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title: "25 Ifs Quotes By Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj"
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> [If you believe in God, work with Him. If you do not, become one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/if-you-believe-in-god-work-with-him-if-you-do-not-become-one/)

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> [What you need will come to you if you do not ask for what you do not need.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/what-you-need-will-come-to-you-if-you-do-not-ask-for-what-you-do-not/)

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> [You will get to your maturity quickly if you stay in the nothingness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/you-will-get-to-your-maturity-quickly-if-you-stay-in-the-nothingness/)

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> [If you want peace and harmony in the world, you must have peace and harmony in your hearts and minds.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/if-you-want-peace-and-harmony-in-the-world-you-must-have-peace-and/)

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> [Pleasure puts you to sleep and pain wakes you up. If you don't want to suffer, don't go to sleep.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/pleasure-puts-you-to-sleep-and-pain-wakes-you-up-if-you-don-t-want-to/)

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> [If you could only keep quiet, clear of memories and expectations, you would be able to discern the beautiful pattern of events.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/if-you-could-only-keep-quiet-clear-of-memories-and-expectations-you/)

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> [You are not the mind. If you know you are not the mind, then what difference does it make if it's busy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/you-are-not-the-mind-if-you-know-you-are-not-the-mind-then-what/)

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> [The legitimate function of the mind is to tell you what is not. But if you want positive knowledge, you must go…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/the-legitimate-function-of-the-mind-is-to-tell-you-what-is-not-but-if/)

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> [Between the banks of pleasure and pain flows the river of life. If you spend much time on either bank you will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/between-the-banks-of-pleasure-and-pain-flows-the-river-of-life-if-you/)

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> [To know that you are neither the body nor mind, watch yourself steadily and live unaffected by your body and mind, completely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/to-know-that-you-are-neither-the-body-nor-mind-watch-yourself/)

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> [Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it. By…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/detach-yourself-from-all-that-makes-your-mind-restless-renounce-all/)

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> [If you are angry or in pain, separate yourself from anger and pain and watch them. Externalization is the first step to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/if-you-are-angry-or-in-pain-separate-yourself-from-anger-and-pain-and/)

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> [If you imagine yourself as separate from the the world, the world will appear as separate from you and you will experience…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/if-you-imagine-yourself-as-separate-from-the-the-world-the-world-will/)

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> [If you want to sin, sin wholeheartedly and openly. Sins too have their lessons to teach the earnest sinner, as virtues the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/if-you-want-to-sin-sin-wholeheartedly-and-openly-sins-too-have-their/)

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> [Whatever you may have to do, watch your mind. Also you must have moments of complete inner peace and quiet, when your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/whatever-you-may-have-to-do-watch-your-mind-also-you-must-have/)

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> [Surely the memory of an event cannot pass for the event itself. Nor can the anticipation. There is something exceptional, unique, about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/surely-the-memory-of-an-event-cannot-pass-for-the-event-itself-nor/)

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> [In your world everything must have a beginning and an end. If it does not, you call it eternal. In my view,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/in-your-world-everything-must-have-a-beginning-and-an-end-if-it-does/)

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> [To understand suffering, you must go beyond pain and pleasure. Your own desires and fears prevent you from understanding and thereby helping…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/to-understand-suffering-you-must-go-beyond-pain-and-pleasure-your-own/)

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> [We grow through investigation, and to investigate we need experience. We tend to repeat what we have not understood. If we are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/we-grow-through-investigation-and-to-investigate-we-need-experience/)

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> [You need not get at it, for you are it. It will get at you, if you give it a chance. Let…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/you-need-not-get-at-it-for-you-are-it-it-will-get-at-you-if-you-give/)

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> [My stand is clear; produce to distribute, feed before you eat, give before you take, think of others before you think of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/my-stand-is-clear-produce-to-distribute-feed-before-you-eat-give/)

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> [If you seek reality you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/if-you-seek-reality-you-must-set-yourself-free-of-all-backgrounds-of/)

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> [When the mind is kept away from its preoccupations, it becomes quiet. If you do not disturb this quiet and stay in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/when-the-mind-is-kept-away-from-its-preoccupations-it-becomes-quiet/)

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> [My actual experience is not different. It is my evaluation and attitude that differ. I see the same world as you do,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/my-actual-experience-is-not-different-it-is-my-evaluation-and/)

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> [Inquire, investigate, doubt yourself and others. To find truth, you must not cling to your convictions; if you are sure of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/inquire-investigate-doubt-yourself-and-others-to-find-truth-you-must/)

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## Other authors on Ifs

## More by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

> [Forgetting your Self is the greatest injury; all the calamities flow from it. Take care of the most important, the lesser will take care…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/forgetting-your-self-is-the-greatest-injury-all-the-calamities-flow/)

[Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/)

> [There is nothing to do, just be. Do nothing. Be. No climbing mountains and sitting in caves. I do not even say "be yourself"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/there-is-nothing-to-do-just-be-do-nothing-be-no-climbing-mountains/)

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> [Let the dream unroll itself to its very end. You cannot help it. But you can look at the dream as a dream, refuse…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/let-the-dream-unroll-itself-to-its-very-end-you-cannot-help-it-but/)

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> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/as-long-as-the-mind-is-there-your-body-and-your-world-are-there-your/)

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> [I ask you what is the taste of your mouth all you can do is to say: it is neither sweet nor bitter, nor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/i-ask-you-what-is-the-taste-of-your-mouth-all-you-can-do-is-to-say-it/)

[Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/)

> [It is your restlessness that causes chaos.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/it-is-your-restlessness-that-causes-chaos/)

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> [To go beyond the mind, you must be silent and quiet. Peace and silence, silence and peace - this is the way beyond. Stop…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/to-go-beyond-the-mind-you-must-be-silent-and-quiet-peace-and-silence/)

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> [Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/absolute-perfection-is-here-and-now-not-in-some-future-near-or-far/)

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> [Having never left the house you are looking for the way home](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/having-never-left-the-house-you-are-looking-for-the-way-home/)

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> [Once you understand that the false needs time and what needs time is false, you are nearer the Reality, which is timeless, ever in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/once-you-understand-that-the-false-needs-time-and-what-needs-time-is/)

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> [The universe is but a partial manifestation of your limitless capacity to become.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/the-universe-is-but-a-partial-manifestation-of-your-limitless/)

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> [In reality, time and space exist in you. You do not exist in them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/in-reality-time-and-space-exist-in-you-you-do-not-exist-in-them/)

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> [Whatever happens, happens to you by you, through you; you are the creator, enjoyer and destroyer of all you perceive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/whatever-happens-happens-to-you-by-you-through-you-you-are-the/)

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> [Life is love and love is life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/life-is-love-and-love-is-life/)

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> [The real does not die, the unreal never lived.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/the-real-does-not-die-the-unreal-never-lived/)

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                        "text": "My stand is clear; produce to distribute, feed before you eat, give before you take, think of others before you think of yourself. Only a selfless society based on sharing can be stable and happy. This is the only practical solution. If you do not want it, then - fight.",
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                        "text": "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, this or that. Abandon all self-concern, worry not about your welfare, material or spiritual, abandon every desire, gross or subtle, stop thinking of achievement of any kind. You are complete here and now, you need absolutely nothing.",
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                        "text": "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 yourself as separate from 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.",
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