HERE and NOW
YOU ARE THAT
Do not try to keep quiet,
do not make being quiet into a task to be performed.
Don't be restless about being quiet, miserable
about being happy.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~

There is no heaven, no
final liberation, nor any soul in another world....
there are four elements, earth, water, fire and air and from
these four elements alone is intelligence produced....
The three authors of the Vedas were buffoons.
~ Carvaka ~ (India
600 BCE)
The mystical trend of our
time, which shows itself particularly in the rampant growth of the so-called
Theosophy and Spiritualism, is for me no more than a symptom of weakness and
confusion.
Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of
sensory impressions,
the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of
meaning.
~ Albert Einstein ~
One 'believes' that
there is bondage and therefore seeks liberation.
But the fact is that there is no bondage but only Liberation.
~ Ramana Maharshi ~
All religions are ancient
monuments to superstition, ignorance
and modern religions are only ancient follies.
~ Paul Henri Thiry ~
The true Guru (honest person or pointer) will not estrange you from
yourself.
He knows you need nothing, not even him, and is never tired of
reminding you.
But the self-appointed Guru
is more concerned with himself
All national institutions of churches... appear to me no other
than human inventions,
set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
I do not believe in
immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to
be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
- Albert Einstein ~
Liberation is our
very nature. We are that.... It is not to be freshly acquired.
All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.
~ Ramana Maharshi ~
The world holds two
classes of men, intelligent men without religion,
and religious men without intelligence.
Abu Ala Al-Maarri
Ignorant of this simple truth,
To find 'you'
involves neither time nor means, the one who is dependent on seeking is veiled.
To seek 'you' is a remnant of separation and dispersion.
~ Abdullah Ansari ~
(11 th century)
Realisation is not
the acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty.
It is only removal of all camouflage.
~ Ramana Maharshi ~
What you call God, I call Nature,
the supreme intelligence that rules matter.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious
books.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many
generations
You, being the Self (consciousness), want to know
how to attain the Self (consciousness).
Make no effort, your
effort is the bondage.
All that is required to realize the Self (consciousness) is to be still.
What can be easier than that?
~ Ramana Maharshi ~
No one denies ones
own existence
any more than one denies ones eyes, although one cannot see them.
The trouble lies with your desire to objectify the Self (consciousness), in the same way
as you objectify your eyes when you place a mirror before them.
~ Ramana Maharshi ~
Ego is not!
Otherwise do you admit of two selves?
~ Ramana Maharshi ~
If you seek the ego you will
find, it does not exist.
That is the way to get rid of it.
Look for it and it will not be found.
~ Ramana Maharshi ~
The divinity of Jesus is made
a convenient cover for absurdity
If there be no God, there can be no soul.
If there is no soul then, Jesus
you also are not true.
Be content with
what you are sure of.
And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are.
The only clue you have is your certainty of being.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~
If you want to be
free. Get to know your real self.
It (consciousness) has no form, no appearance, no root, no basis, no abode,
but is lively and buoyant. Therefore when you look for it, you become further
from it.
When you seek it, you turn away from it all the more.
~ Linji ~
(Chinese 9 th century)
Look deep into Nature and
you will
understand everything better.
~ Albert Einstein ~
The state of
self-realisation, as we call it, is not attaining something new
or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that
which you always are and which you always have been.
~ Ramana Maharshi ~
The Self
(consciousness) you seek to know is truly yourself.
Your supposed ignorance causes you needless grief
like that of the ten foolish men who grieved
at the loss of the tenth man,
who was never lost.
~ Ramana Maharshi ~
Realisation is
nothing to be gained afresh, it is already there.
All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought I have not realised.
~ Ramana Maharshi ~
For whoever seeks
God (consciousness) in some special way,
will gain the way and lose God who is hidden in the way.
But whoever seeks God without any special way,
finds Him as He really is... He (consciousness) is Life itself.
~ Meister Eckhart ~
(13th century)
Because you seek
true (constant/unchanging) consciousness.
Where can you find it? Can you attain it outside yourself?
You have to find it internally. Therefore you are directed inward.
The heart is the seat of consciousness or
consciousness itself.
~ Ramana Maharshi ~
All sentient (conscious)
beings are essentially 'Buddhas'.
As with water and ice, there is no ice without water.
(No Life or existence without consciousness)
Not knowing how close the truth is, we seek it far away.
What a pity!
~ Hakuin Ekaku Zenji ~
( Japan 18th century)
Reality is at once being and
consciousness.
~ Ramana Maharshi ~
The Self
(consciousness) is not something to be acquired from others.
All that is necessary is to know its existence in you.
~ Ramana Maharshi ~
People want to see the Self (consciousness) as something new.
But it (consciousness) is eternal and remains the same all along.
They desire to see it as a blazing light etc.
How can it be so?
On enquiry 'who' is
bound?
The notion of bondage vanishes and so does that of Liberation.
The one eternally free alone remains self-revealed.
~ Ramana Maharshi ~
It is pure
awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~
What have you to wait for when it is already here
and now?
You have to only look & see. Look at your self, at your own being.
You know that
you are and you like it. Abandon all imagining, that is all.
Do not rely on time, time is death, who waits dies. Life is now only!
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~
Just be aware that you are
and remain aware.
You are aware anyhow, you need not try to be.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~
'I' am is first
hand and needs no proof.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~
'
I' am is the goal and final Reality.What you need is to
be aware of being aware.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~
The ultimate Truth
is so simple.
~ Ramana Maharshi ~