What are Reality and its Expressions – Nisargadatta Questioner: What is the relation between reality and its expressions? Maharaj: No relation. In reality all is real and identical. As we put it, saguna and nirguna are one in Parabrahman. There is only the Supreme. In movement, it is saguna. Motionless, it is nirguna. But […]
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Link between Happiness and Consciousness...
Link between Happiness and Consciousness – Nisargadatta Questioner: If happiness is not conscious and consciousness — not happy, what is the link between the two? Maharaj: Consciousness being a product of conditions and circums-tances, depends on them and changes along with them. What is independent, uncreated, timeless and changeless, and yet ever new and fresh, […]
Experience of happiness and adventure –
Experience of happiness and adventure – Nisargadatta Maharaj: The experience of being empty, uncluttered by memories and expectations; it is like the happiness of open spaces, of being young, of having all the time and energy for doing things, for discovery, for adventure. Questioner: What remains to discover? M: The universe without and the immensity […]
You are Not the Mind – Nisargadatta
You are Not the Mind – Nisargadatta Maharaj.: My world is free from opposites, of mutually destructive discrepancies; harmony pervades; its peace is rock-like; this peace and silence are my body. Questioner: What you say reminds me of the Dharmakaya of the Buddha. M: May be. We need not run off with terminology. Just […]
How can one be Happy among Suffering – N
How can one be Happy among Suffering – Nisargadatta Questioner: How can one remain happy among so much suffering? Maharaj: One cannot help it — the inner happiness is overwhelmingly real. Like the sun in the sky, its expressions may be clouded, but it is never absent. Q: When we are in trouble, we are […]
You are Beyond Space and Time – Nisargad
You are Beyond Space and Time – Nisargadatta Questioner: You keep on saying that I was never born and will never die. If so, how is it that I see the world as one which has been born and will surely die? Maharaj: You believe so because you have never questioned your belief that you are […]
Mind is restlessness itself – Nisargadat
Mind is Restlessness itself – Nisargadatta Questioner: The root of all desires and fears is the same — the longing for happiness. Maharaj: The happiness you can think of and long for, is mere physical or mental satisfaction. Such sensory or mental pleasure is not the real, the absolute happiness. Q: Even sensory and mental […]
Desire or Fear ? Just turn away – Nisarg
Desire or Fear? Just turn away – Nisargadatta Q: Is it not natural to be active? M: Everybody wants to be active, but where do his actions originate? There is no central point: each action begets another, meaninglessly and painfully, in endless succession. The alternation of work and pause is not there. First find […]
What is Karma ? – Vivekananda
What is Karma ? Actually, the meaning of the word Karma as the universal law of Cause and Effect, is often used in a simple way by most of us in daily life. When we say, “As he sows so does he reap”, or “What goes around comes around”, it broadly defines the Law of […]
The Person is not Reality – Nisargadatta
The Person is not Reality – Nisargadatta Questioner: Kindly tell us how you realized (the Self). Maharaj: I met my Guru when I was 34 and realised by 37. Q: What happened? What was the change? M: Pleasure and pain lost their sway over me. I was free from desire and fear. I found myself […]
Awareness and Consciousness – Nisargadat
Awareness and Consciousness – Nisargadatta Questioner: What do you do when asleep? Maharaj: I am aware of being asleep. Q: Is not sleep a state of unconsciousness? M: Yes, I am aware of being unconscious. Q: And when awake, or dreaming? M: I am aware of being awake or dreaming. Q: I do not catch you. […]
Work Without Attachment – Vivekananada
Work without attachment The Secret of Work This is the central idea in the Gita: work incessantly, but be not attached to it. Samskâra can be translated very nearly to “inherent tendency”. Using the simile of a lake for the mind, every ripple, every wave that rises in the mind, when it subsides, does not die […]
