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Questioner: Is not God the all-doer?
Maharaj: Why do you bring in an outer doer? The world recreates itself out of itself.
It is an endless process, the transitory begetting the transitory.
It is your ego that makes you think that there must be a doer. You create a God to your own image, however dismal the image. Through the film of your mind you project a world and also a God to give it cause and purpose.
It is all imagination
— step out of it.

Questioner: How difficult it is to see the world as purely mental! The tangible reality of it seems so very convincing.
Maharaj: This is the mystery of imagination, that it seems to be so real.
You may be celibate or married, a monk or a family man; that is not the point. Are you a slave of your imagination, or are you not? Whatever decision you take, whatever work you do, it will be invariably based on imagination, on assumptions parading
as facts.

Questioner: Here I am sitting in front of you. What part of it is imagination?
Maharaj: The whole of it. Even space and time are imagined.

Questioner: Does it mean that I don’t exist?
Maharaj: I too do not exist. All existence is imaginary.

Questioner: Is being too imaginary?
Maharaj: Pure being, filling all and beyond all, is not existence which is limited. All limitation is imaginary, only the unlimited is real.

Questioner: When you look at me, what do you see?
Maharaj: I see you imagining yourself to be.

Questioner: There are many like me. Yet each is different.
Maharaj: The totality of all projections is what is called maha-maya, the Great Illusion.

Questioner: But when you look at yourself, what do you see?
Maharaj : It depends how I look. When I look through the mind, I see numberless people. When I look beyond the mind, I see the witness. Beyond the witness there is the infinite intensity of emptiness and silence.

- Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.

I trust that you are lions. Lions are not to be herded; wherever they go they are on their own track. There are no lion herds; there are only sheep herds. You are all lions - so go your own way. Do not walk the beaten path like sheep, one after another. Do not follow any path. Lions do not follow each other like sheep.

Most people are sheep, following shepherds all over the world. Religions are started by shepherds and people become followers like sheep. But wherever you go you are lions, and there are no paths for lions. Wherever a lion walks, that is the path. For a lion no path is the only path. So don't count yourself among sheep needing a shepherd. Your way is no way - it is to know who you are. This is not following like a sheep. This is a novel approach, so far unknown. Once known it is known for good. He who knows this has fulfilled the purpose of the striving of human life. He is happy and peaceful. He enjoys both here and hereafter.

Please don't become sheep. Don't follow anyone. Don't look here and there. Don't look anywhere. Stop looking. Stop all your imagining of the future and conceptualizing of the past. Keep yourself in this moment, which is no moment. Find out where this moment is rising from, where time is rising from, where this thought is rising from, and you will see you have always been at Home. You don't need anything more!

🕉 Papaji

No one can show you.
No teacher, no book is going to show you the way.
The way is "no way".
There is no way.
You are always at home.

"Way" is just the mind and it misleads everyone.
You have nothing to do, not even a thought to think.
It is so easy because you are always home. But you imagine, as in a dream, that you are somewhere else.

Wake up, you are only dreaming!

🌺 Papaji

In talking to groups of listeners all over the world, I find that more and more people seem not to understand what I am saying, because they come with fixed ideas; they listen with their biased attitude, without trying to find out what I have to say, but only expecting to find what they secretly desire. It is vain to say, "Here is a new ideal after which I must mould myself." Rather find out what you really feel and think.

How can you find out what you really feel and think? From my point of view, you can do that only by being aware of your whole life. Then you will discover to what extent you are a slave to your ideals, and by discovering that, you will see that you have created ideals merely for your consolation.

Where there is duality, where there are opposites, there must be the consciousness of incompleteness. The mind is caught up in opposites, such as punishment and reward, good and bad, past and future, gain and loss. Thought is caught up in this duality, and therefore there is incompleteness in action. This incompleteness creates suffering, the conflict of choice, effort and authority, and the escape from the unessential to the essential.

When you feel that you are incomplete, you feel empty, and from that feeling of emptiness arises suffering; out of that incompleteness you create standards, ideals, to sustain you in your emptiness, and you establish these standards and ideals as your external authority. What is the inner cause of the external authority that you create for yourself? First, you feel incomplete, and you suffer from that incompleteness. As long as you do not understand the cause of authority, you are but an imitative machine, and where there is imitation there cannot be the rich fulfillment of life.

J. Krishnamurti
Alpino, Italy 1st Public Talk 1st July, 1933

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How beautiful and rare to find one who is free of intentions, desires and needs.
One who has come to that state which is not driven by the urge to control existence or become anything. One's mind comes to a beautiful place of openness, silence and peace. In fact, one does not create such a state; one simply stops identifying with the projections of the conditioned mind and so comes to recognise and be one's true nature.

🌺 Mooji

You are the screen which doesn't change.

Oceans of water cannot make you wet,
fires will not burn you and
movies of romance will not affect you.
So allow the projections of the mind
which is everything you see within and without.

Like this you must remain
That which is untouched,
That which is before identification
and intellectual grasps.

THIS IS ETERNAL BEING.

🕉 PAPAJI

"When mind arises, trouble arises.

You have to check at the arising point of the mind itself.
You just stay there, where the mind is arising.

Mind is a thought. 'I' arises, everything arises.

Before 'I', people report that they don' t see anything, which is peace, beauty, love."

~ Papaji

Desire by itself is not wrong.
It is life itself,
the urge to grow in knowledge and experience.
It is the choices you make that are wrong. To imagine that some little thing
— food. s*x, power, fame
— will make you happy is to deceive yourself.
Only something as vast and deep as your real Self can make you truly and lastingly happy.
Live your life intelligently with the interests of your deepest Self always in mind.
After all, what do you really want?
Not perfection; you are already perfect. What you seek is to express in action
what you are.

- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.