For me the moment of death will be a moment of jubilation, not of fear. I cried when I was born and I shall die laughing.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Useless conceptualizing
If you but cease from useless conceptualizing, you will be what you are and what you have always been.
Ramesh Balsekar
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No face
Only those who are able to see their own face without a mirror will be able to see their true nature. What kind of seeing is this? To see without the mirror is to see not with eyes seeing objects but as THAT which sees. It is the in-seeing or insight by Consciousness itself in which there is no one who is seeing.
Ramesh Balsekar
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Beingness
The power is the Self which each one has in his beingness – that power is time-bound. From the time that beingness comes it creates automatically until that beingness disappears. Earlier there was nothing – after there is nothing. It is only during the duration of the beingness that the world and creation is. This power is the faith in the primordial concept “I Am,” and that is the concept which weaves the web of creation. The entire manifestation is an appearance in this concept.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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The realization of Truth
The only condition for the realization of Truth is that the knowledge of it be desired with tremendous intensity. You cannot see IT, you cannot feel IT only because you do not really want IT – you are too preoccupied with enjoying and sorrowing over your finite existence.
Ramesh Balsekar
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The Supreme
The Supreme is the universal solvent, it corrodes every container, it burns through every obstacle. Without the absolute denial of everything the tyranny of things would be absolute. The Supreme is the great harmonizer, the guarantee of the ultimate and perfect balance – of life in freedom. It dissolves you and thus re-asserts your true being.
Nisagdatta Maharaj
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What needs time is false
It is the clinging to the false that makes the true so difficult to see. Once you understand that the false needs time and what needs time is false, you are nearer the Reality, which is timeless, ever in the now. Eternity in time is mere repetitiveness, like the movement of a clock. It flows from the past into the future endlessly, as empty perpetuity. Reality is what makes the present so vital, so different from the past and future, which are merely mental. If you need time to achieve something, it must be false. The real is always with you; you need not wait to be what you are. Only you must not allow your mind to go out of yourself in search. When you want something, ask yourself: do I really need it? and if the answer is not, then just drop it.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Enlightenment
Enlightenment is total emptiness of mind. There is nothing you can do to get it. Any effort you make can only be an obstruction to it.
Ramesh Balsekar
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Nothing
I will give you what no eye has seen,
and what no ear has heard,
and what no hand has touched,
and what has not arisen in the heart of man.Jesus
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Celebration of Freedom
Once one has known the self-generating spontaneity of the happening of all events, an absence of seeming volition or control is no longer a frightening matter but a joyous celebration of freedom.
Ramesh Balsekar