Examine the symptoms...

Before you go further you must accept, at least as a working theory, that you are not what you appear to be, that you are under the influence of a drug. Then only will you have the urge and the patience to examine the symptoms and search for their common cause.

All that a guru can tell you is: "My dear sir, you are quite mistaken about yourself. You are not the person you think yourself to be."

Trust nobody, not even yourself.

Search, find out, remove and reject every assumption till you reach the living waters and the rock of truth.

Until you are free of the drug, all your religions and sciences, prayers and yogas are of no use to you, for, based on a mistake, they strengthen it.


-Nisargadatta Maharaj from 'I Am That'