"We are the creators and creatures of each other,
causing and bearing each other's burden."

**
I find that somehow, by shifting the focus of attention, I become the very
thing I look at, and experience the kind of consciousness it has; I become
the inner witness of the thing. I call this capacity of entering other
focal points of consciousness, love; you may give it any name you like.
Love says "I am everything". Wisdom says "I am nothing". Between the two,
my life flows. Since at any point of time and space I can be both the
subject and the object of experience, I express it by saying that I am
both, and neither, and beyond both. (269)

**
Unless you make tremendous efforts, you will not be convinced that
effort will take you nowhere. The self is so self-confident that
unless it is totally discouraged it will not give up. Mere verbal
conviction is not enough. Hard facts alone can show the absolute
nothingness of the self-image. (523)

**

A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your
mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does
self-awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and
steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles
without any effort on your part. (311)

**
"The world is like a sheet of paper on which something is typed. The
reading and the meaning will vary with the reader, but the paper is
the common factor, always present, rarely perceived. When the ribbon
is removed, typing leaves no trace on the paper. So is my mind - the
impressions keep on coming, but no trace is left."(225)

**
When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing,
seek nothing, expect nothing, then the Supreme State will come to you
uninvited and unexpected. (195)

**
"All that a guru can tell you is:
'My dear Sir, you are quite mistaken aboutyourself.
You are not the person you take yourself to be.'" (443)

**
"There is no such thing as a person.
There are only restrictions and limitations.
The sum total of these defines the person. (...)
The person merely appears to be, like
the space within the pot appears to have the shape and volume
and smell of the pot."

**
By all means attend to your duties. Action, in which you are not
emotionally involved and which is beneficial and does not cause
suffering will not bind you. You may be engaged in several directions
and work with enormous zest, yet remain inwardly free and quiet, with
a mirror like mind, which reflects all, without being affected. (50)

**
"To expound and propogate concepts is simple,
to drop all concepts is difficult and rare"

**
"There is nothing to practise. To know yourself, be yourself. To be
yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let
your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking"

I am That PG 259 (Chetana version)

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The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really
one, seek unity and that is love. (70)

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In people with devotion,
even with limited intellect,
the intellect is not making mischief,
as it is here.

This is the place where the intellect gets annihilated.

Consciousness and the Absolute, chapter 32

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There was a house, and in the house there was a person; now the
person is gone and the house is demolished. The sum total is,
whatever experiences you have, whether for a day or for years, it is
all illusion. The experiences begin with knowingness.
What is the most ingrained habit you have? It is to say "I Am'. This
is the root habit. Words and experiences are unworthy of you. This
habit of experiencing will not go until you realize that all this
domain of the five elements, are unreal, This "I Amness" is itself unreal.

Consciousness and the Absolute, pg. 48

Nisargadatta Discussion group

M: Start with the body. From the body you get the knowledge of `I
am'. In this process you become more and more subtle. When you are in
a position to witness the knowledge `I am', you have reach the
highest. In this way you must try to understand, and the seeds of
knowledge will sprout in you.

When you come to the end of material world-knowledge, at that stage
you transcend the observer and the observed. That means that you are
in a true state of being-ness. Thereafter, you enter the state of
transcending being-ness, where the identities of the observer and
observed disappear.

Suppose somebody abuses you and you find out who it is. Is it the
body? It is not the body. Then what could it be? Finally you come to
the conclusion that it is spontaneously happening out of whatever
that body is. You will not attribute it to any individual. When your
individuality is dissolved, you will not see individuals anywhere, it
is just a functioning in consciousness. If it clicks in you, it is
very easy to understand. If it does not, it is most difficult. It is
very profound and very simple, if understood right. What I am saying
is not the general run of common spiritual knowledge.

When you reach a state when body is transcended, mind is transcended
and consciousness is also transcended; from then on all is merely
happening out of consciousness, which is the outcome of the body, and
there is no authority or doer-ship. When a sound is emanating out of
a body, it is not that somebody is talking, it is just words
emanating, just happening, not doing.

If you understand the basis thoroughly,
it will lead you very far, deep into spirituality.

The Absolute alone prevails. There is nothing but the Absolute. The
un-manifest manifested itself, that manifest state is Guru and it is universal.

Who is the one who recognizes this body-mind? This `I Am-ness' which
recognizes the body-mind is without name and form, it is already there.

June 27, 1981 Page 108
Consciousness and the Absolute

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June 30,1981

Maharaj: All knowledge is like the son of a barren woman.
Presently there are only beingness and functioning.
The individuality and personality are thrown overboard.
There is no personality, so there is no question of birth, life, or death.
What remains is only the consciousness without name or form.
The form needs a name, but when both are not there,
then the consciousness remains only for so long as the body is there,
but without any individuality.
The body is of as much use now as it was prior to birth and after death.
How do you know me?
You know me only the acquisition of body form, name and form.
Do you really see me as I am? I doubt it.
Now the conclusion is that the unborn is enjoying the birth-principle.
That principle that is born took so much time to understand this,
and is it is the unborn only which prevails.
It took so much time for the Self to understand the Self.
We have tied around our necks so many concepts; death, this "I AM",etc.
Similarly, Concepts, of good and evil are unnecessary.
We have developed these concepts and are caught in them.
How does one think about Self-knowledge?
Do you abide in the Self or in the process do you think of something else as the Self?
You are wrapped up and lost in your concepts.
For instance, you have a concept about friendship.
How long do you keep your friends? You keep them so long as they are useful to you.
So long as a friend is of some benefit to you,
that’s how long you would like to keep that friendship.
Now, how can I actually derive benefit out of a friend?
I, as an individual, am not there, so how can there be a question of benefit?
Benefit to whom? How can there be a question of friendship at all.
Anybody, who comes here can sit. I will allow him to sit for some time,
but later on I will say, "You may leave," Why?
Because I have no intention or purpose of having any friendship with that person.
Ordinarily, there is some purpose for deriving certain benefits out of an association with another.
When you meet someone in friendship, there may be some intention to serve one another.
But I have no friends. Even this "I Amness" will not remain as my friend.
I am not able to talk any longer—the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.
Previously I used to welcome people but now I am not in a position to welcome them.
They come, they sit and they go by themselves. I cannot even extend my hospitality.
All my knowledge has gone into liquidation. I am unconcerned.

Consciousness and the Absolute 112-114

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Pleasure puts you to sleep and pain wakes you up. If you don't
want to suffer, don't go to sleep.

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"Life ceases to be a task

and becomes natural and simple,

in itself an ecstasy."

"All paths lead to unreality"

"All you need is awareness of being - not as a verbal statement but as an ever present fact"

"You should understand this clearly -
If one thinks that one is the body, one becomes a slave of mind and suffers accordingly"

"Be wakeful to that state which is prior to the sprouting of words"

"Real meditation is to abide in this sense of being"

"You have a mountain of concepts and words. To get rid of these, you use other concepts.
When you throw out all the concepts, including your primary concept, then whatever is, IS"

"All this spirituality is only for understanding your true nature"

"Unless you realise your true nature, there will be no peace for you"

"Finally, you have to understand that the principle which you are using to talk, to move about
and operate in this world, is not you"

"My silence sings - my emptiness is full" ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

"Living is Life's only purpose" ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

"Under the right teacher the disciple learns to learn, not to remember and obey"

"That you are, you know. What you are, you don't know. Find out what you are"

"Be earnest and you will not fail to break the bonds of inattention and imagination"

"Find the spark of life that weaves the tissues of the body and be with it. It is the only reality the body has"

"You are looking for the cause of what you are not"

"Be conscious of yourself, watch your mind, give it your full attention -
What you are (at present) is the result of inattention and what you will become, will be the fruit of attention"

"Inattention obscures, attention clarifies"

"Awareness and matter are the active and passive aspects of pure being"

"You can skip all the preparation and go straight to the ultimate search within"

"The mind craves for formulations and definitions, always eager to squeeze reality into verbal shape"

"Be aware of being conscious and seek the source of consciousness - that is all"

"The shifting fortunes of your ego determine your values"

"You give reality to concepts, while concepts are distortions of reality"

"Reality makes the present so vital, so different from past and future - which are only mental"

"Accepting experiences as the truth, it gets more and more involved"

"Cease looking for reality in a dream and wake up"

"If you demote the life principle to mere self-identification with the body, then the life principle is not given the
status which enables it to unfold itself. It is depends entirely on you"

"Right here, right now, drop your identity with the body and sit still - drop also the identity with the name"

"Those who really understand will abide in themselves"

"The one who understands the transiency of 'all things' is eternal"

"Merely parroting the opinions of others, that is not knowledge (Immediate Knowing)"

"You may adopt any concept that will make you happy but remember that it is still only a concept"

"If the dynamic, manifest principle does not get caught up in the concept, then it has no 'birth' and no 'death"

"At the highest level, in reality, nothing is. At the wordly level, everything is"

"A doubt has arisen and you are trying to find a solution but who is it who has this doubt?
Find out for yourself"

"If you continue in the realm of intellect, you will become entangled and lost in more and more concepts"

"The riddle of spirituality cannot be solved by your intellect"

"Investigate yourself; this is the purpose of your being"

"What you hear must enter you like an arrow and hit something deep within you"

~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Sri Siddharameshwar Maharaj
(India,1888 -1936)Vijnana -

Thoughtless reality

Sri Siddharameshwar Maharaj
(India,1888 -1936)

Vijnana - Thoughtless reality

"For long has the seeker traveled without a Guru, in search of Truth. But there is no one to show him the destination.
Aeons pass thus in fruitless travel, while Truth is close at hand".

"We build a temple and in that we install an idol of God, and we believe that the idol has some power"

"Only a fool worships an idol"

"It is not possible to come to a decision only on the strength of your opinion".

"It is the hand that lifts and one says "I lift" - it is the eye that sees and one says "I see" - It is the nose that smells
and one says "I smell" - Who is this ego arrogatting "I"?"

"One ought to live with an open and clear mind without retaining irrelavant thoughts"

"Don't try to look through someone else's eyes"

"One who gives us trouble, liberates us from the ego of the body"

"The burden of the desire to take revenge falls on the mind and the result is only misery"

"Fear creates misery"

"All these gross bodies are actually living temples"

"One should be alert within oneself"

"If you do not get rid of the conviction that 'it is impossible to get rid of doubt', you will lobour mindlessly"

"Some want to realise the Final Reality by rituals and various other techniques by punishing the body"

"You have to recognise the one who has no delusion" (externally at first - teacher - then in yourself - Ed.)

"There is not a single being without awareness"

"Futher, there is no creature that worries and frets like a human being"

"Truth cannot be avoided. It cannot be distorted or changed in any way"

"Actually, there is no bondage"

"Duality is due to two 'entities' - the 'seer' and the 'seen".

A published work by Sri Siddharameshwar Maharaj is called "Amrut Laya" - "The Stateless State"
See the link below for comprehensive information about Sri Siddharameshwar Maharaj.

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If you hold onto your pride or ego, you will drown.

One who has been performing rituals to gain spiritual knowledge has wasted his life.

All worldy affairs are managed by the intellect.

An ignorant one binds himself with his own concepts.

The realized have said that the Self is unbound.

Awareness exists in sleep but it is not noticed. The air in this room is invisible - but it still exists.

When perception arose, concepts of space, time and object were (seemingly ) created.

As is your conviction ( I am the body - I am the Self ), so will be your experience.

By giving up 'I know and I don't know' , one attains the natural state.

Advaita, without duality, means you are alone, there is none else.

The one who conceives is without any form.

Do not waste your time getting involved in others' affairs.

Never harbor hatred in the mind.

Truth is without any distinction.

When duality ends, there is no sin or merit.

Do not be concerned about anything. One has to act without pride of knowledge.

Your birth will be in vain if you do not utilize it for understanding Reality.

If one tries to 'see' IT, it will recede.

You have to seize the trophy yourself.

One should again and again take notice of how this general pure knowledge pervades us before it
takes up an object. ( As between pure intelligence and a thought )