Wisdom from Nisargadatta Maharaj

“The urge to find oneself is a sign that you are getting ready. The impulse always comes from within. Unless your time has come, you will have neither the desire nor the strength to go for Self-enquiry whole-heartedly.”

“When you are giddy, you see the world running circles round you. Obsessed with the idea of means and end, of work and purpose, you see me [the Maharaj unit, ed.] apparently functioning. In reality I only look. Whatever is done is done on the stage. Joy and sorrow life and death, they all are real to the man in bondage; to me they are all in the show, as unreal as the show itself.”

“Why do you worry about the world before taking care of yourself? Can you save the world before saving yourself? And what [does this mean, ed.] “being saved?” Saved from illusion? Salvation is to see things as they are. I really do not see myself related to anybody or anything. I remain forever– undefined. I am within and beyond, intimate and unapproachable.”

“Are you not the victim of your language? You speak about the flow of time, as if you were stationary. But the events you have witnessed yesterday somebody else may see tomorrow. It is you who are in movement and not time. Stop moving and time will cease. Past and future will merge in the eternal now.”