Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Neither ordinary, nor extraordinary. Just being aware and affectionate - intensely. He looks at himself without indulging in self-definitions and self-identifications. He does not know himself as anything apart from the world. He is the world. He is completely rid of himself, like a man who is very rich, but continually gives away his riches. He is not rich, for he has nothing; he is not poor, for he gives abundantly. He is just propertyless. Similarly, the realized man is egoless; he has lost the capacity of identifying himself with anything. He is without location, placeless, beyond space and time, beyond the world. Beyond the words and thoughts is he.
Q. Well, it is deep mystery to me. I am a simple man.
M. It is you who are deeply complex, mysterious, hard to understand. I am simplicity itself, compared to you. I am what is - without any distinction whatsoever into inner and outer, mine and yours, good and bad. What the world is, I am; what I am the world is.
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