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Consciousness Quotes by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

20 Consciousness quotes by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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If you’re drawn to the mystery of awareness, this set of twenty sayings offers a direct glimpse into Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj’s teachings. Each line cuts through everyday chatter, pointing toward a still, unbounded presence that underlies all experience.

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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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All is a play in consciousness. All divisions are illusory. You can know the false only. The true you must yourself be.

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You are not the body. You are the immensity and infinity of consciousness.

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The world you perceive is made of consciousness; what you call matter is consciousness itself.

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The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.

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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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Moods are in the mind and do not matter. Go within, go beyond. Cease being fascinated by the content of your consciousness.…

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How can an unsteady mind make itself steady? Of course it cannot. It is the nature of the mind to roam about.…

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You want to know yourself. For this keep steadily in the focus of consciousness, the only clue you have: your certainty of…

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"I AM" itself is God. The seeking itself is God. In seeking you discover that you are neither body nor mind, but…

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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…

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When I say 'I am', I do not mean a separate entity with a body as its nucleus, I mean the totality…

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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…

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I find that somehow, by shifting the focus of attention, I become the very thing I look at, and experience the kind…

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You are so accustomed to think of yourselves as bodies having consciousness that you just cannot imagine consciousness as having bodies. Once…

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In the light of consciousness all sorts of things happen and one need not give special importance to any. The sight of…

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By being with yourself, the 'I am', by watching yourself in your daily life with alert interest, with the intention to understand…

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Meditation is a deliberate attempt to pierce into the higher states of consciousness and finally go beyond it. The art of meditation…

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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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Forgetting your Self is the greatest injury; all the calamities flow from it. Take care of the most important, the lesser will take care…

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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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