I AM THAT - Conversas com um filósofo hindu

"Desires are just waves in the mind. You Know a wave when you see one. A desire is just a thing among many. I feel no urge to satisfy it, no action needs to be taken on it. Freedom from desire means this: the compulsion to satisfy is absent."

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"Desire the good of all and the universe will work with you. But if you want your own pleasure, you must earn it the hard way. Before desiring, deserve."

"The real does not die, the unreal never lived. Once you know that death happens to the body and not to you, you just watch your body falling off like a discarded garment. The real you is timeless and beyond birth and death. The body will survive as long as it is needed. It is not important that it should live long."

"What are the uses of self-knowledge? It helps you to understand what you are not and keeps you free from false ideas, desires and actions."

Excertos do livro I AM THAT, de Sri Nasargadatta Maharaj, um dos grandes sábios da Índia.

Sri Nasargadatta Maharaj foi um professor que não defendeu nenhuma ideologia nem religião mas desvendou o mistério do self. A sua mensagem é simples, directa e sublime. A sua obra, um verdadeiro tratado do auto-conhecimento.