Nisargadatta Maharaj
Nisargadatta Maharaj
I Am Now
Save all your energies and time for breaking the wall your mind has built around you.
We talk of God, Truth and Love, but instead of direct experience we have definitions.
The other world is this world rightly seen.
'I am', is enough to heal your mind and take you beyond.
Don't ask the mind to confirm what is beyond the mind. Direct experience is the only valid confirmation.
Love says "I am everything." Wisdom says "I am nothing." Between the two, my life flows.
As long as you have all sorts of ideas about yourself, you know yourself through the mist of these ideas; to know yourself as you are, give up all ideas. You cannot imagine the taste of pure water, you can only discover it by abandoning all flavourings.
Give all your attention to the question: ‘What is it that makes me conscious?’, until your mind becomes the question itself and cannot think of anything else.
Do not try to know the truth, for knowledge by the mind is not true knowledge. But you can know what is not true—which is enough to liberate you from the false. The idea that you know what is true is dangerous, for it keeps you imprisoned in the mind. It is when you do not know, that you are free to investigate. And there can be no salvation, without investigation, because non investigation is the main cause of bondage.