Witnessing – Nisargadatta Questioner: On what my faith in you depends? Maharaj: On your insight into other people’s hearts. If you cannot look into my heart, look into your own. Q: I can do neither. M: Purify yourself by a well-ordered and useful life. Watch over your thoughts, feelings, words and actions. This will […]
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Desires and Fulfillment – Nisargadatta
Desires and Fulfillment – Nisargadatta Questioner: I am full of desires and want them fulfilled. How am I to get what I want? Maharaj: Do you deserve what you desire? In some way or other you have to work for the fulfilment of your desires. Put in energy and wait for the results. Q: […]
Responses of Memory – Nisargadatta
Responses of Memory – Nisargadatta Questioner: Some say the universe was created. Others say that it always existed and is for ever undergoing transformation. Some say it is subject to eternal laws. Others deny even causality. Some say the world is real. Others — that it has no being whatsoever. Maharaj: Which world are you […]
Are you not permanent – Nisargadatta
Are you not permanent – Nisargadatta Questioner: When I look into myself, I find my strongest desire is to create a monument, to build something which will outlast me. Even when I think of a home, wife and child, it is because it is a lasting, solid, testimony to myself. Maharaj: Right, build yourself […]
How can I gain peace – Nisargadatta
How can I gain peace – Nisargadatta Questioner: If my real self is peace and love, why is it so restless? Maharaj: It is not your real being that is restless, but its reflection in the mind appears restless because the mind is restless. It is just like the reflection of the moon in […]
Find your Real Self – Nisargadatta
Find your Real Self – Nisargadatta Questioner: As a child fairly often I experienced states of complete happiness, verging on ecstasy: later, they ceased, but since I came to India they reappeared, particularly after I met you. Yet these states, however wonderful, are not lasting. They come and go and there is no knowing […]
The Mind and Reality – Nisargadatta
The Mind and Reality – Nisargadatta Questioner: There are very interesting books written by apparently very competent people, in which the illusoriness of the world is denied (though not its transitoriness). According to them, there exists a hierarchy of beings, from the lowest to the highest; on each level the complexity of the organism enables […]
Meditation – Nisargadatta
Meditation – Nisargadatta Questioner: All teachers advise to meditate. What is the purpose of meditation? Maharaj: We know the outer world of sensations and actions, but of our inner world of thoughts and feelings we know very little. The primary purpose of meditation is to become conscious of, and familiar with, our inner life. […]
Find out the real sense of “I” – Nisarga
Find out the real sense of “I” – Nisargadatta Questioner: Is the witness-consciousness permanent or not? Maharaj: It is not permanent. The knower rises and sets with the known. That in which both the knower and the known arise and set, is beyond time. The words permanent or eternal do not apply. Q: In […]
Real World is Beyond the Mind
Real World is Beyond the Mind Questioner: On several occasions the question was raised as to whether the universe is subject to the law of causation, or does it exist and function outside the law. You seem to hold the view that it is uncaused, that everything, however small, is uncaused, arising and disappearing […]
Let come what comes, Let go what goes –
Let come what comes, Let go what goes – Nisargadatta Questioner: As I can see, there is nothing wrong with my body nor with my real being. Both are not of my making and need not be improved upon. What has gone wrong is the ‘inner body’, call it mind, consciousness, antahkarana, whatever the […]
Desire and Fear are based on Memories –
Desire and Fear are based on Memories – Nisargadatta Questioner: We shall repeat the question we began with: between life’s source and life’s expression (which is the body), there is the mind and its ever-changeful states. The. stream of mental states is endless, meaningless and painful. Pain is the constant factor. What we call pleasure […]
