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title: "37 Needs Quotes By Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj"
description: "37 Needs quotes by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. Plus more from Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj and more Needs sayings from other authors."
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> [What you need will come to you if you do not ask for what you do not need.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/what-you-need-will-come-to-you-if-you-do-not-ask-for-what-you-do-not/)

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> [A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/a-quiet-mind-is-all-you-need-all-else-will-happen-rightly-once-your-2/)

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> [You will receive everything you need when you stop asking for what you do not need](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/you-will-receive-everything-you-need-when-you-stop-asking-for-what/)

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> [When all names and forms have been given up, the real is with you. You need not seek it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/when-all-names-and-forms-have-been-given-up-the-real-is-with-you-you/)

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> [The personal needs a base, a body to identify oneself with, just as a colour needs a surface to appear on.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/the-personal-needs-a-base-a-body-to-identify-oneself-with-just-as-a/)

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> [Abandon false ideas, that is all. There is no need of true ideas. There aren't any.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/abandon-false-ideas-that-is-all-there-is-no-need-of-true-ideas-there/)

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> [To go beyond you need alert immobility, quiet attention.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/to-go-beyond-you-need-alert-immobility-quiet-attention/)

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> [Suffering is a call for inquiry, all pain needs investigation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/suffering-is-a-call-for-inquiry-all-pain-needs-investigation/)

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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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> [Discard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen, and you need not search for truth; truth will find you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/discard-every-self-seeking-motive-as-soon-as-it-is-seen-and-you-need/)

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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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/once-you-understand-that-the-false-needs-time-and-what-needs-time-is/)

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> [Deepen and broaden your awareness of yourself and all the blessings will flow. You need not seek anything, all will come to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/deepen-and-broaden-your-awareness-of-yourself-and-all-the-blessings/)

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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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> [Get hold of the main thing: That the world and the self are one and perfect. Only your attitude is faulty and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/get-hold-of-the-main-thing-that-the-world-and-the-self-are-one-and/)

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> [The first steps in self-acceptance are not at all pleasant, for what one sees is not a happy sight. One needs all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/the-first-steps-in-self-acceptance-are-not-at-all-pleasant-for-what/)

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> [When effort is needed, effort will appear. When effortlessness becomes essential, it will assert itself. You need not push life about. Just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/when-effort-is-needed-effort-will-appear-when-effortlessness-becomes/)

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> [Truth is not a reward for good behaviour, nor a prize for passing some tests. It cannot be brought about. It is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/truth-is-not-a-reward-for-good-behaviour-nor-a-prize-for-passing-some/)

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> [Once you realize that the world is your own projection, you are free of it. You need not free yourself of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/once-you-realize-that-the-world-is-your-own-projection-you-are-free/)

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> [Reality is neither subjective nor objective, neither mind nor matter, neither time nor space. These divisions need somebody to happen to, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/reality-is-neither-subjective-nor-objective-neither-mind-nor-matter/)

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> [We grow through investigation, and to investigate we need experience. We tend to repeat what we have not understood. If we are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/we-grow-through-investigation-and-to-investigate-we-need-experience/)

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> [All you need is to stop searching outside for what can be found only within. Set your vision right before you operate.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/all-you-need-is-to-stop-searching-outside-for-what-can-be-found-only/)

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> [See that you are not what you believe yourself to be. Fight with all the strength at your disposal against the idea…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/see-that-you-are-not-what-you-believe-yourself-to-be-fight-with-all/)

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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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> [In the light of consciousness all sorts of things happen and one need not give special importance to any. The sight of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/in-the-light-of-consciousness-all-sorts-of-things-happen-and-one-need/)

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> [There is no need of a way out! Don't you see that a way out is also part of the dream All…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/there-is-no-need-of-a-way-out-don-t-you-see-that-a-way-out-is-also/)

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> [I am dead already. Physical death will make no difference in my case. I am timeless being. I am free of desire…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/i-am-dead-already-physical-death-will-make-no-difference-in-my-case-i/)

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> [If you seek reality you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/if-you-seek-reality-you-must-set-yourself-free-of-all-backgrounds-of/)

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> [Life is worthy of the name only when it reflects Reality in action. No university will teach you how to live so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/life-is-worthy-of-the-name-only-when-it-reflects-reality-in-action-no/)

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> [Be conscious of yourself, watch your mind, give it your full attention. Don't look for quick results; there may be none within…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/be-conscious-of-yourself-watch-your-mind-give-it-your-full-attention/)

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> [You need not get at it, for you are it. It will get at you, if you give it a chance. Let…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/you-need-not-get-at-it-for-you-are-it-it-will-get-at-you-if-you-give/)

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> [Forgetting your Self is the greatest injury; all the calamities flow from it. Take care of the most important, the lesser will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/forgetting-your-self-is-the-greatest-injury-all-the-calamities-flow/)

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> [Your first task is to see the sorrow in you and around you; your next, to long intensely for liberation. The very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/your-first-task-is-to-see-the-sorrow-in-you-and-around-you-your-next/)

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> [Awareness is ever there. It need not be realized. Open the shutter of the mind, and it will be flooded with light.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/awareness-is-ever-there-it-need-not-be-realized-open-the-shutter-of/)

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> [To deal with things knowledge of things is needed. To deal with people, you need insight, sympathy. To deal with yourself, you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/to-deal-with-things-knowledge-of-things-is-needed-to-deal-with-people/)

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> [Meet you own self. Be with your own self, listen to it, obey it, cherish it, keep it in mind ceaselessly. You…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/meet-you-own-self-be-with-your-own-self-listen-to-it-obey-it-cherish/)

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> [How do you go about finding anything? By keeping your mind and heart on it. Interest there must be and steady remembrance.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/how-do-you-go-about-finding-anything-by-keeping-your-mind-and-heart/)

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> [Refuse to think in terms of this or that. All pain needs investigation. The mind is nothing else but the self. Assumption…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/refuse-to-think-in-terms-of-this-or-that-all-pain-needs-investigation/)

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> [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/)

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> [It is your restlessness that causes chaos.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj/it-is-your-restlessness-that-causes-chaos/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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

> [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": "See that you are not what you believe yourself to be. Fight with all the strength at your disposal against the idea that you are nameable and describable. You are not. Refuse to think of this or that. There is no other way out of misery, which you have created for yourself through blind acceptance without investigation. Suffering is a call for inquiry, all pain needs investigation. Don't be lazy to think.",
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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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                        "text": "In the light of consciousness all sorts of things happen and one need not give special importance to any. The sight of a flower is as marvelous as the vision of God. Let them be. Why remember them and then make memory into a problem? Be bland about them; do not divide them into high and low, inner and outer, lasting and transient. Go beyond, go back to the source, go to the self that is the same whatever happens.",
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                        "text": "There is no need of a way out! Don't you see that a way out is also part of the dream All you have to do is see the dream as dream. ...Wherever it leads you, it will be a dream. The very idea of going beyond the dream is illusory. Why go anywhere Just realize that you are dreaming a dream you call the world and stop looking for ways out. The dream is not your problem. Your problem is that you like one part of your dream and not another. Love all, or none of it, and stop complaining. When you have seen the dream as a dream, you have done all that needs be done.",
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                        "text": "I am dead already. Physical death will make no difference in my case. I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future. Where there are no names and shapes, how can there be desire and fear? With desirelessness comes timelessness. I am safe, because what is not, cannot touch what is. You feel unsafe, because you imagine danger. Of course, your body as such is complex and vulnerable and needs protection. But not you. Once you realize your own unassailable being, you will be at peace.",
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                        "text": "If you seek reality you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling. Even the idea of being man or woman, or even human should be discarded. The ocean of life contains all, not only humans. So, first of all abandon all self-identification, stop thinking of yourself as such-and-such or so-and-so, this or that. Abandon all self-concern, worry not about your welfare, material or spiritual, abandon every desire, gross or subtle, stop thinking of achievement of any kind. You are complete here and now, you need absolutely nothing.",
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                        "text": "Life is worthy of the name only when it reflects Reality in action. No university will teach you how to live so that when the time of dying comes, you can say: I lived well I do not need to live again. Most of us die wishing we could live again. So many mistakes committed, so much left undone. Most of the people vegetate, but do not live. They merely gather experience and enrich their memory. But experience is the denial of Reality, which is neither sensory nor conceptual, neither of the body, nor of the mind, though it includes and transcends both.",
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