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That which you want to sustain, nourish and maintain by five-elemental stuff, is not you. Since you identify with something unreal, there is the fear of death.
"You," the Absolute, are not the personal I. One who is afraid of time becomes a prey of time. But time itself becomes a prey of that one who is not afraid of it.One who transcends time, the beingness and its attributes, abides in the Absolute.
—Nisargadatta
It is the changing that dies. The immutable neither lives nor dies;it is the timeless witness of life and death.You cannot call it dead, for it is aware.Nor can you call it alive, for it does not change.
—Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Awareness is not limited to consciousness. It is of all that is.
Consciousness is of duality. There is no duality in awareness.
It is one single block of pure cognition.
In the same way one can talk of the pure being and pure creation—
nameless, formless, silent and yet absolutely real, powerful, effective.
Their being indescribable does not affect them in the least.
While they are unconscious, they are essential.
The conscious cannot change fundamentally, it can only modify.
Any thing, to change, must pass through death, through obscuration
and dissolution. Gold jewellery must be melted down before it is cast
into another shape. What refuses to die cannot be reborn.
–Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
You are too much concerned with past and future.
It is all due to your longing to continue, to protect yourself against extinction.
And as you want to continue, you want others to keep you company, hence your concern with their survival.
But what you call survival is but the survival of a dream.
–Nisargadatta Maharaj
The real does not die, the unreal never lived.Once you know that death happens to the body and not to you,
you just watch your body falling off like a discarded garment.
The real you is timeless and beyond birth and death.
–Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
There is no such thing as a person. There are only restrictions and limitations.
The sum total of these defines the person.
You think you know your self when you know what you are. But you never know who you are.
The person merely appears to be, like the space within the pot appears to have the shape and volume and smell of the pot.
See that you are not what you believe yourself to be. Fight with all the strength at your disposal against the idea that you are nameable and describable. You are not.
Refuse to think of yourself in terms of this or that. There is no other way out of misery, which you have created for yourself through blind acceptance without investigation. Suffering is a call for enquiry, all pain needs investigation.
Don’t be too lazy to think.
–Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The moment you know your real being, you are afraid of nothing. Death gives freedom and power.
To be free in the world, you must die to the world.
Then the universe is your own, it becomes your body, an expression and a tool.
The happiness of being absolutely free is beyond description.
–Nisargadatta Maharaj
Have your being outside of this body of birth and death and all your problems will be solved. They exist because you believe yourself born to die. Undeceive yourself and be free. You are not a person.
–Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
... stop imagining that you were born, have parents, are a body, will die and so on.
Just try, make a beginning – it is not as hard as you think.
–Nisargadatta Maharaj
