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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 9h

What prevents you from knowing is not the lack of opportunity, but the lack of ability to focus in your mind what you want to understand. If you could but keep in mind what you do not know, it would reveal to you its secrets.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 1d

I never talk of differences, for to me there are none. You do, so it is up to you to show them to me. By all means, show me the differences. For this you will have to understand me, but then you will no longer talk of differences.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 2d

Mere longing, undiluted by thought and action, pure, concentrated longing, will take you speedily to your goal. It is the true motive that matters, not the manner.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 3d

Meet your own self. Be with your own self, listen to it, obey it, cherish it, keep it in mind ceaselessly. You need no other guide.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 4d

All realization is only sharing. You enter a wider consciousness and share in it. Unwillingness to enter and to share is the only hindrance.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 5d

Live your life without hurting anybody. Harmlessness is a most powerful form of Yoga and it will take you speedily to your goal. This is what I call nisarga yoga, the Natural yoga. It is the art of living in peace and harmony, in friendliness and love.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 6d

Whatever you do for the sake of truth, will take you to truth. Only be earnest and honest. The shape it takes hardly matters.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 7d

I have nothing which you do not have. Self-knowledge is not a piece of property to be offered and accepted. It is a new dimension altogether, where there is nothing to give or take.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 8d

You seem to want instant insight, forgetting that the instant is always preceded by a long preparation. The fruit falls suddenly, but the ripening takes time.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 9d

I gave you a very significant clue — where you see differences, I don’t. To me it is enough. If you think it is not enough, I can only repeat; it is enough. Think it out deeply and you will come to see what I see.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 10d

Jnanis are not made; they realize themselves as such, when they return to their source, their real nature. I cannot make you into what you already are. All I can tell you is the way I travelled and invite you to take it.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 11d

But once you have touched the real within your own being, you will find me describing what for you is the nearest and the dearest.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 11d

As long as you believe only the particular to be real, conscious and happy and reject the non-dual reality as something imagined, an abstract concept, you will find me doling out concepts and abstractions.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 12d

What I say is true, but to you it is only a theory. How will you come to know that it is true? Listen, remember, ponder, visualize, experience. Also apply it in your daily life. Have patience with me and, above all, have patience with yourself, for you are your only obstacle.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 12d

The seed of the universe is dimensionless but, because of the body, the consciousness appears and identifies with the body but actually everything is manifest, all-pervasive consciousness.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 13d

Here I am sitting in front of you and telling you — from my own immediate and unchanging experience — pain and pleasure are the crests and valleys of the waves in the ocean of bliss. Deep down there is utter fulness.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 14d

Pain and pleasure happen, but pain is the price of pleasure, pleasure is the reward of pain. In life too you often please by hurting and hurt by pleasing. To know that pain and pleasure are one is peace.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 15d

There are two witnessing stages; beingness witnesses all this manifestation. Witnessing of this beingness, consciousness, happens to that eternal principle, the Absolute.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 15d

Your difficulty stems from the idea that reality is a state of consciousness, one among many. You tend to say: “This is real. That is not real. And this is partly real, partly unreal”, as if reality were an attribute or quality to have in varying measures.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 16d

When you wake up you have only the sense of being, without words, this is the primary principle, the prerequisite; later on you know fully that you are and the world is, but that is an illusion.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 16d

The witness only registers events. In the abeyance of the mind even the sense ‘I am’ dissolves. There is no ‘I am’ without the mind.

Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 17d

When is there an ego? The ego is there when you have certain reactions. You take delivery of whatever is observed spontaneously. You cling to it, register it, then only is there an ego.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 17d

So far you took yourself to be the movable and overlooked the immovable. Turn your mind inside out. Overlook the movable and you will find yourself to be the ever-present, changeless reality, inexpressible, but solid like a rock.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 18d

The world is nothing but the picture of your own "I" consciousness. As if you had received a phone call telling you that you are, and immediately the world appears.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 18d

Your destination is the whole. But you are afraid that you will lose your identity. This is childishness, clinging to the toys, to your desires and fears, opinions and ideas. Give it all up and be ready for the real to assert itself.

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