He had an interest in spiritual matters that worldly success did not satisfy, and in 1933 he was convinced to meet a friend’s guru – Siddharameshwar Maharaj. Why not extend the same to the entire personal life?” He did not follow any particular course. Why not admit that one’s entire personal life may sink largely below the threshold of consciousness and yet proceed sanely and smoothly… A healthy body, a healthy mind live largely unperceived by their owner only occasionally, through pain or suffering do they call for attention and insight. Yet for an outsider all seems to be going on intelligently and purposefully. “A tremendously complex work is going on all the time in your brain and body, are you conscious of it? Not at all. He also married and fathered four children. In spite of his poverty and lack of formal education, a forceful personality and desire for independence led him to start a string of eight retail shops that eventually employed 30 people. The great Advaita Sage Nisargadatta Maharaj was born Maruti Kampli to devout Hindu parents on a small farm south of Mumbai in 1897.
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