![Desire is the memory of pleasure and fear is the memory of pain. Turn away from your desires and fears and from the thoughts they create and you are at once in your natural state. [Nisargadatta Maharaj]](https://i0.wp.com/vedanta.manishverma.site/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/09/Desires-Fears-Nisargadatta-Maharaj.png?ssl=1 "Desires & Fears - Nisargadatta Maharaj")
Desires & Fears
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Body, Mind & Me
![I appear to hear and see and talk and act, but to me it just happens, as to you digestion or perspiration happens. The body-mind machine looks after it, but leaves me out of it. Just as you do not need to worry about growing hair, so I need not worry about words and actions. They just happen and leave me unconcerned...... [Nisargadatta Maharaj]](https://i0.wp.com/vedanta.manishverma.site/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/09/Body-Mind-Me-Nisargadatta-Maharaj.png?ssl=1 "Body, Mind and Me")
Enlightenment is not the End of the Ego
The video of the talk by Sri Ramesh Balsekar – a disciple of Nisargadatta Maharaj – is embedded below. The point concerning ego and enlightenment is also addressed in the post on Enlightenment Myths.