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 By all means be selfish; the right way. Wish yourself well, labour at what is good for you. Destroy all that stands between you and happiness. Be all; love all; be happy; make happy. No happiness is greater. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj make-happy selfish mean I ask you what is the taste of your mouth all you can do is to say: it is neither sweet nor bitter, nor sour nor astringent; it is what remains when all these tastes are not. Similarly, when all distinctions and reactions are no more, what remains is reality, simple and solid. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj wisdom spiritual sweet Moods are in the mind and do not matter. Go within, go beyond. Cease being fascinated by the content of your consciousness. When you reach the deep layers of your true being, you will find that the mind's surface-play affects you very little. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj mind play littles Inquire, investigate, doubt yourself and others. To find truth, you must not cling to your convictions; if you are sure of the immediate, you will never reach the ultimate. Your idea that you were born and that you will die is absurd – both logic and experience contradict it. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj logic doubt ideas In your world everything must have a beginning and an end. If it does not, you call it eternal. In my view, there is no such thing as beginning and end - these are all related to time. Timeless being is entirely in the now. Being and not-being alternate and their reality is momentary. The immutable Reality lies beyond space and time. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj time lying reality Laugh with people laughing, cry with people crying, but don't fall into the river of world illusion. Stay on the banks. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj rivers laughing fall The essence of saintliness is total acceptance of the present moment, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj moments essence acceptance If you want to sin, sin wholeheartedly and openly. Sins too have their lessons to teach the earnest sinner, as virtues the earnest saint. It is the mixing up of the two that is so disastrous. Nothing can block you so effectively as compromise, for it shows lack of earnestness, without which nothing can be done. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj buddhist block two In marriage you are neither the husband nor the wife; you are the love between two. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj husband inspirational relationship You are already perfect, only you don't know it. Learn to know yourself and you will discover wonders. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj know-yourself perfect wonder There is no second, or higher self to search for. You are the highest self, only give up the false ideas you have about your self. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj giving-up self ideas The unchangeable can only be realised in silence. Once realised, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj unchangeable realised silence When you know beyond all doubting that the same life flows through all that is, and you are that life, you will love all naturally and spontaneously. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj wisdom spiritual doubt 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! Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj strong knowing tree When all the false self-identifications are thrown away, what remains is all-embracing love. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj embracing-love identification self How do you go about finding anything? Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj remembrance secret heart We are slaves of what we don't know;of what we know we are masters.Whatever vice or weakness in ourselves we discoverand understand its cause and workings,we overcome it by the very knowing.The primary purpose of meditation is to become more consciousand familiar with our inner life.The ultimate purpose is to reach the source of life. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj growth knowing meditation Knowledge gives power. In practice it is very simple. To control yourself, know yourself. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj simple practice giving Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj pain nature beauty It does not matter much what happens. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj matter doe happens
