It is your fixed idea that you must be something or other, that blinds you. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Abandon false ideas, that is all. There is no need of true ideas. There aren't any. — 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
All that happens is the cause of all that happens. Causes are numberless; the idea of a sole cause is an illusion. — 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
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
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
Devotion to your goal makes you live a clean and orderly life , given to search for truthand to helping people, and… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Give up the idea of being a person, that is all. You need not become what you are anyhow. There is the identity of what you are and there is the person superimposed on it. All you know is the person, the identity - which is not a person - you do not know, for you never doubted, never asked… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share
Inquire, investigate, doubt yourself and others. To find truth, you must not cling to your convictions; if you are sure of the… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Freedom is from something. What are you to be free from? Obviously, you must be free from the person you take yourself… — 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
Do not try to know the truth, for knowledge by the mind is not true knowledge. But you can know what is not true-which is enough to liberate you from the false. The idea that you know what is true is dangerous, for it keeps you imprisoned in the mind. It is when you do not know, that you are… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share
If you seek reality you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling. Even the idea of being man or woman, or even human should be discarded. The ocean of life contains all, not only humans. So, first of all abandon all self-identification, stop thinking of yourself as such-and-such or so-and-so,… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share
The way to truth lies through the destruction of the false. To destroy the false, you must question your most inveterate beliefs. Of these the idea that you are the body is the worst. With the body comes the world, with the world - God, who is supposed to have created the world and thus it starts - fears, religions,… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share
There is no need of a way out! Don't you see that a way out is also part of the dream All… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
My actual experience is not different. It is my evaluation and attitude that differ. I see the same world as you do, but not the same way. There is nothing mysterious about it. Everybody sees the world through the idea he has of himself. As you think yourself to be, so you think the world to be. If you imagine… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share
See that you are not what you believe yourself to be. Fight with all the strength at your disposal against the idea… — 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
