I ask you what is the taste of your mouth all you can do is to say: it is neither sweet nor… — 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,… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Nothing can make you happier than you are. All search for happiness is misery and leads to more misery. The only happiness… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
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
Once you say 'I want to find Truth', all your life will be deeply affected by it. All your mental and physical… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
When the mind is kept away from its preoccupations, it becomes quiet. If you do not disturb this quiet and stay in… — 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
The sum and substance of my teaching is this: Don't be dishonest to your vital breath; worship that only, abide in that… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
If you seek reality you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling.… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
If you could only keep quiet, clear of memories and expectations, you would be able to discern the beautiful pattern of events.… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The old grooves must be erased in your brain, without forming new ones. You must realize yourself as the immovable, behind and… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with duality as long as it does not create conflict. Multiplicity and variety without strife is joy. In… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
It is only your self-identification with your mind that makes you happy or unhappy. Rebel against your slavery to your mind, see… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Nothing troubles me. I offer no resistance to trouble - therefore it does not stay with me. On your side there is… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
All that happens is the cause of all that happens. Causes are numberless; the idea of a sole cause is an illusion. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Life is worthy of the name only when it reflects Reality in action. No university will teach you how to live so… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
It is the mind that tells you that the mind is there. Don't be deceived. All the endless arguments about the mind… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Your first task is to see the sorrow in you and around you; your next, to long intensely for liberation. The very… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Even for a moment do not think that you are the body. Give yourself no name, no shape. In the darkness and… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the supreme state… — 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
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
The personal needs a base, a body to identify oneself with, just as a colour needs a surface to appear on. — 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
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
