Expectations of self-realization

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Your expectation of something unique and dramatic, of

some wonderful explosion, is merely hindering and

delaying your self-realization. You are not to expect an

explosion, for the explosion has already happened – at the

moment you were born, when you realized yourself as

being-knowing-feeling. There is only one mistake you are

making. You take the inner for the outer and the outer for

the inner. What is in you, you take to be outside you and

what is outside you take to be in you. The mind and

feelings are external, but you take them to be internal.

You believe the world to be objective, while it is entirely

a projection of your psyche. That is the basic confusion

and no new explosion will set it right. You have to think

yourself out of it. There is no other way.

 

- Nisargadatta Maharaj

 

 

 

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" I Am That "

Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The Acorn Press, 1973