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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
"BEING UNCONCERNED"
" . . . Watch all, unconcerned, in the full light of clarity and
understanding."
[Recall this exchange in light of being
unconcerned:]
Q.: "In your daily life are you always conscious of your real state?"
M.: "Neither conscious, nor unconscious. I do not need convictions. I live
on courage. Courage is my essence, which is love of life. I am free of memories
and anticipations, unconcerned with what I am and what I am not."
"I am not concerned either with 'what exists' or with 'who exists'. I take
my stand beyond, where I am both and neither."
M.: "I am not concerned with the universe. Let it be or not be. It is
enough if I know myself."
Q.: "Even when I have an intuitive understanding of this, what is this
reluctance to give up all that I am not?"
M.: "You have not stabilized firmly in that understanding. Your conviction
should be such that no question at all should arise in the future about that.
For example, a person is dead and has been cremated, it is all over, is there
any question about that? Like that, it will be all over."
"I have no individuality. I have assumed no pose as a person. Whatever
happens in the manifest consciousness happens."
Q.: "Maharaj said that he is not going to die?"
M.: "How can one who is not born, die? When people first learned about
this illness, those who have affection for me came to talk to me or wrote to
me, giving advice and medicine. Whatever is to happen will happen. I have no
interest. I don't have fear so I don't have to do anything."
"It is quite in order that those who have affection for me to write and
come to discuss things with me. [But] I don't listen to them, and that is also
quite in order, because I am not afraid of anything."
REGARDING THE ULTIMATE SICKNESS AND THE ULTIMATE MEDICINE
"When you are not well, you go to a physician who tells you what is wrong
and what is the remedy."
"If you have confidence in [the physician], it makes things simple: you
take the medicine, follow the diet restrictions and get well. But if you do not
trust [the physician], you may still take a chance, or you may study medicine
yourself! In all cases, it is your desire for recovery that moves you, not the
physician."
"The thoughts and deeds depend on the conditioning received right from the
time the consciousness is there."
"This sickness gave the confirmation that there is no personality, no
individual. Sickness to whom? Sickness is part of the functioning of the entire
manifest, dynamic Chaitanya; it is the play of consciousness.”
“My
true state is prior to this consciousness. That state does not depend on the
consciousness."
[The Ultimate Sickness is a] "Sickness [which] is part of the functioning
of the entire manifest, dynamic Chaitanya."
[The Ultimate Medicine] can "give the confirmation that there is no
personality, no individual."
"This sickness is an aspect of the consciousness and I am not the
consciousness. I am not the 'I Amness'. Whatever sickness is there is in the
domain of consciousness. With the aid of consciousness, sickness is being
experienced."
[The Ultimate Sickness is] "an aspect of the consciousness" and
"in the domain of consciousness."
"Just as the sun sets, only when this consciousness sets will there be
perfect health or no experience of this Sickness."
"Why should consciousness, which is inadequacy, which is sickness, be
there at all? To a jñani, consciousness has not happened at all. If the
consciousness tries to understand itself, it gets stabilized in due course in
the Absolute. And when the consciousness gets stabilized in the Absolute, it
knows it is like a ghost, it is not real. It is not palpable."
"Surely, when you are hungry you need food and when sick you need
medicine."
"The description and causation are the remedy for a disease caused by
obtuseness and stupidity. Just like a deficiency disease is cured through the
supply of the missing factor, so are the diseases of living cured by a good
dose of intelligent detachment."
"REGARDING "IDENTIFICATION / PERSONALITY"
(Part One)
"When
you put on an identity that is not yours, you are afraid. When you are the pure
'I Amness' only, there is no fear. Presently you are this 'I Am', but this 'I
Am' is not the truth. Whatever you are prior to the appearance of 'I Am', that
is your true nature."
" . . . Based on hearsay, you formed your identity with a certain image.
You may think that now you have become jnanis and that you know your identity
very well, but most often this is a case of sensory deception. Whatever your
image of yourself, it is nothing but a concept. Just understand what You Are,
and carry on your daily life to the best of your ability."
"You are still at the kindergarten level. The only solution is for you to
give up your identity with the body-mind." He said: "There is no
separate identity; what IS is this consciousness, apart from that, no one can
exist. When you are very quiet, you have arrived at the basis of
everything."
"If you have any problems or questions with which you are concerned, you
will find these problems and questions, are based on your identity with the
body and mind as an individual. If that identification is not there, then no
questions can arise."
"Once you realise that whatever appears before
you cannot be yourself, and cannot say 'I am', you are free of all your 'persons'
and their demands."
" . . . Self-identifications are patently false and the cause of
bondage."
"All is myself."
"I do not identify myself with anybody in particular, for I am all - both
the particular and the universal."
"A spark of truth can burn up a mountain of lies. The opposite is also
true: the sun of truth remains hidden behind the cloud of self-identification .
. . . "
"[The Realized man] looks at himself without indulging in self-definitions
and self-identifications. He does not know himself as anything apart from the
world. He is the world.”
“He is completely rid of himself, like a man who is very rich, but continually gives away his riches. He is not rich, for he has nothing; he is not poor, for he gives abundantly. He is just propertyless.”
“Similarly, the realised man is egoless; he has lost
the capacity of identifying himself with anything. He is without location,
placeless, beyond space and time, beyond the world. Beyond words and thoughts
is he."
" . . . Self-identification with
the outer causes is suffering."
"When I say I am free, I merely state a fact. If you are an adult, you are
free from infancy. I am free from all description and identification. Whatever
you may hear, see, or think of, I am not that."
"Don't identify yourself with the world and you will not suffer."
"You are afraid of what you are. Your destination is the whole. But you
are afraid that you will lose your identity. This is childishness, clinging to
the toys, to your desires and fears, opinions and ideas. Give it all up and be
ready for the Real to assert itself."
"When all the false self-identifications are thrown away, what remains is
all-embracing Love. Get rid of all ideas about yourself, even of the idea that
you are God. No self-definition is valid."
"When the mind is quiet, we come to know ourselves as the pure witness[ing].
We withdraw from the experience and its experiencer and stand apart in [that
is, as] pure awareness, which is between and beyond the two. The personality
(based on self-identification . . . on imagining oneself to be something (i.e.,
'I am this, I am that') continues, but only as a part of the objective world.
Its identification with the witness snaps."
"That ‘ultimate you' can never be lost. Whatever you have lost, you have
lost only the words. Who told you that you are lost? You know you are, 'I Am'.
The moment the feeling 'I Am' appears, the world also appears."
"In the consciousness hierarchy there are three stages:
1. Jivatman is the one who identifies himself with the body-mind - one who thinks 'I am a body, a personality, an individual apart from the world.' He excludes and isolates himself from the world as a separate personality because of identification with the body and the mind.
2. Next only the beingness, or the consciousness, which is the world. 'I Am' means my whole world. Just being and the world. Together with the beingness the world is also felt - that is Atman.
3. The Ultimate principle that knows this beingness cannot be termed at all. It cannot be approached or conditioned by any words. That is the Ultimate state.”
To be continued.
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