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“You are confused, because you believe that you are in the world, not the world in you. Who came first – you or your parents? You imagine that you were born at a certain time and place, that you have a father and a mother, a body and a name. This is your sin and your calamity! (…)”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Self-identification
Source: "I am That." P.42

“Those who know only scriptures know nothing. To know is to be. I know what I am talking about; it is not from reading, or hearsay.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Scriptures
Source: "I am That." P.51.

“The talk is in your world. In mine – there is eternal silence. My silence sings, my emptiness is full. I lack nothing. You cannot know my world until you are there.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Silence
Source: "I am That." P.80.

“Everything yields to earnestness.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Earnestness

“(…) Salvation is to see things as they are. (…)”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Salvation
Source: "I am That." P.83.

“That in which consciousness happens, the universal consciousness or mind, we call the ether of consciousness. All the objects of consciousness form the universe. What is beyond both, supporting both, is the supreme state, a state of utter stillness and silence. Whoever goes there, disappears. It is unreachable by words, or mind. You may call it God, or Parabrahman, or Supreme Reality, but these are names given by the mind. It is the nameless, contentless, effortless and spontaneous state, beyond being and not being.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Reality
Source: "I am That." P.35-6.

“By all means attend to your duties. Action, in which you are not emotionally involved and which is beneficial and does not cause suffering will not bind you. You may be engaged in several directions and work with enormous zest, yet remain inwardly free and quiet, with a mirror-like mind, which reflects all, without being affected.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Detachment
Source: "I am That." P.50.

“(…) A weak mind cannot control its own projections. Be aware, therefore, of your mind and its projections. You cannot control what you do not know. On the other hand, knowledge gives power. In practice it is very simple. To control yourself – know yourself.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Mind
Source: I am That, P.121.

“All this is temporary, while I am dealing with the eternal. Gods and their universes come and go, avatars follow each other in endless succession, and in the end we are back at the source. I talk only of the timeless source of all gods with all their universes, past, present and future.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

God
Source: I am That, P.123.

“(…) Suffering is a call for enquiry, all pain needs investigation. Don’t be lazy to think.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Suffering
Source: I am That, P.204.

“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. You will find that in that light there is love and infinite energy.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Light
Source: I am That, P.197.

“(…) There is something exceptional, unique, about the present event, which the previous, or the coming do not have. (…) What makes the present so different? Obviously, my presence. I am real for I am always now, in the present, and what is with me now shares in my reality.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Present moment
Source: "I am That." P.7.

“And what is death? It is the change in the living process of a particular body. Integration ends and disintegration sets in. (…) In death only the body dies. Life does not, consciousness does not, reality does not. And the life is never so alive as after death.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Death
Source: "I am That." P.12.

“Truth is simple and open to all. Why do you complicate? Truth is loving and lovable. It includes all, accepts all, purifies all. It is untruth that is difficult and a source of trouble. It always wants, expects, demands. Being false, it is empty, always in search of confirmation and reassurance. It is afraid of and avoids enquiry. It identifies itself with any support, however weak and momentary. Whatever it gets, it loses and asks for more. (…).”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Truth and untruth
Source: "I am That." P.69.

“(…) I live on courage. Courage is my essence, which is love of life. I am free of memories and anticipations, unconcerned with what I am and what I am not. (…) I have the courage to be as nothing and to see the world as it is: nothing. It sounds simply, just try it!”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Courage
Source: "I am That." P.105.

“Meet your own self. Be with your own self, listen to it, obey it, cherish it, keep it in mind ceaselessly. You need no other guide. As long as your urge for truth affects your daily life, all is well with you. Live your life without hurting anybody. Harmlessness is a most powerful form of Yoga and will take you speedily to your goal. This is what I call nisarga yoga, the Natural Yoga. It is the art of living in peace and harmony, in friendliness and love. The fruit of it is happiness, uncaused and endless.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Nisarga Yoga
Source: I am That, P.173.

“(…) one is always free. You are both conscious and free to be conscious. Nobody can take this away from you. (…)”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Freedom
Source: "I am That." P.48.

“The entire purpose of a clean and well-ordered life is to liberate man from the thralldom of chaos and the burden of sorrow. (…) What is wrong with a life which is free from problems? Personality is merely a reflection of the real. (…) Once you realize that the person is merely a shadow of the reality, but not reality itself, you cease to fret and worry. You agree to be guided from within and life becomes a journey into the unknown.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Clean, well-ordered life
Source: "I am That.' P.33.

“(…) Spiritual practice is will asserted and re-asserted. Who has not daring will not accept the real even when offered. Unwillingness born out of fear is the only obstacle.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Sadhana - spiritual practice
Source: I am That, P.172.

“(…) To see myself in everybody and everybody in myself most certainly is love.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Love
Source: "I am That." P.91.