The rule of life

Do what is necessary. Do not do what is not necessary.

Never born, never died

As the dweller is not the dwelling, the soul is not the body. One is time-bound and limited; the other is timeless and free.

Divine order

Freedom is not the freedom to do what I want; it’s the freedom to do what I must.

Timeless

Soul is immortal, eternal, from everlasting to everlasting, as the clerics incant. It’s what flowed through Nisargadatta Maharaj when he blithely asserted that he’d never been born.

Ahimsa

Right action issues from a place of total acceptance. Wrong action has its roots in resistance. Hence, Nisargadatta’s twisty caution: “Leave alone the reforms. Mind the reformer.”