Top 300 Nisargadatta Maharaj Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Between the banks of pleasure and pain flows the river of life. If you spend much time on either bank you will miss out on life.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

102. “The real you is timeless and beyond life and death.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

104. “I leave my human nature to unfold according to its destiny. I remain as I AM.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

105. “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.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

106. “Meditation will help you to find your bonds, loosen them, untie them and cast your moorings. When you are no longer attached to anything, you have done your share. The rest will be done for you.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

107. “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.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

108. “You are already perfect, only you don’t know it. Learn to know yourself and you will discover wonders.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

109. “The world has only as much power over you as you give it. Rebel. Go beyond duality.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

110. “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.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

111. “The world does not yield to changing. By its very nature it is painful and transient. See it as it is and divest yourself of all desire and fear. When the world does not hold and bind you, it becomes an abode of joy and beauty. You can be happy in the world only when you are free of it.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

112. “Inquire, investigate, doubt yourself and others. To find truth, you must not cling to your convictions; if you are sure of the immediate, you will never reach the ultimate. Your idea that you were born and that you will die is absurd – both logic and experience contradict it.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

113. “Pure knowledge is not imparted by another; it comes unmasked. It is the one that is listening: it is your own true nature.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

114. “All will happen as you want it, provided you really want it.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

115. “All you can teach is understanding. The rest comes on its own.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

116. “Awareness neither dies nor is re-born. It is the changeless reality itself.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

118. “Instead of searching for what you do not have, find out what it is that you have never lost.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

119. “The real does not die, the unreal never lived.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

120. “We miss the real by lack of attention, and create the unreal by excess of imagination.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

121. “Pleasure puts you to sleep and pain wakes you up. If you don’t want to suffer, don’t go to sleep.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

122. “Come to the conclusion: I am unborn, I was unborn and I shall remain unborn.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

123. “The world you think of is in your own mind.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

124. “Look at your mind dispassionately; this is enough to calm it. When it is quiet, you can go beyond it. Do not keep it busy all the time. Stop it – and just BE.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

125. “There is nothing wrong with duality as long as it does not create conflict. Multiplicity and variety without strife is joy. In pure consciousness there is light. For warmth, contact is needed. Above the unity of being is the union of love. Love is the purpose of duality.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

127. “Our minds are just waves on the ocean of consciousness. As waves, they come and go. As ocean, they are infinite and eternal. Know yourself as the ocean of being, the womb of all existence.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

128. “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.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

129. “Unless you make tremendous efforts, you will not be convinced that effort will take you nowhere. The self is so self-confident that unless it is totally discouraged it will not give up. Mere verbal conviction is not enough. Hard facts alone can show the absolute nothingness of the self-image.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

130. “Watch your thoughts as you watch the street traffic. People come and go; you register without response. It may not be easy in the beginning, but with some practice you will find that your mind can function on many levels at the same time and you can be aware of them all.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

131. “Freedom is from something. What are you to be free from? Obviously, you must be free from the person you take yourself to be, for it is the idea you have of yourself that keeps you in bondage.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

132. “Cooperate with your destiny, don’t go against it, don’t thwart it. Allow it to fulfill itself.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

133. “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.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

134. “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.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

135. “Do not neglect this body. This is the house of God; take care of it, only in this body can God be realized.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

136. “Surrender to your own self, of which everything is an expression.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

137. “All that happens is the cause of all that happens. Causes are numberless; the idea of a sole cause is an illusion.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

138. “It does not matter much what happens.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

139. “You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

141. “When pain is accepted for what it is, a lesson and a warning, and deeply looked into and heeded, the separation between pain and pleasure breaks down, both become just experience – painful when resisted, joyful when accepted.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

142. “Moods are in the mind and do not matter. Go within, go beyond. Cease being fascinated by the content of your consciousness. When you reach the deep layers of your true being, you will find that the mind’s surface-play affects you very little.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

143. “What is beautiful? Whatever is perceived joyfully is beautiful. Bliss is the essence of beauty.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

144. “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.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

145. “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.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

146. “Being oneself is completely beyond all motivation. You cannot be yourself for some reason. You are yourself, and no reason is needed.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

147. “Save all your energies and time for breaking the wall your mind has built around you.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

148. “If you have contact with pure consciousness even for a moment, you are liberated.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

150. “Pain is physical; suffering is mental. Beyond the mind there is no suffering. Pain is essential for the survival of the body, but none compels you to suffer. Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting; it is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj