N.MAHARAJ: Visitor: Thoughts grab us and take us away.
Maharaj:” Thoughts have so much power because of the identification with the body.”
Visitor: It is very difficult just to watch pain. I become afraid.
Maharaj:” What is watching pain is yourself. With Consciousness, you have to hold Consciousness. Give attention to this ‘I’ taste. Don’t give attention to fear, give attention to what you are. Once you know what you are you become fearless. Remove the concept of death from your mind. There is no death as such. I am sure you are not going to die. That is only a concept or idea.
Your identification with the body has continued since childhood, so in order to get rid of it also takes time.
For the Beingness to sustain itself there is occupation. Whatever you gain has no value. You will come to understand the hollowness of this game. Only in your ignorant phase, you take everything as so important. We give undue importance to things that come and go.
I am talking from the standpoint where I do not know of myself, that ‘I Am.’ I don’t belong to the realm of waking and sleep states. How can I presume that I am like this or that? You presume that I am something or somebody.”

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No effort can take you there, only the clarity of understanding. Trace your misunderstandings and abandon them, that is all.
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There is nothing to seek and find, for there is nothing lost. Relax and watch the ‘I am’. Reality is just behind it. Keep quiet, keep silent , It will emerge, or, rather, it will take you in.

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~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj