Nisargadatta Maharaj Quotes

Our only hope is to stop, to look, to understand, and to get out of the traps of memory. For memory feeds imagination and imagination generates desire and fear.

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.

All I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect

(…) Just know that you are above and beyond all things and thoughts. What you want to be, you are it already. (…) desire nothing, for you lack nothing. The very seeking prevents you from finding.

The way back to yourself is through refusal and rejection.

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.

Without my sense of being, what is the value of the world?

Surely you can change your world if you work at it. (…) a world of which you are the only source and ground is fully within your power to change. What is created can always be dissolved and re-created. All will happen as you want it, provided you really want it. (…)

All suffering is born of desire. True love is never frustrated. How can the sense of unity be frustrated? (…) Love is a state of being. Sex is energy. Love is wise, sex is blind. Once the true nature of love and sex is understood there will be no conflict or confusion.

(…) To the Self the world is but a colourful show, which he enjoys as long as it lasts and forgets when it is over. Whatever happens on the stage makes him shudder in terror or roll with laughter, yet all the time he is aware that it is but a show. Without desire or fear he enjoys it, as it happens.

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.

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

(...) To see myself in everybody and everybody in myself most certainly is love.

(…)The body-mind is like a room. It is there, but I need not live in it all the time.

Don’t try to reform yourself; just see the futility of all change. The changeful keeps on changing while the changeless is waiting.