Nisargadatta Maharaj
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Remain as a silent witness only.
Know yourself to be the changeless witness of the changeful mind.
That is enough.
Abandon false ideas.
That is all.
There is no need of true ideas.
There aren't any.
Instead of searching for what you do not have, find out what it is that you have never lost.
Shift your attention from words to silence and you will hear
In the mirror of your mind, all kinds of pictures appear and disappear.
Knowing that they are entirely your own creations, watch them silently come and go.
Be alert, but not perturbed.
This attitude of silent observation is the very foundation of yoga.
You see the picture, but you are not the picture.
We miss the real by lack of attention and create the unreal by excess of imagination.
All happiness comes from awareness.
The more we are conscious, the deeper the joy.
Acceptance of pain
non-resistance, courage and endurance.
These open deep and perennial sources of real happiness, true bliss,