Pure knowledge is not imparted by another; it comes unmasked. It is the one that is listening: it is your own true nature. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj More Quotes by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj More Quotes From Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Your true meaning cannot be grasped or captured by words. You can never be equated with any words, because you are prior to words. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj captured true-meaning The real is behind and beyond words, incommunicable, directly experienced, explosive in its effect on the mind. It is easily had when nothing else is wanted. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj real mind wanted All will come through, not a single soul (jiva) shall be lost. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj soul lost What is beautiful? Whatever is perceived joyfully is beautiful. Bliss is the essence of beauty. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj essence beautiful beauty Don’t try to understand! It’s enough if you do not misunderstand. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj unity enough trying Surrender to your own self, of which everything is an expression. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj surrender expression self I am that by which I know 'I am' Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj knows We grow through investigation, and to investigate we need experience. We tend to repeat what we have not understood. If we are sensitive and intelligent, we need not suffer. Pain is a call for attention and the penalty of carelessness. Intelligent and compassionate action is the only remedy. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj pain intelligent self You are so accustomed to think of yourselves as bodies having consciousness that you just cannot imagine consciousness as having bodies. Once you realize that bodily existence is but a state of mind, a movement in consciousness, that the ocean of consciousness is infinite and eternal, and that, when in touch with consciousness, you are the witness only, you will be able to withdraw beyond consciousness altogether. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj ocean mind thinking The relinquishing of the lesser is the gaining of the greater. Give up all and you gain all. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj relinquishing gains giving-up 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. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj use sleep heart Contemplate life as infinite, undivided, ever present, ever active, until you realize yourself as one with it. It is not even very difficult, for you will be returning only to your own natural condition. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj realizing infinite natural It is not the right advice that liberates, but the action based on it. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj action advice 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. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj inspiration acceptance sight You are so used to the support of concepts that when your concepts leave you, although it is your true state, you get frightened and try to cling to them again. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj frightened support trying Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj stranger desire love-is Easier to change, than to suffer. Grow out of your childishness.That is all. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj your-children easier suffering When I see I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I see I am everything, that is love. My life is a movement between these two. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj wisdom love two Meet you own self. Be with your own self, listen to it, obey it, cherish it, keep it in mind ceaselessly. You need no other guide. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj self mind needs In the light of consciousness all sorts of things happen and one need not give special importance to any. The sight of a flower is as marvelous as the vision of God. Let them be. Why remember them and then make memory into a problem? Be bland about them; do not divide them into high and low, inner and outer, lasting and transient. Go beyond, go back to the source, go to the self that is the same whatever happens. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj flower memories peace