FROM MY NOTE-BOOK ON SRI NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ

From my Note-book on
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

This is a collection of some short quotes written down by me while I was compiling the I am
quotes or preparing The Nisargadatta Gita :
1.
Do you accept completely the knowledge that you do not exist?
2.
The moment you know you are, you are individuality. When you do not know you are, you
are perfect in the Absolute.
3.
I am the infinite, timeless Absolute, Awareness without being aware of Awareness. As the
infinite I express myself as finite, as the timeless I express myself as time.
4.
Your being depends on the body-mind how can this be true? Can that which depends on
anything be the truth?
5.
If you are convinced that everything you see is unreal, then why hang onto the unreal principle?
6.
All the pride of being is based on the body-mind, the beingness is a temporary phase, hence
unreal. The One who understands this is the Eternal.
7.
Whatever is supposedly happening is an illusion. Nothing is really happening, because the basic
concept beingness is itself an illusion.
8.
The individual as such has never come into being, thus there is no need to identify with anything.
9.
In the ultimate Awareness nothing has any consciousness of being present. There is no
presence in the Absolute.

10.
The feeling I am or being has occurred due to its association with the body-mind. In reality
you are none of these. You are the unborn.
11.
Hold on to the being only, as it would one day take you to the non-being or unborn.
12.
The darkness you see on closing your eyes is the shade of the Gurus (Beingess) grace. Take rest
there and you would merge in the Satguru (Non-beingness or the Absolute).
13.
Your being is an illusion from the Absolute standpoint. Stay put in your being then that
primary desire to be would drop off. You are then the Absolute.
14.
Where is the person who should hold onto the worldly life or should give it up? The question
does not arise. Charged up with this knowledge no difficulty can touch you.
15.
Unless you negate individuality there will never be any understanding.
16.
A simple remedy to enjoy eternal bliss is to know that you are not the body.