You are not the body. You are the immensity and infinity of consciousness. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
All is a play in consciousness. All divisions are illusory. You can know the false only. The true you must yourself be. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The world you perceive is made of consciousness; what you call matter is consciousness itself. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love. — 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
Moods are in the mind and do not matter. Go within, go beyond. Cease being fascinated by the content of your consciousness.… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
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 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
You want to know yourself. For this keep steadily in the focus of consciousness, the only clue you have: your certainty of… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
When I say 'I am', I do not mean a separate entity with a body as its nucleus, I mean the totality… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with duality as long as it does not create conflict. Multiplicity and variety without strife is joy. In… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The primary purpose of meditation is to become conscious of, and familiar with, our inner life. The ultimate purpose is to reach… — 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 a flower is as marvelous as the vision of God. Let them be. Why remember them and then make memory into a problem? Be bland about them; do not divide them into high and low, inner and outer,… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share
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
By being with yourself, the 'I am', by watching yourself in your daily life with alert interest, with the intention to understand… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
I find that somehow, by shifting the focus of attention, I become the very thing I look at, and experience the kind… — 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 is the art of shifting the focus of attention to ever subtler levels, without losing one's grip on the levels left behind. (...) Save all your energies and time for breaking the wall your mind had built around… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share
Consciousness is an attribute while awareness is not; one can be aware of being conscious, but not conscious of awareness. God is… — 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
Forgetting your Self is the greatest injury; all the calamities flow from it. Take care of the most important, the lesser will take care of itself. You do not tidy up a dark room. You open the windows first. Letting in the light makes everything easy. So, let us wait with improving others until we see ourselves as we are/… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Having never left the house you are looking for the way home — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
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 Image
The universe is but a partial manifestation of your limitless capacity to become. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
In reality, time and space exist in you. You do not exist in them. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
