Book name : Eruka
Original Hindi Name : Pahachan
Original Hindi Translation By : Sachin Kshirsagar & Rahul Gajbhiye
Telugu Translation By : B.Shreedhar Babu
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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.
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
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
