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 More Quotes by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj More Quotes From Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Love.. is seeing the unity under the imaginary diversity. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj unity diversity love-is As you watch your mind, you discover your self as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover your self as the light behind the watcher. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj light self dark To see the universe as it is, you must step beyond the net [the matrix]. It is not hard to do so, as the net is full of holes. Look at the net and its many contradictions. You do and undo at every step. You want peace, love and happiness, and work hard to create pain, hatred and war. You want longevity and you overeat. You want friendship and you exploit. See your net as made of such contradictions and remove them - your very seeing them will make them go away. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj pain hard-work war There is no question of going anywhere, arriving anywhere, or doing anything; you are there already. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj arriving inspirational Stay open and quiet, that is all. What you seek is so near you that there is no place for a way. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj quiet way The only thing required of you is to allow all your raging desires to relax into preferences. Then everything will be done through you and for you, not by you. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj relax done desire In the mirror of your mind all kinds of pictures appear and disappear. Knowing that they are entirely your own creations, watch them silently come and go. Be alert, but not perturbed. This attitude of silent observation is the very foundation of yoga. You see the picture, but you are not the picture. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj yoga knowing attitude Do not neglect this body. This is the house of God; take care of it, only in this body can God be realized. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj body house inspirational I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj future fear past To believe that you depend on things and people for happiness is due to ignorance of your true nature; to know that you need nothing to be happy, except Self-knowledge, is wisdom. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj ignorance self believe Increase and widen your desires till nothing but reality can fulfill them. It is not desire that is wrong, but its narrowness and smallness. Desire is devotion. By all means be devoted to the real, the infinite, the eternal heart of being. Transform desire into love. All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be are expressions of your longing for happiness. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj buddhist real heart It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj pain truth spiritual It is only your self-identification with your mind that makes you happy or unhappy. Rebel against your slavery to your mind, see your bonds as self-created and break the chains of attachment and revulsion. Keep in mind your goal of freedom, until it dawns on you that you are already free, that freedom is not something in the distant future to be earned with painful efforts, but perennially one's own, to be used! Liberation is not an acquisition but a matter of courage, the courage to believe that you are free already and to act on it. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj wisdom spiritual believe Give up all ideas about yourself and simply be. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj giving-up giving ideas The problem is not yours - it is your mind's only. Begin by disassociating yourself from your mind. Resolutely remind yourself that you are not the mind and that its problems are not yours. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj problem mind The window is the absence of the wall, and it gives air and light because it is empty. Be empty of all mental content, of all imagination and effort, and the very absence of obstacles will cause reality to rush in. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj wall light reality Watch your thoughts as you watch the street traffic. People come and go; you register without response. It may not be easy in the beginning, but with some practice you will find that your mind can function on many levels at the same time and you can be aware of them all. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj inspiration practice people Nothing can trouble you but your own imagination. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj absolute-certainty imagination trouble Simply look at whatever happens and know that you are beyond it. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj whatever-happens happens looks Don't rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj bondage inspiration mind
