Nisargadatta Maharaj

With self-awareness

You grow more intelligent. In awareness you learn. In self-awareness you learn about yourself.

Of course you can only learn what you are not. To know what you are, you must go beyond the mind.

Awareness is the point at which the mind reaches out beyond itself into reality. In awareness, you seek not what pleases, but what is true.

There are no steps to self-realization. There is nothing gradual about it.

It happens suddenly and is irreversible. You rotate into a new dimension, seen from which the previous ones are mere abstractions.

Just like on sunrise, you see things as they are. So on self-realization, you see everything as it is. The world of illusions is left behind.

Discard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen. And you need not search for truth. Truth will find you.

In nature, nothing is at a standstill. Everything pulsates, appears and disappears. Heart, breath, digestion, sleep.

and waking, birth and death, everything comes and goes in waves, rhythm, periodosity,

Harmonious alternation of extremes is the rule. No use rebelling against the very pattern of life.

There is only life. There is nobody

who lives alive.

Then the fountain of self-knowledge will start flowing from within.

Think about how you came to know your existence and when.

One with a sharp intellect becomes free in a short time.

Now, get acquainted with the reader and listener, truly and everlastingly.

Things happen and you just become instrumental to the happening of these events.

There is no doer or arranger of any of our experiences, including that of the world.

It is all the spontaneous happening.