Nisargadatta Maharaj

It is futile to say that one is grieved, because in the absence of me as an individual, there are no others, and I see myself mirrored in all of you.

One goes through life year after year, enjoying the usual pleasures and suffering the usual pains, but never once seeing life in its true perspective.

And what is the true perspective?

It is this.

There is no me.

Nor you.

There never could be any such entities.

Everyone should understand this and have the courage to live their life with this understanding.

What do you have to do exactly?

Absolutely nothing.

Just see the transient as transient.

The unreal as unreal.

The false as false.

And you will realize your true nature.

You have mentioned your grief.

Have you ever looked at grief in the face and tried to understand what it really is?

Now we shall come to the truth.

Please understand as truth that you are not an individual, a person.

the person that one thinks one is, is only a product of imagination.

It is the self, consciousness, that mistakenly believes that there is a person and is conscious of being it.