Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Having never left the house you are looking for the way homeCollection: Home
Instead of searching for what you do not have, find out what it is that you have never lost.Collection: Lost
When I look inside and see that I'm nothing, that's wisdom. When I look outside and see that I'm everything, that's love. And between these two, my life turns.Collection: Love
Realize that your world is only a reflection of yourself and stop finding fault with the reflection. Attend to yourself, set yourself right; mentally and emotionally. The physical self will follow automatically.Collection: Reflection
Know yourself to be the changeless witness of the changeful mind. That is enough.Collection: Mind
Shift your attention from words to silence and you will hear.Collection: Silence
To know that you are a prisoner of your mind is the dawn of wisdom.Collection: Mind
Once you realize that the world is your own projection, you are free of it. You need not free yourself of a world that does not exist, except in your own imagination! However is the picture, beautiful or ugly, you are painting it and you are not bound by it. Realize that there is nobody to force it on you, that it is due to the habit of taking the imaginary to be real. See the imaginary as imaginary and be free of fear.Collection: Beautiful
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.Collection: Pain
In the stillness of the mind I saw myself as I am - unbound.Collection: Mind
If you seek reality you must set yourself free of all backgrounds, of all cultures, of all patterns of thinking and feeling. Even the idea of being man or woman, or even human should be discarded. The ocean of life contains all, not only humans. So, first of all abandon all self-identification, stop thinking of yourself as such-and-such or so-and-so, this or that. Abandon all self-concern, worry not about your welfare, material or spiritual, abandon every desire, gross or subtle, stop thinking of achievement of any kind. You are complete here and now, you need absolutely nothing.Collection: Spiritual
We miss the real by lack of attention, and create the unreal by excess of imagination.Collection: Real
When you go beyond awareness, there is a state of nonduality, in which there is no cognition, only pure being. In the state of nonduality, all separation ceases.Collection: Cognition
Whatever happens, happens to you by you, through you; you are the creator, enjoyer and destroyer of all you perceive.Collection: Whatever Happens Happens
In the mirror of your mind all kinds of pictures appear and disappear. Knowing that they are entirely your own creations, watch them silently come and go. Be alert, but not perturbed. This attitude of silent observation is the very foundation of yoga. You see the picture, but you are not the picture.Collection: Attitude
You are really in search of yourself, without knowing it. You are love-longing for the love-worthy, the perfect lovable. Due to ignorance you are looking for it in the world of opposites and contradictions. When you find it within, your search will be over.Collection: Ignorance
Whatever can be understood or perceived can never be the eternal Truth. The Unknown is the Truth.Collection: Understood
The search for Reality is the most dangerous of all undertakings, for it destroys the world in which you live.Collection: Reality
Awareness neither dies nor is re-born. It is the changeless reality itself.Collection: Reality
The ultimate point of view is that there is nothing to understand, so when we try to understand, we are only indulging in acrobatics of the mind. Whatever you have understood, you are not. Why are you getting lost in concepts? You are not what you know, you are the knower.Collection: Spiritual
You are not in this world. This world is inside you.Collection: World
When all names and forms have been given up, the real is with you. You need not seek it.Collection: Real
What kind of Yoga do you want to practice, the Yoga of getting or the Yoga of giving?... One enslaves, the other liberates.Collection: Yoga
Forgetting your Self is the greatest injury; all the calamities flow from it. Take care of the most important, the lesser will take care of itself. You do not tidy up a dark room. You open the windows first. Letting in the light makes everything easy. So, let us wait with improving others until we see ourselves as we are/ and have changed. There is no need to turn round and round in endless questioning; find yourself and everything will fall into its proper place.Collection: Fall
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.Collection: Inspiration
Come to the conclusion: I am unborn, I was unborn and I shall remain unbornCollection: Conclusion
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.Collection: Laughing
Knowledge gives power. In practice it is very simple. To control yourself, know yourself.Collection: Simple
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.Collection: Ideas
All that happens is the cause of all that happens. Causes are numberless; the idea of a sole cause is an illusion.Collection: Spiritual
Sadhana is a search for what to give up. Empty yourself completely.Collection: Giving Up
In my world love is the only law. I do not ask for love, I give it.Collection: Love
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 .Collection: Ideas
The attitude of silent observation is the very foundation of yoga. You see the picture, but you are not the picture.Collection: Attitude
Earnestness is the most important thing.Collection: Important
Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.Collection: Pain
Life is love and love is life.Collection: Love Is
There is no such thing as unconsciousness for it is not experienceable. We infer unconsciousness when there is a lapse in memory or communication.Collection: Memories
The unexpected and unpredictable is real.Collection: Real
I ask you only to stop imagining that you were born, have parents, are a body, will die and so on. Just try, make a beginning-it is not as hard as you think.Collection: Love
All will come through, not a single soul (jiva) shall be lost.Collection: Soul
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.Collection: Destiny
Cooperate with your destiny, don't go against it, don't thwart it. Allow it to fulfill itself.Collection: Destiny
When I see I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I see I am everything, that is love. My life is a movement between these two.Collection: Love
Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind.Collection: Beauty
All you can teach is understanding. The rest comes on its own.Collection: Understanding