Nisargadatta Maharaj

The particular is born and reborn, changing name and shape. The jnani is the changeless reality, which makes the changeful possible.

But I cannot give you the conviction. It must come with your own experience. With me, all is one. All is equal.

Just know that you are above and beyond all things and thoughts. What you want to be, you are it already. Just keep it in mind.

Do not worry about others. Deal with your own mind first. When you realize that your mind too is a part of nature, the duality will cease.

Develop the witness attitude and you will find in your own experience that detachment brings control. The state of witnessing is full of power. There is nothing passive about it.

When reality explodes in you, you may call it the experience of God. Or rather, it is God experiencing you. God knows you when you know yourself.

Reality is not the result of a process. It is an explosion. It is definitely beyond the mind. But all you can do is to know your mind well.

Not that the mind will help you, but by knowing your mind, you may avoid your mind disabling you. You have to be very alert, or else your mind will play false with you.

It is like watching a thief. Not that you expect anything from a thief, but you do not want to be robbed. In the same way, you give a lot of attention to the mind without expecting anything from it.

By giving attention to your living, feeling and thinking, you free yourself from them and go beyond them. Your personality dissolves.

And only the witness remains Then you go beyond the witness Do not ask how it happens

Just search within yourself. Every sadhana or practice can become a way, provided you are interested

Just puzzling over my words and trying to grasp their full meaning is a sadhana. Quite sufficient for breaking down the walls.

See what you are. Don't ask others. Don't let others tell you about yourself. Look within and see.

All the teacher can tell you is only this. There is no need of going from one to another. The same water is in all the wells. You just draw from the nearest.

You are the motionless witness of the river of consciousness which changes eternally without changing you in any way.

Your own changelessness is so obvious that you do not notice it. Have a good look at yourself.

And all these misapprehensions and misconceptions will dissolve. The universe is in you. And cannot be without you.

However, there are no distinctive marks of jnana or wisdom knowledge. Only ignorance can be recognized, not jnana. Nor does a jnani claim to be something special.

The jnani shows no tendency to proclaim themself to be a jnani. They consider themselves to be perfectly normal, true to their real nature.