Refuse to think in terms of this or that. All pain needs investigation. The mind is nothing else but the self. Assumption… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
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… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share
All that a guru can tell you is: 'My dear Sir, you are quite mistaken about yourself. You are not the person… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
When you believe yourself to be a person, you see persons everywhere. In reality there are no persons, only threads of memories… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a person. There are only restrictions and limitations. The sum total of these defines the person.… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
You have never been, nor shall ever be, a person. Refuse to consider yourself as one. But as long as you do… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Until we can look at fear and accept it as the shadow of personal existence, as persons we are bound to be… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Freedom is from something. What are you to be free from? Obviously, you must be free from the person you take yourself… — 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 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
