There is in the body, a current of energy, affection and intelligence, which guides, maintains and energizes the body. Discover that current and stay with it. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj More Quotes by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj More Quotes From Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj There is only one meditation - the rigorous refusal to harbor thoughts. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj refusal meditation-practice inspiration Real happiness is not vulnerable, because it does not depend on circumstances. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj real doe happiness "I AM" itself is God. The seeking itself is God. In seeking you discover that you are neither body nor mind, but the love of the self in you for the self in all. The two are one. The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity, and that is love. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj unity self two When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the supreme state will come to you uninvited and unexpected. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj yoga spiritual world Do not try to know the truth, for knowledge by the mind is not true knowledge. But you can know what is not true-which is enough to liberate you from the false. The idea that you know what is true is dangerous, for it keeps you imprisoned in the mind. It is when you do not know, that you are free to investigate. And there can be no salvation, without investigation, because non investigation is the main cause of bondage. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj mind trying ideas I found myself desiring and knowing less and less, until I could say in utter astonishment: "I know nothing, I want nothing." Earlier I was sure of so many things, now I am sure of nothing. But I feel I have lost nothing by not knowing, because all my knowledge was false. My not knowing was in itself knowledge of the fact that all my knowledge is ignorance, that "I do not know" is the only true statement the mind can make....I do not claim to know what you do not. In fact, I know much less than you do. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj ignorance knowing mind Don't ask the mind to confirm what is beyond the mind. Direct experience is the only valid confirmation. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj confirmation direct mind A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj mind quiet needs Freedom to do what one likes is really bondage, while being free to do what one must, what is right, is real freedom. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj being-free likes real You are not what you think yourself to be, I assure you. The image you have of yourself is made up from memories and is purely accidental. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj made memories thinking Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers. When the centre of selfishness is no longer, all desires for pleasure and fear of pain cease; one is no longer interested in being happy; beyond happiness there is pure intensity, inexhaustible energy, the ecstasy of giving from a perennial source. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj pain love-is giving The real you is timeless and beyond life and death. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj real-you life-and-death real Nobody ever fails in Yoga....It is slow in the beginning and rapid in the end. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj failing yoga realization The real does not die, the unreal never lived. Set your mind right and all will be right. When you know that the world is one, that humanity is one, you will act accordingly. But first of all you must attend to the way you feel, think and live. Unless there is order in yourself, there can be no order in the world. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj real inspirational thinking Surely the memory of an event cannot pass for the event itself. Nor can the anticipation. There is something exceptional, unique, about the present event, which the previous, or the coming do not have. There is livingness about it, an actuality; it stands out as if illumined. There is the "stamp of reality" on the actual, which the past and future do not have. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj unique inspirational memories Freedom is from something. What are you to be free from? Obviously, you must be free from the person you take yourself to be, for it is the idea you have of yourself that keeps you in bondage. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj bondage persons ideas Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj imagining-yourself seeking mind Reality is neither subjective nor objective, neither mind nor matter, neither time nor space. These divisions need somebody to happen to, a conscious separate center. But reality is all and nothing, the totality and the exclusion, the fullness and the emptiness, fully consistent, absolutely paradoxical. You cannot speak about it, you can only lose yourself in it. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj space mind reality Just keep in mind the feeling 'I am', merge in it, till your mind and feeling become one. By repeated attempts you will stumble on the right balance of attention and affection and your mind will be firmly established in the thought-feeling 'I am'. Whatever you think, say, or do, this sense of immutable and affectionate being remains as the ever-present background of the mind. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj wisdom spiritual thinking Do you realize the unimaginable greatness, the holiness of what you so casually call 'consciousness'? It is the unmanifest Absolute aware of its awareness through the manifestation, of which your mind-body is presently a part. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj greatness body mind
