All will happen as you want it, provided you really want it. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Pleasure puts you to sleep and pain wakes you up. If you don't want to suffer, don't go to sleep. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
If you want peace and harmony in the world, you must have peace and harmony in your hearts and minds. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
What kind of Yoga do you want to practice, the Yoga of getting or the Yoga of giving?... One enslaves, the other… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The legitimate function of the mind is to tell you what is not. But if you want positive knowledge, you must go… — 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
Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it. By… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Everybody does the same mistake: refusing the means, but wanting the ends. You want peace and harmony in the world, but refuse… — 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
Suffering is primarily a call for attention, which itself is a movement of love. More than happiness, love wants growth, the widening… — 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
You want to know yourself. For this keep steadily in the focus of consciousness, the only clue you have: your certainty of… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
If you want to sin, sin wholeheartedly and openly. Sins too have their lessons to teach the earnest sinner, as virtues the… — 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 well...desire by itself is not wrong. It is life itself, the urge to grow in knowledge and experience. It is choices you make that are wrong. To imagine that some little thing-food, sex, power, fame-will make you happy… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share
My stand is clear; produce to distribute, feed before you eat, give before you take, think of others before you think of… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
To see the universe as it is, you must step beyond the net [the matrix]. It is not hard to do so, as the net is full of holes. Look at the net and its many contradictions. You do and undo at every step. You want peace, love and happiness, and work hard to create pain, hatred and war. You… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share
You are too much concerned with past and future. It is all due to your longing to continue, to protect yourself against… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
I found myself desiring and knowing less and less, until I could say in utter astonishment: "I know nothing, I want nothing."… — 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
