Category: Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Teachings

What is the purpose of Meditation – Nisargadatta

Distrust your mind and go beyond – Nisargadatta Q: I am engaged in the study of philosophy, sociology and education. I think more mental development is needed before I can dream of self-realization. Am I on the right track?

Desirelessness is the highest bliss – Nisargadatta Questioner: I have met many realised people, but never a liberated man. Have you come across a liberated man, or does liberation mean, among other things, also abandoning the body?

Are Knower and Witness same – Nisargadatta   Q: Another question. There is the person. There is the knower of the person. There is the witness. Are the knower and the witness the same, or are they separate states? M: The knower and the witness are two or one? When the knower is seen as separate […]

I Am is the Root – Nisargadatta   Questioner: Without God’s power nothing can be done. Even you would not be sitting here and talking to us without Him. Maharaj: All is His doing, no doubt. What is it to me, since I want nothing? What can God give me, or take away from me? What […]

Appearances and the Reality   Questioner: Repeatedly you have been saying that events are causeless, a thing just happens and no cause can be assigned to it. Surely everything has a cause, or several causes. How am I to understand the causelessness of things? Maharaj: From the highest point of view the world has no […]

Is the Realized one aware of happenings – Nisargadatta   Q: The fully realized man, spontaneously abiding in the supreme state, appears to eat, drink and so on. Is he aware of it, or not? M: That in which consciousness happens, the universal consciousness or mind, we call the ether of consciousness. All the objects […]

The Supreme The Mind The Body – Nisargadatta Questioner: From what you told us it appears that you are not quite conscious of your surroundings. To us you seem extremely alert and active. We cannot possibly believe that you are in a kind of hypnotic state, which leaves no memory behind. On the contrary, your […]

Watch your thoughts like street traffic – Nisargadatta Maharaj: I am now 74 years old. And yet I feel that I am an infant. I feel clearly that in spite of all the changes I am a child. My Guru told me: that child, which is you even now, is your real Self (swarupa). Go […]

A Quiet Mind is All You Need – Nisargadatta Questioner: I am not well. I feel rather weak. What am I to do? Maharaj: Who is unwell, you or the body? Q: My body, of course. M: Yesterday you felt well. What felt well? Q: The body. M: You were glad when the body was well […]