Top 300 Nisargadatta Maharaj Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

2. “Past and future are in the mind only – I am now.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

3. “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.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

4. “Give up all ideas about yourself and simply be.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

5. “You will receive everything you need when you stop asking for what you do not need.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

6. “In my world, nothing ever goes wrong.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

7. “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.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

8. “You are not in this world. This world is inside you.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

9. “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.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

10. “I am that by which I know ‘I am’”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

11. “Whatever happens, happens to you by you, through you; you are the creator, enjoyer and destroyer of all you perceive.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

12. “To know that you are a prisoner of your mind is the dawn of wisdom.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

13. “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.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

14. “You are not the body. You are the immensity and infinity of consciousness.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

15. “The search for Reality is the most dangerous of all undertakings, for it destroys the world in which you live.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

16. “The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

17. “Life is love and love is life.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

18. “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.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

19. “If you are angry or in pain, separate yourself from anger and pain and watch them. Externalization is the first step to liberation.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

20. “Simply look at whatever happens and know that you are beyond it.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

21. “In the stillness of the mind I saw myself as I am – unbound.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

22. “The root of fear is the feeling of not being what you are.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

24. “The attitude of silent observation is the very foundation of yoga. You see the picture, but you are not the picture.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

25. “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.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

26. “Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with life, and gets stuck at the banks, that it becomes a problem.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

28. “In reality there are no others, and -helping yourself you help everybody else.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

29. “Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting. It is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

30. “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.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

31. “There is only life, there is nobody who lives a life.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

32. “Whatever can be understood or perceived can never be the eternal Truth. The Unknown is the Truth.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

33. “When I look beyond the mind, I see the witness. Beyond the witness, there is infinite intensity of emptiness and silence.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

34. “Don’t rely on your mind for liberation. It is the mind that brought you into bondage. Go beyond it altogether.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

35. “When I look inside and see that I’m nothing, that’s wisdom. When I look outside and see that I’m everything, that’s love. And between these two, my life turns.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

36. “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.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

37. “All is a play in consciousness. All divisions are illusory. You can know the false only. The true you must yourself be.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

39. “In marriage you are neither the husband nor the wife; you are the love between two.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

40. “In peace and silence, the skin of the ‘I’ dissolves and the inner and the outer become one.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

41. “Shift your attention from words to silence and you will hear.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

42. “Laugh with people laughing, cry with people crying, but don’t fall into the river of world illusion. Stay on the banks.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

43. “Unless you know yourself, what else can you know?”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

44. “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.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

45. “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.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

46. “Let the dream unroll itself to its very end. You cannot help it. But you can look at the dream as a dream, refuse it the stamp of reality.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

47. “Whatever you may have to do, watch your mind. Also you must have moments of complete inner peace and quiet, when your mind is absolutely still. If you miss it, you miss the entire thing. If you do not, the silence of the mind will dissolve and absorb all else.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

48. “Forget the known, don’t be all the time immersed in your experiences.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

49. “Having never left the house you are looking for the way home.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

50. “Truth gives no advantage. It gives no higher status, no power over others; all you get is truth and freedom from the false.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj