To deal with things knowledge of things is needed. To deal with people, you need insight, sympathy. To deal with yourself, you need nothing. Be what you are--conscious being--and don't stray away from yourself. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj More Quotes by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj More Quotes From Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Realize that your world is only a reflection of yourself and stop finding fault with the reflection. Attend to yourself, set yourself right; mentally and emotionally. The physical self will follow automatically. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj reflection self world Everybody does the same mistake: refusing the means, but wanting the ends. You want peace and harmony in the world, but refuse to have them in yourself. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj mistake peace mean Instead of searching for what you do not have, find out what it is that you have never lost. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj lost Shift your attention from words to silence and you will hear. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj silence attention Once you realize that the world is your own projection, you are free of it. You need not free yourself of a world that does not exist, except in your own imagination! However is the picture, beautiful or ugly, you are painting it and you are not bound by it. Realize that there is nobody to force it on you, that it is due to the habit of taking the imaginary to be real. See the imaginary as imaginary and be free of fear. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj real fear beautiful We miss the real by lack of attention, and create the unreal by excess of imagination. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj real imagination missing When you sit quiet and watch yourself, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj mind may watches Know yourself to be the changeless witness of the changeful mind. That is enough. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj know-yourself enough mind To know that you are a prisoner of your mind is the dawn of wisdom. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj prisoner dawn mind If you seek reality you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling. Even the idea of being man or woman, or even human should be discarded. The ocean of life contains all, not only humans. So, first of all abandon all self-identification, stop thinking of yourself as such-and-such or so-and-so, this or that. Abandon all self-concern, worry not about your welfare, material or spiritual, abandon every desire, gross or subtle, stop thinking of achievement of any kind. You are complete here and now, you need absolutely nothing. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj ocean spiritual thinking-of-you A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj effort light self There is no need of a way out! Don't you see that a way out is also part of the dream All you have to do is see the dream as dream. ...Wherever it leads you, it will be a dream. The very idea of going beyond the dream is illusory. Why go anywhere Just realize that you are dreaming a dream you call the world and stop looking for ways out. The dream is not your problem. Your problem is that you like one part of your dream and not another. Love all, or none of it, and stop complaining. When you have seen the dream as a dream, you have done all that needs be done. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj complaining dream ideas 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 flow suffering moving You will receive everything you need when you stop asking for what you do not need Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj asking needs Sometimes I feel I am everything, I call that Love. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj flow feels sometimes It has nothing to do with effort. Just turn away, look between the thoughts, rather than at the thoughts. When you happen to walk in a crowd, you do not fight every man you meet, you just find your way between. When you fight, you invite a fight. But when you do not resist, you meet no resistance. When you refuse to play the game, you are out of it. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj fighting play men The way to truth lies through the destruction of the false. To destroy the false, you must question your most inveterate beliefs. Of these the idea that you are the body is the worst. With the body comes the world, with the world - God, who is supposed to have created the world and thus it starts - fears, religions, prayers, sacrifices, all sorts of systems - all to protect and support the child-man, frightened out of his wits by monsters of his own making. Realize that what you are cannot be born nor die and with the fear gone, all suffering ends. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj prayer lying children It is not what you do, but what you stop doing that matters. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj matter Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj tasks goal simple Be conscious of yourself, watch your mind, give it your full attention. Don't look for quick results; there may be none within your noticing. Unknown to you, your psyche will undergo a change; there will be more clarity in your thinking, charity in your feeling, purity in your behavior. You need not aim at these - you will witness the change all the same. For, what you are now is the result of inattention and what you become will be the fruit of attention. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj feelings giving thinking
