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Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Biography

Nisargadatta Maharaj (17 April 1897 – 8 September 1981), born Maruti Shivrampant Kambli, was an Indian Guru of nondualism, belonging to the Inchagiri Sampradaya, a lineage of teachers from the Navnath Sampradaya and Lingayat Shaivism.

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You can become a night watchman and live happily. It is what you are inwardly that matters. Your inner peace and joy you have to earn. It is much more difficult than earning money. No university can teach you to be yourself.

Become, Being Yourself, Earn, Joy, Money, Night

There is only life, there is nobody who lives a life.

Nobody, Lives, Life

What is beautiful? Whatever is perceived joyfully is beautiful. Bliss is the essence of beauty.

Beautiful, Beauty, Bliss, Essence, Joyfully, Perceived

Give all your attention to the question: 'What is it that makes me conscious?', until your mind becomes the question itself and cannot think of anything else.

Attention, Conscious, Giving, Mind, Question, Thinking

Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.

Disturb, Imagining Yourself, Mind, Seeking

It is just like your tape-recorder. It records, it reproduces - all by itself. You only listen. Similarly, I watch all that happens, including my talking to you. It is not me who talks, the words appear in my mind and then I hear them said.

Happens, Listen, Mind, Talking, Talks, Watches

Be conscious of yourself, watch your mind, give it your full attention. Don't look for quick results; there may be none within your noticing. Unknown to you, your psyche will undergo a change; there will be more clarity in your thinking, charity in your feeling, purity in your behavior. You need not aim at these - you will witness the change all the same. For, what you are now is the result of inattention and what you become will be the fruit of attention.

Attention, Charity, Feelings, Giving, Inattention, Thinking

Once you understand that the false needs time and what needs time is false, you are nearer the Reality, which is timeless, ever in the NOW.

Nearer, Needs, Reality, Spiritual, Wisdom

Knowing that you are nothing is Wisdom, Knowing that you are everything is Love.

Everything, Knowing, Love, Nothing, Wisdom

You will get to your maturity quickly if you stay in the nothingness.

Ifs, Maturity, Nothingness, Quickly, Stay

Come to the conclusion: I am unborn, I was unborn and I shall remain unborn

Come, Conclusion, Remain, Unborn

When all names and forms have been given up, the real is with you. You need not seek it.

Forms, Names, Needs, Real, Seek

Reality is neither subjective nor objective, neither mind nor matter, neither time nor space. These divisions need somebody to happen to, a conscious separate center. But reality is all and nothing, the totality and the exclusion, the fullness and the emptiness, fully consistent, absolutely paradoxical. You cannot speak about it, you can only lose yourself in it.

Fully, Mind, Reality, Separate, Space, Speak

Nobody ever fails in Yoga. . . . It is slow in the beginning and rapid in the end. When one is fully matured, realization is explosive.

Explosive, Failing, Fully, Nobody, Realization, Yoga

When you go beyond awareness, there is a state of nonduality, in which there is no cognition, only pure being. In the state of nonduality, all separation ceases.

Awareness, Ceases, Cognition, Separation, State

You are really in search of yourself, without knowing it. You are love-longing for the love-worthy, the perfect lovable. Due to ignorance you are looking for it in the world of opposites and contradictions. When you find it within, your search will be over.

Ignorance, Opposites, Knowing, World, Due, Contradictions

When I say 'I am', I do not mean a separate entity with a body as its nucleus, I mean the totality of being, the ocean of consciousness, the entire universe of all that is known. I have nothing to desire for I am complete forever

Consciousness, Desire, Entire, Forever, Mean, Ocean

The old grooves must be erased in your brain, without forming new ones. You must realize yourself as the immovable, behind and beyond the movable, the silent witness of all that happens.

Brain, Happens, Movable, Silent, Spiritual, Wisdom

Look at your mind dispassionately; this is enough to calm it. When it is quiet, you can go beyond it. Do not keep it busy all the time. Stop it - and just BE.

Dispassionately, Keep, Mind, Spiritual, Wisdom

The real does not die, the unreal never lived.

Doe, Lived, Real, Unreal

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