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
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
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
As you watch your mind, you discover your self as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover your self… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Look at your mind dispassionately; this is enough to calm it. When it is quiet, you can go beyond it. Do not… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Know yourself to be the changeless witness of the changeful mind. That is enough. — 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
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
The mind exists in two states: as water and as honey. The water vibrates at the least disturbance, while the honey, however… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Meet you own self. Be with your own self, listen to it, obey it, cherish it, keep it in mind ceaselessly. You… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The ultimate point of view is that there is nothing to understand, so when we try to understand, we are only indulging… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The problem is not yours - it is your mind's only. Begin by disassociating yourself from your mind. Resolutely remind yourself that… — 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
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
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
When I look beyond the mind, I see the witness. Beyond the witness, there is infinite intensity of emptiness and silence. — 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
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
You are not in the world...the world is in you," what did he mean? [That is, you are not in the world,"… — 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
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
Seeking out causes is a pastime of the mind. There is no duality of cause and effect. Everything is its own cause. — 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
In the stillness of the mind I saw myself as I am - unbound. — 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
