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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 8h

There is no such state as seeing the real. Who is to see what? You can only be the real — which you are, anyhow. The problem is only mental. Abandon false ideas, that is all. There is no need of true ideas. There aren’t any.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The silence before the words were spoken, is it different from the silence that comes after? The silence is one and without it the words could not have been heard. It is always there — at the back of the words. Shift your attention from words to silence and you will hear it.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It is not the person that is doing sadhana. The person is in unrest and resistance to the very end. It is the witness that works on the person, on the totality of its illusions, past, present and future.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The very desire to be ready means that the Guru had come and the flame is lighted. It may be a stray word, or a page In a book; the Guru’s grace works mysteriously.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The person may be conscious, but is not aware of being conscious. It is completely identified with what it thinks and feels and experiences. The darkness that is in it is of its own creation. When the darkness is questioned, it dissolves. The desire to question is planted by the Guru.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The person by itself will not become the witness. It is like expecting a cold candle to start burning in the course of time. The person can stay in the darkness of ignorance forever, unless the flame of awareness touches it.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Unless the witnessing consciousness begins to play on the person and it becomes the object of observation rather than the subject, realization is not feasible. It is the witness that makes realization desirable and attainable.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Awareness is dynamic, love is being. Awareness is love in action. By itself the mind can actualize any number of possibilities, but unless they are prompted by love, they are valueless. Love precedes creation. Without it there is only chaos.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Are you a slave of your imagination, or are you not? Whatever decision you take, whatever work you do, it will be invariably based on imagination, on assumptions parading as facts.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You create a God to your own image, however dismal the image. Through the film of your mind you project a world and also a God to give it cause and purpose. It is all imagination — step out of it.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

True action does not displace; it transforms. A change of place is mere transportation; a change of heart is action. Just remember, nothing perceivable is real. Activity is not action. Action is hidden, unknown, unknowable. Yon can only know the fruit.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Do not be misled by words — one word may convey several and even contradictory meanings. The ‘I am’ that pursues the pleasant and shuns the unpleasant is false; the ‘I am’ that sees pleasure and pain as inseparable sees rightly.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Do not identify yourself with time, do not ask anxiously: ‘what next, what next?’ Step out of time and see it devour the world.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

To be free in the world you must be free of the world. Otherwise your past decides for you and your future. Between what had happened and what must happen you are caught. Call it destiny or karma, but never — freedom. First return to your true being and then act from the heart of love.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When I look through the mind, I see numberless people. When I look beyond the mind, I see the witness. Beyond the witness there is the infinite intensity of emptiness and silence.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You are eager to separate right from wrong, because you need some basis for action. You are always after doing something or other. But, personally motivated action, based on some scale of values, aiming at some result is worse than inaction, for its fruits are always bitter.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A glowing ember, moved round and round quickly enough, appears as a glowing circle. When the movement ceases, the ember remains. Similarly, the ‘I am’ in movement creates the world. The ‘I am’ at peace becomes the Absolute.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The witness who stands aloof, unmoved and untouched, is the watch-tower of the real, the point at which awareness, inherent in the unmanifested, contacts the manifested. There can be no universe without the witness, there can be no witness without the universe.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

There is always something to witness. If not a thing, then its absence. Witnessing is natural and no problem. The problem is excessive interest, leading to self-identification. Whatever you are engrossed in you take to be real.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

There is nothing to renounce. Enough if you stop acquiring. To give you must have, and to have you must take. Better don’t take. It is simpler than to practise renunciation, which leads to a dangerous form of ‘spiritual’ pride.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The auto-suggestion is in full swing now, when you think yourself to be a person, caught between good and evil. What I am asking you to do is to put an end to it, to wake up and see things as they are.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Leave your mind alone, that is all. Don’t go along with it. After all, there is no such thing as mind apart from thoughts which come and go obeying their own laws, not yours. They dominate you only because you are interested in them.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Nothing stops you from being a jnani here and now, except fear. You are afraid of being impersonal, of impersonal being. It is all quite simple. Turn away from your desires and fears and from the thoughts they create and you are at once in your natural state.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Guru is concerned little with the person. His attention is on the inner watcher. It is the task of the watcher to understand and thereby eliminate the person. While there is grace on one side, there must be dedication to the task on the other.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The Guru is basically without desire. He sees what happens, but feels no urge to interfere. He makes no choices, takes no decisions. As pure witness, he watches what is going on and remains unaffected.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

In reality the disciple is not different from the Guru. He is the same dimensionless centre of perception and love in action. It is only his imagination and self-identification with the imagined, that encloses him and converts him into a person.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

When you realize that you are absolutely free to be what you consent to be, that you are what you appear to be because of ignorance or indifference, you are free to revolt and change. You allow yourself to be what you are not.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

You are looking for the causes of being what you are not! It is a futile search. There are no causes, but your ignorance of your real being, which is perfect and beyond all causation. For whatever happens, all the universe is responsible and you are the source of the universe.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Most of people’s activities are valueless, if not outright destructive. Dominated by desire and fear, they can do nothing good. Ceasing to do evil precedes beginning to do good. Hence the need for stopping all activities for a time, to investigate one’s urges and their motives.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

First you create a world, then the ‘I am’ becomes a person, who is not happy for various reasons. He goes out in search of happiness, meets a Guru who tells him: ‘You are not a person, find who you are’. He does it and goes beyond.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The mind covers up reality, without knowing it. To know the nature of the mind, you need intelligence, the capacity to look at the mind in silent and dispassionate awareness.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

All you need is to understand that you are the source of reality, that you give reality instead of getting it, that you need no support and no confirmation. Things are as they are, because you accept them as they are. Stop accepting them and they will dissolve.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Nothing will remain, all will remain. The sense of identity will remain, but no longer identification with a particular body. Being — awareness — love will shine in full splendour. Liberation is never of the person, it is always from the person.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

You, as the person, imagine that the Guru is interested in you as a person. Not at all. To him you are a nuisance and a hindrance to be done away with. He actually aims at your elimination as a factor in consciousness.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

You have tasted so many things — all came to naught. Only the sense ‘I am’ persisted — unchanged. Stay with the changeless among the changeful, until you are able to go beyond.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The teacher tells the watcher: you are not this, there is nothing of yours in this, except the little point of ‘I am’, which is the bridge between the watcher and his dream. ‘I am this, I am that’ is dream, while pure ‘I am’ has the stamp of reality on it.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A reflection of the watcher in the mind creates the sense of ‘I’ and the person acquires an apparently independent existence. In reality there is no person, only the watcher identifying himself with the ‘I’ and the ‘mine’.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The person is merely the result of a misunderstanding. In reality, there is no such thing. Feelings, thoughts and actions race before the watcher in endless succession, leaving traces in the brain and creating an illusion of continuity.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

You can not know perfection, you can know only imperfection. For knowledge to be, there must be separation and disharmony. You can know what you are not, but you can not know your real being. You can be only what you are.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The world may be full of things of great value, but if there is nobody to buy them, they have no price. The Absolute contains everything experienceable, but without the experiencer they are as nothing. That which makes the experience possible is the Absolute. That which makes it actual is the Self.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Do realize that it is not you who moves from dream to dream, but the dreams flow before you and you are the immutable witness. No happening affects your real being — this is the absolute truth.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The outer world neither can help nor hinder. No system, no pattern of action will take you to your goal. Give up all working for a future, concentrate totally on the now, be concerned only with your response to every movement of life as it happens.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Just like emerging from sleep or a state of rapture you feel rested and yet you cannot explain why and how you come to feel so well, in the same way on realization you feel complete, fulfilled, free from the pleasure-pain complex, and yet not always able to explain what happened, why and how.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Hold on to the sense ‘I am’ to the exclusion of everything else. When thus the mind becomes completely silent, it shines with a new light and vibrates with new knowledge. It all comes spontaneously, you need only hold on to the ‘I am’.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Nothing that may be called an event will last. But some events purify the mind and some stain it. Moments of deep insight and all-embracing love purify the mind, while desires and tears, envies and anger, blind beliefs and intellectual arrogance pollute and dull the psyche.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Keep on remembering: I am neither the mind nor its ideas; do it patiently and with conviction and you will surely come to the direct vision of yourself as the source of being — knowing — loving, eternal, all-embracing all-pervading.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

How can anybody tell you what you shall become when there is no becoming? You merely discover what you are. All molding oneself to a pattern is a grievous waste of time. Think neither of the past nor of the future, just be.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

You will recognize that you have returned to your natural state by a complete absence of all desire and fear. After all, at the root of all desire and fear is the feeling of not being what you are.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

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.

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Nisargadatta Maharaj @nisargadatta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

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.

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