I once translated this into Tamil, wrote it in a paper, pasted it on the thick cover of a notebook and hung it on a wall- it is nice to see that someone liked it enough to put a quote of it up on his blog:
"Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with life, and gets stuck at the banks, that it becomes a problem. By flowing with life I mean acceptance---letting come what comes and go what goes. Desire not, fear not, observe the actual, as and when it happens, for you are not what happens, you are to whom it happens. Ultimately even the observer you are not. You are the ultimate potentiality of which the all-embracing consciousness is the manifestation and expression.
---Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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