If you believe in God, work with Him. If you do not, become one. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
What you need will come to you if you do not ask for what you do not need. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Pleasure puts you to sleep and pain wakes you up. If you don't want to suffer, don't go to sleep. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
If you want peace and harmony in the world, you must have peace and harmony in your hearts and minds. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
You will get to your maturity quickly if you stay in the nothingness. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
To know that you are neither the body nor mind, watch yourself steadily and live unaffected by your body and mind, completely… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Between the banks of pleasure and pain flows the river of life. If you spend much time on either bank you will… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
If you could only keep quiet, clear of memories and expectations, you would be able to discern the beautiful pattern of events.… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
You are not the mind. If you know you are not the mind, then what difference does it make if it's busy… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The legitimate function of the mind is to tell you what is not. But if you want positive knowledge, you must go… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
If you are angry or in pain, separate yourself from anger and pain and watch them. Externalization is the first step to… — 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
If you imagine yourself as separate from the the world, the world will appear as separate from you and you will experience desire and fear. I do not see the world as separate from me and so there is nothing for me to desire, or fear. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share
In your world everything must have a beginning and an end. If it does not, you call it eternal. In my view,… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Surely the memory of an event cannot pass for the event itself. Nor can the anticipation. There is something exceptional, unique, about… — 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 understand suffering, you must go beyond pain and pleasure. Your own desires and fears prevent you from understanding and thereby helping… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Whatever you may have to do, watch your mind. Also you must have moments of complete inner peace and quiet, when your… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
If you want to sin, sin wholeheartedly and openly. Sins too have their lessons to teach the earnest sinner, as virtues the… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
My stand is clear; produce to distribute, feed before you eat, give before you take, think of others before you think 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. 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
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
When the mind is kept away from its preoccupations, it becomes quiet. If you do not disturb this quiet and stay in it, you find that it is permeated with a light and a love you have never known; and yet you recognise it at once as your own nature. Once you have passed through this experience, you will never… — 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
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
