Top 300 Nisargadatta Maharaj Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “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

252. “Know yourself as beyond space and time – in contact with them only at the point of here and now, otherwise all-pervading and all-containing, unapproachable, unassailable, invulnerable – you will be afraid no longer. Know yourself as you are – against fear there is no other remedy.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

253. “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

254. “Your true meaning cannot be grasped or captured by words. You can never be equated with any words, because you are prior to words.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

255. “The scriptures say that we have our ‘karma’ and our sin and that is why we are here, but this is for the ignorant masses. One who has realized the self-knowledge ‘I am’ for him these stories are of no use.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

256. “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

257. “The light which you see outside arises from your own light. The light of the sun and the moon cannot be compared to the light of your Self.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

258. “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

259. “Learn to live without self-concern. For this you must know your own true being as indomitable, fearless, ever victorious. Once you know with absolute certainty that nothing can trouble you, you come to disregard your desires and fears, concepts and ideas and live by truth alone.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

260. “Exactly as the shadow appears when light is intercepted by the body, so does the person arise when pure self-awareness is obstructed by the “I am the body” idea. And as the shadow changes shape and position according to the lay of the land, so does the person appear to rejoice and suffer, rest and toil, find and lose, according to the pattern of destiny.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

261. “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

262. “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

263. “The sum and substance of my teaching is this: Don’t be dishonest to your vital breath; worship that only, abide in that only, accept it as yourself. And when you worship in this manner, it can lead you anywhere, to any heights- this is the quintessence of my talks.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

264. “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

265. “Trace your misunderstandings and abandon them, that is all. There is nothing to seek or find, for there is nothing lost. Relax and watch the “I am.” Reality is just behind it. Keep quiet, keep silent; it will emerge or, rather, it will take you in.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

266. “One who is afraid of time becomes a prey of time. But time itself becomes a prey of that one who is not afraid of it.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

267. “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

268. “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

269. “To find reality you must be real in the smallest daily action; there can be no deceit in the search for truth.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

270. “Stop, look, investigate, ask the right questions, come to the right conclusions and have the courage to act on them and see what happens. The first steps may bring the roof down on your head, but soon the commotion will clear and there will be peace and joy.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

272. “Until we can look at fear and accept it as the shadow of personal existence, as persons we are bound to be afraid.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

273. “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. When you realize the depth and fullness of your love of yourself, you know that every living being and the entire universe are included in your affection.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

274. “How does the personality come into being? By memory. By identifying the present with the past and projecting it into the future. Think of yourself as momentary, without past and future, and your personality dissolves.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

275. “You may try to trace how a thing happens, but you cannot find out why a thing is as it is. A thing is as it is because the universe is as it is.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

276. “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

277. “Leave alone your desires and fears and give your entire attention to the subject, to he who is behind the experience of desire and fear. Ask: who desires? Let each desire bring you back to yourself.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

278. “Multiplicity without strife is joy.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

279. “To be is to suffer. The narrower the circle of my self-identification, the more acute the suffering caused by desire and fear.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

280. “When you are free of the world, you can do something about it. As long as you are a prisoner of it, you are helpless to change it. On the contrary, whatever you do will aggravate the situation.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

281. “What problems can there be which the mind did not create? Life and death do not create problems; pains and pleasures come and go, experienced and forgotten. It is memory and anticipation that create problems of attainment or avoidance, colored by like and dislike. Truth and love are man’s real nature, and mind and heart are the means of its expression.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

282. “We shall suffer as long as our thoughts and actions are prompted by desires and fears.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

283. “To work in the world is hard, to refrain from all unnecessary work is even harder.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

284. “Whatever you forget, is not the truth, always remember that.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

285. “Why do you enjoy finding fault with others? Is there not a better way to feel good? Such.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

286. “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

287. “There is nothing impossible in the world if you are determined. The.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

288. “It is earnestness that will take you through, not cleverness – your own or another’s.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

289. “The sensation of beingness is a matter of experience, but I am beyond that. Some people claim that they have memories of past lives. I do not have even the experience of myself at anytime.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

290. “Merely assuaging fears and satisfying desires will not remove this sense of emptiness you are trying to escape from; only self-knowledge can help you.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

291. “You cannot be alive, for you are life itself.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

292. “It may seem arduous, but it is easy if you are earnest, and quite impossible if you are not. Everything yields to earnestness.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

293. “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

294. “Things are as they are and nobody in particular is responsible. The idea of personal responsibility comes from the illusion of agency.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

295. “I cried when I was born and I shall die laughing.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

296. “If you take people to be what they think themselves to be, you will only hurt them as they hurt themselves so grievously all the time. But if you see them as they are in reality, it will do them enormous good.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

297. “In reality there are no persons, only threads of memories and habits. At the moment of realization, the person ceases.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

298. “In reality, nothing happens. Onto the screen of the mind, destiny forever projects its pictures, memories of former projections, and thus illusion constantly renews itself. The pictures come and go – light intercepted by ignorance. See the light and disregard the picture.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

299. “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

300. “Once you can say with confidence born from direct experience, “I am the world, the world is myself,” you are free from desire and fear on one hand and become totally responsible for the world on the other.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj