Nisargadatta Maharaj Short Quotes

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A spark of truth can burn up a mountain of lies.

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When the sense of distinction and separation is absent, you may call it love.

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The body-mind is like a room. It is there, but I need not live in it all the time.

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Suffering is a call for enquiry, all pain needs investigation. Don't be lazy to think.

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In reality there is only consciousness. All life is conscious, all consciousness alive.

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Desire is the memory of pleasure and fear is the memory of pain. Both make the mind restless.

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Those who make plans will be born to carry them out. Those who make no plans need not be born.

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There is no question of going anywhere, arriving anywhere, or doing anything; you are there already.

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This must be well grasped; the world hangs on the thread of consciousness, no consciousness, no world.

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After all, what is will but steadiness of heart and mind. Given such steadfastness all can be achieved.

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One is always free. You are both conscious and free to be conscious. Nobody can take this away from you.

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To be nothing, to have nothing, to keep nothing for oneself is the greatest gift, the highest generosity.

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Don't rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether.

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Freedom to do what one likes is really bondage, while being free to do what one must, what is right, is real freedom.

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Of what use is your arguing for or against God, when you just do not know who is God, and what are you talking about.

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Whatever you do against your better knowledge is sin. (…) Remembering your self is virtue, forgetting your self is sin.

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Those who know only scriptures know nothing. To know is to be. I know what I am talking about; it is not from reading, or hearsay.

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All kind of experience may come to you – remain unmoved in the knowledge that all perceivable is transient, and only 'I am' endures.

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Purify yourself by a well-ordered and useful life. Watch over your thoughts, feelings, words and actions. This will clear your vision.

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One thing is quite clear to me; all that is, lives and moves and has its being in consciousness and I am in and beyond that consciousness.

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When I say I am free, I merely state a fact. If you are an adult, you are free from infancy. I am free from all description and identification.

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Everything happens all the time, but you must be ready for it. Readiness is ripeness. You do not see the real because your mind is not ready for it.

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Creation itself is rooted in ignorance; matter itself is ignorance. Not to know, and not to know that one does not know, is the cause of endless suffering.

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All you can do is to grasp the central point, that reality is not an event and does not happen and whatever happens, whatever comes and goes, is not reality.

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Anything that implies a continuity, a sequence, a passing from stage to stage cannot be real. There is no progress in reality; it is final, perfect, unrelated.

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Just like a deficiency disease is cured through the supply of the missing factor, so are the diseases of living cured by a good dose of intelligent detachment.

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Reality can neither be proved nor disproved. Within the mind you cannot, beyond the mind you need not. In the real, the question 'what is real?' does not arise.

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Desiring a state of freedom from desire will not set you free. Nothing can set you free, because you are free. See yourself with desireless clarity, that is all.

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The primary purpose of meditation is to become conscious of, and familiar with, our inner life. The ultimate purpose is to reach the source of life and consciousness.

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The talk is in your world. In mine – there is eternal silence. My silence sings, my emptiness is full. I lack nothing. You cannot know my world until you are there.

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