Like a hole in the paper - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Like a hole in the paper is both in the paper and yet not of paper, so is the Supreme State in the very centre of consciousness, and yet b...

The Self which pervades all things - Shvetashvatara Upanishad

  The Self which pervades all things, which is the root of self-knowledge and austerity – that is the Truth, the highest mystic doctrine. - ...

You are neither born; nor will die

    Birth and death are nothing but the beginning and ending of a stream of movements in consciousness, interpreted as events in space-time....

It is your private dream world - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Your world of desires and their fulfilments, of fears and their escapes, is definitely not my world. It is your private dream world. My on...

Rathakalpana - Kathopanisad

  आत्मानँ रथितं विद्धि शरीरँ रथमेव तु । बुद्धिं तु सारथिं विद्धि मनः प्रग्रहमेव च ॥ इन्द्रियाणि हयानाहुर्विषयाँ स्तेषु गोचरान् । आत्मेन्द्रि...

Walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature. - Buddha

Walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature. - Buddha You are the maker of the world in which you live - you alone can change it...

Payment of difference between compound interest & simple interest in loan accounts on moratorium - FreeFincal

Following the Supreme Court’s direction, the government came up with a scheme to waive off interest on interest during the 6 month moratoriu...

Liberated - the one who knows that; Kathopanisad

इन्द्रियेभ्यः परं मनो मनसः सत्त्वमुत्तमम् । सत्त्वादधि महानात्मा महतोऽव्यक्तमुत्तमम् ॥ अव्यक्तात्तु परः पुरुषो व्यापकोऽलिङ्ग एव च । यं ज्ञात...

Your ignorance alone creates the universe. You alone exist. - Ashtavakra Gita

Your ignorance alone creates the universe. You alone exist; That is the Ultimate Truth. There is no one other than You within or beyond. - A...

How to fill Income-Tax ITR-2 Schedule-112A of Excel Utility

This method is not applicable from FY 2020-21 as the I-T Dept. has launched a new JSON utility which has an inbuilt method to import multipl...

If a car hits and kills a person, will the car have Karma ?

If a car hits and kills a person, will the car have Karma ? How is it different in your case? How can a person be responsible for its destin...

Two kinds of knowledge - Mundaka Upanishad

Two kinds of knowledge are to be known – the higher and the lower. The Rig, Yajur, Sama, & Atharva, the Phonetics, Rituals, Grammar, Ety...

What I learnt from brief analysis of 2,800 Companies - Dr. Vijay Malik

Dr. Vijay Malik has done a brief analysis of 2800 companies from the Indian stock market. Dr. Vijay Malik is a graduate in medicine from a ...

All those who proclaim their own greatness and uniqueness are not jnanis

All those who proclaim their own greatness and uniqueness are not jnanis. They are mistaking some unusual development for realisation. The j...

There is no such thing as a person

There is no such thing as a person. There are only restrictions and limitations. The sum total of these defines the person. The person merel...

The doctrine that the world is made up of objects - Bernard d'Espagnat

"The doctrine that the world is made up of objects whose existence is independent of human consciousness turns out to be in conflict wi...

Source of the consciousness is not in the brain

Source of the voice is not in the radio. Source of the consciousness is not in the brain. Nisargadatta Maharaj : Consciousness and unconscio...

Is there any question of awakening for that flame?

See this flame of the cigarette lighter. It has appeared, it has disappeared. Is there any question of awakening for that flame? The cigaret...

What happens to a person who dies without realizing the truth?

What happens to a person who dies without realizing the truth? To whom does this question arise? For the realized, there are no persons and ...

Beyond the mind there is no such thing as “experience”

The brain interprets the senses and creates the effect of “knowing”. The very idea of your knowing - “that you know” - requires a body with ...

Reincarnation exists only so long as there is ignorance

What is birth and death but the beginning and the ending of a stream of events in consciousness? It is all misunderstanding and misuse. Wake...

This relative ‘knowledge’ merges in the no-knowing state of the Absolute

This relative ‘knowledge’ merges in the no-knowing state of the Absolute. This temporary condition of ‘I-know’ and ‘I-know-that-I-know’, the...

Once you realise that the world is your own projection, you are free of it

Once you realise that the world is your own projection, you are free of it - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The spiritual path is a temporary solution, a placebo

The spiritual path is a temporary solution, a placebo to be used until emptiness is understood. – Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche When I ...

I do not want meek and humble disciples

I do not want meek and humble disciples, I want them to be powerful, as I am. I do not make disciples, I make Gurus. - Nisargadatta Maharaj ...

How do you know your God is true?

How do you know your God is true? >  It is in my holy book. > How do you know that the book is true? > My God has told the book is ...

How do you and me see the same illusion?

If everything is an illusion, how do you and me see the same illusion? From the sun's perspective, sunrise and sunset does not exist; it...

Where is then that person? - Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

When the speech of this dead person enters into the fire, breath into the air, the eye into the sun, the mind into the moon, the hearing int...

Nothing that you perceive can be you - Nisargadatta Maharaj

If the parts of a car are replaced one by one every day, would that be the same car or different? The cells of a human body are continuously...

Erwin Schrodinger - My View of the World

Foreword The two essays here published for the first time are separated by an interval of thirty-five years. The first and longer one was...

The Principal Upanishads by S. Radhakrishnan

The Principal Upanishads is a 1953 book written by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, then Vice President of India (and later President of India),...