"Within the prison of your world appears a man who tells you that the world of painful contradictions, which you have created, is neither continuous nor permanent and is based on a misapprehension. He pleads with you to get out of it, by the same way by which you got into it. You got into it by forgetting what you are and you will get out of it by knowing yourself as you are." "The seeker is he who is in search of himself. Give up all questions except one: 'Who am I?'

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Nisargardatta Maharaj

After all, the only fact you are sure of is that you are. The 'I am' is certain. The 'I am this' is not. Struggle to find out what you are in reality. To know what you are, you must first investigate and know what you are not. Discover all that you are not--body, feelings, thoughts, time, space, this or that--nothing, concrete or abstract, which you perceive can be you. The very act of perceiving shows that you are not what you perceive. The clearer you understand that on the level of mind you can be described in negative terms only, the quicker will you come to the end of your search and realize that you are the limitless being." Nisargadatta Maharaj

Maharaj Books

Nisargadatta lineage

Ramesh Balsekar (disciple from Nisargardatta)

Ranjit Maharaj

Siddharameshwar Maharaj (disciple from Shri Bhausaheb Maharaj)