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The Reverse Path – Siddharameshwar Maharaj
The “King of Knowledge” (“I Am”) influences all of the senses, and seems to grant these senses “lordship” over the sense objects. It is because of this externalization that the fact that He is present...
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Surrender to Your Own Self – Nisargadatta Maharaj
Questioner: I was born in the United States, and the last fourteen months I have spent in Sri Ramanashram; now I am on my way back to the States where my mother is expecting me. Maharaj: What are your...
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Keep the Mind Silent and You Shall Discover – Nisargadatta Maharaj
Questioner: Once I had a strange experience. I was not, nor was the world, there was only light — within and without — and immense peace. This lasted for four days and then I returned to the every-day...
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God is the Supreme Self, Paramatman – Siddharameshwar Maharaj
If you aspire to be with God, discard Illusion (Maya). The hope that is hidden deep in the innermost layers of your heart and mind is only Illusion. Illusion puts a veil on the Self. The Self is...
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The Way of Nisargadatta Maharaj – Jean Dunn
An Interview with Jean Dunn first posted on September 13, 2010 on the Inner Directions Journal website. Jean Dunn had the rare opportunity of being close to the contemporary sage, Nisargadatta Maharaj....
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Perfection, Destiny of All – Nisargadatta Maharaj
Questioner: When asked about the means for self-realisation, you invariably stress the importance of the mind dwelling on the sense ‘I am’. Where is the causal factor? Why should this particular...
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Your Last Trump: The ‘I-am-ness’– Alexander Smit
Visitor: You were talking once about the last trump which everybody is holding back, the last card that is held back in the game of Self-realisation, when one is standing face to face with oneself....
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Only Oneness Is Complete – Ranjit Maharaj
Question: Would you say that Reality is silence reflecting Itself? Ranjit: You can see the space, you can observe the space, you can feel the space, but Reality is beyond space. Space is zero. No...
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Witnessing – Nisargadatta Maharaj
Questioner: I am full of desires and want them fulfilled. How am I to get what I want? Maharaj: Do you deserve what you desire? In some way or other you have to work for the fulfillment of your...
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Until All Obstacles are Conquered – Nisargadatta Maharaj
Questioner: How does one attend to the unconscious? Maharaj: Keep the ‘I am’ in the focus of awareness, remember that you are, watch yourself ceaselessly and the unconscious will flow into the...
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The Touchstone of Awareness – Nisargadatta Maharaj
Questioner: My difficulty is this. As I can see, every experience is its own reality. It is there — experienced. The moment I question it and ask to whom it happens, who is the observer and so on, the...
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The Royal Process for Spirituality – Nisargadatta Maharaj
Questioner: May I ask: so consciousness comes into awareness. Maharaj: Of course, everything is in awareness. Q. Yeah, okay. First there was awareness, then consciousness. Translator: He wants you to...
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Find Out Who You Are – Jean Dunn
Jean Dunn speaks about life with Nisargadatta Maharaj. This interview was recorded by Malcolm Tillis in 1981, while Jean was living in Bombay, India. Jean Dunn: I am just a normal person of fifty-nine...
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Matter is Consciousness Itself – Nisargadatta Maharaj
Questioner: I was lucky to have holy company all my life. Is it enough for self-realisation? Maharaj: It depends what you make of it. Q: I was told that the liberating action of satsang is automatic....
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Absolute Perfection is Here and Now – Nisargadatta Maharaj
Questioner: The war is on. What is your attitude to it? Maharaj: In some place or other, in some form or other, the war is always on. Was there a time when there was no war? Some say it is the will of...
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Self Knowledge and Self Realization – Nisargadatta Maharaj
When we concentrate our attention on the origin of thought, the thought process itself comes to an end; there is a hiatus, which is pleasant, and again the process starts. Turning from the external...
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Remembering Nisargadatta Maharaj- David Godman
The following is from an interview with David Godman. Harriet: You say that Maharaj never visited other teachers because he no longer had any doubts. Did he ever talk about other teachers and say what...
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Investigate “I Am”– Nisargadatta Maharaj
Maharaj: Rajneesh [Osho] is not a small personality or small principal. He is tremendous ‒ he is very big. He is a great sage. When you already have a guru [Rajneesh], why do you visit other sages?...
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Meditation is the Bridge Between Yoga and Advaita
Hakuin begins his Song of Meditation, “All beings are from the very beginning Buddhas.” Nisargadatta Maharaj tells us to take as a hypothesis that we are the “absolute”, because it is not yet our...
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Enjoying this Living Death – Nisargadatta Maharaj
Visitor: The will to live is strong. To drop this identification with the body is like dying in a sense. Is it possible to do it voluntarily? Maharaj: What you call the body is this food, which is the...
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