As you watch your mind, you discover your self as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover your self… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The mind exists in two states: as water and as honey. The water vibrates at the least disturbance, while the honey, however… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
To expound and propogate concepts is simple, to drop all concepts is difficult and rare — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The world is like a sheet of paper on which something is typed. The reading and the meaning will vary with the… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
To see Reality is as simple as to see one’s face in a mirror. Only, the mirror must be clear and true.… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
How can an unsteady mind make itself steady? Of course it cannot. It is the nature of the mind to roam about.… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Watch your thoughts as you watch the street traffic. People come and go; you register without response. It may not be easy… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Refuse all thoughts except one: the thought 'I am'. The mind will rebel in the beginning, but with patience and perseverance it… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Time is in the mind, space is in the mind. The law of cause and effect is also a way of thinking.… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
No particular thought can be mind's natural state, only silence. Not the idea of silence, but silence itself. When the mind is… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
All you need is to stop searching outside for what can be found only within. Set your vision right before you operate.… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Meditation is a deliberate attempt to pierce into the higher states of consciousness and finally go beyond it. The art of meditation… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
When the mind is kept away from its preoccupations, it becomes quiet. If you do not disturb this quiet and stay in… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
I found myself desiring and knowing less and less, until I could say in utter astonishment: "I know nothing, I want nothing."… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
What has been attained may again be lost. Only when you realise the true peace, the peace you have never lost, that… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
With self-awareness you grow more intelligent. In awareness you learn, in self-awareness you learn about yourself. Of course, you can only learn… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
It is only your self-identification with your mind that makes you happy or unhappy. Rebel against your slavery to your mind, see… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
I simply followed (my teacher's) instruction which was to focus the mind on pure being 'I am', and stay in it. I… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Refuse to think in terms of this or that. All pain needs investigation. The mind is nothing else but the self. Assumption… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Do you realize the unimaginable greatness, the holiness of what you so casually call 'consciousness'? It is the unmanifest Absolute aware of… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
It is just like your tape-recorder. It records, it reproduces - all by itself. You only listen. Similarly, I watch all that… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The real does not die, the unreal never lived. Set your mind right and all will be right. When you know that… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
In the mirror of your mind all kinds of pictures appear and disappear. Knowing that they are entirely your own creations, watch… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Pain is physical; suffering is mental. Beyond the mind there is no suffering. Pain is essential for the survival of the body,… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it. By… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
You are not in the world...the world is in you," what did he mean? [That is, you are not in the world,"… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Punishment is but legalized crime. In a society built on prevention, rather than retaliation, there would be very little crime. The few… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
When you sit quiet and watch yourself, many things may come to the surface. Do nothing about them, don't react to them.… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
How do you go about finding anything? By keeping your mind and heart on it. Interest there must be and steady remembrance.… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
It is the mind that tells you that the mind is there. Don't be deceived. All the endless arguments about the mind… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The ultimate point of view is that there is nothing to understand, so when we try to understand, we are only indulging… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The problem is not yours - it is your mind's only. Begin by disassociating yourself from your mind. Resolutely remind yourself that… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
You are so accustomed to think of yourselves as bodies having consciousness that you just cannot imagine consciousness as having bodies. Once… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Forgetting your Self is the greatest injury; all the calamities flow from it. Take care of the most important, the lesser will take care… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share
There is nothing to do, just be. Do nothing. Be. No climbing mountains and sitting in caves. I do not even say "be yourself"… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share
Let the dream unroll itself to its very end. You cannot help it. But you can look at the dream as a dream, refuse… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share
As long as the mind is there, your body and your world are there. Your world is mind-made, subjective, enclosed within the mind, fragmentary,… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share
I ask you what is the taste of your mouth all you can do is to say: it is neither sweet nor bitter, nor… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share
To go beyond the mind, you must be silent and quiet. Peace and silence, silence and peace - this is the way beyond. Stop… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share
Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share
Once you understand that the false needs time and what needs time is false, you are nearer the Reality, which is timeless, ever in… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share
The universe is but a partial manifestation of your limitless capacity to become. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share
In reality, time and space exist in you. You do not exist in them. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share
Whatever happens, happens to you by you, through you; you are the creator, enjoyer and destroyer of all you perceive. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share
