All you need is already within you, only you must approach your self with reverence and love. Self-condemnation and self-distrust are grievous errors. Your constant flight from pain and search for pleasure is a sign of love you bear for your self, all I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect. Deny yourself nothing -- glue your self infinity and eternity and discover that you do not need them; you are beyond.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Nisargadatta Maharaj, born Maruti Shivrampant Kambli, was an Indian guru of nondualism belonging to the Navnath Sampradaya. He was a householder and petty shopkeeper in Bombay (now Mumbai) where he lived, and died in 1981 at the age of 84.
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