We miss the real by lack of attention, and create the unreal by excess of imagination. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj More Quotes by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj More Quotes From Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj The world you perceive is made of consciousness; what you call matter is consciousness itself. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj consciousnessmatterworld In reality, time and space exist in you. You do not exist in them. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj time-and-spacespacereality Unless you know yourself, what else can you know? Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj know-yourselfknows Who are you?”, my answer would be: “Nothing in particular. Yet, I am. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj particularwould-beanswers Whatever state I am in, I see it as a state of mind to be accepted as it is. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj meditationinspirationpractice You are not the body. You are the immensity and infinity of consciousness. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj consciousnessinfinitybody You begin by letting thoughts flow and watching them. The very observation slows down the mind till it stops altogether. Once the mind is quiet, keep it quiet. Don't get bored with peace, be in it, go deeper into it. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj boredinspirationpractice Concentration, Full Confidence, Pure Will. With these 3, what cannot be accomplished? Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj concentrationaccomplishedattitude Nothing can make you happier than you are. All search for happiness is misery and leads to more misery. The only happiness worth the name is the natural happiness of conscious being. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj wisdomspiritualnames When effort is needed, effort will appear. When effortlessness becomes essential, it will assert itself. You need not push life about. Just flow with it and give yourself completely to the task of the present moment. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj effortgivinglife To understand suffering, you must go beyond pain and pleasure. Your own desires and fears prevent you from understanding and thereby helping others. In reality there are no others, and by helping yourself you help everybody else. If you are serious about the suffering of mankind, you must perfect the only means of help you have, yourself. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj painhelping-othersmean The world does not yield to changing. By its very nature it is painful and transient. See it as it is and divest yourself of all desire and fear. When the world does not hold and bind you, it becomes an abode of joy and beauty. You can be happy in the world only when you are free of it. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj yielddesirejoy Stop imagining yourself being or doing this or that and the realization that you are the source and heart of all will dawn on you. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj imagining-yourselfdawnheart You are not the mind. If you know you are not the mind, then what difference does it make if it's busy or quiet? You are not the mind. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj differencesminddoe Being oneself is completely beyond all motivation. You cannot be yourself for some reason. You are yourself, and no reason is needed. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj being-yourselfmotivationreason Refuse all thoughts except one: the thought 'I am'. The mind will rebel in the beginning, but with patience and perseverance it will yield and keep quiet. Once you are quiet, things will begin to happen spontaneously and quite naturally, without any interference on your part. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj yieldperseverancemind See that you are not what you believe yourself to be. Fight with all the strength at your disposal against the idea that you are nameable and describable. You are not. Refuse to think of this or that. There is no other way out of misery, which you have created for yourself through blind acceptance without investigation. Suffering is a call for inquiry, all pain needs investigation. Don't be lazy to think. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj painfightingbelieve You are too much concerned with past and future. It is all due to your longing to continue, to protect yourself against extinction. And as you want to continue, you want others to keep you company, hence your concern with their survival. But what you call survival is but the survival of a dream. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj futuredreampast Pure knowledge is not imparted by another; it comes unmasked. It is the one that is listening: it is your own true nature. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj true-naturepurelistening Pain is physical; suffering is mental. Beyond the mind there is no suffering. Pain is essential for the survival of the body, but none compels you to suffer. 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 paininspirationmoving
