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“Experience, however sublime, is not the real thing. By its very nature it comes and goes.” Nisargadatta Maharaj

"I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes. I observe treasures of gold and gems as so many bricks and pebbles. I look upon the finest silken robes as tattered rags. I see myriad worlds of the universe as small seeds of fruit, and the greatest lake in India as a drop of oil on my foot. I perceive the teachings of the world to be the illusion of magicians. I discern the highest conception of emancipation as a golden brocade in a dream, and view the holy path of the...

"On realisation of the Self you will find that the reflection and the surface on which it takes place do not actually exist, but that both of them are one and the same Chit. There is the world, which requires location for its existence and light to make it perceptible. Both rise simultaneously. Therefore, physical existence and perception depend upon the light of the mind which is reflected from the Self. Just as cinema pictures can be made visible by a reflected light, ...

"It is not pervading, or that which could be less pervading: there can be no place for it to rest nor can there be the absence of such a place. It is something as well as being nothing. How can it be explained?"

"No second has ever been able to enter. If it is felt that some other has entered, this is only delusion. In the totality of doubtlessness, doubt is the second thing. That doubt multiplies and becomes a mind full of doubts, and the Illusion of the world appears."

~Shri Samarth Sadguru Siddharameshwar Maharaj

"It is foolish to try to see the sun with the light from a torch."

~Shri Samarth Sadguru Siddharameshwar Maharaj

"You are coming daily and asking me to tell you how you can catch yourselves, and I have agreed to do so. I know that you are not lost. I know it very clearly and therefore will supply you with your own address."

~Shri Samarth Sadguru Siddharameshwar Maharaj

"It cannot be understood, and cannot be known, even if it is explained. It cannot be imagined. Words cannot communicate it. It cannot be described."

~Shri Samarth Sadguru Siddharameshwar Maharaj

"All differences are due to ego. See what a strange thing has happened! God is sacrificed before the goat."

~Shri Samarth Sadguru Siddharameshwar Maharaj

"The primary urge or movement that arises in Brahman is God. That itself, is what is called God, and it is the Primal Illusion (MoolaMaya)."

~Shri Samarth Sadguru Siddharameshwar Maharaj

"There is a game of madness, and it was decided that you must keep on playing this game win or lose, pleasure or pain, and you must keep experiencing it. You call it pleasure, but it must be killed. There is real happiness in killing the enjoyment, but people keep up the imagination, which is really only suffering. If you have killed the enjoyment, that is good. However, the killer of enjoyment must also die."

~Shri Samarth Sadguru Siddharameshwar Maharaj

"Listen to the "Master Key." I shall tell you what Knowledge is in one sentence.

One in whom conceptualization has ceased is the Jnani."

~Shri Samarth Sadguru Siddharameshwar Maharaj

"After Liberation, what is remaining is flawless Brahman.

Now what exists is not in the realm of experience, because without our going to meet it, it is as it is, without trying to remember it. It is not something objective that can be remembered. Memory disappears together with forgetfulness. It is beyond truth and untruth. It is not truth, and it is not untruth.

'That' which is, is. What 'That' is, cannot be told. Mind and intellect do not reach there. Words cannot express it."

~Shri Samarth Sadguru Siddharameshwar Maharaj

"The remarkable and rare can be accomplished only by doing something rare, and remarkably different from what others do."

~Shri Samarth Sadguru Siddharameshwar Maharaj

"Generally it is the nose ring that is admired and valued, and not the nose. Similarly, it is that which is visible that is valued, and not the Self."

~Shri Samarth Sadguru Siddharameshwar Maharaj

"No second has ever been able to enter. If it is felt that some other has entered, this is only delusion. In the totality of doubtlessness, doubt is the second thing. That doubt multiplies and becomes a mind full of doubts, and the Illusion of the world appears."

~Shri Samarth Sadguru Siddharameshwar Maharaj

"All powers come to one who expects nothing at all."

~Shri Samarth Sadguru Siddharameshwar Maharaj

"The jiva does not wish to have no form, no sensation, or to be extremely vast and spread out everywhere. We presume that it is death if we become like that. Thus, there is a liking for a particular form."

~Shri Samarth Sadguru Siddharameshwar Maharaj

"The real worth is related to the original thing. That thing is made to assume various forms and the whole game is going on. It is a fun. It is an amusement. It is a play of imagination indulged in, in idle time. It is playful attitude, and idea of fun. There is no consideration whether there is profit or loss, good or undesirable. It is just merriment of Consciousness. There is no need to feel sorry or happy about it. It is just a joyful mood of Consciousness. However, one who takes this seriously as true, falls into an ocean of sorrows."

~Shri Samarth Sadguru Siddharameshwar Maharaj

"Relinquish all of the things that the 'I' desires, and then the mind is automatically slain."

~Shri Samarth Sadguru Siddharameshwar Maharaj

"That which is not perceived is Reality."

~Shri Samarth Sadguru Siddharameshwar Maharaj

"The Jiva is himself Shiva, but the allurement of Maya is there. Although you are Shiva, she makes you conceive of yourself as a body. That is her power. She increases the forgetfulness of the Self and the longing after sensual pleasures. The thinking about sense objects is called mind. The cleverness of ego is called intellect."

~Shri Samarth Sadguru Siddharameshwar Maharaj

"You have read all the books, but have you read the Reader?" -Ramakant Maharaj

"You were pure, formless and alone. Then, when the awareness of 'I Am' arises, understand that this is the active feeling of the ego, which says, 'I.'"

~Shri Samarth Sadguru Siddharameshwar Maharaj

"The mirror says, 'There is nobody in me.' The man who looks into the mirror says, 'I am in the mirror.'"

~Shri Samarth Sadguru Siddharameshwar Maharaj