The problem apparently is about 'progress'. Now, who is to make the progress, and progress towards what? I have said this repeatedly and untiringly that you are the Conscious Presence, the animating consciousness which gives sentience to phenomenal objects; that you are not a phenomenal object, which is merely an appearance in the consciousness of those who perceive it. How can an 'appearance' make any 'progress' towards any objective? Now, instead of letting this basic apperception impregnate your very being, what you do is to accept it merely as an ideological thesis and ask the question. How can a conceptual appearance know whether it is making any conceptual progress towards its conceptual liberation? - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Tuesday 21 September 2021
How can an 'appearance' make any 'progress' towards any objective?
Sunday 19 September 2021
Discard all traditional standards
Discard all traditional standards. Leave them to the hypocrites. Only what liberates you from desire and fear and wrong ideas is good. As long as you worry about sin and virtue you will have no peace. - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Saturday 18 September 2021
Mantra Yoga, Kundalini Awakening, Chakras, Gayatri
Mantra Yoga, Kundalini Awakening, Chakras, Gayatri : Throw it out, but hang onto your being, your own Self. Don’t accept anything except your being, the knowledge 'I Am'. Just be. Forget everything else. - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Monday 23 August 2021
There are no distinctive marks of Jnana - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
There are no distinctive marks of Jnana. Only ignorance can be recognized, not Jnana.A Jnani does not claim to be something special. All those who proclaim their own greatness and uniqueness are not Jnanis.They are mistaking some unusual development for realization.The Jnani shows no tendency to proclaim himself to be a Jnani.He considers himself to be perfectly normal, true to his real nature.Proclaiming oneself to be an omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent deity is a clear sign of ignorance. - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Wednesday 18 August 2021
The road is the goal - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy. - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Thursday 12 August 2021
To expound and propagate concepts is simple, to drop all concepts is difficult and rare.
To expound and propagate concepts is simple, to drop all concepts is difficult and rare - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Thursday 29 July 2021
You are the substance of consciousness - Ashtavakra Gita
तात चिन्मात्ररूपोऽसि न ते à¤िन्नमिदं जगत् ।
अतः कस्य कथं कुत्र हेयोपादेयकल्पना ॥
You are the substance of consciousness. The world is You. Who is it that thinks he can accept or reject it? And where does he stand? - Ashtavakra Gita
Saturday 24 July 2021
Monday 19 July 2021
Does this world exist exactly as you perceive?
Every atom in this world, be it of gold or iron, carbon or oxygen – is made up of the same particles. The difference is only in their numbers. The fundamental building blocks of all materials in this world are the same. The difference is only when it is interpreted in your mind. Does this world exist exactly as you perceive? Where do you figure in this? And who are you?
Sunday 16 May 2021
The coin - the name and form - is irretrievably lost - never to be re-born
What is born, the objective body, will, in due course, die; thereafter it will be dissolved, i.e., irrevocably annihilated. The life-force will leave the body and mingle with the air outside. 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" at all. Therefore, consciousness, as something non-objective, cannot be born, cannot die and certainly cannot be re-born.
- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.
● I have a gold coin. I melt it and make a ring.
● Though the gold has not changed, will it now have any of the features of the coin?
● If the coin was antique, will the ring also be antique?
● The coin - the name and form is the identity superimposed on the gold.
● Will it be known as the rebirth of the coin? The coin is no more.
● The coin - the name and form - is irretrievably lost.
● This is the case of your identity too. It is a superimposed concept.
● It is not born, and cannot be re-born.
Sunday 18 April 2021
पूर्ण - Biography of Sri Bhainath Maharaj & His Teaching
Monday 22 March 2021
Dnyan - Portugese translation of AAPAN (Marathi)
Original Marathi Name : AAPAN
English Translation By : Sri Mohan Gaitonde
Marathi edited & compiled By : Sri Sachin Kshirsagar
Original Marathi book design by : Sri Bharat Shimpi
Portuguese Translation Name : Dnyan
Book details are as below :
TÃtulo original: We our Self. TÃtulo em marata: AAPAN.
Tradução: Priscila Catão
1ª Edição: 2021
Tamanho: 14 x 21 cm
Idioma: português
Acabamento: capa dura
Páginas: 96
ISBN: 978-65-87574-06-6
Sunday 14 March 2021
The complete steps to self realization
Indeed there is no such thing as "enlightenment". The apperception of this fact is itself enlightenment!
All paths lead to unreality. Paths are creations within the scope of knowledge. Therefore, paths and movements cannot transport you into Reality, because their function is to enmesh you within the dimension of knowledge, while the Reality prevails prior to it.
- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Thursday 11 March 2021
There are three kinds of people in a “spiritual” train journey
There are three kinds of people in a “spiritual” train journey. 1. The "normal" person, who is just bothered about his family, food, and sleep. He is not worried about other issues in the train, yet he reaches the destination just as anyone else do. 2. The "so-called-spiritual" person, who is eager to know about the mechanisms, rules, systems, and categories of locomotives, the expertise of the pilot, the meaning of signals, etc. He then strives to get a thorough understanding of that. There may be “masters” who would explain that to him, and perhaps would get satisfied in becoming proficient enough. Still, he too reaches the destination, just as anyone else do. 3. Now, the “rarest” one, who understands in depth that the destination is bound to reach, irrespective of any action, and that any inquiry is futile. He enjoys his journey, calmly observing the landscape through the window, yet fully aware that the journey had never commenced.
Saturday 6 March 2021
One who has transcended the body idea does not need the ananda - Nisargadatta Maharaj
Because you want some satisfaction according to your own concepts, you try to qualify unalloyed bliss. The term "ananda" (bliss) has significance only when it signifies that the bodily beingness is available to experience it. One who has transcended the body idea does not need the ananda. - Nisargadatta Maharaj