Maharaj Nisargadatta

Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it.

By being a slave to your desires and fears, you disturb peace. Sadhana is a search for what to give up.

Empty yourself completely.

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 and all else will come with it.

The unchangeable can only be realized in silence. Once realized, it will deeply affect the changeable, itself remaining unaffected.

inquire, investigate, doubt yourselves 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. Find what it is that never sleeps and never wakes.

and whose pale reflection is our sense of I.

How do you go about finding anything? By keeping your mind and heart on it. There must be interest and steady remembrance.

To remember what needs to be remembered is the secret of success. You come to it through earnestness.

It is not the right advice that liberates, but the action based on it.

If people knew that nothing could happen unless the entire universe makes it happen, they would achieve much more with less expenditure of energy. In reality, time and space exist in you. You do not exist in them.

My actual experience is not different.

It is my evaluation and attitude that differ. I see the same world as you do, but not in the same way.

There is nothing mysterious about it. Everybody sees the world through the idea they have of themself. As you think yourself to be, so you think the world to be.

If you imagine yourself as separate from the world, the world will appear as separate from you and you will experience desire and fear. I do not see the world as separate from me

And so there is nothing for me to desire or fear. Nothing troubles me. I offer no resistance to trouble. Therefore it does not stay with me.

On your side there is so much trouble. On mine there is no trouble at all. Come to my side.