There is no 'my self' and 'his self'. There is the Self, the only Self of all. Misled by the diversity of… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Don't rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether. — 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… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The real does not die, the unreal never lived. Set your mind right and all will be right. When you know that… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
In the mirror of your mind all kinds of pictures appear and disappear. Knowing that they are entirely your own creations, watch… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Pain is physical; suffering is mental. Beyond the mind there is no suffering. Pain is essential for the survival of the body,… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Refuse all thoughts except one: the thought 'I am'. The mind will rebel in the beginning, but with patience and perseverance it… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Watch your thoughts as you watch the street traffic. People come and go; you register without response. It may not be easy… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
No particular thought can be mind's natural state, only silence. Not the idea of silence, but silence itself. When the mind is… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
All you need is to stop searching outside for what can be found only within. Set your vision right before you operate.… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Meditation is a deliberate attempt to pierce into the higher states of consciousness and finally go beyond it. The art of meditation… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Life is worthy of the name only when it reflects Reality in action. No university will teach you how to live so… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Be conscious of yourself, watch your mind, give it your full attention. Don't look for quick results; there may be none within… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Learn to look without imagination, to listen without distortion: that is all. Stop attributing names and shapes to the essentially nameless and… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Reality is neither subjective nor objective, neither mind nor matter, neither time nor space. These divisions need somebody to happen to, a… — 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
When the mind is quiet, we come to know ourselves as the pure witness. We withdraw from the experience and its experiencer… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Just keep in mind the feeling 'I am', merge in it, till your mind and feeling become one. By repeated attempts you… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Time is in the mind, space is in the mind. The law of cause and effect is also a way of thinking.… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
It is just like your tape-recorder. It records, it reproduces - all by itself. You only listen. Similarly, I watch all that… — 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
The world is like a sheet of paper on which something is typed. The reading and the meaning will vary with the… — 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
How can an unsteady mind make itself steady? Of course it cannot. It is the nature of the mind to roam about.… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
To see Reality is as simple as to see one’s face in a mirror. Only, the mirror must be clear and true.… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Moods are in the mind and do not matter. Go within, go beyond. Cease being fascinated by the content of your consciousness.… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Leave your mind alone, that is all. Do not go along with it. After all, there is no such thing as mind… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
"I AM" itself is God. The seeking itself is God. In seeking you discover that you are neither body nor mind, but… — 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… — 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
You begin by letting thoughts flow and watching them. The very observation slows down the mind till it stops altogether. Once the… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
By all means attend to your duties. Action, in which you are not emotionally involved and which is beneficial and does not… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Use your mind. Remember. Observe. You are not different from others. Most of their experiences are valid for you too. Think clearly… — 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
