Nisargadatta Maharaj: Doing

Nisargadatta Maharaj was Indian guru. Explore interesting quotes on doing.
Nisargadatta Maharaj: 276 quotes35 likes

“People are afraid to die, because they do not know what is death. The gnani has died before his death, he saw that there was nothing to be afraid of. The moment you know your real being, you are afraid of nothing. Death gives freedom and power. (…) The happiness of being absolutely free is beyond description. (…).”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Death
Source: I am That, P.139.

“(…) if you can change yourself you will find that no other change is needed. To change the picture you merely change the film, you do not attack the cinema screen! (…) Clarify your mind, purify your heart, sanctify your life – this is the quickest way to a change of your world.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Change
Source: I am That, P.129.

“(…) Work on, and the universe will work with you. After all the very idea of doing the right thing comes to you from the unknown. Leave it to the unknown as far as the results go, just go through the necessary movements. You are merely one of the links in the long chain of causation. Fundamentally, all happens in the mind only. When you work for something whole-heartedly and steadily, it happens, for it is the function of the mind to make things happen. (…).”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Work
Source: I am That, P.203.

“(The gnani) "(…) tastes of the pure, uncaused, undiluted bliss. He is happy and fully aware that happiness is his very nature and that he need not do anything, nor strive for anything to secure it. It follows him, more real than the body, nearer than the mind itself. (…)."”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Bliss and happiness
Source: I am That, P.179.

“(…) 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.

“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.

“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.

“(…) 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.

“(…) 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.

“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.

“(…) All you can do is to grasp the central point, that reality is not an event and does not happen and whatever happens, whatever comes and goes, is not reality. (…).”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Reality
Source: I am That, P.190.

“Whatever you do against your better knowledge is sin. (…) Remembering your self is virtue, forgetting your self is sin. (…)”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Sin and virtue
Source: "I am That." P.72.

“Everything happens all the time, but you must be ready for it. Readiness is ripeness. You do not see the real because your mind is not ready for it.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Reality
Source: I am That, P.161.

“(…) Of what use is your arguing for or against God, when you just do not know who is God, and what are you talking about. (…).”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

God
Source: I am That, P.152.

“(…) Freedom to do what one likes is really bondage, while being free to do what one must, what is right, is real freedom.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Freedom
Source: I am That, P.114.

“When you are free of the world, you can do something about it. As long as you are a prisoner of it, you are helpless to change it. On the contrary, whatever you do will aggravate the situation.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Change
Source: "I am That." P.45.

“(…) make your world perfect, by all means. If you believe in God, work with Him. If you do not, become one. Either see the world as a play or work at it with all your might. (…).”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

God
Source: I am That, P.156.

“The essence of slavery is to imagine yourself to be a process, to have past and future, to have history. In fact, we have no history, we are not a process, we do not develop, nor decay (…).”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Freedom
Source: I am That, P.189.