Nisargadatta Maharaj

Give it a fair trial.

First, be yourself.

Be in your beingness only.

Start with, I am the imminent spirit I am.

You have to be in that beingness without the body sense.

You feel that you are the body now, but when you abide in that beingness, you will know then how you are without the body.

But don't forget, at the same time, that body and vital breath are very necessary.

Once you understand these three entities correctly, body, vital breath, and the message, I am, then you are a part.

The knower and whatever is known, both will eventually go.

Nothing will remain stable or permanent.

In the process of meditation, more knowledge will be awakened.

will be realized by you.

And in the same process you will understand that whatever you have understood you are not.

Simply try to understand

to see within.

Just talking about eating will not fill your stomach.

You have to actually eat.

You will not get eternal peace with knowledge derived out of words.

only by self-knowledge or self-realization.

All these appearances are happening in sheer ignorance.