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Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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A prominent teacher of Advaita Vedanta who is best known for his teachings on non-duality and self-realization. His approach was direct and experiential, encouraging seekers to explore the nature of their own consciousness. His book, "I Am That," is a significant text in the study of Advaita Vedanta, offering profound insights into the nature of the self and reality. His teachings are valued for their simplicity and depth, guiding individuals toward understanding their true essence beyond the mind and ego.

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

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Forget the known, don't be all the time immersed in your experiences.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Don't pretend to be what you are not. Don't refuse to be what you are.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

It is not the right advice that liberates, but the action based on it.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

There is only one meditation - the rigorous refusal to harbor thoughts.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Give your real being a chance to shape your life. You will not regret it.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

You are not the body. You are the immensity and infinity of consciousness.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

What you need will come to you if you do not ask for what you do not need.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Awareness neither dies nor is re-born. It is the changeless reality itself.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

It is your fixed idea that you must be something or other, that blinds you.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

To see myself in everybody, and everybody in myself, most certainly is love.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Easier to change, than to suffer. Grow out of your childishness. That is all.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Whatever state I am in, I see it as a state of mind to be accepted as it is.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Real happiness is not vulnerable, because it does not depend on circumstances.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

In reality there are no others, and -helping yourself you help everybody else.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

All separation, every kind of estrangement and alienation is false. All is one.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Knowing yourself to be the changeless witness of the changeful mind. That is enough.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The universe is but a partial manifestation of your limitless capacity to become.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj