Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Find what is it that never sleeps and never wakes, and whose pale reflection is our sense of 'I'

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

You're free. You've taken this burden of being a human being on yourself. You're free.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

In marriage you are neither the husband nor the wife; you are the love between two.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

In reality there are no others, and -helping yourself you help everybody else.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

To see myself in everybody, and everybody in myself, most certainly is love.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Only the people who have gone beyond the world can change the world.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The innermost light, shining peacefully and timelessly in the heart, is the real Guru. All others merely show the way.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the supreme state…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

You are so used to the support of concepts that when your concepts leave you, although it is your true state, you…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

There is no such thing as unconsciousness for it is not experienceable. We infer unconsciousness when there is a lapse in memory…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

You can become a night watchman and live happily. It is what you are inwardly that matters. Your inner peace and joy…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

As long as the mind is there, your body and your world are there. Your world is mind-made, subjective, enclosed within the…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Once you understand that the false needs time and what needs time is false, you are nearer the Reality, which is timeless,…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

When I look beyond the mind, I see the witness. Beyond the witness, there is infinite intensity of emptiness and silence.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Increase and widen your desires till nothing but reality can fulfill them. It is not desire that is wrong, but its narrowness…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Reality is neither subjective nor objective, neither mind nor matter, neither time nor space. These divisions need somebody to happen to, a…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Suffering is primarily a call for attention, which itself is a movement of love. More than happiness, love wants growth, the widening…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Learn to look without imagination, to listen without distortion: that is all. Stop attributing names and shapes to the essentially nameless and…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

To understand suffering, you must go beyond pain and pleasure. Your own desires and fears prevent you from understanding and thereby helping…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

You must realize first of all that you are the proof of everything, including yourself. None can prove your existence, because his…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

You need not get at it, for you are it. It will get at you, if you give it a chance. Let…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

All will happen as you want it, provided you really want it.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Whatever can be understood or perceived can never be the eternal Truth. The Unknown is the Truth.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

All you can teach is understanding. The rest comes on its own.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The universe is but a partial manifestation of your limitless capacity to become.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Sadhana is a search for what to give up. Empty yourself completely.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Until we can look at fear and accept it as the shadow of personal existence, as persons we are bound to be…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Knowing that you are nothing is Wisdom, Knowing that you are everything is Love.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

In peace and silence, the skin of the 'I' dissolves and the inner and the outer become one.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Words can bring you only up to their own limit; to go beyond, you must abandon them. Remain as the silent witness…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Forget the known, don't be all the time immersed in your experiences.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Awareness is ever there. It need not be realized. Open the shutter of the mind, and it will be flooded with light.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

You will get to your maturity quickly if you stay in the nothingness.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The personal needs a base, a body to identify oneself with, just as a colour needs a surface to appear on.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

We miss the real by lack of attention, and create the unreal by excess of imagination.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

In the stillness of the mind I saw myself as I am - unbound.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj