Nisargadatta Maharaj Zitate

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„(…) Beobachten Sie Ihren Geist, wie er entsteht, wie er funktioniert. Wenn Sie Ihren Geist beobachten, entdecken Sie sich selbst als Beobachter. Wenn Sie regungslos stehen und nur zuschauen, entdecken Sie sich selbst als das Licht hinter dem Beobachter. (…).“

„Sobald du erkennst, dass der Weg das Ziel ist und dass man immer auf dem Weg ist, nicht um ein Ziel zu erreichen, sondern um seine Schönheit und seine Weisheit zu genießen, hört das Leben auf, eine Aufgabe zu sein und wird natürlich und einfach, an sich eine Ekstase.“

„Wenn du Zeit brauchst, um etwas zu erreichen, muss es falsch sein. Das Wahre ist immer bei dir; du brauchst nicht zu warten, um das zu sein, was du bist.“

„Gott ist nur eine Idee in deinem Verstand. Die Tatsache bist du. Das Einzige, was du mit Sicherheit weißt, ist: "Hier und jetzt bin ich". Entfernt man das 'Hier und Jetzt', bleibt das 'Ich bin' unanfechtbar. (...). Alles, was ich wirklich sagen kann, ist: 'Ich bin', alles andere ist Schlussfolgerung (...). Der Sinn 'Ich bin' ist die Manifestation einer tieferen Ursache, die du Selbst, Gott, Wirklichkeit oder mit irgendeinem anderen Namen nennen kannst. (...).“

„Weisheit ist zu wissen: Ich bin nichts,
Liebe ist zu wissen: Ich bin alles,
und zwischen diesen beiden fließt mein Leben.“

“(…) Anything that implies a continuity, a sequence, a passing from stage to stage cannot be real. There is no progress in reality; it is final, perfect, unrelated.”

“To exist means to be something, a thing, a feeling, a thought, an idea. All existence is particular. Only being is universal, in the sense that every being is compatible with every other being. Existences clash, being – never. Existence means becoming, change, birth and death, and birth again, while in being there is silent peace.”

“Don’t rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether.”

“(…) there is no such thing as peace of mind. Mind means disturbance; restlessness itself is mind.(…) Examine closely and you will see that the mind is seething with thoughts. It may occasionally go blank, but it does it for a time and reverts to its usual restlessness. (…).”

“When you see the world you see God. There is no seeing God, apart from the world. Beyond the world to see God is to be God. The light by which you see the world, which is God, is the tiny little spark: ‘I am,’ apparently so small, yet the first and the last in every act of knowing and loving.”

“(…) All those who proclaim their own greatness and uniqueness are not gnanis. (…) Proclaiming oneself to be an omnipotent, omniscient and omnipotent deity is a clear sign of ignorance.”

“The essence of slavery is to imagine yourself to be a process, to have past and future, to have history. In fact, we have no history, we are not a process, we do not develop, nor decay (…).”

“There are the two – the person and the witness, the observer. When you see them as one, and go beyond, you are in the supreme state. It is not perceivable, because it is what makes perception possible. It is beyond being and not being. It is neither the mirror nor the image in the mirror. It is what is – the timeless reality, unbelievably hard and solid.”

“(…) Desiring a state of freedom from desire will not set you free. Nothing can set you free, because you are free. See yourself with desireless clarity, that is all.”

“There is nothing wrong in the idea of a body, nor even in the idea ‘I am the body.’ But limiting oneself to one body only is a mistake. In reality all existence, every form, is my own, within my consciousness. (…).”

“As you are now, the personality is only an obstacle. Self-identification with the body may be good for an infant, but true growing up depends on getting the body out of the way. Normally, one should outgrow body-based desires early in life. (…)”

“God is not running the world. (…) All happens by itself. You are asking the question and you are supplying the answer. And you know the answer when you ask the question. All is play in consciousness. All divisions are illusory. (…)”

“Gandhi is dead, yet his mind pervades the earth. The thought of a gnani pervades humanity and works ceaselessly for good. Being anonymous, coming from within, it is more powerful and compelling. That is how the world improves-the inner aiding and blessing the outer. When gnani dies, he is no more, in the same sense in which a river is no more when it merges in the sea; the name, the shape, are no more, but the water remains and becomes one with the ocean. When a gnani joins the universal mind, all his goodness and wisdom become the heritage of humanity and uplift every human being.”

“God is not only true and good, he is also beautiful (satyam-shivam-sundaram). He creates beauty – for the joy of it. (…) God does not aim at beauty – whatever he does is beautiful. Would you say that a flower is trying to be beautiful? It is beautiful by its very nature. Similarly God is perfection itself, not an effort at perfection. (…) whatever is perceived blissfully is beautiful. Bliss is the essence of beauty.”

“(…) In reality there is only consciousness. All life is conscious, all consciousness alive.”

“To remember what needs to be remembered is the secret of success. (…) What is supremely important is to be free from contradictions: the goal and the way must not be on different levels, life and light must not quarrel; behavior must not betray belief. Call it honesty, integrity, wholeness; you must not go back, undo, uproot, abandon the conquered ground. (…)”

“(…) All those who proclaim their own greatness and uniqueness are not gnanis.”