The essence of saintliness is total acceptance of the present moment, harmony with things as they happen. — 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
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
Everybody does the same mistake: refusing the means, but wanting the ends. You want peace and harmony in the world, but refuse… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
In peace and silence, the skin of the 'I' dissolves and the inner and the outer become one. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
You can become a night watchman and live happily. It is what you are inwardly that matters. Your inner peace and joy… — 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
Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it. By… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Your weakness is due to your conviction that you were born into the world. In reality the world is ever recreated in… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Stop, look, investigate, ask the right questions, come to the right conclusions and have the courage to act on them and see… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
I am dead already. Physical death will make no difference in my case. I am timeless being. I am free of desire… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
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,… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share
I simply followed (my teacher's) instruction which was to focus the mind on pure being 'I am', and stay in it. I used to sit for hours together, with nothing but the 'I am' in my mind and soon peace and joy and a deep all-embracing love became my normal state. In it all disappeared -- myself, my Guru, the… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share
To know the self as the only reality and all else as temporal and transient is freedom, peace and joy. It is… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
What has been attained may again be lost. Only when you realise the true peace, the peace you have never lost, that peace will remain with you for it was never away. Instead of searching for what you do not have, find out what is it that you have never lost. That which is there before the beginning and after… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share
Forgetting your Self is the greatest injury; all the calamities flow from it. Take care of the most important, the lesser will take care of itself. You do not tidy up a dark room. You open the windows first. Letting in the light makes everything easy. So, let us wait with improving others until we see ourselves as we are/… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share
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
