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There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all.
See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.
See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.
Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.
Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.
He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.
All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.
The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.
The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.
Does one require proof of one's own being? Only remain aware of yourself and all else will be known.
Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is 'I'; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.
If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.
When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.
In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit.
When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.
If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.
Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.
The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.
The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.
The ego's phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I'-thought rises
Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage
Remove the Ego and Avidya (Ignorance) is gone. Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains.
Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.
Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.
Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.
Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.
All that one gives to others one gives to one's self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?
Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.
Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
By constantly keep one's attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.
The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.
We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.
If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.
The fact is that you are not the body. The Self does not move but the world moves in it. You are only what you are.
The "I" thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the "I" thought has to be inquired into.
I have never said that there is no need for a guru. All depends on what you call guru. He need not be in a human form.
For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.