Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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The discovery of the truth is in the discernment of the false. You can know what is not . What is – you can only be. Knowledge is relative to the known. In a way it is the counterpart of ignorance. Where ignorance is not, where is the need of knowledge ? By themselves neither ignorance nor knowledge have being. They are only states of mind, which again is but an appearance of movement in consciousness which is in its essence immutable.

– Nisargadatta Maharaj, from the classic ‘I am That‘, p 370

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Sri Ramana Maharishi

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Is there a mind in the first place ? What you call mind is an illusion. It starts from the ‘I’ thought. Without the gross or subtle senses you cannot be aware of the body or the mind. Still it is possible for you to be without these senses. In such a state you are either asleep or aware of the Self only. Awareness of the Self is ever there. Remain what you truly are and this question will not arise.

– Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharishi, from the classic, ‘Talks’, p 181

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Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Whatever has a beginning must have an end. In the timeless all is perfect, here and now.

– Nisargadatta Maharaj, from the classic ‘I am That‘, p 419

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Sri Ramana Maharishi

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You were not self-reliant; you were ego-reliant. It is good that ego-reliance is banished and that you become truly Self-reliant.

– Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharishi, from the classic, ‘Talks’, p 132

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Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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….practice desirelessness ?
No need of practice. No need of any acts of renunciation. Just turn your mind away, that is all. Desire is mostly the fixation of the mind on an idea. Get it out of its groove by denying it attention

– Nisargadatta Maharaj, from the classic ‘I am That‘, p 338

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Sri Ramana Maharishi

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You do not know what you were before birth, yet you want to know what you will be after death. Do you know what you are now ?

– Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharishi, from the classic, ‘Talks’, p 235

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Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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You are entangled in a web of verbal definitions and formulations. Go beyond your concepts and ideas; in the silence of desire and thought the truth is found.

– Nisargadatta Maharaj, from the classic ‘I am That‘, p 295

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