Tag Archives: Nisargadatta Maharaj
Ignore
“Ignore the mind the way you disregard the crowd you encounter in the streets.” ~Nisargadatta Maharaj
Find Out
“Instead of searching for what you do not have, find out what it is that you have never lost.” ~Nisargadatta Maharaj
What You Need
“What you need will come to you if you do not ask for what you do not need.” ~Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (via) • “The bare necessities of life will come to you.” ~Baloo
It’s Easy
“There is nothing to do. Just be. Do nothing. Be. No climbing mountains and sitting in caves. I do not even say: ‘be yourself’, since you do not know yourself. Just be. Having seen that you are neither the ‘outer’ world of perceivables, nor the ‘inner’ world of thinkables, that you are neither body nor …
Annette
“To see the universe as it is, you must step beyond the net. 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 …
Not Your Problem
“The very idea of going beyond the dream is illusory. Why go anywhere? Just realize that you are dreaming a dream you call the world, and stop looking for ways out. “The dream is not your problem. Your problem is that you like one part of your dream and not another. Love all, or none …
See
“See what you are. Don’t ask others, don’t let others tell you about yourself. Look within and see.” ~Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Am
“Abandon false ideas, that is all. There is no need of true ideas. There aren’t any. If you keep absolutely quiet, then concepts will be strangled to death. 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 …
I Do Not Know
“Earlier I was sure of so many things, now I am sure of nothing. But I have lost nothing by not knowing, because all my knowledge was false… ‘I do not know’ is the only true statement the mind can make.” ~Nisargadatta Maharaj
Emo
“Moods are in the mind and do not matter. Go within, go beyond. Cease being fascinated by the content of your consciousness. When you reach the deep layers of your true being, you will find that the mind’s surface-play affects you very little.” ~Nisargadatta Maharaj
Charlie Rich and Nisargadatta Maharaj
“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.” ~Nisargadatta Maharaj •••••
Stop
“Words and questions come from the mind and hold you there. To go beyond the mind, you must be silent and quiet. Peace and silence; silence and peace – this is the way beyond. Stop asking questions.” ~Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Part of being human is that horrible things happen from time to time. When I …
Beware of
“You can have all the emotions you want, but beware of reactions, of induced emotions. Be entirely self-determined and ruled from within, not from without.” ~Nisargadatta Maharaj
Prison
“You have put so much energy into building a prison for yourself. Now spend as much on demolishing it.” ~Nisargadatta Maharaj
None
Questioner: The supreme reality may be present in all of us. But of what use is it to us? Nisargadatta Maharaj: You are like a man who says: “I need a place where to keep my things, but of what use is space to me?” or “I need milk, tea, coffee or soda, but for …
Sunrise
“A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without effort on your part.” ~Nisargadatta …
Need Not
“The body-mind is like a room. It is there, but I need not live in it all the time.” ~Nisargadatta Maharaj (via)
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