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Discard all traditional standards

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There are no distinctive marks of Jnana - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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The road is the goal - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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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

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

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Does this world exist exactly as you perceive?

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

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The complete steps to self realization

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

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

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Existence, non-existence, change - Ashtavakra Gita

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Neither presence, nor absence - Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Cannot be perceived by the eyes - Mundaka Upanishad

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Forget the known, but remember that you are the knower

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Like a hole in the paper - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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The Self which pervades all things - Shvetashvatara Upanishad

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You are neither born; nor will die

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It is your private dream world - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Rathakalpana - Kathopanisad

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

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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

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

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Two kinds of knowledge - Mundaka Upanishad

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

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

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There is no such thing as a person

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

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Source of the consciousness is not in the brain

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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

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I do not want meek and humble disciples

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