Saturday 26 December 2020
Like a hole in the paper - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Wednesday 23 December 2020
The Self which pervades all things - Shvetashvatara Upanishad
The Self which pervades all things, which is the root of self-knowledge and austerity – that is the Truth, the highest mystic doctrine. - Shvetashvatara Upanishad
सर्वव्यापिनमात्मानं क्षीरे सर्पिरिवार्पितम् ।
आत्मविद्यातपोमूलं तद्ब्रह्मोपनिषत् परम् ॥
It pervades, all states, but it is not a state of something else. It is entirely uncaused, independent, complete in itself, beyond time and space, mind and matter.
- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Monday 21 December 2020
You are neither born; nor will die.
Birth and death are nothing but the beginning and ending of a stream of movements in consciousness, interpreted as events in space-time. You are neither born; nor will die. - Nisargadatta Maharaj
Thursday 17 December 2020
It is your private dream world - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Your world of desires and their fulfilments, of fears and their escapes, is definitely not my world. It is your private dream world. My only reaction is to ask you to stop dreaming. - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Thursday 10 December 2020
Rathakalpana - Kathopanisad
आत्मानँ रथितं विद्धि शरीरँ रथमेव तु ।
बुद्धिं तु सारथिं विद्धि मनः प्रग्रहमेव च ॥
इन्द्रियाणि हयानाहुर्विषयाँ स्तेषु गोचरान् ।
आत्मेन्द्रियमनोयुक्तं भोक्तेत्याहुर्मनीषिणः ॥
Know the Self as the lord of the chariot; Body – the chariot itself, Intellect as the charioteer; Mind as reins, senses the horses, Desires the roads to travel. The self, misidentified with the body, points out mind and senses; seemingly enjoys pleasure, and suffers sorrow. - Kathopanisad
Thursday 5 November 2020
Walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature. - Buddha
Walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature. - Buddha
You are the maker of the world in which you live - you alone can change it, or unmake it. - Nisargadatta Maharaj
Wednesday 21 October 2020
Liberated - the one who knows that; Kathopanisad
इन्द्रियेभ्यः परं मनो मनसः सत्त्वमुत्तमम् ।
सत्त्वादधि महानात्मा महतोऽव्यक्तमुत्तमम् ॥
अव्यक्तात्तु परः पुरुषो व्यापकोऽलिङ्ग एव च ।
यं ज्ञात्वा मुच्यते जन्तुरमृतत्वं च गच्छति ॥
Mind - beyond the senses, ego - subtler than the mind, still subtler - the consciousness. Beyond that lies the unknown, Further beyond - The Unmanifested, The Formless. I am That. Liberated - the one who knows that; and becomes deathless. - Kathopanisad
Wednesday 14 October 2020
Your ignorance alone creates the universe. You alone exist. - Ashtavakra Gita
Your ignorance alone creates the universe. You alone exist; That is the Ultimate Truth. There is no one other than You within or beyond. - Ashtavakra Gita
Friday 2 October 2020
Nothing that you perceive can be you
"Discover all that you are not - body, feelings, thoughts, time, space, this or that - nothing concrete or abstract which you perceive can be you." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.
Where is then that person? - Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
When the speech of this dead person enters into the fire, breath into the air, the eye into the sun, the mind into the moon, the hearing into space, into the earth the body, into the ether the self, into the shrubs the hairs of the body, into the trees the hairs of the head, when the blood and the seed are deposited in the water, where is then that person? - Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
If the person is no more, what then is rebirth, heaven, or hell ?
"When the body is no more, the person disappears completely without return, only the witness remains and the Great Unknown." - Nisargadatta Maharaj
How do you and me see the same illusion?
If everything is an illusion, how do you and me see the same illusion? From the sun's perspective, sunrise and sunset does not exist; it is an illusion. But yet, people see sunsets. If you and me see a sunset from two different places, would that be the same illusion or different?
"When a number of people are asleep, each dreams his own dream. Only on awakening, the question of many different dreams arises, and dissolves when they are all seen as dreams, as something imagined." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
I do not want meek and humble disciples
I do not want meek and humble disciples, I want them to be powerful, as I am. I do not make disciples, I make Gurus. - Nisargadatta Maharaj
Consciousness and the Absolute - The final talks of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj; edited by Jean Dunn; Published by Chetana 1997 edition; ISBN81-85300-034-8 p.100 Ch:June 21, 1981 A.M.
Once you realise that the world is your own projection, you are free of it
Once you realise that the world is your own projection, you are free of it - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
This relative ‘knowledge’ merges in the no-knowing state of the Absolute
This relative ‘knowledge’ merges in the no-knowing state of the Absolute. This temporary condition of ‘I-know’ and ‘I-know-that-I-know’, then merges into that eternal state of ‘I-do-not-know’ and ‘I-do-not-know-that-I-do-not-know’. - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Reincarnation exists only so long as there is ignorance
What is birth and death but the beginning and the ending of a stream of events in consciousness? It is all misunderstanding and misuse. Wake up, go beyond, live really. - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Reincarnation exists only so long as there is ignorance. There is really no reincarnation at all, either now or before. Nor will there be any hereafter. This is the truth. - Sri Ramana Maharshi | Be As You Are – by David Godman (1985) ISBN 0-14-019062-7 - Chapter 18
Beyond the mind there is no such thing as “experience”
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj: Beyond the mind there is no such thing as “experience”.
What happens to a person who dies without realizing the truth?
What happens to a person who dies without realizing the truth?
To whom does this question arise? For the realized, there are no persons and death. For the person, there is no realization either. The question itself is false. A ‘realized person’ is a paradox.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj : Indeed, there is no such thing as ‘enlightenment’. The apperception of this fact is itself enlightenment.
Is there any question of awakening for that flame?
Source of the consciousness is not in the brain
Source of the consciousness is not in the brain.
Nisargadatta Maharaj : Consciousness and unconsciousness, while in the body depend on the condition of the brain. But the self is beyond both, beyond the brain, beyond the mind. The fault of the instrument is no reflection on its user.
The doctrine that the world is made up of objects - Bernard d'Espagnat
"The doctrine that the world is made up of objects whose existence is independent of human consciousness turns out to be in conflict with quantum mechanics and with facts established by experiment."
Bernard d'Espagnat - (1921 – 2015) - French theoretical physicist, philosopher of science.
Once you realize that the world is your own projection, you are free of it. The entire manifested universe, exists only in consciousness. - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj