Pure knowledge is not imparted by another; it comes unmasked. It is the one that is listening: it is your own true nature. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj More Quotes by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj More Quotes From Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj What kind of Yoga do you want to practice, the Yoga of getting or the Yoga of giving?... One enslaves, the other liberates. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj yoga practice giving If you are angry or in pain, separate yourself from anger and pain and watch them. Externalization is the first step to liberation. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj pain watches firsts Knowing that you are nothing is Wisdom, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj knowing What you need will come to you if you do not ask for what you do not need. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj asks ifs needs Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj make-happy abandon pain 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. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj meditation inspiration practice To find reality you must be real in the smallest daily action; there can be no deceit in the search for truth. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj deceit real action The only difference between us is that I am aware of my natural state, while you are bemused.... We discover it by being earnest, by searching, enquiring, questioning daily and hourly, by giving one's life to this discovery. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj differences discovery giving I ask you only to stop imagining that you were born, have parents, are a body, will die and so on. Just try, make a beginning-it is not as hard as you think. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj parent love thinking Earnestness is the most important thing. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj earnestness important-things important Until we can look at fear and accept it as the shadow of personal existence, as persons we are bound to be afraid. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj shadow fear looks 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. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj jubilation moments laughing All separation, every kind of estrangement and alienation is false. All is one. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj alienation separation kind All is a play in consciousness. All divisions are illusory. You can know the false only. The true you must yourself be. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj division consciousness play By all means attend to your duties. Action, in which you are not emotionally involved and which is beneficial and does not cause suffering will not bind you. You may be engaged in several directions and work with enormous zest, yet remain inwardly free and quiet, with a mirror like mind, which reflects all, without being affected. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj freedom mirrors mean We are the creators and creatures of each other, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj creator burden creatures To expound and propogate concepts is simple, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj difficult simple mind Between the banks of pleasure and pain flows the river of life. If you spend much time on either bank you will miss out on life. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj pain missing rivers All you can teach is understanding. The rest comes on its own. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj teach understanding Unless you make tremendous efforts, you will not be convinced that effort will take you nowhere. The self is so self-confident that unless it is totally discouraged it will not give up. Mere verbal conviction is not enough. Hard facts alone can show the absolute nothingness of the self-image. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj effort giving-up self
