Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj famous quotes

You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Spirituality #Know Yourself

The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Love #Two #Unity

It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Spiritual #Truth #Pain

You begin by letting thoughts flow and watching them. The very observation slows down the mind till it stops altogether. Once the mind is quiet, keep it quiet. Don't get bored with peace, be in it, go deeper into it.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Inspiration #Practice #Bored

If you could only keep quiet, clear of memories and expectations, you would be able to discern the beautiful pattern of events. Its your restlessness that causes chaos.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Beautiful #Memories #Expectations

Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting. It is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Moving #Suffering #Flow

You want to know yourself. For this keep steadily in the focus of consciousness, the only clue you have: your certainty of being. Be with it, play with it, ponder over it, delve deeply into it, till the shell of ignorance breaks open and you emerge into the realm of reality.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Ignorance #Reality #Play

When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the supreme state will come to you uninvited and unexpected.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Yoga #World #Demand

You will receive everything you need when you stop asking for what you do not need
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Needs #Asking

Realize that your world is only a reflection of yourself and stop finding fault with the reflection. Attend to yourself, set yourself right; mentally and emotionally. The physical self will follow automatically.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Reflection #Self #World

Whatever happens, happens to you by you, through you; you are the creator, enjoyer and destroyer of all you perceive.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Whatever Happens Happens #Perceive #Creator

Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers. When the centre of selfishness is no longer, all desires for pleasure and fear of pain cease; one is no longer interested in being happy; beyond happiness there is pure intensity, inexhaustible energy, the ecstasy of giving from a perennial source.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Pain #Love Is #Giving

Don’t try to understand! It’s enough if you do not misunderstand.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Unity #Trying #Enough

Don't rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Inspiration #Mind #Bondage

Nothing can trouble you but your own imagination.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Imagination #Trouble

All you need is to stop searching outside for what can be found only within. Set your vision right before you operate. You are suffering from acute misapprehension . Clarify your mind, purify your heart, sanctify your life - this is the quickest way to a change in your world.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Heart #Mind #Suffering

The world has only as much power over you as you give it. Rebel. Go beyond duality.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Giving #Over You #World

Nothing perceivable is real.Your attachment is your bondage. You cannot control the future.There is no such thing as free will. Will is bondage.You identify yourself with your desires and become their slave.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Real #Attachment #Desire

Past and future are in the mind only - I am now.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Past #Mind #Spirituality

Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Love Is #Desire #Stranger

Nothing troubles me. I offer no resistance to trouble - therefore it does not stay with me. On your side there is so much trouble. On mine there is no trouble at all. Come to my side.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Your Side #Resistance #Sides

Suffering is a call for inquiry, all pain needs investigation.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Inspirational #Pain #Suffering

All separation, every kind of estrangement and alienation is false. All is one...
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Kind #Separation #Alienation

When I say 'I am', I do not mean a separate entity with a body as its nucleus, I mean the totality of being, the ocean of consciousness, the entire universe of all that is known. I have nothing to desire for I am complete forever
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Ocean #Mean #Forever

Deepen and broaden your awareness of yourself and all the blessings will flow. You need not seek anything, all will come to you most naturally and effortlessly.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Blessing #Flow #Needs

A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Light #Self #Effort

Once you say 'I want to find Truth', all your life will be deeply affected by it. All your mental and physical habits, feelings and emotions, desires and fears, plans and decisions will undergo a most radical transformation.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Spiritual #Wisdom #Decision

The sum and substance of my teaching is this: Don't be dishonest to your vital breath; worship that only, abide in that only, accept it as yourself. And when you worship in this manner, it can lead you anywhere, to any heights- this is the quintessence of my talks.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Spiritual #Wisdom #Teaching

Increase and widen your desires till nothing but reality can fulfill them. It is not desire that is wrong, but its narrowness and smallness. Desire is devotion. By all means be devoted to the real, the infinite, the eternal heart of being. Transform desire into love. All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be are expressions of your longing for happiness.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Buddhist #Real #Heart

Life is love and love is life.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Love Is #And Love #Life Is

My actual experience is not different. It is my evaluation and attitude that differ. I see the same world as you do, but not the same way. There is nothing mysterious about it. Everybody sees the world through the idea he has of himself. As you think yourself to be, so you think the world to be. If you imagine yourself as separate from the world, the world will appear as separate from you and you will experience desire and fear. I do not see the world as separate from me and so there is nothing for me to desire, or fear.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Attitude #Thinking #Ideas

Freedom to do what one likes is really bondage, while being free to do what one must, what is right, is real freedom.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Real #Being Free #Likes

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

#Limits #Silent #Abandon

All I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Self #Perfect #Making Love

What is beautiful? Whatever is perceived joyfully is beautiful. Bliss is the essence of beauty.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Beauty #Beautiful #Essence

There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Being Yourself #Business #Practice

There is nothing to do, just be. Do nothing. Be. No climbing mountains and sitting in caves. I do not even say "be yourself" since you do not know yourself. Just be.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Inspirational #Being Yourself #Climbing

Leave greatness to others. Become so small that no one can see you. This conviction results from growing devotion to the supreme reality.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Spiritual #Wisdom #Reality

When I see I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I see I am everything, that is love. My life is a movement between these two.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Love #Wisdom #Two

The attitude of silent observation is the very foundation of yoga. You see the picture, but you are not the picture.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Attitude #Yoga #Foundation

Awareness is ever there. It need not be realized. Open the shutter of the mind, and it will be flooded with light.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Light #Mind #Needs

The ultimate point of view is that there is nothing to understand, so when we try to understand, we are only indulging in acrobatics of the mind. Whatever you have understood, you are not. Why are you getting lost in concepts? You are not what you know, you are the knower.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Spiritual #Wisdom #Views

Don't pretend to be what you are not. Don't refuse to be what you are.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Refuse

Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far. The secret is in action - here and now. It is your behavior that blinds you to yourself. Disregard whatever you think yourself to be and act as if you were absolutely perfect - whatever your idea of perfection may be. All you need is courage.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Thinking #Ideas #Perfect

In the stillness of the mind I saw myself as I am - unbound.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Mind #Saws #Unbound

If you believe in God, work with Him. If you do not, become one.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Believe #Believe In God #If You Believe

The desire for truth is the highest of all desires, yet, it is still a desire. All desires must be given up for the real to be.....When all search ceases, it is the Supreme State.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Real #Desire #Spirituality

Would people know that nothing can happen unless the entire universe makes it happen, they would achieve much more with less expenditure of energy.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Inspirational #People #Energy

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

#Pain #Sleep #Suffering

When you desire the common good, the whole world desires with you. Make humanity's desire your own and work for it. There you cannot fail.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Humanity #Desire #World

In my world, nothing ever goes wrong.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#World

To deal with things knowledge of things is needed. To deal with people, you need insight, sympathy. To deal with yourself, you need nothing. Be what you are--conscious being--and don't stray away from yourself.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#People #Needs #Conscious

Your first task is to see the sorrow in you and around you; your next, to long intensely for liberation. The very intensity of longing will guide you; you need no other guide.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Long #Sorrow #Tasks

There is in the body, a current of energy, affection and intelligence, which guides, maintains and energizes the body. Discover that current and stay with it.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Body #Energy #Affection

When you go beyond awareness, there is a state of nonduality, in which there is no cognition, only pure being. In the state of nonduality, all separation ceases.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Cognition #Separation #Awareness

You know that you are. Don't burden yourself with names, just be. Any name or shape you give yourself obscures your real nature.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Real #Names #Giving

To see Reality is as simple as to see one’s face in a mirror. Only, the mirror must be clear and true. A quiet mind, undistorted by desires and fears, free from ideas and opinions, clear on all the levels, is needed to reflect the Reality. Be clear and quiet; alert and detached, all else will happen by itself.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Simple #Reality #Ideas

To understand suffering, you must go beyond pain and pleasure. Your own desires and fears prevent you from understanding and thereby helping others. In reality there are no others, and by helping yourself you help everybody else. If you are serious about the suffering of mankind, you must perfect the only means of help you have, yourself.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Pain #Mean #Helping Others

The innermost light, shining peacefully and timelessly in the heart, is the real Guru. All others merely show the way.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Real #Heart #Light

Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Simple #Goal #Tasks

Nothing can make you happier than you are. All search for happiness is misery and leads to more misery. The only happiness worth the name is the natural happiness of conscious being.
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Spiritual #Wisdom #Names

Unless you know yourself, what else can you know?
-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#Know Yourself