“Love is not different from the Self. [in this sense] God is love. Love itself is the actual form of God. Call it pure bliss, God, or what you will. It is only through jnana [Self-realisation] that the bliss that derives from true love will arise. Die yourself [into the eternal Self] and lose yourself, becoming one with love. To be the [nondual] Self, that you really are, is the only means to realise the bliss that is ever yours. The Self, or God, is not somewhere else—but is inside each of us.  In loving oneself, one can only love the Self.  Love itself is the form of God.” Ramana ..read more

In this clip from the Nonduality Podcast, I say that on the spiritual path, we have the opportunity to look at our experience freshly and lovingly, to reconcile the entirety of experience and recognise that we are one with all things. This is the recognition of at-one-ment: the atonement of oneness. Nothing is outside of us, as our entire experience is our true body. Overlooking this fact, we often try to push certain things out of our experience or seek to attain certain things. In truth, everything is a manifestation of the one reality, and reality always says “yes” to what is present. This ..read more

In each moment, reality is refreshed and renewed, presenting itself in raw and inconceivable expressions. However, our tendency is to impose concepts and stories, leading us to overlook reality’s true nature. It’s all too easy to get caught up in the heavy-handed way of looking at life, identifying with our bodies and taking our interpretations of things to be the truth. But the truth is, reality is inconceivable, incoherent, and indeterminate, with no fundamental patterning. All that exists is experience, and experience occurs in and is made of consciousness. The source of suffering is the ..read more

According to Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, the ultimate aim of spirituality is to free ourselves from the limitations of the mind, including concepts, beliefs, and conditionings, and to realise our true nature as pure awareness. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, from ‘The nectar of immortality’: “Whatever is seen and perceived is continuously in a state of creation and destruction, but you in your true nature are unborn and indestructible. Unless you realize your true nature, there will be no peace for you. No matter how much you strive to acquire any worldly gains, they are bound to go; so also your con ..read more

The search for fulfilment, completion and the desire to return home is a common human experience, but home is here now. Home is the unlimited, eternal and indivisible capacity of experiencing or awareness, and it’s the starting point and the finish line.  Our minds have been conditioned to believe in the duality of an internal and external world, but this separation is merely a concept; life is non-dual. The non-dual nature of life becomes apparent by questioning the superficial appearance of reality rather than simply accepting the labels superimposed upon reality. If we engage with and ..read more

“Totally accept the knowledge ‘I am’ as oneself, and with full conviction and faith firmly believe in the dictum ‘I am that by which I know I am’.” – Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj The goal of yoga is to disentangle consciousness from its embroilment with mental and emotional impressions, thoughts, and ideas. This amplifies clarity, harmony, and balance (the quality or ‘guna’ of ‘sattva’) and accordingly reduces desire, distortion, fear, and aversion (the qualities of the ‘tamas’ and ‘rajas’). In short, yoga unites us with the absolute truth which is Self-knowledge. Once we remove the dirt from the ..read more

“Meditate on your beingness, that is, be without thoughts and your beingness itself will reveal to you all its secrets.” – Nisargadatta Maharaj Have you ever stopped to examine your self-concepts? Are they a true reflection of who you are, or simply a collection of labels and beliefs you have accumulated over time? As we journey towards self-realisation, examining our self-concepts and questioning their validity is crucial. At the heart of this journey, we come to understand that we are indefinable, unlimited, eternal, and permanent and that the closest we can come to describing ourselves is ..read more

The Following 229 quotes are an excellent insight into the teachings of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj and may help you identify and stay focused on the ‘I am’: 1) The ‘I am’ came first, it’s ever-present, ever available, refuse all thoughts except ‘I am’, stay there. 2) Just stay put firmly and establish yourself in the ‘I am’, reject all that does not go with ‘I am’. 3) Consistently and with perseverance separate the ‘I am’ from ‘this’ or ‘that’, just keep in mind the feeling ‘I am’. 4) Only the ‘I am’ is certain, it’s impersonal, all knowledge stems from it,it’s the root, hold on to it and let al ..read more

You know you exist. You’re aware of your essential beingness since you affirm “I am” all day every day. You are already directly engaged with the non-dual reality of all things just by being aware and capable of experiencing. I’m fact, existance, beingness, I am, reality, awareness, and experience synonymous. It may be difficult to see through the constant activity of the mind, but even the thought is an expression of this intelligence. There is a deeper realm of intelligence beyond any ideas or concepts, waiting to be explored. As you delve into your own experience with sensitivity, you wil ..read more

It’s easy to get caught up in our beliefs and limited perceptions, but what lies beyond these constructs is a deeper intelligence waiting to be discovered. This deeper intelligence is the essence of spirituality and the essence of living, as it is what we are constantly engaged with. By engaging directly with anything in its raw form, free from preconceived beliefs and limitations, we tap into this deeper intelligence. Whether it be a chair, our bodies, or the world around us, the field of our experiencing is infinite and limitless. The walls and ceiling of our environment do not define the e ..read more