I Am Not the Body Quotes

“Worship and meditate on your consciousness, the same consciousness which is in all living beings, indicated by the five sense organs and three gunas which supports your living and presence. Continue doing your activities; they will carry on spontaneously, but give attention to the knowledge that you are. Hold your beingness. Self-knowledge will tell you everything you need to know.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am Not the Body: Discovering the Truth Beyond Bondage

“Without my sense of being, what is the value of the world?”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am Not the Body: Discovering the Truth Beyond Bondage

“While there is no limit to worldly knowledge, I give you self-knowledge: you are not the body, but Pure Awareness, reflected as consciousness. Although one cannot grasp consciousness, one can realise this truth even while continuing daily activities, if they”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am Not the Body: Discovering the Truth Beyond Bondage

“The core of Sri Nisargadatta’s simple and direct message is this: focus on the ‘I am’ (consciousness, beingness) and enquire into its Source. In becoming conscious of consciousness itself, we may discover we are not limited to the body, mind, or any passing identity, thereby realising our unlimited nature in this very life.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am Not the Body: Discovering the Truth Beyond Bondage

“Chanting is the sadhana of consciousness offered to the timeless Self, and the mantra serves as a reminder of this nondual truth.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am Not the Body: Discovering the Truth Beyond Bondage

“prior to consciousness,”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am Not the Body: Discovering the Truth Beyond Bondage

“you will become everything, including the moving and the inert.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am Not the Body: Discovering the Truth Beyond Bondage

“The name given to the body is not your name. What are you beyond the body and its name? For a moment, see that you are without the body and its name.’ This is termed ‘waiting at the doorstep of God for a moment’. Say what you are without considering the body and its name. Look at yourself without the body and its name. Understand this point and you understand everything.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am Not the Body: Discovering the Truth Beyond Bondage

“I am Atma, the Self, formless, without modifications and pure,”
― Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am Not the Body: Discovering the Truth Beyond Bondage