The True Nature of Reality

Remember, to know Yourself, return to the silence before words. Abandon all self-concern, do not worry about your welfare, material or spiritual, abandon every desire, gross or subtle, stop thinking of achievement of any kind. You are complete here and now, you need absolutely nothing. The basic anxiety for yourself must go. Give up the bondage of self-concern and be what you are.....intelligence and love in action.  –       Nisargadatta Maharaj

Remember, to know Yourself, return to the silence before words. The body appears in your mind, your mind is the content of your consciousness, you are the motionless witness of the river of consciousness which changes eternally without changing you in any way. Your own changelessness is so obvious that you do not notice it. Realize yourself as the immovable, behind and beyond the moveable, the silent witness of all that happens.  –       Nisargadatta Maharaj

Remember, to know Yourself, return to the silence before words. Try to be. Only to be. Allot enough time daily for sitting quietly and trying, just trying, to go beyond the personality, with its addictions and obsessions. Do not ask how, it cannot be explained. The all-important word is ‘try’. 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.  –       Nisargadatta Maharaj

Remember, to know Yourself, return to the silence before words. At my Guru’s directive I became one with the beingness. Beingness means having the vision that one is the entire dynamic universe. When one transcends individuality, one is the manifest beingness only. In this process the Unmanifest reveals itself.  –       Nisargadatta Maharaj

Remember, to know Yourself, return to the silence before words. When you cling to the body-mind you become separate from the manifested world and see different entities. In that state you will have all kinds of desires to improve yourself or somebody else. The next state is “I Amness”, in which every action is myself, every manifest thing is myself. In that state there is no question of improving. You are just manifestation, “I am everything”. Next is the unborn state, where there is no beingness to understand “I Am”. That is the highest state.  –       Nisargadatta Maharaj

Remember, to know Yourself, return to the silence before words. The first step is to go to the ‘I am’ and dwell there and from there you go beyond consciousness and no-consciousness to infinite consciousness. In that permanent ‘Parabrahman’ state you become completely desireless and silent and even the thought ‘I am’ doesn’t arise. The mind dwelling in the pure ‘I am’ state is a very subtle and purified mind, but Reality is beyond that.  –       Nisargadatta Maharaj

Remember, to know Yourself, return to the silence before words. In reality only the Ultimate is. The rest is a matter of name and form. And as long as you cling to the idea that only what has name and shape exists, the Supreme will appear to you non-existing. When you understand that names and shapes are hollow shells without any content whatsoever, and what is real is nameless and formless, pure energy of life and light of consciousness, you will be at peace – immersed in the deep silence of reality.  –       Nisargadatta Maharaj