Nisargadatta Maharaj quotes.

[cleft_asunder]

Discard all you are not and go ever deeper. Just as a man digging a well discards what is not water, until he reaches the water-bearing strata, so must you discard what is not your own, till nothing is left which you can disown. You will find that what is left is nothing which the mind can hook on to. You are not even a human being. You just are - a point of awareness, co-extensive with time and space and beyond both, the ultimate cause, itself uncaused. If you ask me "Who are you?", my answer would be: "Nothing in particular. Yet, I am." (318)

I am not my body, nor do I need it. I am the witness only. I have no shape of my own. You are so accustomed to think of yourself as bodies having consciousness that you just cannot imagine consciousness as having bodies. Once you realize that bodily existence is but a state of mind, a movement in consciousness, that the ocean of consciousness is infinite and eternal, and that, when in touch with consciousness, you are the witness only, you will be able to withdraw beyond consciousness altogether. (327)

http://www.maharajnisargadatta.com/I_am_that_reorganized_1.php

[goatboyhicks]

Can´t argue with that

[kde_]

Nisargadatta seems so fierce, so no nonsense.

[cleft_asunder]

Nisargadatta seems so fierce, so no nonsense.

Yes, yes. But nonchallant and cheerful at the same time. He's known to be shrewdly funny.

Here is the .pdf of the classic I Am That (http://www.fixdisease.com/i_am_that.pdf).

[kde_]

Yes, yes. But nonchallant and cheerful at the same time. He's known to be shrewdly funny.

Here is the .pdf of the classic I Am That (http://www.fixdisease.com/i_am_that.pdf).

Thanks for that Nisargadatta is one of the great teachers no doubt.