*Do understand that you are destined for enlightenment.
Co-operate with your destiny, don’t go against it, don’t thwart it. Allow it to
fulfill itself. All you have to do is to give attention to the obstacles created
by the foolish mind. p.311
*There are no conditions to fulfill. There is nothing to be
done, nothing to be given up. Just look and remember, whatever you perceive is
not you, nor yours. It is there in the field of consciousness, but you are not
the field and its contents, nor even the knower of the field. It is your idea
that you have to do things that entangle you in results of your efforts-the
motive, the desire, the failure to achieve, the sense of frustration-all this
holds you back. Simply look at whatever happens and know that you are beyond
it. p.148
*Try to be, only to be. The all-important word is 'try'.
Allot enough time daily for sitting quietly and trying, just trying, to go
beyond the personality, with its addictions and obsessions. Don't ask how, it
cannot be explained. You just keep on trying until you succeed. If you
persevere, there can be no failure. What matters supremely is sincerity,
earnestness; you must really have had surfeit of being the person you are, now
see the urgent need of being free of this unnecessary self-identification with
a bundle of memories and habits. This steady resistance against the unnecessary
is the secret of success. p.509
*You need not get at it (Enlightenment), for you are it. It
will get at you, if you give it a chance. Let go your attachment to the unreal
and the real will swiftly and smoothly slip into its own. Stop imagining
yourself being or doing this or that and the realisation that you are the
source and heart of all will dawn upon you. With this will come great love
which is not choice or predilection, nor attachment, but a power which makes
all things love - worthy and lovable. p.3
*Acceptance - letting come what comes and go what goes.
Desire not, fear not, observe the actual, as and when it happens, for you are
not what happens, you are to whom it happens. Ultimately even the observer you
are not. p.6
*Discover all you are not. Body, feelings, thoughts, ideas,
time, space, being and not being, this or that - nothing concrete or abstract
you can point out to is you. You must watch yourself continuously -
particularly your mind - moment by moment, missing nothing. This witnessing is
essential for the separation of the self from the not-self ........be aware of
that state which is only, simply being, without being this or that or the
other. p.27
*I see what you too could see, here and now, but for the
wrong focus of attention. You give no attention to your self. Your mind is all
with things, people and ideas, never with your self. Bring yourself into focus,
become aware of your own existence. See how you function, watch the motives and
the results of your actions. Study the prison you have built around yourself,
by inadvertence. By knowing what you are not, you come to know your self. The
way back to your self is through refusal and rejection. One thing is certain:
the real is not imaginary, it is not a product of the mind. Even the sense 'I
am' is not continuous, though it is a useful pointer: it shows where to seek,
but not what to seek. Just have a good look at it. Once you are convinced that
you cannot say truthfully about yourself anything except 'I am', and that
nothing can be pointed at can be yourself, the need for the 'I am' is over -
you are no longer intent on verbalising what you are. (NM did this practise
only in the early part of his 3 years of change) All you need is to get rid of
the tendency to define your self. All definitions apply to the body only and to
its expressions. Once this obsession with the body goes, you will revert to
your natural state, spontaneously and effortlessly. p.5
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj/I Am That ~
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