Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj was an Indian spiritual teacher who taught nondual philosophy and was part of the Inchagiri Sampradaya lineage.

Quick Facts About Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Notable works: Enseñanzas sobre la no-dualidad

About Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Nisargadatta Maharaj belonged to the Inchagiri Sampradaya, a line of teachers that traces back to the Navnath Sampradaya. He shared teachings about nonduality, emphasizing the unity of all reality.

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The unchangeable can only be realised in silence. Once realised, it will deeply affect the changeable, itself remaining unaffected.

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Changeable

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There is in the body, a current of energy, affection and intelligence, which guides, maintains and energizes the body. Discover that current…

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Affection

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Everybody does the same mistake: refusing the means, but wanting the ends. You want peace and harmony in the world, but refuse…

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For me the moment of death will be a moment of jubilation, not of fear. I cried when I was born and…

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Time is in the mind, space is in the mind. The law of cause and effect is also a way of thinking.…

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Cause and effect

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When pain is accepted for what it is, a lesson and a warning, and deeply looked into and heeded, the separation between…

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When I see I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I see I am everything, that is love. My life is a…

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Life

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When you go beyond awareness, there is a state of nonduality, in which there is no cognition, only pure being. In the…

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Awareness

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You are too much concerned with past and future. It is all due to your longing to continue, to protect yourself against…

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Company

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Pain is physical; suffering is mental. Beyond the mind there is no suffering. Pain is essential for the survival of the body,…

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Body

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To know the self as the only reality and all else as temporal and transient is freedom, peace and joy. It is…

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I do not suffer; I cannot suffer because I am not an object. Of course there is suffering. But do you realize…

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There are no steps to self-realization. There is nothing gradual about it. It happens suddenly and is irreversible. You rotate into a…

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Abstraction

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See that you are not what you believe yourself to be. Fight with all the strength at your disposal against the idea…

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Acceptance

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With self-awareness you grow more intelligent. In awareness you learn, in self-awareness you learn about yourself. Of course, you can only learn…

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About yourself

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You are not in the world...the world is in you," what did he mean? [That is, you are not in the world,"…

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Awareness

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The real is behind and beyond words, incommunicable, directly experienced, explosive in its effect on the mind. It is easily had when…

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Stop imagining yourself being or doing this or that and the realization that you are the source and heart of all will…

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Dawn

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When you desire the common good, the whole world desires with you. Make humanity's desire your own and work for it. There…

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Consciousness is an attribute while awareness is not; one can be aware of being conscious, but not conscious of awareness. God is…

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Do you realize the unimaginable greatness, the holiness of what you so casually call 'consciousness'? It is the unmanifest Absolute aware of…

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Absolutes

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Give all your attention to the question: 'What is it that makes me conscious?', until your mind becomes the question itself and…

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Attention

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Steady faith is stronger than destiny. Destiny is the result of causes, mostly accidental, and is therefore loosely woven. Confidence and good…

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Would people know that nothing can happen unless the entire universe makes it happen, they would achieve much more with less expenditure…

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Nobody ever fails in Yoga…It is slow in the beginning and rapid in the end. When one is fully matured, realization is…

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Once you say 'I want to find Truth', all your life will be deeply affected by it. All your mental and physical…

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By all means be selfish; the right way. Wish yourself well, labour at what is good for you. Destroy all that stands…

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Being selfish

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Leave greatness to others. Become so small that no one can see you. This conviction results from growing devotion to the supreme…

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Conviction

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Contemplate life as infinite, undivided, ever present, ever active, until you realize yourself as one with it. It is not even very…

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“All you need is already within you, only you must approach yourself with reverence and love. Self-condemnation and self-distrust are grievous errors . . .”

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Love

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To deal with things knowledge of things is needed. To deal with people, you need insight, sympathy. To deal with yourself, you…

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When you know beyond all doubting that the same life flows through all that is, and you are that life, you will…

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Doubt

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“Your High opinion of me is your opinion only. Any moment you may change it. Why attach importance to opinions, even your…

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Adulation

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Even faith in God is only a stage on the way. Ultimately you abandon all, for you come to something so simple…

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Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it. By…

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Self-remembrance, awareness of 'I am' ripens him powerfully and speedily. Give up all ideas about yourself and simply be.

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About yourself

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In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part.

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Awareness

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Your weakness is due to your conviction that you were born into the world. In reality the world is ever recreated in…

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Punishment is but legalized crime. In a society built on prevention, rather than retaliation, there would be very little crime. The few…

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Body

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Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal,…

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Beauty

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Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj by topic

Mind (75) Psychology (68) Inspirational (55) Love (50) World (37) Self (33) Life (31) Wisdom (30) Spiritual (30) Reality (30) Giving (27) Time (25) Desire (25) Body (21) Philosophy of Mind (20) Consciousness (20)