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 expound and propogate concepts is simple, to drop all concepts is difficult and rare — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
I simply followed (my teacher's) instruction which was to focus the mind on pure being 'I am', and stay in it. I… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
It is only your self-identification with your mind that makes you happy or unhappy. Rebel against your slavery to your mind, see… — 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
A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Don't ask the mind to confirm what is beyond the mind. Direct experience is the only valid confirmation. — 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
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
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
"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
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
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
The real is behind and beyond words, incommunicable, directly experienced, explosive in its effect on the mind. It is easily had when… — 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
Give all your attention to the question: 'What is it that makes me conscious?', until your mind becomes the question itself and… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
It is the mind that tells you that the mind is there. Don't be deceived. All the endless arguments about the mind… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
You are so accustomed to think of yourselves as bodies having consciousness that you just cannot imagine consciousness as having bodies. Once… — 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
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
Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind. — 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
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
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
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
