Tao Te Ching
Nisargadatta Maharaj
1897 – 1981 CE
Householder guru of non-duality
Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897 – 1981)
An Indian Guru of nondualism from a householder lineage; Nasargadatta began in life by opening a small store that mainly sold beedis (leaf-rolled cigarettes). He soon expanded this into a string of eight retail shops, married, and had 4 children. After meeting a guru and practicing a sadhana, he traveled across India alone until he realized that "nothing was wrong anymore,” returned home and stayed there maintaining his business and teaching. His exposure greatly expanded when North American and European followers discovered him but he remained unseduced by materialism and continued living in the most simple and unassuming way.
Eras
Western
Post-Romantic Age (1850 – 2018 CE)Great Depression (1929 – 1941 CE)
Roaring Twenties (1920 – 1929 CE)
Generations
The Lost Generation (1883 – 1900 CE)Sources
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Quotes by Nisargadatta Maharaj (17 quotes)
“When I look inside and see that I am nothing, that’s wisdom. When I look outside and see that I am everything, that’s love. Between these two my life turns.”
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“True teaching can be on an individual basis only. The same medicine cannot be prescribed for all.”
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“Question everything, don’t believe anything.”
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“There is no birth there is no death… it’s all a concept, it’s all an illusion.”
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“There is no coming there is no going”
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“Anyone who imagines actions will bring about realization is deluded.”
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“The world is like a sheet of paper on which something is typed. The reading and the meaning will vary with the reader but the paper is the common factor, always present, rarely perceived.”
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“For a seeker of reality, there is only one meditation—the rigorous refusal to harbor thoughts. To be free from thoughts is itself meditation.”
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“You are looking for a cure while I am concerned with prevention. As long as their are causes, there must also be results... If you want peace and harmony in the world, you must first have peace and harmony in your hearts and minds.”
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“Every existence is my existence, every consciousness if my consciousness, every sorrow is my sorrow and every joy is my joy”
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“Reality is not the result of a process; it is an explosion.”
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“Give up all questions except one: 'Who am I?'... Discover all that you are not... understand that on the level of mind, you can only be described in negative terms”
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“There is trouble only when you cling to something. When you hold on to nothing, no trouble arises... Give up all and you gain all.”
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“Ignorance is the cause of inevitability. You look around without understanding and take appearances for reality... There is no way you can help the world more than putting an end to ignorance.”
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“The saints and Yogis, by immense efforts and sacrifices, acquire many miraculous powers [yet] it is not a way to reality, but merely an enrichment of the false.”
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“Without desire you are dead. But with low desires you are a ghost. Shun not desire; see only that it flows into the right channels.”
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