Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Quotes About Spirituality
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Even for a moment do not think that you are the body. Give yourself no name, no shape. In the darkness and the silence reality is found.
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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.
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If you could only keep quiet, clear of memories and expectations, you would be able to discern the beautiful pattern of events. Its your restlessness that causes chaos.
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The desire for truth is the highest of all desires, yet, it is still a desire. All desires must be given up for the real to be.....When all search ceases, it is the Supreme State.
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You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.
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Past and future are in the mind only - I am now.
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It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.
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There is nothing wrong with duality as long as it does not create conflict. Multiplicity and variety without strife is joy. In pure consciousness there is light. For warmth, contact is needed. Above the unity of being is the union of love. Love is the purpose of duality.
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All that happens is the cause of all that happens. Causes are numberless; the idea of a sole cause is an illusion.
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True happiness cannot be found in things that change and pass away. Pleasure and pain alternate inexorably. Happiness comes from the Self and can be found in the Self only. Find your real Self and all else will come with it.
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In reality there are no others, and -helping yourself you help everybody else.
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Nothing troubles me. I offer no resistance to trouble - therefore it does not stay with me. On your side there is so much trouble. On mine there is no trouble at all. Come to my side.
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Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
- Born: April 17, 1897
- Died: September 8, 1981
- Occupation: Philosopher
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