Anandmath

“Your expectation of something unique and dramatic, of some wonderful explosion, is merely hindering and delaying your Self Realization. You are not to expect an explosion, for the explosion has already happened - at the moment when you were born, when you realized yourself as Being-Knowing-Feeling. There is only one mistake you are making: you take the inner for the outer and the outer for the inner. What is in you, you take to be outside you and what is outside, you take to be in you. The mind and feelings are external, but you take them to be intimate. You believe the world to be objective, while it is entirely a projection of your psyche. That is the basic confusion and no new explosion will set it right! You have to think yourself out of it. There is no other way.”

~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.

"Having seen that you are a bundle of memories held together by attachment, step out and look from the outside. You may perceive for the first time, something which is not memory. You cease to be a Mr so- and so, busy about his own affairs. You are at last at peace. You realize that nothing was ever wrong with the world- you alone were wrong and now it is all over. Never again will you be caught in the meshes of desire born of ignorance."

~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

"But we do not ask. We want to be told.
One of the most curious things in the structure of our psyche is that we all want to be told because we are the result of the propaganda of ten thousand years.
We want to have our thinking confirmed and corroborated by another, whereas to ask a question is to ask it of yourself.
What I say has very little value. You will forget it the moment you shut this book, or you will remember and repeat certain phrases, or you will compare what you have read here with some other book—but you will not face your own life.
And that is all that matters—your life, yourself, your pettiness, your shallowness, your brutality, your violence, your greed, your ambition, your daily agony and endless sorrow—that is what you have to understand and nobody on earth or in heaven is going to save you from it but yourself."

~ J. Krishnamurti

Are you happy? It seems there are two worlds, mine and yours.
"In your world I would be most miserable. To wake up, to eat, to talk, to sleep again - what a bother!
"To live, to die - what meaningless words are these! When you see me alive, I am dead. When you think me dead, I am alive. How muddled up you are!
"I am quite conscious of your troubles. There is nothing I need do. They come and go. The difficulty may be physical, emotional or mental; but it is always individual. Large scale calamities are the sum of numberless individual destinies and take time to settle. But death is never a calamity.
"Mine is real, yours is of the mind. There is no need of a link between a real world and an imaginary world, for there cannot be any."

~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.

"Now why is there any comparison at all? Why do you compare yourself with another? This comparison has been taught from childhood. In every school A is compared with B, and A destroys himself in order to be like B. When you do not compare at all, when there is no ideal, no opposite, no factor of duality, when you no longer struggle to be different from what you are - what has happened to your mind? Your mind has ceased to create the opposite and has become highly intelligent, highly sensitive, capable of immense passion, because effort is a dissipation of passion - passion which is vital energy - and you cannot do anything without passion.

If you do not compare yourself with another you will be what you are. Through comparison you hope to evolve, to grow, to become more intelligent, more beautiful. But will you? The fact is what you are, and by comparing you are fragmenting the fact which is a waste of energy. To see what you actually are without any comparison gives you tremendous energy to look. When you can look at yourself without comparison you are beyond comparison, which does not mean that the mind is stagnant with contentment. So we see in essence how the mind wastes energy which is so necessary to understand the totality of life.?

~ J. Krishnamurthy.

"See yourself in all that lives and your behaviour will express your vision. Once you realize that there is nothing in this world, which you can call your own, you can look at it from the outside as you look at a play on the stage or a picture on the screen, admiring and enjoying, but really unmoved. As long as you imagine yourself to be something tangible and solid, a thing among things, actually existing in time and space, short lived and vulnerable, naturally you will be anxious to survive and increase. But when you know yourself as beyond time and space, - in contact with them only at the point of here and now, otherwise all pervading and all containing, unapproachable, unassailable, invulnerable- you will be afraid no longer. Know yourself as you are- against fear there is no other remedy."

~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.

"The world is but a show, glittering and empty. It is and yet it is not. It is there as long as I want to see it and take part in it. When I cease caring it dissolves. It has not cause and serves no purpose. It just happens when we are absent-minded . It appears exactly as it looks, but there is no depth in it nor meaning. Only the onlooker is real, call him Self or Atma. To the Self the world is but a colourful show, which he enjoys as long as it lasts and forgets when it is over. Whatever happens on the stage makes him shudder in terror or roll with laughter, yet all the time he is aware that it is but a show. Without desire or fear he enjoys it, as it happens."

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj.

"He alone knows to whom He will reveal Himself under which form. By what path and in what manner He attracts any particular man to Himself with great force is incomprehensible to the human intellect. The Path differs indeed for different pilgrims."

~ Sri Anandamayi Maa.

"There are two ways: one is looking into the source of 'I' and merging into that source. The other is feeling " I am helpless by myself. God alone is all powerful and except throwing myself completely on him there is no other means of safety for me" and thus gradually developing the conviction that God alone exists and the ego does not count. Both methods lead to the same goal. Complete surrender is another name for Jnana or liberation."

~ Sri Ramana Maharishi.

"A death-bound littleness is not all we are, Immortal is our forgotten vastnesses, Await discovery in our summit selves."

- Savitri.

"Freedom means letting go. The finite is the price of the infinite, as death is the price of immortality. Spiritual maturity lies in the readiness to let go of everything. Giving up is the final step. But the real giving up is in realizing that there is nothing to give up, for nothing is your own."

~ Shri Nisargadatta Maharaj.

प्रकृत्यैव च कर्मणि क्रियमाणानि सर्वशः I
यः पश्यति तथा आत्मानां अकर्तारं सः पश्यति II
~ Bhagwad Gita.

“He who sees that this entire nature is working on its own, bound by its own rules and likewise that the self (Individual) is not the doer in any way, he sees indeed”.☺️🙏