Nisargadatta on Realisation, Awareness and Consciousness
"Realisation is but the opposite of ignorance. To take the world as real and one's Self as unreal is ignorance, the cause of sorrow. To know the Self as the only reality and all else as temporal and transient is freedom, peace and joy. It is all very simple. Instead of seeing things as imagined, learn to see them as they are. When you can see everything as it is, you will also see yourself as you are. It is like cleaning a mirror. The same mirror that shows you the world as it is, will also show you your own face. The thought ' I Am' is the polishing cloth. Use it."
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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