Nisargadatta Maharaj

Other teachers will tell you how to achieve perfection.

None will tell you that you are already perfect prior to doing anything.

Awareness is primordial.

It is the original state.

Beginningless, endless, uncaused, unsupported, without parts, without change.

Awareness is absolute.

Consciousness is relative to its content.

Consciousness is always of something.

Consciousness is partial and changeful.

Awareness is total, changeless, calm and silent.

and it is the common matrix of every experience.

Awareness makes consciousness possible.

There is awareness in every state of consciousness.

Therefore the very consciousness of being conscious is already a movement in awareness.

Interest in your stream of consciousness takes you to awareness.

It is not a new state.

It is at once recognized as the original basic existence, which is life itself, and also love and joy.

I am not the entity that imagines itself alive or dead. I am neither born nor can I die.

I have nothing to remember or to forget. For the jnani, the entire universe is their body. All life is their life.

As in a city of lights, when one bulb burns out, it does not affect the network. So the death of a body does not affect the whole. The whole is real. The parts come and go.