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Nisargadatta - The way back to your self

 Question:

 

 Still, you are different. Your mind seems to be always quiet and

 happy.  And miracles happen around you.

 

Answer:

  I know nothing about miracles, and I wonder whether nature admits

  exceptions to her laws, unless we agree that everything is a

  miracle.  As to my mind, there is no such thing. There is a

  consciousness in which everything happens.  It is quite obvious and

  enough.  Look well, and see what I see.

 

Q: What do you see?

 

A:

 I see what you too could see, here and now, but for the wrong

 focus of your attention.  You give no attention to your self.  Your

 mind is all with things, people, and ideas, never with your self.

 Bring your self into focus, become aware of your own existence.  See

 how you function, watch the motives and the results of your actions. 

 Study the prison you have built around yourself, by inadvertence.  By

 knowing what you are not, you come to know yourself.  The way back to

 your self is through refusal and rejection.  One thing is certain:

 The real is not imaginary, it is not a product of the mind.  Even the

 sense of `I am´ is not continuous, though it is a useful pointer; it

 shows where to seek, but not what to seek. Just have a good look at

 it.  Once you have convinced that you cannot say truthfully about

your self anything except `I am´, and that nothing that can be

pointed at can be your self, the need for the `I am´ is over - you

are no longer intent on verbalizing what you are.  All you need is to

get rid of the tendency to define your self.  All definition applies

to your body only and to its expressions.  

Once this obsession with the body goes, you will revert to your

natural state, spontaneously and effortlessly.  The only difference

between us is that I am aware of my natural state, while you are

bemused.  Just like gold made into ornamentals has no advantage over

gold duct, except when the mind makes it so, so are we one in being 

we differ only in appearance.  We discover it by being earnest, by

searching, enquiry, questioning daily and hourly, by giving one's

life to this discover.

 

- Nisargadatta Maharaj

"I am That"

Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

 

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Nisargadatta.. That is love

 

When I See I Am Nothing

"When I see I am nothing,

that is wisdom.

When I see I am everything,

that is love.

Between these two

my life moves."

Nisargadatta

 

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Ramana Maharshi - Talks,155

5th February, 1936

 

The same man again asked about the nature

of samadhi and the means to get samadhi.

 

M.: When the one who asks the nature of samadhi and the method of getting i=

nto it

vanishes, samadhi will result.

 

Maj.Chadwick: It is said that one look of

a Mahatma is enough; that idols, pilgrimages, etc, are not so effective.

I have been here for three months, but I

do not know how I have been benefited by

the look of Maharshi.

 

M.: The look has a purifying effect. Purification cannot be visualized. Jus=

t

as a piece of coal takes long to be

ignited, a piece of charcoal takes a short

time, and a mass of gunpowder is instantaneously ignited, so it is with

grades of men coming in contact with Mahatmas.

 

Mr. Cohen: I get into meditation and

reach a point which may be called peace

and a contemplative mood. What should be

the next step?

 

M.: Peace is Self-Realization. Peace

need not be disturbed. One should aim at Peace only.

 

D.: But I do not have the satisfaction.

 

M.: Because your peace is temporary.

If made permanent it is called

Realization.

 

~karta from self_realization_dialogues/~