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

Nisargadatta Maharaj Quotes

The first steps in self-acceptance are not at all pleasant, for what one sees is not a happy sight. One needs all the courage to go further.

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

Unless you know yourself, what else can you know?

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

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

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

Whatever can be understood or perceived can never be the eternal Truth. The Unknown is the Truth.

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

The personal needs a base, a body to identify oneself with, just as a colour needs a surface to appear on.

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

To see the unreal is wisdom. Beyond this lies the inexpressible.

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

Abandon false ideas, that is all. There is no need of true ideas. There aren’t any.

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

All happiness comes from awareness. The more we are conscious the deeper the joy. Acceptance of pain, non-resistance, courage and endurance – these open deep and perennial sources of real happiness, true bliss.

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

I am told I was born. I do not remember...

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

The only thing required of you is to allow all your raging desires to relax into preferences. Then everything will be done through you and for you, not by you.

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

To know that you are a prisoner of your mind is the dawn of wisdom.

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Between the banks of pleasure and pain flows the river of life. If you spend much time on either bank you will miss out on life.

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

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

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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