338 Quotes by 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.

The primary purpose of meditation is to become conscious of, and familiar with, our inner life. The ultimate purpose is to reach the source of life and consciousness.

No particular thought can be mind’s natural state, only silence. Not the idea of silence, but silence itself. When the mind is in its natural state, it reverts to silence spontaneously after every experience, or, rather, every experience happens against the background of silence.

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.

The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.

Stop imagining yourself being or doing this or that and the realization that you are the source and heart of all will dawn on you.

You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.

Awareness neither dies nor is re-born. It is the changeless reality itself.

When you desire the common good, the whole world desires with you. Make humanity’s desire your own and work for it. There you cannot fail.