Top 28 Nisargadatta Maharaj Quotes
#1. Love tells me, i am everything.
Wisdom tells me, i am nothing.
And in between flows my life.
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#2. The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.
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#4. Have your being outside this body of birth and death and all your problems will be solved. They exist because you believe yourself born to die. Undeceive yourself and be free. You are not a person.
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#5. Truth is not a reward for good behaviour, nor a prize for passing some tests. It cannot be brought about. It is the primary, the unborn, the ancient source of all that is. You are eligible because you are. You need not merit truth. It is your own ... Stand still, be quiet.
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#6. When you go deep inside nothing is all there is. There is no 'I am'. The 'I am' merges in the Absolute.
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#7. Whatever happens, happens to you by you, through you; you are the creator, enjoyer and destroyer of all you perceive.
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#9. Steady faith is stronger than destiny. Destiny is the result of causes, mostly accidental, and is therefore loosely woven. Confidence and good hope will overcome it easily.
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#10. You have put so much energy into building a prison for yourself. Now spend as much on demolishing it. In fact, demolition is easy, for the false dissolves when it is discovered.
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#11. And spirituality or what you call "religion" is mainly to understand this: that you don't require anything, you are a part of the totality, or reality.
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#13. You will receive everything you need when you stop asking for what you do not need
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#14. It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.
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#15. Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy.
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#17. Cooperate with your destiny, don't go against it, don't thwart it. Allow it to fulfill itself.
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#18. Learn to live without self-concern. For this you must know your own true being as indomitable, fearless, ever victorious. Once you know with absolute certainty that nothing can trouble you, you come to disregard your desires and fears, concepts and ideas and live by truth alone.
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#19. Love says 'I am everything.' Wisdom says 'I am nothing.' Between the two, my life flows.
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#20. To work in the world is hard, to refrain from all unnecessary work is even harder.
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#21. 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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#23. To deal with things knowledge of things is needed. To deal with
people, you need insight, sympathy. To deal with yourself, you need
nothing. Be what you are
conscious being
and don't stray away from
yourself.
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#24. Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows.
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#25. The interval between the beginning of 'I am' (birth or waking) and when you lose it again (death or deep sleep) is called 'time.
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#26. If you want to know your true nature, you must have yourself in mind all the time, until the secret of your being stands revealed.
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#27. In dream you love some and not others. On waking up you find you are love itself, embracing all. Personal love, however intense and genuine, invariably binds; love in freedom is love of all.
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