Top 100 Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Quotes
#1. Suffering is primarily a
call for attention, which itself is a movement of love. More than
happiness, love wants growth, the widening and deepening of awareness and consciousness and being. Whatever prevents that, becomes a cause of pain, and love does not shirk from pain.
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#2. Meditation will help you to find your bonds, loosen them, untie them and cast your moorings. When you are no longer attached to anything, you have done your share. The rest will be done for you.
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#3. The primary purpose of meditation is to become conscious of, and familiar with, our inner life. The ultimate purpose is to reach the source of life and consciousness.
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#5. There is nothing to do, just be. Do nothing. Be. No climbing mountains and sitting in caves. I do not even say "be yourself" since you do not know yourself. Just be.
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#6. When I look beyond the mind, I see the witness. Beyond the witness, there is infinite intensity of emptiness and silence.
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#7. Don't rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether.
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#8. These moments of inner quiet will burn out all obstacles without fail. Don't doubt its efficacy. Try it.
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#9. The desire for truth is the highest of all desires, yet, it is still a desire. All desires must be given up for the real to be ... When all search ceases, it is the Supreme State.
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#10. Our usual attitude is of 'I am this'. Separate consistently and perseveringly the 'I am' from 'this' or 'that', and try to feel what is means to be, just to be, without being 'this' or 'that'.
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#12. If you are angry or in pain, separate yourself from anger and pain and watch them. Externalization is the first step to liberation.
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#13. Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it. By being a slave to your desires and fears, you disturb peace.
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#14. You have never been, nor shall ever be, a person. Refuse to consider yourself as one. But as long as you do not even doubt yourself to be Mr. So-and-so, there is little hope. When you refuse to open your eyes, what can you be shown?
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#15. Even faith in God is only a stage on the way. Ultimately you abandon all, for you come to something so simple that there are no words to express it.
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#17. When you know beyond all doubting that the same life flows through all that is, and you are that life, you will love all naturally and spontaneously.
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#18. Instead of searching for what you do not have, find out what it is that you have never lost.
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#19. There is in the body, a current of energy, affection and intelligence, which guides, maintains and energizes the body. Discover that current and stay with it.
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#21. To go beyond the mind, you must be silent and quiet. Peace and silence, silence and peace - this is the way beyond. Stop asking questions.
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#23. There is no second, or higher self to search for. You are the highest self, only give up the false ideas you have about your self.
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#24. Freedom is from something. What are you to be free from? Obviously, you must be free from the person you take yourself to be, for it is the idea you have of yourself that keeps you in bondage.
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#25. Let the dream unroll itself to its very end. You cannot help it. But you can look at the dream as a dream, refuse it the stamp of reality.
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#27. Meet you own self. Be with your own self, listen to it, obey it, cherish it, keep it in mind ceaselessly. You need no other guide.
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#29. Imagine a dense forest full of tigers and you in a strong steel cage. Knowing that you are well protected by the cage, you watch the tigers fearlessly. Next, you find the tigers in the cage and yourself roaming about in the jungle. Last, the cage disappears and you ride the tigers!
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#30. All happiness comes from awareness. The more we are conscious the deeper the joy. Acceptance of pain, non-resistance, courage and endurance - these open deep and perennial sources of real happiness, true bliss.
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#32. The essence of saintliness is total acceptance of the present moment,
harmony with things as they happen.
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#33. There is no 'my self' and 'his self'. There is the Self, the only Self of all. Misled by the diversity of names and shapes, minds and bodies, you imagine multiple selves.
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#39. What is the worth of a happiness for which you must strive and work?
Real happiness is spontaneous and effortless.
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#40. There is no such thing as unconsciousness for it is not experienceable. We infer unconsciousness when there is a lapse in memory or communication.
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#41. The real is behind and beyond words, incommunicable, directly experienced, explosive in its effect on the mind. It is easily had when nothing else is wanted.
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#42. Believe me, there is no goal, nor a way to reach it. You are the way and the goal, there is nothing else to reach except yourself.
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#44. To find reality you must be real in the smallest daily action; there can be no deceit in the search for truth.
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#45. You may try to trace how a thing happens, but you cannot find out why a thing is as it is. A thing is as it is because the universe is as it is.
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#46. Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind.
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#47. You begin by letting thoughts flow and watching them. The very observation slows down the mind till it stops altogether. Once the mind is quiet, keep it quiet. Don't get bored with peace, be in it, go deeper into it.
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#48. All that a guru can tell you is:
'My dear Sir, you are quite mistaken about yourself.
You are not the person you take yourself to be.'
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#50. Nobody ever fails in Yoga ... It is slow in the beginning and rapid in the end.
When one is fully matured, realization is explosive.
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#52. For me the moment of death will be a moment of jubilation, not of fear. I cried when I was born and I shall die laughing.
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#53. Realize that your world is only a reflection of yourself and stop finding fault with the reflection. Attend to yourself, set yourself right; mentally and emotionally. The physical self will follow automatically.
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#54. You are too much concerned with past and future. It is all due to your longing to continue, to protect yourself against extinction. And as you want to continue, you want others to keep you company, hence your concern with their survival. But what you call survival is but the survival of a dream.
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#55. Nothing troubles me. I offer no resistance to trouble - therefore it does not stay with me. On your side there is so much trouble. On mine there is no trouble at all. Come to my side.
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#56. Do you realize the unimaginable greatness, the holiness of what you so casually call 'consciousness'? It is the unmanifest Absolute aware of its awareness through the manifestation, of which your mind-body is presently a part.
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#57. When effort is needed, effort will appear. When effortlessness becomes essential, it will assert itself. You need not push life about. Just flow with it and give yourself completely to the task of the present moment ...
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#58. The window is the absence of the wall, and it gives air and light because it is empty. Be empty of all mental content, of all imagination and effort, and the very absence of obstacles will cause reality to rush in.
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#59. If you want peace and harmony in the world, you must have peace and harmony in your
hearts and minds.
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#60. Once you understand that the false needs time and what needs time is false, you are nearer the Reality, which is timeless, ever in the NOW.
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#61. 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.
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#63. The personal needs a base, a body to identify oneself with, just as a colour needs a surface to appear on.
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#64. The sum and substance of my teaching is this: Don't be dishonest to your vital breath; worship that only, abide in that only, accept it as yourself. And when you worship in this manner, it can lead you anywhere, to any heights- this is the quintessence of my talks.
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#67. Even for a moment do not think that you are the body. Give yourself no name, no shape. In the darkness and the silence reality is found.
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#68. When I see I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I see I am everything, that is love. My life is a movement between these two.
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#69. I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future.
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#71. Moods are in the mind and do not matter. Go within, go beyond. Cease being fascinated by the content of your consciousness. When you reach the deep layers of your true being, you will find that the mind's surface-play affects you very little.
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#72. There is nothing wrong with duality as long as it does not create conflict. Multiplicity and variety without strife is joy. In pure consciousness there is light. For warmth, contact is needed. Above the unity of being is the union of love. Love is the purpose of duality.
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#73. The innermost light, shining peacefully and timelessly in the heart, is the real Guru. All others merely show the way.
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#74. The world does not yield to changing. By its very nature it is painful and transient. See it as it is and divest yourself of all desire and fear. When the world does not hold and bind you, it becomes an abode of joy and beauty. You can be happy in the world only when you are free of it.
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#76. When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the supreme state will come to you uninvited and unexpected.
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#79. Would people know that nothing can happen unless the entire universe makes it happen, they would achieve much more with less expenditure of energy.
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#80. I ask you what is the taste of your mouth all you can do is to say: it is neither sweet nor bitter, nor sour nor astringent; it is what remains when all these tastes are not. Similarly, when all distinctions and reactions are no more, what remains is reality, simple and solid.
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#81. Stop imagining yourself being or doing this or that and the realization that you are the source and heart of all will dawn on you.
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#82. You take yourself to be limited, but you are not. Discover this. Stay silent and attentive. Be earnest about it. Just be aware of your being here and now. Reality will find you.
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#85. You can become a night watchman and live happily. It is what you are inwardly that matters. Your inner peace and joy you have to earn. It is much more difficult than earning money. No university can teach you to be yourself.
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#86. When all the false self-identifications are thrown away, what remains is all-embracing love.
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#88. True happiness cannot be found in things that change and pass away. Pleasure and pain alternate inexorably. Happiness comes from the Self and can be found in the Self only. Find your real Self and all else will come with it.
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#90. You are so used to the support of concepts that when your concepts leave you, although it is your true state, you get frightened and try to cling to them again.
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#91. Truth gives no advantage. It gives no higher status, no power over others; all you get is truth and freedom from the false.
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#92. Discard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen, and you need not search for truth; truth will find you ...
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#93. Time is in the mind, space is in the mind. The law of cause and effect is also a way of thinking. In reality all is here and now and all is one. Multiplicity and diversity are in the mind only.
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#94. The legitimate function of the mind is to tell you what is not. But if you want positive knowledge, you must go beyond the mind.
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#95. The old grooves must be erased in your brain, without forming new ones. You must realize yourself as the immovable, behind and beyond the movable, the silent witness of all that happens.
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#96. You know that you are. Don't burden yourself with names, just be. Any name or shape you give yourself obscures your real nature.
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#100. As long as the mind is there, your body and your world are there. Your world is mind-made, subjective, enclosed within the mind, fragmentary, temporary, personal, hanging on the thread of memory.
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