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Very Quotes by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
- The world does not yield to changing. By its very nature it is painful and transient. See it as it is and divest yourself of…
- I find that somehow, by shifting the focus of attention, I become the very thing I look at, and experience the kind of consciousness it…
- Knowledge gives power. In practice it is very simple. To control yourself, know yourself.
- There is no need of a way out! Don't you see that a way out is also part of the dream All you have to…
- 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.…
- We are slaves of what we don't know;of what we know we are masters.Whatever vice or weakness in ourselves we discoverand understand its cause and…
- You begin by letting thoughts flow and watching them. The very observation slows down the mind till it stops altogether. Once the mind is quiet,…
- Punishment is but legalized crime. In a society built on prevention, rather than retaliation, there would be very little crime. The few exceptions will be…
- Moods are in the mind and do not matter. Go within, go beyond. Cease being fascinated by the content of your consciousness. When you reach…
- The attitude of silent observation is the very foundation of yoga. You see the picture, but you are not the picture.
- The window is the absence of the wall, and it gives air and light because it is empty. Be empty of all mental content, of…
- Let the dream unroll itself to its very end. You cannot help it. But you can look at the dream as a dream, refuse it…
- The world is an illusion. Why is it unreal? Because none of the knowledge is going to remain permanent, as real knowledge. I had a…
- 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…
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