Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Navnath Guru (Mahasamadhi 08-Sep-81). Sadhana focusing the mind on 'I am'. Currently quoting 'I Am That' (tr-Frydman) in the AM & 'Prior to Consciousness' (tr-Dunn) in the PM. (UTC-5:00)
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When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing then the Supreme State will come to you uninvited and unexpected!
December 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing then the Supreme State will come to you uninvited and unexpected!
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.
November 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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.
All those who have realized on the spot, by mere touch, look or thought, have been ripe for it. But such are very few. The majority needs some time for ripening. Sadhana is accelerated ripening.
November 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
All those who have realized on the spot, by mere touch, look or thought, have been ripe for it. But such are very few. The majority needs some time for ripening. Sadhana is accelerated ripening.
See what you are. Don’t ask others, don’t let others tell you about yourself. Look within and see. All the teacher can tell you is only this.
November 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
See what you are. Don’t ask others, don’t let others tell you about yourself. Look within and see. All the teacher can tell you is only this.
In the light of consciousness all sorts of things happen and one need not give special importance to any. The sight of a flower is as marvellous as the vision of God. Let them be. Why remember them and then make memory into a problem?
November 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
In the light of consciousness all sorts of things happen and one need not give special importance to any. The sight of a flower is as marvellous as the vision of God. Let them be. Why remember them and then make memory into a problem?
Your weakness is due to your conviction that you were born into the world. In reality the world is ever recreated in you and by you.
November 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Your weakness is due to your conviction that you were born into the world. In reality the world is ever recreated in you and by you.
The light is for all and always there, but the seekers are few, and among those few, those who are ready are very rare. Ripeness of heart and mind is indispensable.
November 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The light is for all and always there, but the seekers are few, and among those few, those who are ready are very rare. Ripeness of heart and mind is indispensable.
Only ignorance can be recognized, not jnana. Nor does a jnani claim to be something special. All those who proclaim their own greatness and uniqueness are not jnanis. They are mistaking some unusual development for realization.
November 23, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Only ignorance can be recognized, not jnana. Nor does a jnani claim to be something special. All those who proclaim their own greatness and uniqueness are not jnanis. They are mistaking some unusual development for realization.
Forget the known, but remember that you are the knower. Don’t be all the time immersed in your experiences. Remember that you are beyond the experiencer ever unborn and deathless. In remembering it, the quality of pure knowledge will emerge, the light of unconditional awareness.
November 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Forget the known, but remember that you are the knower. Don’t be all the time immersed in your experiences. Remember that you are beyond the experiencer ever unborn and deathless. In remembering it, the quality of pure knowledge will emerge, the light of unconditional awareness.
There was no coming. It was so — always. There was discovery and it was sudden. Just as at birth you discover the world suddenly, as suddenly I discovered my real being.
November 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
There was no coming. It was so — always. There was discovery and it was sudden. Just as at birth you discover the world suddenly, as suddenly I discovered my real being.
Everything can become a way, provided you are interested. Just puzzling over my words and trying to grasp their full meaning is a sadhana quite sufficient for breaking down the wall.
November 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Everything can become a way, provided you are interested. Just puzzling over my words and trying to grasp their full meaning is a sadhana quite sufficient for breaking down the wall.
The very longing and search for reality is the movement, operation, action of reality. All you can do is to grasp the central point, that reality is not an event and does not happen and whatever happens, whatever comes and goes, is not reality.
November 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The very longing and search for reality is the movement, operation, action of reality. All you can do is to grasp the central point, that reality is not an event and does not happen and whatever happens, whatever comes and goes, is not reality.
If you wait for an event to take place, for the coming of reality, you will wait for ever, for reality neither comes nor goes. It is to be perceived, not expected. It is not to be prepared for and anticipated.
November 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
If you wait for an event to take place, for the coming of reality, you will wait for ever, for reality neither comes nor goes. It is to be perceived, not expected. It is not to be prepared for and anticipated.
We dream that we are awake, we dream that we are asleep. The three states are only varieties of the dream state. Treating everything as a dream liberates.
November 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
We dream that we are awake, we dream that we are asleep. The three states are only varieties of the dream state. Treating everything as a dream liberates.
You live, you feel, you think. By giving attention to your living, feeling and thinking, you free yourself from them and go beyond them. Your personality dissolves and only the witness remains.
November 16, 2025 at 2:08 PM
You live, you feel, you think. By giving attention to your living, feeling and thinking, you free yourself from them and go beyond them. Your personality dissolves and only the witness remains.
By imagining that you are born as so-and-so, you become a slave to the so-and-so.
November 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
By imagining that you are born as so-and-so, you become a slave to the so-and-so.
See the event as event only, the transient as transient, experience as mere experience and you have done all you can. Then you are vulnerable to reality, no longer armoured against it, as you were when you gave reality to events and experiences.
November 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
See the event as event only, the transient as transient, experience as mere experience and you have done all you can. Then you are vulnerable to reality, no longer armoured against it, as you were when you gave reality to events and experiences.
All happens as it needs, yet nothing happens. I do what seems to be necessary, but at the same time I know that nothing is necessary, that life itself is only a make-belief.
November 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
All happens as it needs, yet nothing happens. I do what seems to be necessary, but at the same time I know that nothing is necessary, that life itself is only a make-belief.
To me nothing ever happens. There is something changeless, motionless, immovable, rock-like, unassailable; a solid mass of pure being-consciousness-bliss. I am never out of it.
November 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
To me nothing ever happens. There is something changeless, motionless, immovable, rock-like, unassailable; a solid mass of pure being-consciousness-bliss. I am never out of it.
Once you have awakened into reality, you stay in it. A child does not return to the womb! It is a simple state, smaller than the smallest, bigger than the biggest. It is self-evident and yet beyond description.
November 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Once you have awakened into reality, you stay in it. A child does not return to the womb! It is a simple state, smaller than the smallest, bigger than the biggest. It is self-evident and yet beyond description.
The three states of waking, dreaming and sleeping are not me and I am not in them. When I die, the world will say — ‘Oh, Maharaj is dead!’ But to me these are words without content; they have no meaning.
November 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The three states of waking, dreaming and sleeping are not me and I am not in them. When I die, the world will say — ‘Oh, Maharaj is dead!’ But to me these are words without content; they have no meaning.
Neither action, nor feeling, nor thought express reality. There is no such thing as an expression of reality. You are introducing a duality where there is none. Only reality is, there is nothing else.
November 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Neither action, nor feeling, nor thought express reality. There is no such thing as an expression of reality. You are introducing a duality where there is none. Only reality is, there is nothing else.
Consciousness does not shine by itself. It shines by a light beyond it. Having seen the dreamlike quality of consciousness, look for the light in which it appears, which gives it being. There is the content of consciousness as well as the awareness of it.
November 8, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Consciousness does not shine by itself. It shines by a light beyond it. Having seen the dreamlike quality of consciousness, look for the light in which it appears, which gives it being. There is the content of consciousness as well as the awareness of it.
We wake and we sleep. After a day’s work sleep comes. Now, do I go to sleep or does inadvertence — characteristic of the sleeping state — come to me? In other words — we are awake because we are asleep.
November 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
We wake and we sleep. After a day’s work sleep comes. Now, do I go to sleep or does inadvertence — characteristic of the sleeping state — come to me? In other words — we are awake because we are asleep.
The source of light is dark, unknown is the source of knowledge. That source alone is. Go back to that source and abide there.
November 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The source of light is dark, unknown is the source of knowledge. That source alone is. Go back to that source and abide there.