Your first task is to see the sorrow in you and around you; your next, to long intensely for liberation. The very intensity of longing will guide you; you need no other guide. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj More Quotes by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj More Quotes From Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it. By being a slave to your desires and fears, you disturb peace. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj meditation inspiration practice I simply followed (my teacher's) instruction which was to focus the mind on pure being 'I am', and stay in it. I used to sit for hours together, with nothing but the 'I am' in my mind and soon peace and joy and a deep all-embracing love became my normal state. In it all disappeared -- myself, my Guru, the life I lived, the world around me. Only peace remained and unfathomable silence. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj silence love-is teacher Look at your mind dispassionately; this is enough to calm it. When it is quiet, you can go beyond it. Do not keep it busy all the time. Stop it - and just BE. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj wisdom spiritual mind Learn to live without self concern. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj imagination self ideas When you believe yourself to be a person, you see persons everywhere. In reality there are no persons, only threads of memories and habits. At the moment of realisation the person ceases. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj memories believe reality Playing with various approaches may be due to resistance to going within, to the fear of having to abandon the illusion of being something or somebody in particular.Of all the affections the love of oneself comes first. Light and love are impersonal.When you do not think yourself to be this or that, all conflict ceases. Any attempt to do something about your problems is bound to fail, for what is caused by desire can be undone only in freedom from desire. You cannot be rid of problems without abandoning illusions. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj light desire thinking You are not in the world...the world is in you," what did he mean? [That is, you are not in the world," that is, there is no "you" that is real or in any world. "The world is in you" means that the world is in your "mind" and is nothing more than a figment of your programming-and-conditioning-induced imaginings.] Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj real mind mean It is your restlessness that causes chaos. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj restlessness chaos causes Give your real being a chance to shape your life. You will not regret it. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj regret real giving Having realized that you cannot influence the results, pay no attention to your desires and fears. Let them come and go. Don't give them the nourishment of interest and attention. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj desire attention giving 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 in the body, a current of energy, affection and intelligence, which guides, maintains and energizes the body. Discover that current and stay with it. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj affection body energy When the mind is quiet, we come to know ourselves as the pure witness. We withdraw from the experience and its experiencer and stand apart in pure awareness, which is between and beyond the two. The personality, based on self-identification, on imagining itself to be something: 'I am this, I am that', continues, but only as a part of the objective world. Its identification with the witness snaps. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj personality self two The root of fear is the feeling of not being what you are. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj roots feelings What is the worth of a happiness for which you must strive and work? Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj spontaneous strive real When the mind is kept away from its preoccupations, it becomes quiet. If you do not disturb this quiet and stay in it, you find that it is permeated with a light and a love you have never known; and yet you recognise it at once as your own nature. Once you have passed through this experience, you will never be the same man again; the unruly mind may break its peace and obliterate its vision; but it is bound to return, provided the effort is sustained; until the day when all bonds are broken, delusions and attachments end and life becomes supremely concentrated in the present. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj wisdom spiritual love-you You are really in search of yourself, without knowing it. You are love-longing for the love-worthy, the perfect lovable. Due to ignorance you are looking for it in the world of opposites and contradictions. When you find it within, your search will be over. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj ignorance knowing opposites Cooperate with your destiny, don't go against it, don't thwart it. Allow it to fulfill itself. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj your-destiny our-destiny destiny Leave greatness to others. Become so small that no one can see you. This conviction results from growing devotion to the supreme reality. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj wisdom spiritual reality Get hold of the main thing: That the world and the self are one and perfect. Only your attitude is faulty and needs readjustment. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj self perfect attitude
