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"A gnani commands a mode of spontaneous, non-sensory perception, which makes him know things directly, without intermediary of the senses. He is beyond the perceptual and the conceptual, beyond the categories of time and space, name and shape. He is neither the perceived nor the perceiver, but the simple and the universal factor that makes perceiving possible." ~Nisargadatta Maharaj

"What is always natural to everyone is liberation, which is bliss. Bondage is delusion of mind, a false sensation. The ego alone is bondage, and one's own true nature, free of the contagion of the ego, is liberation. There is no greater deception than believing that liberation, which is ever present as one's own nature, will be attained at some later stage. Even the desire for liberation is the work of delusion. Therefore, remain still." ~Ramana Maharshi

"A lighted-lamp does not need another lamp to illumine its light. So too, Self which is knowledge itself needs no other knowledge to know it." Atma Bodha, ~Adi Shankaracharya

"The glorification of God and the control of the senses mean one and the same thing. Because, it is only in God-Consciousness that all senses can be controlled. When you see God, the senses melt, like butter melting before fire. They cannot exist any more. All the ornaments become the solid mass of gold when they are heated to the boiling point. Likewise, in the furnace of God-consciousness, the sense-energies melt into a continuum of universality." ~Sri Swami Krishnananda

"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, ...

"Until you realize the unsatisfactoriness of everything, its transiency and limitation, and collect your energies in one great longing, even the first step is not made. On the other hand, the integrity of the desire for the Supreme is by itself a call from the Supreme. Nothing, physical or mental, can give you freedom. You are free once you understand that your bondage is of your own making and you cease forging the chains that bind you." ~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...

" Pleasure and pain alternate. Happiness is unshakable. What you can seek and find is not the real thing. Find what you have never lost, find the inalienable." ~Nisargadatta Maharaj

"All that is heard is non-existent. Understand that there is nothing upon which to reflect. The knowledge of the non-existence of anything upon which to meditate is the profound meditation on the Self. Abidance in the Self, is to be free of all errors and all misconceptions." ~ADI SHANKARACHARYA

"Om is the bow; the atman is the arrow; Brahman is said to be the mark. It is to be struck by an undistracted mind. Then the atman becomes one with Brahman, as the arrow with the target." ~Mundaka Upanishad 2.4

"Breath is the cause of thought... It will create thoughts only when it knows there is nobody watching it." ~Swami Lakshmanjoo

“If you maintain your awareness at that point which is found between waking and sleeping you will be focused to that supreme felicity which is the supreme bliss of God Consciousness." -Śaṅkarācārya

"After the body’s death, there is vijnana, the absolute state. In spite of the body, I am in the vijnana state. Worlds come and go. I am the original being." -Nisargadatta Maharaj

"You don't want liberation. If you have liberation, you won't be there to appreciate it." -Prakashananda Baba

"He, who believes in the illusory as the real, will cling to the body in delusion."

“It has nothing to do with effort. Just turn away, look between the thoughts, rather than at the thoughts. When you happen to walk in a crowd, you do not fight every man you meet, you just find your way between. When you fight, you invite a fight. But when you do not resist, you meet no resistance. When you refuse to play the game, you are out of it.” -Nisargadatta Maharaj

Just as a stone, a tree, grass, paddy, husk, etc., when burnt, are reduced to earth (ashes) only, even so the whole objective universe comprising the body, organs, Pranas, Manas and so forth, are, when burnt by the fire of realisation, reduced to the Supreme Self.

Close your eyes, "I am that", open your eyes, "which brings about this".

"The true chanting makes no sound, and in real listening there is no hearing." - Zen

As it is my presence, which is always here and now, that gives the quality of actual to any event, I must be beyond time and space. I was never born, nor will ever die. Nisargadatta Maharaj

"Oh Marvel! This illusion, although expressed in multiplicity, is no other than consciousness-without-a-second. Ha, all is but pure essence aware of itself." (Abhinavagupta)

”Consciousness is the Guru of the Guru” -Nisargadatta Maharaj

"This whole universe has come into existence just to carry you to God consciousness." - Swami Lakshmanjoo, The Shiva Sutras

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

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