Top 300 Nisargadatta Maharaj Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “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.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

202. “Suffering is a call for inquiry, all pain needs investigation.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

204. “All you need is already within you, only you must approach your self with reverence and love. Self-condemnation and self-distrust are grievous errors. Your constant flight from pain and search for pleasure is a sign of love you bear for your self, all I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect. Deny yourself nothing – glue your self infinity and eternity and discover that you do not need them; you are beyond.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

205. “Punishment is but legalized crime. In a society built on prevention, rather than retaliation, there would be very little crime. The few exceptions will be treated medically, as of unsound mind and body.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

206. “Concentration, Full Confidence, Pure Will. With these 3, what cannot be accomplished?”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

207. “There is no such thing as a person. There are only restrictions and limitations. The sum total of these defines the person. The person merely appears to be, like the space within the pot appears to have the shape and volume and smell of the pot.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

208. “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

209. “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

210. “To go beyond you need alert immobility, quiet attention.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

212. “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.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

213. “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

214. “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

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

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

216. “Self-realization definitely comes first. The mind cannot go beyond itself by itself. It must explode.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

217. “The mind is what it thinks. To make it true, think true.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

218. “When all names and forms have been given up, the real is with you. You need not seek it.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

219. “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

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

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

221. “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

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

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

223. “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

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

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

225. “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

226. “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

227. “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

228. “The mind exists in two states: as water and as honey. The water vibrates at the least disturbance, while the honey, however disturbed, returns quickly to immobility.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

229. “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

230. “As long as you imagine yourself to be something tangible and solid, a thing among things, you seem short-lived and vulnerable, and of course you will feel anxious to survive. But when you know yourself to be beyond space and time you will be afraid no longer.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

231. “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

232. “Do not be afraid of freedom from desire and fear. It enables you to live a life so different from all you know, so much more intense and interesting that, truly, by losing all you gain all.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

233. “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

234. “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

235. “Freedom means letting go. People just do not care to let go of everything. They do not know that the finite is the price of the infinite, as death is the price of immortality. Spiritual maturity lies in the readiness to let go of everything. The giving up is the first step. But the real giving up is in realizing that there is nothing to give up, for nothing is your own.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

236. “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

237. “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

238. “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

239. “And spirituality or what you call “religion” is mainly to understand this: that you don’t require anything, you are a part of the totality, or reality.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

240. “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

241. “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

242. “Happiness is never your own; it is where the ‘I’ is not. It is beyond your reach; you have only to reach out beyond yourself and you will find it.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

243. “Forget your past experiences and achievements and stand naked, exposed to the winds and rains of life, and you will have a chance.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

244. “What is religion? A cloud in the sky. I live in the sky, not in the clouds, which are so many words held together. Remove the verbiage and what remains? Truth remains.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

245. “Have your being outside this body of birth and death and all your problems will be solved. They exist because you believe yourself born to die. Undeceive yourself and be free. You are not a person.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

246. “If you imagine yourself as separate from the the world, the world will appear as separate from you and you will experience desire and fear. I do not see the world as separate from me and so there is nothing for me to desire, or fear.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

247. “Watch your thoughts and watch yourself watching the thoughts. The state of freedom from all thoughts will happen suddenly and by the bliss of it you shall recognize it.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

248. “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

249. “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

250. “Only the people who have gone beyond the world can change the world.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj