Top 300 Nisargadatta Maharaj Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “When there is total surrender, complete relinquishment of all concern with one’s past, present and future, with one’s physical and spiritual security and standing, a new life dawns, full of love and beauty; then the guru is not important, for the disciple has broken the shell of self-defense. Complete self-surrender is liberation by itself.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

202. “To see myself in everybody, and everybody in myself, most certainly is love.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

203. “Words can bring you only up to their own limit; to go beyond, you must abandon them. Remain as the silent witness only.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

204. “What refuses to die cannot be reborn.”

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205. “The way back to yourself is through refusal and rejection.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

206. “The old grooves must be erased in your brain, without forming new ones. You must realize yourself as the immovable, behind and beyond the movable, the silent witness of all that happens.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

207. “There is no question of going anywhere, arriving anywhere, or doing anything; you are there already.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

208. “My stand is clear; produce to distribute, feed before you eat, give before you take, think of others before you think of yourself. Only a selfless society based on sharing can be stable and happy. This is the only practical solution. If you do not want it, then – fight.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

209. “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.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

210. “Don’t try to understand! It’s enough if you do not misunderstand.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

211. “True happiness cannot be found in things that change and pass away. Pleasure and pain alternate inexorably. Happiness comes from the Self and can be found in the Self only. Find your real Self and all else will come with it.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

213. “Consciousness is an attribute while awareness is not; one can be aware of being conscious, but not conscious of awareness. God is the totality of consciousness, but awareness is beyond all – being as well as not-being.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

214. “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.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

215. “By all means be selfish; the right way. Wish yourself well, labour at what is good for you. Destroy all that stands between you and happiness. Be all; love all; be happy; make happy. No happiness is greater.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

216. “Your weakness is due to your conviction that you were born into the world. In reality the world is ever recreated in you and by you. See everything as emanating from the light which is the source of your own being.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

218. “No particular thought can be mind’s natural state, only silence. Not the idea of silence, but silence itself. When the mind is in its natural state, it reverts to silence spontaneously after every experience, or, rather, every experience happens against the background of silence.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

219. “Your first task is to see the sorrow in you and around you; your next, to long intensely for liberation. The very intensity of longing will guide you; you need no other guide.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

220. “You are not what you think yourself to be, I assure you. The image you have of yourself is made up from memories and is purely accidental.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

221. “Steady faith is stronger than destiny. Destiny is the result of causes, mostly accidental, and is therefore loosely woven. Confidence and good hope will overcome it easily.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

222. “All worldly activities are being done for the sake of entertainment of the consciousness of every living being.”

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223. “All I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect.”

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224. “In dream you love some and not others. On waking up you find you are love itself, embracing all. Personal love, however intense and genuine, invariably binds; love in freedom is love of all.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

225. “The world is full of contradictions; hence your search for harmony and peace. These you cannot find in the world, for the world is the child of chaos. To find order you must search within.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

226. “Devotion to your goal makes you live a clean and orderly life, given to search for truthand to helping people, and realization makes noble virtue easy and spontaneous, by removing for good the obstacles in the shape of desires and fears and wrong ideas .”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

227. “Knowledge gives power. In practice it is very simple. To control yourself, know yourself.”

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228. “To know that you are neither the body nor mind, watch yourself steadily and live unaffected by your body and mind, completely aloof, as if you were dead. It means you have no vested interests, either in the body or in the mind.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

229. “Consciousness is power. Be aware of what needs be done and it will be done. Only keep alert – and quiet. Once you reach your destination and know your real nature, your existence becomes a blessing to all. You may not know, nor will the world know; yet the help radiates.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

230. “To believe that you depend on things and people for happiness is due to ignorance of your true nature; to know that you need nothing to be happy, except Self-knowledge, is wisdom.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

231. “The very desire to live is the messenger of death, as the longing to be happy is the outline of sorrow. The world is an ocean of pain and fear, anxiety and despair. Pleasures are like the fishes, few and swift, coming rarely, quickly gone.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

232. “You are so used to the support of concepts that when your concepts leave you, although it is your true state, you get frightened and try to cling to them again.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

233. “All depends on you. It is by your consent that the world exists. Withdraw your belief in its reality and it will dissolve like a dream. Time can bring down mountains; much more you, who are the timeless source of time. For without memory and expectation there can be no time.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

234. “There is no such thing as unconsciousness for it is not experienceable. We infer unconsciousness when there is a lapse in memory or communication.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

235. “I ask you what is the taste of your mouth all you can do is to say: it is neither sweet nor bitter, nor sour nor astringent; it is what remains when all these tastes are not. Similarly, when all distinctions and reactions are no more, what remains is reality, simple and solid.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

236. “What is in the world cannot save the world; if you really care to help the world, you must step out of it.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

237. “Consciousness is spotless, formless and prior to intellect.”

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238. “In the great mirror of consciousness, images arise and disappear and only memory gives them continuity. And memory is material – destructible, perishable, transient. On such flimsy foundations we build a sense of personal existence – vague, intermittent, dreamlike. This vague persuasion, “I am so-and-so,” obscures the changeless state of pure awareness and makes us believe that we are born to suffer and to die.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

239. “Having realized that you cannot influence the results, pay no attention to your desires and fears. Let them come and go. Don’t give them the nourishment of interest and attention...”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

240. “By focusing the mind on “I am,” on the sense of being, “I am so-and-so” dissolves; “I am a witness only” remains and that too submerges in “I am all.” Then the all becomes the One and the One – yourself.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

241. “If you want peace and harmony in the world, you must have peace and harmony in your hearts and minds. Such change cannot be imposed; it must come from within.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

242. “Increase and widen your desires until nothing but reality can fulfill them. It is not desire that is wrong, but its narrowness and smallness. Desire is devotion. By all means, be devoted to the real, the infinite, the eternal heart of being. Transform desire into love. All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be, are expressions of your longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

243. “To deal with things knowledge of things is needed. To deal with people, you need insight, sympathy. To deal with yourself, you need nothing. Be what you are – conscious being – and don’t stray away from yourself.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

244. “You’re free. You’ve taken this burden of being a human being on yourself. You’re free.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

245. “There is a vastness beyond the farthest reaches of the mind. That vastness is my home; that vastness is myself. And that vastness is also love.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

246. “Our only hope is to stop, to look, to understand, and to get out of the traps of memory. For memory feeds imagination and imagination generates desire and fear.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

247. “Your own self is your ultimate teacher. The outer teacher is merely a milestone. It is only your inner teacher that will walk with you to the goal, for he is the goal.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

248. “Study the prison you have inadvertently built around yourself.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

249. “The world is made of rings. The hooks are all yours. Make your hooks straight and nothing can hold you.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

250. “You do not tidy up a dark room. You open the windows first. Letting in the light makes everything easy. So, let us wait to improve others until we have seen ourselves as we are – and have changed.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj