Absolute perfection is here and now

All you get by waiting is more waiting. Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far.Sri Nisargadatta Maha...

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What if I die without getting realized?

When you talk about an ignorant person and a Jnani and the need for an ignorant person to become a Jnani, do you not assume that there is an independent and autonomous individual, capable of exercising personal volition according to his choice and decision? In the process whereby the phenomenal universe...

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People mistake bliss for self-realisation

 Your expectation of something unique and dramatic, of some wonderful explosion, is merely hindering and delaying your self-realisation.Sri Nisargadatta MaharajPeople mistake bliss for self-realisation.Bliss is connected to serotonin in the brain. It comes and go...

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A character in a movie, a dreamed pseudo-entity

Who is thinking in terms of self-improvement? Surely, an appearance in consciousness, a character in a movie, a dreamed pseudo-entity considering itself subject to the workings of Karma.• Realizing one's true nature requires no phenomenal effort.• What efforts can a shadow make to know its substance?...

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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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The self-styled Gurus obstruct

The self-styled Gurus talk of ripeness and effort, of merits and achievements, of destiny and grace. All these are mere mental formations, projections of an addicted mind. Instead of helping, they obstruct.- Nisargadatta MaharajAll ideas of ripeness and effort, merits and achievements, progress and...

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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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Yoga means union, joining. What have you re-united, re-joined?

 Yoga means union, joining. What have you re-united, re-joined? Even to talk of re-uniting the person with the self is not right, because there is no person, only a mental picture given a false reality by conviction. Nothing was divided and there is nothing to unite. ~Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj....

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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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Can you take a photograph of the Government of Bombay?

 ● Are the buildings, land, and the trees - Bombay?● Bombay is a concept superimposed on the totality of things viewed collectively.● If some of them or all of them are reproduced somewhere, will that be Bombay? No.● Can such a concept called Bombay have karma or rebirth? No.● Your present identity...

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