Maharaj Nisargadatta

What is beautiful? Whatever is perceived joyfully is beautiful. Bliss is the essence of beauty.

We are slaves of what we don't know. Of what we know we are masters.

Whatever vice or weakness in ourselves we discover and understand its cause and workings, we can overcome it by the very knowing.

The primary purpose of meditation is to become more conscious and familiar with our inner life. The ultimate purpose is to reach the source of life.

If you are angry or in pain, separate yourself from anger and pain and watch them. Externalization is the first step to liberation.

Whatever state I am in, I see it as a state of mind to be accepted as it is. It is just like your tape recorder

It records, it reproduces all by itself. You only listen. Similarly, I watch all that happens, including my talking to you.

It is not me who talks, the words appear in my mind, and then I hear them said,

There is no myself and yourself. There is the self, the only self of all.

Misled by the diversity of names and shapes, minds and bodies, you imagine multiple selves.

There is no second or higher self to search for. You are the highest self.

Only give up the false ideas you have about yourself. Get hold of the main thing that the world and the self are one.

and perfect. Only your attitude is faulty and needs readjustment.

Just as every drop of the ocean carries the taste of the ocean, so does every moment carry the taste of eternity.

The world you perceive is made of consciousness. What you call matter is consciousness itself. In the light of consciousness

All things happen, and one need not give special importance to any. The sight of a flower is as marvelous as the vision of God. Let them be.

Why remember them and then make memory into a problem? Be bland about them. Do not divide them into high and low, inner and outer, lasting and transient.

Go beyond. Go back to the source. Go to the self that is the same whatever happens.

It does not matter much what happens.

When you go beyond awareness, there is a state of non-duality in which there is no cognition, only pure being. In the state of non-duality, all separation ceases.