Top 100 Nisargadatta Maharaj Quotes
#1. Get hold of the main thing: That the world and the self are one and perfect. Only your attitude is faulty and needs readjustment.
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#2. 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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#4. The first steps in self-acceptance are not at all pleasant, for what one sees is not a happy sight. One needs all the courage to go further.
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#7. Watch your thoughts as you watch the street traffic. People come and go; you register without response. It may not be easy in the beginning, but with some practice you will find that your mind can function on many levels at the same time and you can be aware of them all.
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#10. Everybody does the same mistake: refusing the means, but wanting the ends. You want peace and harmony in the world, but refuse to have them in yourself.
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#12. To be a living being is not the ultimate state; there is something [the Reality] beyond, much more wonderful, which is neither being nor non-being, neither living nor not-living. It is a state of Pure Awareness, beyond the limitations of space and time.
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#13. 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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#14. The only thing required of you is to allow all your raging desires to relax into preferences. Then everything will be done through you and for you, not by you.
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#15. Leave greatness to others. Become so small that no one can see you. This conviction results from growing devotion to the supreme reality.
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#17. Your first task is to see the sorrow in you and around you; your next, to long intensely for liberation. The very intensity of longing will guide you; you need no other guide.
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#18. 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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#20. Until we can look at fear and accept it as the shadow of personal existence, as persons we are bound to be afraid.
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#21. Whatever happens, happens to you by you, through you; you are the creator, enjoyer and destroyer of all you perceive.
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#22. Stop, look, investigate, ask the right questions, come to the right conclusions and have the courage to act on them and see what happens. The first steps may bring the roof down on your head, but soon the commotion will clear and there will be peace and joy.
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#23. When pain is accepted for what it is, a lesson and a warning, and deeply looked into and heeded, the separation between pain and pleasure breaks down, both become just experience - painful when resisted, joyful when accepted.
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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. The world you perceive is made of consciousness; what you call matter is consciousness itself.
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#26. Being oneself is completely beyond all motivation. You cannot be yourself for some reason. You are yourself, and no reason is needed.
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#28. Once you say 'I want to find Truth', all your life will be deeply affected by it. All your mental and physical habits, feelings and emotions, desires and fears, plans and decisions will undergo a most radical transformation.
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#30. Punishment is but legalized crime. In a society built on prevention, rather than retaliation, there would be very little crime. The few exceptions will be treated medically, as of unsound mind and body.
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#32. Look at your mind dispassionately; this is enough to calm it. When it is quiet, you can go beyond it. Do not keep it busy all the time. Stop it - and just BE.
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#35. Your true meaning cannot be grasped or captured by words. You can never be equated with any words, because you are prior to words.
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#36. 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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#37. The essence of saintliness is total acceptance of the present moment,
harmony with things as they happen.
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#38. You want to know yourself. For this keep steadily in the focus of consciousness, the only clue you have: your certainty of being. Be with it, play with it, ponder over it, delve deeply into it, till the shell of ignorance breaks open and you emerge into the realm of reality.
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#39. 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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#41. The unchangeable can only be realised in silence. Once realised,
it will deeply affect the changeable, itself remaining unaffected.
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#43. Nothing can make you happier than you are. All search for happiness is misery and leads to more misery. The only happiness worth the name is the natural happiness of conscious being.
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#44. Stay open and quiet, that is all. What you seek is so near you that there is no place for a way.
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#45. When you sit quiet and watch yourself,
many things may come to the surface.
Do nothing about them, don't react to them.
As they have come, so will they go, by themselves.
All that matters is mindfulness, total awareness of oneself,
or rather, of one's mind.
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#46. Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with life, and gets stuck at the banks, that it becomes a problem.
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#47. 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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#48. One who is afraid of time becomes a prey of time. But time itself becomes a prey of that one who is not afraid of it.
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#49. 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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#50. 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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#52. 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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#53. All that happens is the cause of all that happens. Causes are numberless; the idea of a sole cause is an illusion.
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#54. 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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#56. These moments of inner quiet will burn out all obstacles without fail. Don't doubt its efficacy. Try it.
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#58. The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.
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#59. 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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#60. 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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#62. 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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#65. In nature nothing is at standstill, everything pulsates, appears and disappears. Heart, breath, digestion, sleep and waking - birth and death - everything comes and goes in waves. Rhythm, periodicity, harmonious alternation of extremes is the rule. No use rebelling against the very pattern of life.
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#66. Love tells me, i am everything.
Wisdom tells me, i am nothing.
And in between flows my life.
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#68. Do what you believe in and believe in what you do. The rest is a waste of time and energy.
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#69. Words can bring you only up to their own limit; to go beyond, you must abandon them. Remain as the silent witness only.
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#70. 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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#71. 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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#72. Don't ask the mind to confirm what is beyond the mind. Direct experience is the only valid confirmation.
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#73. The silence before the words were spoken, is it different from the silence that came after?
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#75. 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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#76. 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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#77. Consciousness is an attribute while awareness is not; one can be aware of being conscious, but not conscious of awareness. God is the totality of consciousness, but awareness is beyond all
being as well as not-being.
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#78. 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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#79. 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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#81. 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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#83. You need not know what you are. Enough to know what you are not. What you are you will never know, for every discovery reveals new dimensions to conquer. The unknown has no limits.
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#84. 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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#85. 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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#86. Instead of searching for what you do not have, find out what it is that you have never lost.
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#89. The problem is not yours - it is your mind's only. Begin by disassociating yourself from your mind. Resolutely remind yourself that you are not the mind and that its problems are not yours.
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#91. 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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#92. When you believe yourself to be a person, you see persons everywhere. In reality there are no persons, only threads of memories and habits. At the moment of realisation the person ceases.
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#93. 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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#94. 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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#96. What is beautiful? Whatever is perceived joyfully is beautiful. Bliss is the essence of beauty.
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#98. Freedom to do what one likes is really bondage, while being free to do what one must, what is right, is real freedom.
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#100. 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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