize the true peace, the peace you have never lost, that peace will remain with you, for it was never away. Instead of searching for what you do not have, find out what it is that you have never lost? That which is there before the beginning and after the ending of everything; that to which there is no birth, nor death. (…).”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Peace
Source: I am That, P.144.

“Discard all traditional standards. Leave them to the hypocrites. Only what liberates you from desire and fear and wrong ideas is good. As long as you worry about sin and virtue you will have no peace. (…)”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Liberation
Source: "I am That." P.71