Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Quotes

Discard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen, and you need not search for truth; truth will find you.

It is your restlessness that causes chaos.

It is not what you do, but what you stop doing that matters.

Give your real being a chance to shape your life. You will not regret it.

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

Give all your attention to the question: 'What is it that makes me conscious?', until your mind becomes the question itself and cannot think of anything else.

Get hold of the main thing: That the world and the self are one and perfect. Only your attitude is faulty and needs readjustment.

Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it. By being a slave to your desires and fears, you disturb peace.

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.

Whatever comes and goes, is not reality. See the event as event only. Then you are vulnerable to reality, no longer armoured against it, as you were when you gave reality to events and experiences.

Stay open and quiet, that is all. What you seek is so near you that there is no place for a way.

You need not know what you are. Enough to know what you are not. What you are you will never know, for every discovery reveals new dimensions to conquer. The unknown has no limits.

In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part.

These moments of inner quiet will burn out all obstacles without fail. Don't doubt its efficacy. Try it.

Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind.

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

The silence before the words were spoken, is it different from the silence that came after?

It is your fixed idea that you must be something or other, that blinds you.

Once you understand that the false needs time and what needs time is false, you are nearer the Reality, which is timeless, ever in the NOW.

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

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.

You take yourself to be limited, but you are not. Discover this. Stay silent and attentive. Be earnest about it. Just be aware of your being here and now. Reality will find you.

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

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

The mind exists in two states: as water and as honey. The water vibrates at the least disturbance, while the honey, however disturbed, returns quickly to immobility.

In my world love is the only law. I do not ask for love, I give it.

Don't pretend to be what you are not. Don't refuse to be what you are.

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.

You're free. You've taken this burden of being a human being on yourself. You're free.

In my world, nothing ever goes wrong.

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

Everybody does the same mistake: refusing the means, but wanting the ends. You want peace and harmony in the world, but refuse to have them in yourself.

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.

Life is love and love is life.

All will happen as you want it, provided you really want it.

You have projected onto yourself a world of your own imagination, based on memories, on desires and fears, and you have imprisoned yourself in it. Break the spell and be free.

All your desires, whatever they may be, are expressions of your longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well.

You have put so much energy into building a prison for yourself. Now spend as much on demolishing it.

Pleasure puts you to sleep and pain wakes you up. If you don't want to suffer, don't go to sleep.

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

There is no 'my self' and 'his self'. There is the Self, the only Self of all. Misled by the diversity of names and shapes, minds and bodies, you imagine multiple selves.

Our usual attitude is of 'I am this'. Separate consistently and perseveringly the 'I am' from 'this' or 'that', and try to feel what is means to be, just to be, without being 'this' or 'that'.

You may die a hundred deaths without a break in the mental turmoil. Or, you may keep your body and die only in the mind. The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom.

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.

Whatever you come across- go beyond

Stop imagining yourself being or doing this or that and the realization that you are the source and heart of all will dawn on you.

In reality, time and space exist in you. You do not exist in them.

Whatever state I am in, I see it as a state of mind to be accepted as it is.

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, temporary, personal, hanging on the thread of memory.

Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far.