338 Quotes by Nisargadatta Maharaj

Imagine a dense forest full of tigers and you in a strong steel cage. Knowing that you are well protected by the cage, you watch the tigers fearlessly. Next, you find the tigers in the cage and yourself roaming about in the jungle. Last, the cage disappears and you ride the tigers!

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.

Unless you know yourself, what else can you know?

In dream you love some and not others. On waking up you find you are love itself, embracing all. Personal love, however intense and genuine, invariably binds; love in freedom is love of all.

All will happen as you want it, provided you really want it.

These moments of inner quiet will burn out all obstacles without fail. Don’t doubt its efficacy. Try it.

Give your real being a chance to shape your life. You will not regret it.

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.

Learn to live without self-concern. For this you must know your own true being as indomitable, fearless, ever victorious. Once you know with absolute certainty that nothing can trouble you, you come to disregard your desires and fears, concepts and ideas and live by truth alone.