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Weak desires can be removed by introspection and meditation,
but strong, deep-rooted ones must be fulfilled and their fruits, sweet or bitter, tasted.Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Nothing stands in the way of your liberation
and it can happen here and now
but for your being more interested in other things.
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And you cannot fight with your interests.
You must go with them, see through them
and watch them reveal themselves
as mere errors of judgment and appreciation.
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There is nothing to practice.
To know yourself, be yourself.
To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that.
Just be. Let your true nature emerge.
Don’t disturb your mind with seeking.Nisargadatta Maharaj
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By following any religion, cult or creed, one becomes inevitably conditioned, because one is obliged to conform and accept its disciplines, both physical and mental. One may get a little peace for some time, but such a peace will not last long. In your true nature, you are the knower of concepts and therefore prior to them.
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No matter how much you strive to acquire any worldly gains, they are bound to go;
so also your concepts and various identities.
Even if you follow any religion in the hope of obtaining
something permanent from the outside, you will be sorely disappointed.
The main purpose of true spirituality is to liberate oneself completely
from one’s concepts and conditionings.Nisargadatta Maharaj
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People learn whatever they are taught.
What they were, prior to being taught, nobody gives attention to.
Whatever you can forget, cannot be the eternal; it cannot be the truth.
That is why you cannot forget your true state,
and that is why you cannot remember it.
Whatever you forget, is not the truth, always remember that.Nisargadatta Maharaj
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…You must really have had surfeit of being the person you are now see the urgent need of being free of this unnecessary self-identification with a bundle of memories and habits. This steady resistance against the unnecessary is the secret of success.
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…the seer and the seen appear only when there is seeing. They are attributes of seeing. When you say “I am seeing this,” “I am” and “this” come with seeing, not before. You cannot have an unseen “this” nor an unseeing “I am.
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Self-surrender is the surrender of all self-concern.
It cannot be done, it happens when you realize your true nature.
Verbal self-surrender, even accompanied by feeling,
is of little value and breaks down under stress.Nisargadatta Maharaj
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There can be no such thing as changeless consciousness.
Changelessness wipes out consciousness immediately.
A man deprived of outer and inner sensations blanks out,
or goes beyond consciousness and unconsciousness
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Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting;
it is a sign of unwillingness to move on, to flow with lifeNisargadatta Maharaj
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Liberation is never of the person,
it is always from the person.Nisargadatta Maharaj
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..why talk of happiness at all?
You do not think of happiness except when you are unhappy.
A man who says: “Now I am happy,” is between two sorrows—past and future.
This “happiness” is mere excitement caused by relief from pain.
Real happiness is utterly unselfconscious.Nisargadatta Maharaj
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You see people suffer and you seek the
best way of helping them. The answer is
obvious - first put yourself beyond the
need of help. Be sure your attitude is of
pure goodwill, free of expectation of any
kind.Those who seek mere happiness may end
up in sublime indifference, while love
will never rest. As to method, there is only
love - you must come to know yourself - both
what you appear to be and what you are. Clarity
and charity go together - each needs and
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Under the right teacher, the disciple learns to learn,
not to remember and obey.
Satsang, the company of the noble, does not mold, it liberates.
Beware of all that makes you dependent.Nisargadatta Maharaj
I discovered a truth that seemed to me a revelation... There seemed to be two universes which I termed the world and the earth, in either of which I could choose to live. Then I saw there was but one, and that I was living on the earth looking directly into infinity. ~ Harlan Hubbard
