You are already perfect, only you don’t know it. The real is behind and beyond words, incommunicable, directly experienced, explosive in its effect on the mind. Stop making use of your mind and see what happens. Past and future are in the mind only – I am now.

Nothing can trouble you but your own imagination. Without memory and expectation there can be no time. Whatever you think about with desire or fear appears before you as real. Whatever is conceived by the mind must be false, for it is bound to be relative and limited. To understand suffering, you must go beyond pain and pleasure. Peace and silence, silence and peace – this is the way beyond.

To go beyond the mind, you must be silent and quiet. Otherwise your past decides for you and your future. To be free in the world you must be free of the world. The way to truth lies through the destruction of the false. The fruit ripens slowly, but falls suddenly and without return. Realise that what you are, cannot be born nor die, and with the fear gone all suffering ends. Liberation is never of the person, it is always from the person. Nisargadatta Maharajįearlessness is the door to the Supreme. Nisargadatta Maharajĭoership is a myth born from the illusion of ‘me’ and ‘the mine’. Nisargadatta Maharajĭesirelessness is the highest bliss.

Nisargadatta Maharajĭesire is of the past, fear is of the future. Nisargadatta Maharajīeyond being and not-being lies the immensity of the real. Nisargadatta MaharajĪs long as you are pleased with the lesser, you cannot have the highest. The clearer you understand on the level of mind you can be described in negative terms only, the quicker will you come to the end of your search and realise that you are the limitless being.Īccept life as it comes and you will find a blessing. The very act of perceiving shows that you are not what you perceive. Discover all that you are not - body, feelings thoughts, time, space, this or that - nothing, concrete or abstract, which you perceive can be you. To know what you are, you must first investigate and know what you are not. Struggle to find out what you are in reality. Give up all questions except one: ‘Who am I?’Īfter all, the only fact you are sure of is that you are. The seeker is he who is in search of himself. His message is simple, direct and yet sublime. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj was a teacher who did not propound any ideology or religion but gently unwrapped the mystery of the self. The publication in 1973 of I Am That, an English translation of his talks in Marathi by Maurice Frydman, brought him worldwide recognition and followers, especially from North America and Europe. Nisargadatta Maharaj (17 April 1897 – 8 September 1981), born Maruti Shivrampant Kambli, was an Indian Guru of nondualism, belonging to the Inchagiri Sampradaya, a lineage of teachers from the Navnath Sampradaya and Lingayat Shaivism.

I am maharaj