Nagarjun Quotes

India, Poet
June 30, 1911 – November, 5, 1998.

Vaidyanath Mishra (30 June 1911 – 5 November 1998), better known by his pen name Nagarjun, was a Hindi and Maithili poet who has also penned a number of novels, short stories, literary biographies and travelogues, and was known as Janakavi- the People's Poet. He is regarded as the most prominent protagonist of modernity in Maithili.

If bliss is to scratch an itch, what greater bliss, no itch at all? So too, the worldly, desirous, find some bliss, But greatest is the bliss with no desire

Nagarjun
- Desire
If you desire ease, forsake learning. If you desire learning, forsake ease.

Nagarjun
- Desire
- Learning

The nature of things is to have no nature; it is their non-nature that is their nature. For they have only one nature: no-nature.

Nagarjun
- Nature
It is said that “there is a self,” but “non-self” too is taught. The buddhas also teach there is nothing which is “neither self nor non-self.” Everything is real, not real; both real and not real; neither not real nor real: this is the teaching of the Buddha.

Nagarjun
- Real
- Buddha
Neither from itself nor from another, nor from both, nor without a cause, does anything whatever, anywhere arise.

Nagarjun