All that a guru can tell you is: Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj More Quotes by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj More Quotes From Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Whatever comes and goes, is not reality. See the event as event only. Then you are vulnerable to reality, no longer armoured against it, as you were when you gave reality to events and experiences. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj eventsvulnerablereality Past and future are in the mind only - I am now. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj spiritualpositivepast 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. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj preynot-afraidtime 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. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj lightspirituallove-is My actual experience is not different. It is my evaluation and attitude that differ. I see the same world as you do, but not the same way. There is nothing mysterious about it. Everybody sees the world through the idea he has of himself. As you think yourself to be, so you think the world to be. If you imagine yourself as separate from the world, the world will appear as separate from you and you will experience desire and fear. I do not see the world as separate from me and so there is nothing for me to desire, or fear. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj attitudeideasthinking 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. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj asking-questionssilencemind The world is like a sheet of paper on which something is typed. The reading and the meaning will vary with the reader, but the paper is the common factor, always present, rarely perceived. When the ribbon is removed, typing leaves no trace on the paper. So is my mind - the impressions keep on coming, but no trace is left. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj readingmindworld What has been attained may again be lost. Only when you realise the true peace, the peace you have never lost, that peace will remain with you for it was never away. Instead of searching for what you do not have, find out what is it that you have never lost. That which is there before the beginning and after the ending of everything, to That there is no birth nor death. That Immovable state, which is not affected by the birth and death of a body or a mind, that state you must perceive. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj bodymindmay Abandon false ideas, that is all. There is no need of true ideas. There aren't any. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj abandonideasneeds 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. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj wisdomteachingspiritual When you go beyond awareness, there is a state of nonduality, in which there is no cognition, only pure being. In the state of nonduality, all separation ceases. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj cognitionseparationawareness Refuse to think in terms of this or that. All pain needs investigation. The mind is nothing else but the self. Assumption obscures reality without destroying it. All separation, every kind of estrangement and alienation is false..Your being a person is due to the illusion of space and time.The mind creates time and space and takes its own creations for reality. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj painrealitythinking In my world, nothing ever goes wrong. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj positive-thinkingworld 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. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj consciousnesspurposemeditation By being with yourself, the 'I am', by watching yourself in your daily life with alert interest, with the intention to understand rather than judge, in full acceptance of whatever may emerge, because it is there, you encourage the deep to come to the surface, and enrich your life and consciousness with its captive energies. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj acceptancejudgingmay The world is an illusion. Why is it unreal? Because none of the knowledge is going to remain permanent, as real knowledge. I had a number of identities; I was a child, I was a boy, I was a teenager, I was a middle-aged man, I was an old man. Like other identities I thought would remain constant, they never remained so. Finally, I became very old. . . So which identity remained honest with me? Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj teenagerrealchildren Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj here-and-nowabsolutesperfection All I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj making-loveselfperfect 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. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj consciouspeopleneeds 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. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj diversityselfnames
