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Chapter 1: What teachings does Nisargadatta emphasize for self-realization?
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The way to truth lies through the destruction of the false. To destroy the false, you must question your most inveterate beliefs. Of these, the idea that you are the body is the worst. With the body comes the world, with the world, God, who is supposed to have created the world, and thus it starts.
fears, religions, prayers, sacrifices, all sorts of systems, all to protect and support the child person, frightened out of their wits by monsters of their own making Realize that what you are cannot be born nor die. And with the fear gone, all suffering ends.
Abraxas! Abraxas! Abraxas!
If you seek reality, you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling. Even the idea of being man or woman or even human should be discarded. The ocean of life contains all, not only humans. So, first of all,
Abandon all self-identification. Stop thinking of yourself as such and such, or so and so, this or that. Abandon all self-identification. abandon all self-concern, worry not about your welfare, material or spiritual, abandon every desire, gross or subtle, stop thinking of achievement of any kind,
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Chapter 2: How can we abandon self-identification according to Nisargadatta?
You are complete here and now. You need absolutely nothing.
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The moment you know you're a real being, you are afraid of nothing. Death gives freedom and power. To be free in the world you must die to the world. Then the universe is your own. It becomes your body. an expression and a tool. The happiness of being absolutely free is beyond description. Don't rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind
that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether. Pain is physical, suffering is mental. Beyond the mind, there is no suffering. Pain is essential for the survival of the body, but none compels you to suffer. But do not neglect this body. This is the house of God. Take care of it. Only in this body can God be realized. Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting.
It is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life.
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Chapter 3: What is the relationship between pain and suffering in Nisargadatta's philosophy?
Abraxas. Abraxas.
Stay open and quiet. That is all. What you seek is so near you that there is no place for a way. There is nothing to do, just be. Do nothing, be. No climbing mountains and sitting in caves. I do not even say be yourself, since you do not know yourself. Just be. Awareness is ever there. It need not be realized. Open the shutter of the mind and it will be flooded with light.
Abundance Abundance Abundance
Absolute perfection is here and now. Not in some future, near or far. The secret is in action
Chapter 4: How does awareness lead to self-discovery?
here and now. It is your behavior that blinds you to yourself. Disregard whatever you think yourself to be and act as if you were absolutely perfect. Whatever your idea of perfection may be, all you need is courage. 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.
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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.
Chapter 5: What does Nisargadatta mean by the suddenness of self-realization?
Abraxas
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.
Abba, abba, abba, abba. ... ... ... ...