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
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
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
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
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
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
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… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
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.… — 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,… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
When the mind is kept away from its preoccupations, it becomes quiet. If you do not disturb this quiet and stay in… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
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… — 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
