The Question of Re-birth

 Maharaj rejects the idea of re-birth or re-incarnation out of hand, and the basis for such rejection is so simple that it humbles us: the entity which is supposed to be re-born does not exist, except as a mere concept! How can a concept be re-born?Maharaj in all innocence asks the protagonist...

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Neo-Advaita

 Truth is one. All masters try to convey the same thing. Teachings of old masters would have been misinterpreted by some people, made as a concept, a story, or a religion by the years passed by.People take what is convenient for them, a part, ignoring the context, mostly those prescribed for the...

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Marathi Discourses by Nisargadatta Maharaj - Audio

Thanks to my friend who shared these with me. She is basically from Maharaj's village and her family is very close to Maharaj. She says : "These are all about verses from "Eknathi Bhagvat". Maharaj told Mr. Chavhan to record all these discourses. Maharaj usually never asks anybody in particular...

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Direct understanding beyond which there is nothing

Nisargadatta Maharaj always laid great emphasis on the fact that a man with a dull intellect would never be able to understand even vaguely what he was talking about, and that he would ask such a person to do japa or some other Sadhana so that his psyche could gradually become purer and enable him,...

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Noumenon and Phenomena - The summary of Maharaj's teachings

My education is up to the level which can barely put me in the category of the literate; I have not read any of the great traditional scriptures and the only language I know is my native Marathi. The only enquiry I have pursued, but pursued it relentlessly - like a hunter pursues his quarry- is...

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Two Talks By Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj - prepared by Pradeep Apte

Talk 1 Feb 4, 1981 What image of yourself are you going to collect from here and go? You had come to the market to sell your wares (yourself) and return with money (your true Self). So you have come here and collected what? Are you returning and yet carrying yourself? You should be word-free,...

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Teachings of Nisargadatta Maharaj : Jean Dunn says...

In one way the core of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj's teaching is easy to grasp, and extremely difficult in another. It is easy if we are willing to be completely honest with ourselves, to look at the concepts of others with which we have built our own prisons. To investigate for one's self can be extremely...

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My True State : Maharaj says...

There is happiness and unhappiness in this world only because this consciousness of I am. This consciousness of I am is the world. With the touch of this I am consciousness, this world comes into existence. Without the I am consciousness you are untouched or absolutely pure. This consciousness...

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Style of Teaching - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Sri Nisargadatta's teachings are grounded in the Advaita Vedanta interpretation of the Advaita idea Tat Tvam Asi, literally "That Thou Art", (Tat = "Absolute", Tvam = "You", Asi = "are") meaning You are (actually) Absolute (who thinks otherwise). He also had a strong devotional zeal towards his...

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Consciousness - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj says

Maharaj tells the visitors that it is only about this consciousness or I-am-ness that he always talks. Any enquiries about anything else would be useless because this consciousness must be there before anything else can be. If I am not (conscious), he says the world is not (as in deep sleep). It...

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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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Nisarga Yoga

  In the humble abode of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, but for the electric lights and the noises of the street traffic, one would not know in which period of human history one dwells. There is an atmosphere of timelessness about his tiny room; the subjects discussed are timeless - valid for all...

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