Nisargadatta Maharaj

Proclaiming oneself to be omnipotent and omniscient is a clear sign of ignorance.

We are only dreaming. Treating everything as a dream liberates.

As long as you give reality to dreams, you are their slave. By imagining that you are born as so-and-so, you become a slave to the so-and-so.

The essence of slavery is to imagine yourself to be a process, to have a past and future, to have a history. In fact, we have no history. We are not a process.

We do not develop nor decay. See all as a dream and stay out of it.

All happens as it happens. Calamities, whether natural or man-made, happen. And there is no need to feel horrified.

In every event, the entire universe is reflected. The ultimate cause is untraceable.

consciousness does not shine by itself. It shines by a light beyond it. Having seen the dreamlike quality of consciousness, look for the light in which it appears, which gives it being

There is the content of consciousness as well as the awareness of it. There is something changeless, motionless, immovable

rock-like, unassailable, a solid mass of pure being, consciousness, bliss. I am never out of it.

Nothing can take me out of it. No torture. No calamity. Nothing is done by me.

Everything just happens. I do not expect. I do not plan. I just watch events happening knowing them to be unreal.

All happens as it needs. Yet nothing happens. I do what seems to be necessary. But at the same time I know that nothing is necessary. That life itself is only a make-believe.

There is peace, deep, immense, unshakable.

Wherever you go, you will find being, consciousness and love.

The primary purpose of meditation is to become conscious of and familiar with our inner life.

But whatever state I am in

I see it as a state of mind to be accepted as it is.

When pain is accepted for what it is, a lesson and a warning,

and deeply looked into and heeded.