Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The real does not die, the unreal never lived.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I am told I was born. I do not remember.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Unless you know yourself, what else can you know?

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The mind is what it thinks. To make it true, think true.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Love.. is seeing the unity under the imaginary diversity.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Life is love and love is life.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“The mind creates the abyss, the heart crosses it.”

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The world you think of is in your own mind.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The universe is but a partial manifestation of your limitless capacity to become.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Sadhana is a search for what to give up. Empty yourself completely.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Until we can look at fear and accept it as the shadow of personal existence, as persons we are bound to be…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Knowing that you are nothing is Wisdom, Knowing that you are everything is Love.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

In peace and silence, the skin of the 'I' dissolves and the inner and the outer become one.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Words can bring you only up to their own limit; to go beyond, you must abandon them. Remain as the silent witness…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Forget the known, don't be all the time immersed in your experiences.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

There is in the body, a current of energy, affection and intelligence, which guides, maintains and energizes the body. Discover that current…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The unchangeable can only be realised in silence. Once realised, it will deeply affect the changeable, itself remaining unaffected.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

Time is in the mind, space is in the mind. The law of cause and effect is also a way of thinking.…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

For me the moment of death will be a moment of jubilation, not of fear. I cried when I was born and…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

When pain is accepted for what it is, a lesson and a warning, and deeply looked into and heeded, the separation between…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

When I see I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I see I am everything, that is love. My life is a…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

Watch your thoughts as you watch the street traffic. People come and go; you register without response. It may not be easy…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Forgetting your Self is the greatest injury; all the calamities flow from it. Take care of the most important, the lesser will…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Refuse all thoughts except one: the thought 'I am'. The mind will rebel in the beginning, but with patience and perseverance it…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Stop, look, investigate, ask the right questions, come to the right conclusions and have the courage to act on them and see…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

All you need is to stop searching outside for what can be found only within. Set your vision right before you operate.…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

Meditation is a deliberate attempt to pierce into the higher states of consciousness and finally go beyond it. The art of meditation…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

It is just like your tape-recorder. It records, it reproduces - all by itself. You only listen. Similarly, I watch all that…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

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

What has been attained may again be lost. Only when you realise the true peace, the peace you have never lost, that…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I find that somehow, by shifting the focus of attention, I become the very thing I look at, and experience the kind…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

My actual experience is not different. It is my evaluation and attitude that differ. I see the same world as you do,…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I am dead already. Physical death will make no difference in my case. I am timeless being. I am free of desire…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The way to truth lies through the destruction of the false. To destroy the false, you must question your most inveterate beliefs.…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj