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QUOTATIONS AND POINTERS dealing with NON-DUALITY, ADVAITA, NISARGA YOGA and more
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Quotations and Pointers by Category and Subject Matter
from
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
REGARDING
"ABIDING NATURALLY, IN THE NISARGA FASHION," Part Two
"The
self by its nature knows itself only."
"Love is a state of being. Sex is energy. Love is wise. Sex is blind. Once
the True Nature of Love and sex is understood, there will be no conflict or
confusion."
"When one is fully matured, realisation is explosive. It takes place
spontaneously, or at the slightest hint. The quick is not better than the slow.
Slow ripening and rapid flowering alternate. Both are natural . . . . "
"In complete obedience to nature there is no effort."
"So far your life was dark and restless (tamas and rajas). Attention,
alertness, awareness, clarity, liveliness, vitality, are all manifestations of
integrity, oneness with ‘Your True Nature’ (sattva)."
"[Your True Nature] is a faithful servant . . . ever attentive and
obedient."
"Do I want anything from you? No. I wish you well - such is my
nature."
"There is no darkness in the midst of light. [Forgetting authenticity] is
the darkness. When we are absorbed in other things, in the not-self, we forget
the self."
"As a whole the world does not need saving. Man makes mistakes and creates
sorrow; when it enters the field of awareness, the consciousness of a jnani, it
is set right. Such is his nature."
"The obstacles to the clear perception of one's true being are desire for
pleasure and fear of pain. It is the pleasure-pain motivation that stands in
the way. The very freedom from all motivation, the state in which no desire
arises is the natural state."
"The nature of [authenticity] is pure awareness, pure witnessing,
unaffected by the presence or absence of knowledge or liking."
" . . . Jnanis are not made. They realise themselves as such when they
return to their source, to their real nature."
[The jnani] "is happy and fully aware that happiness is his very nature
and that he need not do anything nor strive for anything to secure it."
" . . . Love and compassion are the jnani’s very nature."
"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 omnipotent deity
is a clear sign of ignorance."
"Any name or shape you give yourself obscures ‘Your Real Nature’."
"The very nature of the [authenticity] is Love."
"Your very nature has the infinite capacity to enjoy."
"Nature is one - Reality is one."
"Do nothing, just be. In being, all happens naturally."
"What you call realisation is a natural thing. When you are ready, your guru
will be waiting."
"The harmonised people may be called 'natural', ruled by law, while the
disintegrated are chaotic and subject to accidents."
" . . . Realize that peace and happiness are in your very nature and it is
only seeking them through some particular channels that disturbs."
"No particular thought can be [the] Natural State . . . only
silence."
"What you take to be the 'I' in the 'I am' is not you. To know that you are is natural. To know what you are is the result of much
investigation."
"The only happiness worth the name is the natural happiness of conscious
being."
"You need to return to the state in which I am --Your Natural State.
Anything else you may think of is an illusion and an obstacle."
"Witnessing is natural . . . . "
"Non-identification, when natural and spontaneous, is liberation."
"Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and
beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind."
"This freedom from attachment does not come with practice; it is natural
when one knows one's true being."
"Deepen and broaden your awareness of yourself and all the blessings will
flow. You need not seek anything. All will come to you most naturally and
effortlessly."
" . . . What prevents the insight into one's True Nature is the weakness
and obtuseness of the mind."
"Play, for example, is natural, and man is the most playful animal in
existence."
"The ending of the self with its desires and fears enables you to return
to Your Real Nature, the source of all happiness and peace."
"When more people come to know their Real Nature, their influence -
however subtle - will prevail and the world's emotional atmosphere will sweeten
up."
"Contemplate life as infinite, undivided, ever present, ever active, until
you realise yourself as one with it.”
[What does “realizing yourself” involve? It involves knowing what ‘you’ were and where ‘you’ were eight days prior to - even before - conception occurred. That conception - if it develops to full term - will have set the stage for the manifested you (a temporarily-manifested, ever-changing composite unity) to not know “who” / “what” you were prior to conception and will lead to your being led to believe that you are scores of things / persons, personas, etc. which you are not.]
Realizing
your original energy-matter self “is not even very difficult, for you will be
returning only to your own natural condition."
"When the mind is kept away from its preoccupations, it becomes quiet. If
you do not disturb this quiet and stay in it, you find that it is permeated
with a light and a Love you have never known; and yet you recognise it at once
as Your Own Nature."
"The very idea 'I am self-realised' is a mistake. There is no 'I am this'
[or] 'I am that' in the Natural State."
"The darkness you see is but the shadow of the tiny speck. Get rid of it
and come back to Your Natural State."
"Take note of the peculiar nature of pure awareness . . . without the
least trace of self-consciousness, and go to the root of it and you will soon
realise that awareness is Your True Nature. [Then], nothing you may be aware of
can you call your own."
"Your Real Nature is not like what you appear to be. Give up the idea of
being a person, that is all."
"Self-surrender is the surrender of all self-concern. It cannot be done;
it happens when you realise Your True Nature."
"Happiness is our Real Nature and we shall never rest until we find
it."
"To believe that you depend on things and people for happiness is due to
ignorance of Your True Nature; to know that you need nothing to be happy . . . is
wisdom."
"From the awareness of the unreal to the awareness of Your Real Nature,
there is a chasm which you will easily cross, once you have mastered the art of
pure awareness."
Questioner: "Emptiness and nothingness - how dreadful!"
Maharaj: "You face it most cheerfully, when you go to sleep! Find out for
yourself the state of wakeful sleep and you will find it quite in harmony with
Your Real Nature."
"Realise once and for all that neither your body nor your mind - nor even
your consciousness - is yourself and stand alone in Your True Nature beyond
consciousness and unconsciousness. No effort can take you there, only the
clarity of understanding."
"Realise that Your True Nature is that of pure light only, and both the
perceived and the perceiver come and go together."
"For reality to be, the ideas of 'me' and 'mine' must go. They will go if
you let them. Then your normal Natural State reappears, in which you are
neither the body nor the mind, neither the 'me’ nor the 'mine', but in a
different state of being altogether. It is pure awareness of being, without
being this or that, without any self-identification with anything in
particular, or in general. In that pure light of consciousness there is
nothing, not even the idea of nothing. There is only light."
"There is nothing to practise. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself,
stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let your ‘True Nature’
emerge.”
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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"There is no hell."
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