Timeless Reminders of the Truth from Nisargadatta Maharaj

Nisargadatta Maharaj was an Indian guru of nondualism, belonging to the Inchagiri Sampradaya, a lineage of teachers from the Navnath Sampradaya and Lingayat Shaivism.
The publication in 1973 of I Am That, an English translation of his talks in Marathi by Maurice Frydman, brought him worldwide recognition and followers, especially from North America and Europe.

Quotes by Nisargadatta:

1. “Love says 'I am everything.' Wisdom says 'I am nothing.' Between the two, my life flows.”
2. “Save all your energies and time for breaking the wall your mind has built around you.”
3. “Your High opinion of me is your opinion only. Any moment you may change it. Why attach importance to opinions, even your own?”
4. “Happiness is never your own; it is where the ‘I’ is not. It is beyond your reach; you have only to reach out beyond yourself and you will find it.”
5. “The way back to yourself is through refusal and rejection.”
6. “Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows."
7. “Do what you believe in and believe in what you do. All else is a waste of energy and time.”
8. “We shall suffer as long as our thoughts and actions are prompted by desires and fears.”
9. “Watch your thoughts and watch yourself watching the thoughts. The state of freedom from all thoughts will happen suddenly and by the bliss of it you shall recognize it.”
10. “Merely assuaging fears and satisfying desires will not remove this sense of emptiness you are trying to escape from; only self-knowledge can help you.”
11. “It is earnestness that will take you through, not cleverness - your own or another’s.”
12. “Do not be afraid of freedom from desire and fear. It enables you to live a life so different from all you know, so much more intense and interesting that, truly, by losing all you gain all.”
13. “What is in the world cannot save the world; if you really care to help the world, you must step out of it.”
14. “Our minds are just waves on the ocean of consciousness. As waves, they come and go. As ocean, they are infinite and eternal. Know yourself as the ocean of being, the womb of all existence.”
15. “Awareness is ever there. It need not be realized. Open the shutter of the mind and it will be flooded with light.”
16. “What refuses to die cannot be reborn.”
17. “Our only hope is to stop, to look, to understand, and to get out of the traps of memory. For memory feeds imagination and imagination generates desire and fear.”
18. “Truth is loving and lovable. It includes all, accepts all, purifies all."
19. “Study the prison you have inadvertently built around yourself.”
20. “The door that locks you in is also the door that lets you out. The “I am” is the door. Stay at it until it opens …"
21. “Don’t try to reform yourself; just see the futility of all change. The changeful keeps on changing while the changeless is waiting.”



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