Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Quotes - Page 13

Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers.

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.

In my world love is the only law. I do not ask for love, I give it.

Self-remembrance, awareness of 'I am' ripens him powerfully and speedily. Give up all ideas about yourself and simply be.

One who is afraid of time becomes a prey of time. But time itself becomes a prey of that one who is not afraid of it.

Stop, look, investigate, ask the right questions, come to the right conclusions and have the courage to act on them and see what happens. The first steps may bring the roof down on your head, but soon the commotion will clear and there will be peace and joy.

Come to the conclusion: I am unborn, I was unborn and I shall remain unborn

The attitude of silent observation is the very foundation of yoga. You see the picture, but you are not the picture.

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.

Whatever you come across- go beyond

For me the moment of death will be a moment of jubilation, not of fear. I cried when I was born and I shall die laughing.

Knowledge gives power. In practice it is very simple. To control yourself, know yourself.

Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.

Sadhana is a search for what to give up. Empty yourself completely.

Life is love and love is life.

Devotion to your goal makes you live a clean and orderly life , given to search for truthand to helping people, and realization makes noble virtue easy and spontaneous, by removing for good the obstacles in the shape of desires and fears and wrong ideas .

Earnestness is the most important thing.

There is no such thing as unconsciousness for it is not experienceable. We infer unconsciousness when there is a lapse in memory or communication.

The unexpected and unpredictable is real.

I ask you only to stop imagining that you were born, have parents, are a body, will die and so on. Just try, make a beginning-it is not as hard as you think.

All will come through, not a single soul (jiva) shall be lost.

Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind.

Cooperate with your destiny, don't go against it, don't thwart it. Allow it to fulfill itself.

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.

All you can teach is understanding. The rest comes on its own.