The unchangeable can only be realised in silence. Once realised, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj More Quotes by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj More Quotes From Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj 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 diversity self names You can become a night watchman and live happily. It is what you are inwardly that matters. Your inner peace and joy you have to earn. It is much more difficult than earning money. No university can teach you to be yourself. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj being-yourself joy night To know the self as the only reality and all else as temporal and transient is freedom, peace and joy. It is all very simple. Instead of seeing things as imagined, learn to see them as they are. When you can see everything as it is, you will also see yourself as you are. It is like cleansing a mirror. The same mirror that shows you the world as it is, will also show you your own face. The thought 'I am' is the polishing cloth. Use it. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj mirrors simple reality It is your fixed idea that you must be something or other, that blinds you. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj fixed ideas In my world love is the only law. I do not ask for love, I give it. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj law love giving Give up the idea of being a person, that is all. You need not become what you are anyhow. There is the identity of what you are and there is the person superimposed on it. All you know is the person, the identity - which is not a person - you do not know, for you never doubted, never asked yourself the crucial question: 'Who am I?' Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj giving-up identity ideas Forget the known, don't be all the time immersed in your experiences. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj known forget With self-awareness you grow more intelligent. In awareness you learn, in self-awareness you learn about yourself. Of course, you can only learn what you are not. To know what you are, you must go beyond the mind. Awareness is the point at which the mind reaches out beyond itself into reality. In awareness you seek not what pleases, but what is true. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj intelligent self reality In the stillness of the mind I saw myself as I am - unbound. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj unbound saws mind All you need is already within you, only you must approach your self with reverence and love. Self-condemnation and self-distrust are grievous errors. Your constant flight from pain and search for pleasure is a sign of love you bear for your self, all I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect. Deny yourself nothing -- glue your self infinity and eternity and discover that you do not need them; you are beyond. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj errors pain love-you 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. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj behaviour meditation needs All your desires, whatever they may be, are expressions of your longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj expression wish desire To know that you are neither the body nor mind, watch yourself steadily and live unaffected by your body and mind, completely aloof, as if you were dead. It means you have no vested interests, either in the body or in the mind. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj wisdom spiritual mean Truth gives no advantage. It gives no higher status, no power over others; all you get is truth and freedom from the false. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj advantage higher giving The unexpected and unpredictable is real. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj unpredictable unexpected real To see the unreal is wisdom. Beyond this lies the inexpressible. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj unreal lying How can an unsteady mind make itself steady? Of course it cannot. It is the nature of the mind to roam about. All you can do is to shift the focus of consciousness beyond the mind. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj consciousness focus mind There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj being-yourself business practice 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'. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj attitude trying mean No particular thought can be mind's natural state, only silence. Not the idea of silence, but silence itself. When the mind is in its natural state, it reverts to silence spontaneously after every experience, or, rather, every experience happens against the background of silence. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj silence mind ideas
