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Nisargadatta Maharaj QUOTES

Nisargadatta Maharaj QUOTES

1 " Wisdom is knowing I am nothing,
Love is knowing I am everything,
and between the two my life moves. "

― Nisargadatta Maharaj

2 " You will receive everything you need when you stop asking for what you do not need "

― Nisargadatta Maharaj

3 " 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. "

― Nisargadatta Maharaj

4 " 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. "

― Nisargadatta Maharaj , I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

5 " 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. "

― Nisargadatta Maharaj , I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

6 " Question: You seem to advise me to be self-centered to the point of
egoism. Must I not yield even to my interest in other people?

Maharaj: Your interest in others is egoistic, self-concerned, self-
oriented. You are not interested in others as persons, but only
as far as they enrich, or enoble your own image of yourself.
And the ultimate in selfishness is to care only for the protection,
preservation and multiplication of one's own body. By body I
mean all that is related to your name and shape--- your family,
tribe, country, race, etc. To be attached to one's name and
shape is selfishness. A man who knows that he is neither body
nor mind cannot be selfish, for he has nothing to be selfish for.
Or, you may say, he is equally 'selfish' on behalf of everybody
he meets; everybody's welfare is his own. The feeling 'I am the
world, the world is myself' becomes quite natural; once it is es-
tablished, there is just no way of being selfish. To be selfish
means to covet, to acquire, accumulate on behalf of the part
against the whole.

I Am That

Nisargadatta Maharaj "

― Nisargadatta Maharaj

7 " Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far.
The secret is in action - here and now.
It is your behavior that blinds you to yourself.
Disregard whatever you think yourself to be and act as if you were absolutely perfect
- whatever your idea of perfection may be.
All you need is courage. "

― Nisargadatta Maharaj

8 " Your expectation of something unique and dramatic, of some wonderful explosion, is merely hindering and delaying your Self Realization. You are not to expect an explosion, for the explosion has already happened - at the moment when you were born, when you realized yourself as Being-Knowing-Feeling. There is only one mistake you are making: you take the inner for the outer and the outer for the inner. What is in you, you take to be outside you and what is outside, you take to be in you. The mind and feelings are external, but you take them to be intimate. You believe the world to be objective, while it is entirely a projection of your psyche. That is the basic confusion and no new explosion will set it right! You have to think yourself out of it. There is no other way. "

― Nisargadatta Maharaj , I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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. "

― Nisargadatta Maharaj

10 " I leave my human nature to unfold according to its destiny. I remain as I AM. "

― Nisargadatta Maharaj

11 " 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. "

― Nisargadatta Maharaj , I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

12 " All I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect "

― Nisargadatta Maharaj

13 " Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers. When the centre of selfishness is no longer, all desires for pleasure and fear of pain cease; one is no longer interested in being happy; beyond happiness there is pure intensity, inexhaustible energy, the ecstasy of giving from a perennial source. "

― Nisargadatta Maharaj , I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

14 " Wisdom tells me I am nothing, love tells me I am everything. Between the two, my life flows. "

― Nisargadatta Maharaj

15 " The man who carries a parcel is anxious not to lose it -- he is parcel-conscious. The man who cherishes the feeling 'I am' is self-conscious. The jnani holds on to nothing and cannot be said to be conscious. And yet he is not unconscious. He is the very heart of awareness. We call him digambara clothed in space, the Naked One, beyond all appearance. There is no name and shape under which he may be said to exist, yet he is the only one that truly is. "

― Nisargadatta Maharaj

16 " Each pleasure is wrapped in pain. You soon discover that you cannot have one without the other … Real happiness is not vulnerable, because it does not depend on circumstances … Real happiness flows from within. "

― Nisargadatta Maharaj , I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

17 " There is a vastness beyond the farthest reaches of the mind. That vastness is my home; that vastness is myself. And that vastness is also love. "

― Nisargadatta Maharaj , I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

18 " Don’t try to reform yourself; just see the futility of all change. The changeful keeps on changing while the changeless is waiting. "

― Nisargadatta Maharaj , I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

19 " Self-realization definitely comes first. The mind cannot go beyond itself by itself. It must explode. "

― Nisargadatta Maharaj , I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

20 " It does not matter much what happens, for ultimately the return to balance and harmony is inevitable. The heart of things is at peace. "

― Nisargadatta Maharaj , I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj