Surrender to your own self, of which everything is an expression. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
All I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
When all the false self-identifications are thrown away, what remains is all-embracing love. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Discard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen, and you need not search for truth; truth will find you… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Your burden is of false self-identifications—abandon them all. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Your own self is your ultimate teacher. The outer teacher is merely a milestone. It is only your inner teacher that will… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
There is no 'my self' and 'his self'. There is the Self, the only Self of all. Misled by the diversity of… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
True happiness cannot be found in things that change and pass away. Pleasure and pain alternate inexorably. Happiness comes from the Self… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Realize that your world is only a reflection of yourself and stop finding fault with the reflection. Attend to yourself, set yourself… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The first steps in self-acceptance are not at all pleasant, for what one sees is not a happy sight. One needs all… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Get hold of the main thing: That the world and the self are one and perfect. Only your attitude is faulty and… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
To believe that you depend on things and people for happiness is due to ignorance of your true nature; to know that… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
“All you need is already within you, only you must approach yourself with reverence and love. Self-condemnation and self-distrust are grievous errors . . .” — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
"I AM" itself is God. The seeking itself is God. In seeking you discover that you are neither body nor mind, but… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
When the mind is quiet, we come to know ourselves as the pure witness. We withdraw from the experience and its experiencer… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Learn to live without self concern. For this you must know your own true being as indomitable, fearless and ever victorious. Once… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
We grow through investigation, and to investigate we need experience. We tend to repeat what we have not understood. If we are… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
To know the self as the only reality and all else as temporal and transient is freedom, peace and joy. It is… — 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… — 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
In the light of consciousness all sorts of things happen and one need not give special importance to any. The sight of… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
If you seek reality you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling.… — 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
There is no second, or higher self to search for. You are the highest self, only give up the false ideas you… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
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
All that a guru can tell you is: 'My dear Sir, you are quite mistaken about yourself. You are not the person… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Meet you own self. Be with your own self, listen to it, obey it, cherish it, keep it in mind ceaselessly. You… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Self-remembrance, awareness of 'I am' ripens him powerfully and speedily. Give up all ideas about yourself and simply be. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Unless you make tremendous efforts, you will not be convinced that effort will take you nowhere. The self is so self-confident that… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be, are longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
There are no steps to self-realization. There is nothing gradual about it. It happens suddenly and is irreversible. You rotate into a… — 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
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
