there is nothing new under the sun –Ecclesiastes 1:9

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There is nothing new you will find here. The work we are doing is timeless. It was the same ten thousand years ago. Centuries roll on …

–Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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creat(ions

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The moment you start talking you create a verbal universe, a universe of words, ideas, concepts and abstractions, interwoven and inter-dependent, most wonderfully generating, supporting and explaining each other and yet all without essence or substance, mere creations of the mind.

Words create words, reality is silent.


–Nisargadatta

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question

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Without imagination there is no world. Your conviction that you are conscious of a world is the world. The world you perceive is made of consciousness; what you call matter is consciousness itself. 

You are the space in which it moves, the time in which it lasts, the love that gives it life. Cut off imagination and attachment and what remains? 


–Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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observ(er

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There is the body. 

Inside the body appears to be an observer, and outside a world under observation. 

The observer and his observation as well as the world observed appear and disappear together. Beyond it all, there is void. 

This void is one for all.


–Nisargadatta Maharaj

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no(body

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You know you are. How do you know it? And with what did you know it? This is the sum total of my teaching needed to put you on the right track, its very quintessence.

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Come to the conclusion: I am unborn, I was unborn and I shall remain unborn.

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Be aware of being conscious and seek the source of consciousness. That is all.


–Nisargadatta Maharaj

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knowthyself
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look

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You observe the heart feeling, the mind thinking, the body acting;

the very act of perceiving shows that you are not what you perceive.


–Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj 

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say i am

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Learn to distinguish the immovable in the movable, the unchanging in the changing, till you realize that all differences are in appearance only and oneness is a fact. 

This basic identity—you may call God, or Brahman, or the matrix (Prakriti), the words matter little—is only the realization that all is one. 

Once you can say with confidence born from direct experience: ‘I am the world, the world is myself’, you are free from desire and fear on one hand and become totally responsible for the world on the other.


–Nisargadatta

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wit(ness

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Know yourself to be the changeless witness of the changeful mind.
That is enough.

–Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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the only clue

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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 being. 

Be with it, play with it, ponder over it, delve deeply into it, till the shell of ignorance breaks open and you emerge into the realm of reality.

–Nisargadatta Maharaj

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manifesto

 

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You are not the mind. 

If you know you are not the mind, then what difference does it make if it’s busy or quiet? 

You are not the mind.

–Nisargadatta Maharaj

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needful things

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I know that nothing has ever been real
without my beholding it.

All becoming has needed me.

My looking ripens things and they come
toward me, to meet and be met.


–Rainer Maria Rilke
Book of Hours, I-I

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hush

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Stay open and quiet, that is all. 

What you seek is so near you that there
is no place for a way.


—Nisargadatta Maharaj

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enough

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If you expect any benefits from your search, material, mental or spiritual, you have missed the point. 

Truth gives no advantage. It gives no higher status, no power over others; all you get is truth and freedom from the false.


–Nisargadatta Maharaj

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conditions

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By itself nothing has existence.
Everything needs its own absence.

To be is to be distinguishable, to be here and not there,
to be now and not then, to be thus and not otherwise.

Like water is shaped by the container, so is everything
determined by conditions (gunas).


–Nisargadatta Maharaj

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beyond mind

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Don’t rely on your mind for liberation. 

It is the mind that brought you into bondage.

Go beyond it altogether.


–Nisargadatta Maharaj

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the proof

 



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Ultimately, you are the proof that God exists, not the other way around. For before any question about God can be put, you must be there to put it.


–Nisargadatta Maharaj

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