“You need both clarity and earnestness for self-knowledge. You need maturity of heart and mind, which comes through earnest application in daily life of whatever little you have understood. (…).”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Source: I am That, P.124.

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Indian guru 1897–1981

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