The desire for truth is the highest of all desires, yet, it is still a desire. All desires must be given up… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be, are longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The moment you know your real being, you are afraid of nothing. Death gives freedom and power. To be free in the… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
You know that you are. Don't burden yourself with names, just be. Any name or shape you give yourself obscures your real… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
True happiness cannot be found in things that change and pass away. Pleasure and pain alternate inexorably. Happiness comes from the Self… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Give your real being a chance to shape your life. You will not regret it. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The innermost light, shining peacefully and timelessly in the heart, is the real Guru. All others merely show the way. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
All happiness comes from awareness. The more we are conscious the deeper the joy. Acceptance of pain, non-resistance, courage and endurance -… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Nothing perceivable is real.Your attachment is your bondage. You cannot control the future.There is no such thing as free will. Will is… — 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
To find reality you must be real in the smallest daily action; there can be no deceit in the search for truth. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The world is an illusion. Why is it unreal? Because none of the knowledge is going to remain permanent, as real knowledge.… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
We miss the real by lack of attention, and create the unreal by excess of imagination. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Once you realize that the world is your own projection, you are free of it. You need not free yourself of a… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
When all names and forms have been given up, the real is with you. You need not seek it. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
You need not get at it, for you are it. It will get at you, if you give it a chance. Let… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Increase and widen your desires till nothing but reality can fulfill them. It is not desire that is wrong, but its narrowness… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
What is the worth of a happiness for which you must strive and work? Real happiness is spontaneous and effortless. — 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
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
Real happiness is not vulnerable, because it does not depend on circumstances. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
You merely dream that you roam about. In a few years your stay in India will appear as a dream to you.… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Freedom to do what one likes is really bondage, while being free to do what one must, what is right, is real… — 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
