Quotes from Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

You know that you are. Don't burden yourself with names, just be. Any name or shape you give yourself obscures your real nature.

There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.

Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.

How can an unsteady mind make itself steady? Of course it cannot. It is the nature of the mind to roam about. All you can do is to shift the focus of consciousness beyond the mind.

Pure knowledge is not imparted by another; it comes unmasked. It is the one that is listening: it is your own true nature.

If you want peace and harmony in the world, you must have peace and harmony in your hearts and minds.

In peace and silence, the skin of the 'I' dissolves and the inner and the outer become one.

To go beyond the mind, you must be silent and quiet. Peace and silence, silence and peace - this is the way beyond. Stop asking questions.

In my world, nothing ever goes wrong.

The legitimate function of the mind is to tell you what is not. But if you want positive knowledge, you must go beyond the mind.

The world has only as much power over you as you give it. Rebel. Go beyond duality.

Do not neglect this body. This is the house of God; take care of it, only in this body can God be realized.

Even faith in God is only a stage on the way. Ultimately you abandon all, for you come to something so simple that there are no words to express it.

Real happiness is not vulnerable, because it does not depend on circumstances.

Having never left the house you are looking for the way home

We miss the real by lack of attention, and create the unreal by excess of imagination.

Nothing can trouble you but your own imagination.

You have projected onto yourself a world of your own imagination, based on memories, on desires and fears, and you have imprisoned yourself in it. Break the spell and be free.

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

There is nothing to do, just be. Do nothing. Be. No climbing mountains and sitting in caves. I do not even say "be yourself" since you do not know yourself. Just be.

Would people know that nothing can happen unless the entire universe makes it happen, they would achieve much more with less expenditure of energy.

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

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