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Own Quotes by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
- It is only your self-identification with your mind that makes you happy or unhappy. Rebel against your slavery to your mind, see your bonds as…
- When the mind is kept away from its preoccupations, it becomes quiet. If you do not disturb this quiet and stay in it, you find…
- It is the mind that tells you that the mind is there. Don't be deceived. All the endless arguments about the mind are produced by…
- Seeking out causes is a pastime of the mind. There is no duality of cause and effect. Everything is its own cause.
- All you can teach is understanding. The rest comes on its own.
- To know the self as the only reality and all else as temporal and transient is freedom, peace and joy. It is all very simple.…
- Words can bring you only up to their own limit; to go beyond, you must abandon them. Remain as the silent witness only.
- Nothing can trouble you but your own imagination.
- When you desire the common good, the whole world desires with you. Make humanity's desire your own and work for it. There you cannot fail.
- To understand suffering, you must go beyond pain and pleasure. Your own desires and fears prevent you from understanding and thereby helping others. In reality…
- Surrender to your own self, of which everything is an expression.
- Your own self is your ultimate teacher. The outer teacher is merely a milestone. It is only your inner teacher that will walk with you…
- Meet you own self. Be with your own self, listen to it, obey it, cherish it, keep it in mind ceaselessly. You need no other…
- You have projected onto yourself a world of your own imagination, based on memories, on desires and fears, and you have imprisoned yourself in it.…
- Leave your mind alone, that is all. Do not go along with it. After all, there is no such thing as mind apart from thoughts…
- Pure knowledge is not imparted by another; it comes unmasked. It is the one that is listening: it is your own true nature.
- Truth is not a reward for good behaviour, nor a prize for passing some tests. It cannot be brought about. It is the primary, the…
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