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Inspired quotes from the Heart of Vedic Life

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• ....you will find in pain a joy which pleasure cannot yield, for the simple reason that acceptance of pain takes you much deeper than pleasure does.
  
   -- Nisargadatta Maharaj, from the classic 'I am That', p 277

• The cup is conditioned by its shape, material, use and so on. But the space within the cup is free. It happens to be in the cup only when viewed in connection with the cup. Otherwise it is just space. As long as there is a body, you appear to be embodied. Without the body you are not disembodied - you just are.
  
   -- Nisargadatta Maharaj, from the classic 'I am That', p 224

• If you wait for an event to take place, for the coming of reality, you will wait forever, for reality neither comes nor goes.

         It is to be perceived, not expected.

          -- Nisargadatta Maharaj, from the classic, 'I am That', p 190

• The mirror reflects the image, but the image does not improve the mirror.
  
   -- Nisargadatta Maharaj, from the classic 'I am That', p 224

• What you gave up is of no importance now. What have you not given up ? Find that out and give up that. Sadhana is a search for what to give up. Empty yourself completely.
  
   -- Nisargadatta Maharaj, from the classic 'I am That', p 196

• Much is known to the heart that cannot be expressed, much that is almost entirely forgotten in the course of an education which concerns itself with learning to express quite other things. But one thing is certain, namely, that a river is most emphatically not just a river.
  
  -- Sri Krishna Prem, from 'Initiation into Yoga'.

• Austerity: Once you have gone through an experience, not to go through it again is austerity.
  
   -- Nisargadatta Maharaj, from the classic 'I am That', p 211

• What you need will come to you, if you do not ask for what you do not need.
  
   -- Nisargadatta Maharaj, from the classic 'I am That', p 249

• 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. For this you have a body and mind. Take them in hand and make them serve you.
  
   -- Nisargadatta Maharaj, from the classic 'I am That', p 212

• If you are earnest you don't need moving about. You are yourself wherever you are and you create your own climate. Locomotion and transportation will not give you salvation. You are not the body and dragging the body from place to place will take you nowhere. Your mind is free to roam the three worlds - make full use of it.
  
   -- Nisargadatta Maharaj, from the classic 'I am That', p 212