"The world is an illusion. Why is it……" — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
"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 number of identities; I was a child, I was a boy, I was a teenager, I was a middle-aged man, I was an old man. Like other identities I thought would remain constant, they never remained so. Finally, I became very old. . . So which identity remained honest with me?"
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Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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