Whatever comes and goes, is not reality. See the event as event only. Then you are vulnerable to reality, no longer armoured against it, as you were when you gave reality to events and experiences. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj More Quotes by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj More Quotes From Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj The mind creates the abyss, and the heart crosses it. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj mind heart life You are not in this world. This world is inside you. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj this-world world 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 pain suffering sleep 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 pain real spiritual 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 done meditation helping 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 real letting-go heart Having never left the house you are looking for the way home Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj awakening house home Come to the conclusion: I am unborn, I was unborn and I shall remain unborn Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj unborn conclusion 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 light peace reality 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 body mind may 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 light mind needs You have put so much energy into building a prison for yourself. Now spend as much on demolishing it. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj building prison energy 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 causes spiritual ideas 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 tape mind talking 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 goal people ideas 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 knowing remembers-you remember-you To go beyond you need alert immobility, quiet attention. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj attention quiet needs 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-effect causes mind 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 simple faith-in-god way Punishment is but legalized crime. In a society built on prevention, rather than retaliation, there would be very little crime. The few exceptions will be treated medically, as of unsound mind and body. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj punishment would-be mind
