Whatever state I am in, I see it as a state of mind to be accepted as it is. — 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
To be a living being is not the ultimate state; there is something [the Reality] beyond, much more wonderful, which is neither… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The only difference between us is that I am aware of my natural state, while you are bemused… We discover it by… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
You are so used to the support of concepts that when your concepts leave you, although it is your true state, you… — 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
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
When you go beyond awareness, there is a state of nonduality, in which there is no cognition, only pure being. In the… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
No particular thought can be mind's natural state, only silence. Not the idea of silence, but silence itself. When the mind is… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
There are always moments when one feels empty and estranged. Such moments are most desirable, for it means the soul has cast its moorings and is sailing for distant places. This is detachment -- when the old is over and the new has not yet come. If you are afraid, the state may be distressing, but there is really nothing… — 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
You are so accustomed to think of yourselves as bodies having consciousness that you just cannot imagine consciousness as having bodies. Once… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Meditation is a deliberate attempt to pierce into the higher states of consciousness and finally go beyond it. The art of meditation is the art of shifting the focus of attention to ever subtler levels, without losing one's grip on the levels left behind. (...) Save all your energies and time for breaking the wall your mind had built around… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share
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
![“To be a living being is not the ultimate state; there is something [the Reality] beyond, much more wonderful, which is neither being nor non-being, neither living nor not-living. It is a state of Pure Awareness, beyond the limitations of space and time.” quote by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bb4/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj-953_awareness_to-be-a-living-being-is-not-the-ultimate_995705.jpg)
