Knowledge gives power. In practice it is very simple. To control yourself, know yourself. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Awareness is ever there. It need not be realized. Open the shutter of the mind, and it will be flooded with light. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Pure knowledge is not imparted by another; it comes unmasked. It is the one that is listening: it is your own true… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Awareness neither dies nor is re-born. It is the changeless reality itself. — 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
When you go beyond awareness, there is a state of nonduality, in which there is no cognition, only pure being. In the… — 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
I found myself desiring and knowing less and less, until I could say in utter astonishment: "I know nothing, I want nothing."… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
With self-awareness you grow more intelligent. In awareness you learn, in self-awareness you learn about yourself. Of course, you can only learn… — 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… — 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 Image
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
