Consciousness - the fundamental - Max Planck

    I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything ...

Beating the street – Peter Lynch

  Peter Lynch’s “invest in what you know” strategy has made him a household name with investors both big and small. An important key to inve...

How can an 'appearance' make any 'progress' towards any objective?

  The problem apparently is about 'progress'. Now, who is to make the progress, and progress towards what? I have said this repeated...

Discard all traditional standards

  Discard all traditional standards. Leave them to the hypocrites. Only what liberates you from desire and fear and wrong ideas is good. As ...

Mantra Yoga, Kundalini Awakening, Chakras, Gayatri

  Mantra Yoga, Kundalini Awakening, Chakras, Gayatri : Throw it out, but hang onto your being, your own Self. Don’t accept anything except y...

There are no distinctive marks of Jnana - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

    There are no distinctive marks of Jnana. Only ignorance can be recognized, not Jnana.A Jnani does not claim to be something special. All...

The road is the goal - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdo...

Windows software uninstallers

        CCleaner developed by Piriform, is actually a utility used to clean potentially unwanted files and invalid Windows Registry entries ...

To expound and propagate concepts is simple, to drop all concepts is difficult and rare.

To expound and propagate concepts is simple, to drop all concepts is difficult and rare - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

You are the substance of consciousness - Ashtavakra Gita

तात चिन्मात्ररूपोऽसि न ते भिन्नमिदं जगत् । अतः कस्य कथं कुत्र हेयोपादेयकल्पना ॥ You are the substance of consciousness. The world is You. Wh...

If the world is false, then the plan and its creator are also false.

 If the world is false, then the plan and its creator are also false - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Does this world exist exactly as you perceive?

  Every atom in this world, be it of gold or iron, carbon or oxygen – is made up of the same particles. The difference is only in their numb...

The coin - the name and form - is irretrievably lost - never to be re-born

  What is born, the objective body, will, in due course, die; thereafter it will be dissolved, i.e., irrevocably annihilated. The life-force...

The complete steps to self realization

  Indeed there is no such thing as "enlightenment". The apperception of this fact is itself enlightenment! All paths lead to unrea...

There are three kinds of people in a “spiritual” train journey

 There are three kinds of people in a “spiritual” train journey. 1. The "normal" person, who is just bothered about his family, fo...

One who has transcended the body idea does not need the ananda - Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Because you want some satisfaction according to your own concepts, you try to qualify unalloyed bliss. The term "ananda" (bliss)...

Existence, non-existence, change - Ashtavakra Gita

  भावाभावविकारश्च स्वभावादिति निश्चयी। निर्विकारो गतक्लेशः सुखेनैवोपशाम्यति॥ Existence, non-existence, change - this is the nature of things...

Neither presence, nor absence - Nisargadatta Maharaj

  In my true state of unicity, there is neither presence, nor absence. Absence of the presence of presence and absence of the presence of ab...

Cannot be perceived by the eyes - Mundaka Upanishad

  न चक्षुषा गृह्यते नापि वाचा नान्यैर्देवैस्तपसा कर्मण वा । ज्ञानप्रसादेन विशुद्धसत्त्वस्ततस्तु तं पश्यते निष्कलं ध्यायमानः ॥ Cannot be perc...

Forget the known, but remember that you are the knower

  Forget the known, but remember that you are the knower. You are beyond the experience, ever unborn and deathless. - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj