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 Don't pretend to be what you are not. Don't refuse to be what you are. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj refuse The mind creates the abyss, and the heart crosses it. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj mindheartlife You are not in this world. This world is inside you. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj this-worldworld Pleasure puts you to sleep and pain wakes you up. If you don't want to suffer, don't go to sleep. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj painsufferingsleep True happiness cannot be found in things that change and pass away. Pleasure and pain alternate inexorably. Happiness comes from the Self and can be found in the Self only. Find your real Self and all else will come with it. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj painrealspiritual Meditation will help you to find your bonds, loosen them, untie them and cast your moorings. When you are no longer attached to anything, you have done your share. The rest will be done for you. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj donemeditationhelping You need not get at it, for you are it. It will get at you, if you give it a chance. Let go your attachment to the unreal and the real will swiftly and smoothly step into its own. Stop imagining yourself being or doing this or that and the realization that you are the source and heart of all will dawn upon you. With this will come great love which is not choice or predilection, nor attachment, but a power which makes all things love-worthy and lovable. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj realletting-goheart Having never left the house you are looking for the way home Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj awakeninghousehome Come to the conclusion: I am unborn, I was unborn and I shall remain unborn Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj unbornconclusion Your weakness is due to your conviction that you were born into the world. In reality the world is ever recreated in you and by you. See everything as emanating from the light which is the source of your own being. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj lightpeacereality 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. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj bodymindmay Awareness is ever there. It need not be realized. Open the shutter of the mind, and it will be flooded with light. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj lightmindneeds You have put so much energy into building a prison for yourself. Now spend as much on demolishing it. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj buildingprisonenergy All that happens is the cause of all that happens. Causes are numberless; the idea of a sole cause is an illusion. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj causesspiritualideas It is just like your tape-recorder. It records, it reproduces - all by itself. You only listen. Similarly, I watch all that happens, including my talking to you. It is not me who talks, the words appear in my mind and then I hear them said. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj tapemindtalking Devotion to your goal makes you live a clean and orderly life , given to search for truthand to helping people, and realization makes noble virtue easy and spontaneous, by removing for good the obstacles in the shape of desires and fears and wrong ideas . Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj goalpeopleideas You must realize first of all that you are the proof of everything, including yourself. None can prove your existence, because his existence must be confirmed by you first. Your being and knowing you owe nobody. Remember, you are entirely on your own. You do not come from somewhere, you do not go anywhere. You are timeless being and awareness. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj knowingremembers-youremember-you To go beyond you need alert immobility, quiet attention. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj attentionquietneeds Seeking out causes is a pastime of the mind. There is no duality of cause and effect. Everything is its own cause. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj cause-and-effectcausesmind Even faith in God is only a stage on the way. Ultimately you abandon all, for you come to something so simple that there are no words to express it. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj simplefaith-in-godway
