Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj: Your burden is of false self-identifications...

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

Your true meaning cannot be grasped or captured by words. You can never be equated with any words, because you are prior to words.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

captured true-meaning

The real is behind and beyond words, incommunicable, directly experienced, explosive in its effect on the mind. It is easily had when nothing else is wanted.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

real mind wanted

All will come through, not a single soul (jiva) shall be lost.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

soul lost

What is beautiful? Whatever is perceived joyfully is beautiful. Bliss is the essence of beauty.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

essence beautiful beauty

Don’t try to understand! It’s enough if you do not misunderstand.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

unity enough trying

Surrender to your own self, of which everything is an expression.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

surrender expression self

I am that by which I know 'I am'

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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We grow through investigation, and to investigate we need experience. We tend to repeat what we have not understood. If we are sensitive and intelligent, we need not suffer. Pain is a call for attention and the penalty of carelessness. Intelligent and compassionate action is the only remedy.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

pain intelligent self

You are so accustomed to think of yourselves as bodies having consciousness that you just cannot imagine consciousness as having bodies. Once you realize that bodily existence is but a state of mind, a movement in consciousness, that the ocean of consciousness is infinite and eternal, and that, when in touch with consciousness, you are the witness only, you will be able to withdraw beyond consciousness altogether.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

ocean mind thinking

The relinquishing of the lesser is the gaining of the greater. Give up all and you gain all.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

relinquishing gains giving-up

In nature nothing is at standstill, everything pulsates, appears and disappears. Heart, breath, digestion, sleep and waking - birth and death - everything comes and goes in waves. Rhythm, periodicity, harmonious alternation of extremes is the rule. No use rebelling against the very pattern of life.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

use sleep heart

Contemplate life as infinite, undivided, ever present, ever active, until you realize yourself as one with it. It is not even very difficult, for you will be returning only to your own natural condition.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

realizing infinite natural

It is not the right advice that liberates, but the action based on it.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

action advice

The first steps in self-acceptance are not at all pleasant, for what one sees is not a happy sight. One needs all the courage to go further.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

inspiration acceptance sight

You are so used to the support of concepts that when your concepts leave you, although it is your true state, you get frightened and try to cling to them again.

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frightened support trying

Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

stranger desire love-is

Easier to change, than to suffer. Grow out of your childishness.That is all.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

your-children easier suffering

When I see I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I see I am everything, that is love. My life is a movement between these two.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

wisdom love two

Meet you own self. Be with your own self, listen to it, obey it, cherish it, keep it in mind ceaselessly. You need no other guide.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

self mind needs

Your burden is of false self-identifications—abandon them all.