Top 300 Nisargadatta Maharaj Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “The real you is timeless and beyond life and death.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

103. “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

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

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

105. “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

106. “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

107. “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

108. “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

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

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

110. “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

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

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

112. “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

113. “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

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

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

115. “The world you perceive is made of consciousness; what you call matter is consciousness itself.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

117. “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

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

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

119. “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

120. “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

121. “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

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

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

124. “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

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

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

132. “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

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 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.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

137. “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

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

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

139. “Just as every drop of the ocean carries the taste of the ocean, so does every moment carry the taste of eternity.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

140. “Time is in the mind, space is in the mind. The law of cause and effect is also a way of thinking. In reality all is here and now and all is one. Multiplicity and diversity are in the mind only.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

141. “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.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

143. “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.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

144. “Know yourself to be the changeless witness of the changeful mind. That is enough.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

145. “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

146. “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.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

147. “In nature nothing is at standstill, everything pulsates, appears and disappears. Heart, breath, digestion, sleep and waking – birth and death – everything comes and goes in waves. Rhythm, periodicity, harmonious alternation of extremes is the rule. No use rebelling against the very pattern of life.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

148. “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

149. “The unexpected and unpredictable is real.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

— Nisargadatta Maharaj