Nisargadatta Maharaj Quotes and Sayings

Nisargadatta Maharaj Quotes and Sayings

1. Look to yourself for the permanent. Dive deep within and find what is real in you.
   
   
2. True happiness cannot be found in things that change and pass away. Pleasure and pain alternate inexorably. Happiness comes from the self and can be found in the self only. Find your real self (swarupa) and all else will come with it.
   
   
3. It is only your self-identification with your mind that makes you happy or unhappy. Rebel against your slavery to your mind, see your bonds as self-created and break the chains of attachment and revulsion. Keep in mind your goal of freedom, until it dawns on you that you are already free, that freedom is not something in the distant future to be earned with painful efforts, but perennially one’s own, to be used!
   
   
4. Habit and passion blind and mislead. Compassionate awareness heals and redeems.
   
   
5. The very search for pleasure is the cause of pain.
   
   
6. Desire is, of course, a state of mind. But the realization of unity is beyond mind.
   
   
7. There can be progress only in the preparation (sadhana). Realization is sudden. The fruit ripens slowly, but falls suddenly and without return.