Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting. It is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj More Quotes by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj More Quotes From Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Awareness neither dies nor is re-born. It is the changeless reality itself. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj born awareness reality Words can bring you only up to their own limit; to go beyond, you must abandon them. Remain as the silent witness only. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj abandon silent limits 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. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj ignorance play reality Sadhana is a search for what to give up. Empty yourself completely. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj empty giving-up giving Life is love and love is life. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj and-love life-is love-is I am dead already. Physical death will make no difference in my case. I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future. Where there are no names and shapes, how can there be desire and fear? With desirelessness comes timelessness. I am safe, because what is not, cannot touch what is. You feel unsafe, because you imagine danger. Of course, your body as such is complex and vulnerable and needs protection. But not you. Once you realize your own unassailable being, you will be at peace. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj fear peace death 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. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj mind memories long The mind exists in two states: as water and as honey. The water vibrates at the least disturbance, while the honey, however disturbed, returns quickly to immobility. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj wisdom spiritual two 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. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj your-side spiritual doe 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. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj law reality thinking The silence before the words were spoken, is it different from the silence that came after? Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj silence-is different silence When I look beyond the mind, I see the witness. Beyond the witness, there is infinite intensity of emptiness and silence. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj silence mind looks Whatever you come across- go beyond Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Use your mind. Remember. Observe. You are not different from others. Most of their experiences are valid for you too. Think clearly and deeply, go into the structure of your desires and their ramifications. They are a most important part of your mental and emotional make-up and powerfully affect your actions. Remember, you cannot abandon what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj emotional remember-you thinking You have projected onto yourself a world of your own imagination, based on memories, on desires and fears, and you have imprisoned yourself in it. Break the spell and be free. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj imagination desire memories You're free. You've taken this burden of being a human being on yourself. You're free. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj burden humans taken All you need is to stop searching outside for what can be found only within. Set your vision right before you operate. You are suffering from acute misapprehension . Clarify your mind, purify your heart, sanctify your life - this is the quickest way to a change in your world. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj suffering mind heart It is the mind that tells you that the mind is there. Don't be deceived. All the endless arguments about the mind are produced by the mind itself, for its own protection, continuation and expansion. It is the blank refusal to consider the convolutions and convulsions of the mind that can take you beyond it. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj wisdom spiritual mind 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. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj sorrow spiritual long 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 events vulnerable reality
