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All that a guru can tell you is: 'My dear Sir, you are quite mistaken about yourself.
You are not the person you take yourself to be.' — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
There is only life, there is nobody who lives a life.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Why do you enjoy finding fault with others? Is there not a better way to feel good? Such
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Meet you own self. Be with your own self, listen to it, obey it, cherish it, keep it in mind ceaselessly. You need no other guide.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The universe is but a partial manifestation of your limitless capacity to become.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
If you want peace and harmony in the world, you must have peace and harmony in your hearts and minds. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
One who is afraid of time becomes a prey of time. But time itself becomes a prey of that one who is not afraid of it.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Do not neglect this body. This is the house of God; take care of it, only in this body can God be realized.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The legitimate function of the mind is to tell you what is not. But if you want positive knowledge, you must go beyond the mind.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Seeking out causes is a pastime of the mind. There is no duality of cause and effect. Everything is its own cause.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
All will happen as you want it, provided you really want it.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Whatever you come across- go beyond
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
All you can teach is understanding. The rest comes on its own.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
In reality there are no others, and -helping yourself you help everybody else.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
We miss the real by lack of attention, and create the unreal by excess of imagination.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
In the stillness of the mind I saw myself as I am - unbound.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Having never left the house you are looking for the way home
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
When all the false self-identifications are thrown away, what remains is all-embracing love.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Life is love and love is life.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
You are not the body. You are the immensity and infinity of consciousness.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
It is not what you do, but what you stop doing that matters.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Concentration, Full Confidence, Pure Will. With these 3, what cannot be accomplished?
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The relinquishing of the lesser is the gaining of the greater. Give up all and you gain all.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Don't pretend to be what you are not. Don't refuse to be what you are.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The world you think of is in your own mind.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
It is not the right advice that liberates, but the action based on it.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
In peace and silence, the skin of the 'I' dissolves and the inner and the outer become one.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Who are you?", my answer would be: "Nothing in particular. Yet, I am.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
It is your fixed idea that you must be something or other, that blinds you.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Multiplicity without strife is joy.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Instead of searching for what you do not have, find out what it is that you have never lost.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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
There is no second, or higher self to search for. You are the highest self, only give up the false ideas you have about your self.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Find what is it that never sleeps and never wakes, and whose pale reflection is our sense of 'I'
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Only the people who have gone beyond the world can change the world.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Simply look at whatever happens and know that you are beyond it.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
If you are angry or in pain, separate yourself from anger and pain and watch them. Externalization is the first step to liberation.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
It does not matter much what happens.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Surrender to your own self, of which everything is an expression.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
What kind of Yoga do you want to practice, the Yoga of getting or the Yoga of giving? ... One enslaves, the other liberates.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
To see myself in everybody, and everybody in myself, most certainly is love.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Don't rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The silence before the words were spoken, is it different from the silence that came after?
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
What is beautiful? Whatever is perceived joyfully is beautiful. Bliss is the essence of beauty.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
You may try to trace how a thing happens, but you cannot find out why a thing is as it is. A thing is as it is because the universe is as it is.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
In reality, time and space exist in you. You do not exist in them.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Know yourself to be the changeless witness of the changeful mind. That is enough.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
You are already perfect, only you don't know it. Learn to know yourself and you will discover wonders.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Sadhana is a search for what to give up. Empty yourself completely.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The innermost light, shining peacefully and timelessly in the heart, is the real Guru. All others merely show the way.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
There is no question of going anywhere, arriving anywhere, or doing anything; you are there already.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Even for a moment do not think that you are the body. Give yourself no name, no shape. In the darkness and the silence reality is found.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
To go beyond the mind, you must be silent and quiet. Peace and silence, silence and peace - this is the way beyond. Stop asking questions.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Unless you know yourself, what else can you know?
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
It is your restlessness that causes chaos.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The mind creates the abyss, and the heart crosses it.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Even faith in God is only a stage on the way. Ultimately you abandon all, for you come to something so simple that there are no words to express it.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
I am told I was born. I do not remember ...
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The world you perceive is made of consciousness; what you call matter is consciousness itself.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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
The search for Reality is the most dangerous of all undertakings, for it destroys the world in which you live.
— 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 afraid.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Nothing can trouble you but your own imagination.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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.
— 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 I shall die laughing.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
All is a play in consciousness. All divisions are illusory. You can know the false only. The true you must yourself be.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Awareness neither dies nor is re-born. It is the changeless reality itself.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Do what you believe in and believe in what you do. The rest is a waste of time and energy.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Believe me, there is no goal, nor a way to reach it. You are the way and the goal, there is nothing else to reach except yourself.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Give up all ideas about yourself and simply be.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
We are the creators and creatures of each other, causing and bearing each other's burden. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Easier to change, than to suffer. Grow out of your childishness.That is all.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Your burden is of false self-identifications - abandon them all.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Whatever can be understood or perceived can never be the eternal Truth. The Unknown is the Truth.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Truth gives no advantage. It gives no higher status, no power over others; all you get is truth and freedom from the false.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The real you is timeless and beyond life and death.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
To know that you are a prisoner of your mind is the dawn of wisdom.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Stay open and quiet, that is all. What you seek is so near you that there is no place for a way.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Real happiness is not vulnerable, because it does not depend on circumstances.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
I leave my human nature to unfold according to its destiny. I remain as I AM.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
What is the worth of a happiness for which you must strive and work?Real happiness is spontaneous and effortless. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
You cannot change the course of events, but you can change yourattitude, and what really matters is the attitude and not the mere event. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
In my world, nothing ever goes wrong.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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
Nobody ever fails in Yoga ... It is slow in the beginning and rapid in the end. When one is fully matured, realization is explosive. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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
Earnestness is the most important thing.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
You're free. You've taken this burden of being a human being on yourself. You're free.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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
The world has only as much power over you as you give it. Rebel. Go beyond duality.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
In my world love is the only law. I do not ask for love, I give it.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
You are not the mind. If you know you are not the mind, then what difference does it make if it's busy or quiet? You are not the mind.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
When you know beyond all doubting that the same life flows through all that is, and you are that life, you will love all naturally and spontaneously.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
What you need will come to you if you do not ask for what you do not need.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
There is no such thing as unconsciousness for it is not experienceable. We infer unconsciousness when there is a lapse in memory or communication.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
To find reality you must be real in the smallest daily action; there can be no deceit in the search for truth.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj