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title: "31 Knows Quotes By Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj"
description: "31 Knows quotes by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. Plus more from Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj and more Knows sayings from other authors."
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> [I am that by which I know 'I am'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/i-am-that-by-which-i-know-i-am/)

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

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> [Unless you know yourself, what else can you know?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/unless-you-know-yourself-what-else-can-you-know/)

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

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> [Know yourself to be the changeless witness of the changeful mind. That is enough.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/know-yourself-to-be-the-changeless-witness-of-the-changeful-mind-that/)

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> [Simply look at whatever happens and know that you are beyond it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/simply-look-at-whatever-happens-and-know-that-you-are-beyond-it/)

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

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> [You are already perfect, only you don't know it. Learn to know yourself and you will discover wonders.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/you-are-already-perfect-only-you-don-t-know-it-learn-to-know-yourself/)

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

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> [You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/you-cannot-transcend-what-you-do-not-know-to-go-beyond-yourself-you/)

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

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> [Knowledge gives power. In practice it is very simple. To control yourself, know yourself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/knowledge-gives-power-in-practice-it-is-very-simple-to-control/)

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

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> [All is a play in consciousness. All divisions are illusory. You can know the false only. The true you must yourself be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/all-is-a-play-in-consciousness-all-divisions-are-illusory-you-can/)

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

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> [To know that you are a prisoner of your mind is the dawn of wisdom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/to-know-that-you-are-a-prisoner-of-your-mind-is-the-dawn-of-wisdom/)

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> [You know that you are. Don't burden yourself with names, just be. Any name or shape you give yourself obscures your real…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/you-know-that-you-are-don-t-burden-yourself-with-names-just-be-any/)

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

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

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> [You need not know what you are. Enough to know what you are not. What you are you will never know, for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/you-need-not-know-what-you-are-enough-to-know-what-you-are-not-what/)

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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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> [To believe that you depend on things and people for happiness is due to ignorance of your true nature; to know that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/to-believe-that-you-depend-on-things-and-people-for-happiness-is-due/)

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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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> [Would people know that nothing can happen unless the entire universe makes it happen, they would achieve much more with less expenditure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/would-people-know-that-nothing-can-happen-unless-the-entire-universe/)

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> [When you know beyond all doubting that the same life flows through all that is, and you are that life, you will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/when-you-know-beyond-all-doubting-that-the-same-life-flows-through/)

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> [You want to know yourself. For this keep steadily in the focus of consciousness, the only clue you have: your certainty of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/you-want-to-know-yourself-for-this-keep-steadily-in-the-focus-of/)

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

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> [When the mind is quiet, we come to know ourselves as the pure witness. We withdraw from the experience and its experiencer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/when-the-mind-is-quiet-we-come-to-know-ourselves-as-the-pure-witness/)

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> [Use your mind. Remember. Observe. You are not different from others. Most of their experiences are valid for you too. Think clearly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/use-your-mind-remember-observe-you-are-not-different-from-others-most/)

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> [Do not try to know the truth, for knowledge by the mind is not true knowledge. But you can know what is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/do-not-try-to-know-the-truth-for-knowledge-by-the-mind-is-not-true/)

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> [The moment you know your real being, you are afraid of nothing. Death gives freedom and power. To be free in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/the-moment-you-know-your-real-being-you-are-afraid-of-nothing-death/)

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> [We are slaves of what we don't know;of what we know we are masters.Whatever vice or weakness in ourselves we discoverand understand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/we-are-slaves-of-what-we-don-t-know-of-what-we-know-we-are-masters/)

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> [Learn to live without self concern. For this you must know your own true being as indomitable, fearless and ever victorious. Once…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/learn-to-live-without-self-concern-for-this-you-must-know-your-own/)

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> [I found myself desiring and knowing less and less, until I could say in utter astonishment: "I know nothing, I want nothing."…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/i-found-myself-desiring-and-knowing-less-and-less-until-i-could-say/)

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> [There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/there-is-nothing-to-practice-to-know-yourself-be-yourself-to-be/)

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> [The real does not die, the unreal never lived. Set your mind right and all will be right. When you know that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/the-real-does-not-die-the-unreal-never-lived-set-your-mind-right-and/)

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> [To know the self as the only reality and all else as temporal and transient is freedom, peace and joy. It is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/to-know-the-self-as-the-only-reality-and-all-else-as-temporal-and/)

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> [With self-awareness you grow more intelligent. In awareness you learn, in self-awareness you learn about yourself. Of course, you can only learn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/with-self-awareness-you-grow-more-intelligent-in-awareness-you-learn/)

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> [Give up the idea of being a person, that is all. You need not become what you are anyhow. There is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/give-up-the-idea-of-being-a-person-that-is-all-you-need-not-become/)

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> [The ultimate point of view is that there is nothing to understand, so when we try to understand, we are only indulging…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/the-ultimate-point-of-view-is-that-there-is-nothing-to-understand-so/)

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## 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/)

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> [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/)

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

> [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/)

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

> [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": "Use your mind. Remember. Observe. You are not different from others. Most of their experiences are valid for you too. Think clearly and deeply, go into the structure of your desires and their ramifications. They are a most important part of your mental and emotional make-up and powerfully affect your actions. Remember, you cannot abandon what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.",
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                        "text": "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 free to investigate. And there can be no salvation, without investigation, because non investigation is the main cause of bondage.",
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                        "text": "We are slaves of what we don't know;of what we know we are masters.Whatever vice or weakness in ourselves we discoverand understand its cause and workings,we overcome it by the very knowing.The primary purpose of meditation is to become more consciousand familiar with our inner life.The ultimate purpose is to reach the source of life.",
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                        "text": "Learn to live without self concern. For this you must know your own true being as indomitable, fearless and ever victorious. Once you know with absolute certainty that nothing can trouble you but your own imagination, you come to disregard your desires and fears, concepts and ideas, and live by truth alone.",
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                        "text": "I found myself desiring and knowing less and less, until I could say in utter astonishment: \"I know nothing, I want nothing.\" Earlier I was sure of so many things, now I am sure of nothing. But I feel I have lost nothing by not knowing, because all my knowledge was false. My not knowing was in itself knowledge of the fact that all my knowledge is ignorance, that \"I do not know\" is the only true statement the mind can make…I do not claim to know what you do not. In fact, I know much less than you do.",
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                        "text": "There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.",
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                        "text": "The real does not die, the unreal never lived. Set your mind right and all will be right. When you know that the world is one, that humanity is one, you will act accordingly. But first of all you must attend to the way you feel, think and live. Unless there is order in yourself, there can be no order in the world.",
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                        "text": "With self-awareness you grow more intelligent. In awareness you learn, in self-awareness you learn about yourself. Of course, you can only learn what you are not. To know what you are, you must go beyond the mind. Awareness is the point at which the mind reaches out beyond itself into reality. In awareness you seek not what pleases, but what is true.",
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                        "text": "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 yourself the crucial question: 'Who am I?'",
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