GOD

 • Did God come and tell you that the world is His creation and concern and not yours?• To help you, God must know your existence. But you and your world are, dream states. None knows them, and none can help you.• Your scriptures and your gods have no meaning here.• Is it not the simple sense of...

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Let us come back to your problems of re-birth.

 • What is 'born', the objective body, will, in due course, 'die'; thereafter it will be dissolved i.e. irrevocably annihilated. The objective part of what was once a sentient being will be destroyed, never to be re-born as the same body. • And consciousness is not an object, not a 'thing'...

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You may know all the right words, quote the scriptures

 You may know all the right words, quote the scriptures, be brilliant in your discussions and yet remain a bag of bones. Or you may be inconspicuous and humble, an insignificant person altogether, yet glowing with loving kindness and deep wisdom.Sri Nisargadatta Maha...

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A journey into the unknown

 Once you realize that the person is merely a shadow of the reality, but not reality itself, you cease to fret or worry. You agree to be guided from within and life becomes a journey into the unknown.Sri Nisargadatta Maha...

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The plurality that we perceive is only an appearance

 The plurality that we perceive is only an appearance; it is not real. Vedantic philosophy has sought to clarify it by a number of analogies, one of the most attractive being the many-faceted crystal which, while showing hundreds of little pictures of what is in reality a single existent object,...

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There are no other means to liberation, all means delay.

 When the fallacy of concepts and beliefs are exposed, the common argument raised is "Till I am ready, let me have such concepts", or "Till I am mature, such concepts are true for me". False is false whether you realise it or not. No dumb practice will make you free. Unless you come face to face...

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Until you drop everything - Ashtavakra Gita

 You can recite and discuss scriptures all you want, but until you drop everything, you will never know the Truth.Ashtavakra G...

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The entire manifested universe exists only in consciousness

 ● The entire manifested universe exists only in consciousness. ● As an appearance in consciousness, the world is the totality of the known in the potential of the unknown. ● 'Me', 'you' and 'he' are only appearances in consciousne...

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Man of cluttered intellect - Ashtavakra Gita

 A man of open intuition may realize Self upon hearing a casual instruction, while a man of cluttered intellect inquires bewildered for a lifetime.यथातथोपदेशेन कृतार्थः सत्त्वबुद्धिमान् ।आजीवमपि जिज्ञासुः परस्तत्र विमुह्यति ॥Ashtavakra G...

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It is all imagination - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

 Through the film of your mind you project a world and also a God to give it cause and purpose. It is all imagination. Step out of it.Nisargadatta Maha...

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Yogis who preach either effort - Ashtavakra Gita

कर्मनैष्कर्म्यनिर्बन्धभावा देहस्थयोगिनः ।संयोगायोगविरहादहमासे यथासुखम् ॥Yogis who preach either effort or non-effort are still attached to the body.I neither dissociate nor associate with any of that and am happy.Ashtavakra G...

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There is no such thing as enlightenment

 There is no ‘me’ or ‘you’ to seek enlightenment. Personal entity and enlightenment cannot go together. Indeed, there is no such thing as ‘enlightenment’. The apperception of this fact is itself enlightenment!Sri Nisargadatta Maha...

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The imperceptible being

 Each one of us, as a phenomenon, is merely an appearance in the consciousness of those who perceive us, and, therefore, what we appear to be is a phenomenon — temporal, finite and perceptible to the senses; whereas what we are, what we have always been and what we shall always be, without name...

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Where is the person? - Ashtavakra Gita

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Neither do I know, nor do I do not know - Kenopanishad

 I do not think that I know this well;nor do I think that I do not know this.He among us who knows that –“Neither do I know, nor do I do not know”-    perceives That well.Kenopanishadनाहं मन्ये सुवेदेति नो न वेदेति वेद च ।यो नस्तद्वेद तद्वेद नो न वेदेति वेद च...

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Self-inquiry is a good beginning, however, it does not produce Self-realisation

 Question: I have, as advised by you, retired to a solitary place where I am engaged in investigating the Self. Even so, I have diverse visions and experiences. Thinking that the constant Self-awareness is dimmed by the uncalled-for interference of mental activities, I forcibly repressed my thoughts...

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Reflection of the sun in a drop of dew is not the sun

 • Consciousness is a reflection of the Absolute against the surface of matter, bringing about a sense of duality.• Awareness becomes consciousness only when it has an object to reflect against.• Reflection of the sun in a drop of dew is not the sun!- Sri Nisargadatta MaharajWhere is "liberation"...

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To whomsoever it is not known - Kenopanishad

यस्यामतं तस्य मतं मतं यस्य न वेद सः ।अविज्ञातं विजानतां विज्ञातमविजानताम् ॥To whomsoever it is not known, to him it is known.To whomsoever it is known, he does not know.It is not understood by those who understand it;It is understood by those who do not understand it.Kenopanis...

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You think you were born

 • You think you were born, but what was born was duration in which you as an object have become perceptible.• What you think you are, is duration, time; what you subjectively are, is timele...

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The multiplicity is only apparent. This is the doctrine of the Upanishads.

 The multiplicity is only apparent. This is the doctrine of the Upanishads.Erwin SchrödingerAustrian physicist. One of the founders of quantum theo...

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