Awareness Quotes by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

19 Awareness quotes by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj’s words cut straight to the core of what it means to be awake. In nineteen terse statements he strips away pretense, leaving a bare, powerful invitation to recognize the ever‑present witness within.

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There is no such thing as unconsciousness for it is not experienceable. We infer unconsciousness when there is a lapse in memory…

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Awareness neither dies nor is re-born. It is the changeless reality itself.

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

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Awareness is ever there. It need not be realized. Open the shutter of the mind, and it will be flooded with light.

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Deepen and broaden your awareness of yourself and all the blessings will flow. You need not seek anything, all will come to…

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I ask you only to stop imagining that you were born, have parents, are a body, will die and so on. Just…

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Suffering is primarily a call for attention, which itself is a movement of love. More than happiness, love wants growth, the widening…

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To be a living being is not the ultimate state; there is something [the Reality] beyond, much more wonderful, which is neither…

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All happiness comes from awareness. The more we are conscious the deeper the joy. Acceptance of pain, non-resistance, courage and endurance -…

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When you sit quiet and watch yourself, many things may come to the surface. Do nothing about them, don't react to them.…

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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…

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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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You must realize first of all that you are the proof of everything, including yourself. None can prove your existence, because his…

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When the mind is quiet, we come to know ourselves as the pure witness. We withdraw from the experience and its experiencer…

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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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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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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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There is nothing to do, just be. Do nothing. Be. No climbing mountains and sitting in caves. I do not even say "be yourself"…

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Let the dream unroll itself to its very end. You cannot help it. But you can look at the dream as a dream, refuse…

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As long as the mind is there, your body and your world are there. Your world is mind-made, subjective, enclosed within the mind, fragmentary,…

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I ask you what is the taste of your mouth all you can do is to say: it is neither sweet nor bitter, nor…

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It is your restlessness that causes chaos.

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To go beyond the mind, you must be silent and quiet. Peace and silence, silence and peace - this is the way beyond. Stop…

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Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far.

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Having never left the house you are looking for the way home

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Once you understand that the false needs time and what needs time is false, you are nearer the Reality, which is timeless, ever in…

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The universe is but a partial manifestation of your limitless capacity to become.

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In reality, time and space exist in you. You do not exist in them.

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Whatever happens, happens to you by you, through you; you are the creator, enjoyer and destroyer of all you perceive.

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Life is love and love is life.

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The real does not die, the unreal never lived.

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