Personal Diary of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj in own handwriting containing notes on Sri Siddharameshvar Maharaj discourses

Personal diary of  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj containing notes on Sri Siddharameshvar Maharaj discourses. These notes are in Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj's own handwriting. Maharaj took down these notes in the year between 1934 to 1935. Thanks to Sri Sachin Kshirsagar (kiranswa@gmail.com) for...

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Murti Sthapana at Kandalgoan Math - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Murti Sthapana (Idol installation) of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj at Kandalgoan Math on 5th March 2015 at 3:30am   ...

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Nisargadatta Maharaj lived here

Vanmali Bhavan, 10th Lane, Khetwadi, Mumbai, India. This was where Maharaj lived. The room where the discourses were given was a loft above the family living area. A small room around 10'x20'. One must climb a narrow and steep staircase to get to it. Today some of his relatives live here. The...

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Mahasamadhi : The Last Moments

Tuesday, 8th September 1981 — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj today attained Mahasamadhi at 7.32 p.m. at his residence Ashram. When I arrived in the morning at his residence as usual, a little before 10 a.m. I thought Maharaj appeared considerably better than he was the previous day. His face had better...

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Nisargadatta Adhyatma Kendra, Mumbai

   Maharaj's Samadhi, located in Mumbai is a place where people worship daily. Every Saturday 6pm to 8pm, traditional bhajans and ceremonies of worship are conducted, attended by 10 to 15 people. Discourses by Maharaj's devotees, playing of audio tapes of Maharaj, reading Dasbodh etc....

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Nisargadatta Bhakti-Jnyan Kendra at Kandalgaon (Centre for Devotion and Knowledge) - Photo 175

This is located in Kandalgaon, where Maharaj spent his boyhood, about 530 Km from Mumbai. You can take the Konkan Railway upto Kankavli station and from there by connecting transport to Kandalgaon. Holi Purnima  (a spring festival in India) is celebrated at a greater scale here. Birth and death...

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Holi saptah at Kandalgaon Math - Photo 174

From deep sleep to the waking state, what is it? It is the ‘I am’ state with no words, later the words start flowing and you get involved with the meaning of the words and carry out your worldly life with the meaning of those words – that is the mind. But before the ‘I am’ and waking state, that borderline,...

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Meeting Nisargadatta Maharaj: By Dr. Lakshyan Schanzer

As I sat down, I felt a tremendous pressure of feeling around my heart. I felt like crying. I decided I would just sit there and stay with this feeling.Maharaj sat there in dialogue with Mularpattan, a translator. It was an open and lively discussion with Maharaj responding to questions by the group....

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The Last Days : Last Teachings

Our beloved Master's vitals had been consumed by cancer and we knew his frail body would fall soon, perhaps sooner than we feared. But we were afraid of showing or fear to him for he would be hurt to find that his teaching was wasted on us. He had taught us that human beings were mere conceptual...

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A devotional account by Swami Paramatmananda

“Come in, come in.  You are coming from Arunachala, aren’t you? Your letter came yesterday.  Are you enjoying peace near the Maharshi?”  Maharaj jovially asked me, motioning me to sit near him.  Immediately I felt an intense peace near him, a sure sign for me that he was a...

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My Meeting with Nisargadatta Maharaj : Cathy Boucher

A narration of Cathy Boucher of her experiences with Nisargadatta Maharaj Hur has requested that I share my experience of meeting Nisargadatta Maharaj in 1978. I never took notes when I was there in Bombay so these recollections have been sealed in my memory for the last 23 years. In 1976 or 1977...

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Remembering Nisargadatta Maharaj : David Godman

David Godman explains his memories about Nisargadatta Maharaj “I was sitting with a visitor recently, looking at a new book on Nisargadatta Maharaj that consisted of photos and brief quotes. I knew some of the people in the pictures and narrated a few stories about them. This prompted a wider and...

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