The Way to Self-Realization (Nisargadatta)

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See that happiness is not pleasure.

See that desires and fears create bondage.

And be free and happy through detachment.

See that happiness is not pleasure.

 

Pain and pleasure are the crests and valleys in the

ocean of bliss (ananda). Deep down there is utter

fullness. (165)

 

Pain and pleasure go always together. Freedom from one

means freedom from the both. If you do not care for

pleasure, you will not be afraid of pain. But there is

happiness, which is neither, which is completely

beyond. (145)

 

My experience is that everything is bliss. But the

desire for bliss creates pain. Thus bliss becomes the

seed of pain. The entire universe of pain is born of

desire. Give up the desire for pleasure and you will

not even know what is pain. (82)

 

The right state and use of the body and the mind are

intensely pleasant. It is the search for pleasure that

is wrong. (468)

 

When the mind is engaged in serving the body,

happiness is lost. To regain it, it seeks pleasure.

The urge to be happy is right, but the means of

securing it are misleading, unreliable and destructive

of true happiness. (468)

 

Do not try to make yourself happy, rather question

your very search for happiness. It is because you are

not happy that you want to be happy. Find out why you

are unhappy. Because you are not happy you seek

happiness in pleasure; pleasure brings in pain and

therefore you call it worldly; you then long for some

other pleasure, without pain, which you call divine.

In reality, pleasure is but a respite from pain. (468)

 

The very desire to live is the messenger of death, as

the longing to be happy is the outline of sorrow. The

world is an ocean of pain and fear, of anxiety and

despair. Pleasures are like the fishes, few and swift,

rarely come, quickly gone. A man of low intelligence

believes, against all evidence, that he is an

exception and that the world owes him happiness. But

the world cannot give what it does not have; unreal to

the core, it is of no use for real happiness. It

cannot be otherwise. We seek the real because we are

unhappy with the unreal. Happiness is our real nature

and we shall never rest until we find it. (485-6)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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