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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The ultimate point of view is that there is nothing to understand, so when we try to understand, we are only indulging… — 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
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
Just keep in mind the feeling 'I am', merge in it, till your mind and feeling become one. By repeated attempts you… — 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. 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,… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share
It is only your self-identification with your mind that makes you happy or unhappy. Rebel against your slavery to your mind, see your bonds as self-created and break the chains of attachment and revulsion. Keep in mind your goal of freedom, until it dawns on you that you are already free, that freedom is not something in the distant future… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share
When the mind is kept away from its preoccupations, it becomes quiet. If you do not disturb this quiet and stay in it, you find that it is permeated with a light and a love you have never known; and yet you recognise it at once as your own nature. Once you have passed through this experience, you will never… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share
Self-remembrance, awareness of 'I am' ripens him powerfully and speedily. Give up all ideas about yourself and simply be. — 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
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
Leave greatness to others. Become so small that no one can see you. This conviction results from growing devotion to the supreme… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
When you know beyond all doubting that the same life flows through all that is, and you are that life, you will… — 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
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
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 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
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
