Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.
Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.
Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end.
There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.
There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage
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If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.
If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.
No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.
Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
You can only stop the flow of thoughts by refusing to have any interest in it.
All are gurus to us, the wicked by their evil deeds say 'do not come near me'. the good are always good, therefore all are like gurus to us.
It will come all right in the end.
There is nothing like ‘within’ or ‘without.’ Both mean either the same thing or nothing.
When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of silence.
Eventually, all that one has learnt will have to be forgotten.
If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself
You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it.
Everything in the world was my Guru.
Let what comes come. Let what goes go. Find out what remains.
To perform one's duty is the greatest service to God.
Mind your business. Take care of what you came here for. Find the ‘I’ first and you may afterwards speak of other matters.
Do what is right at a given moment and leave it behind
If the light of the sun is invisible to the owl it is only the fault of that bird and not of the sun.
The only useful purpose of the present birth is to turn within and realize the Self.
Complete surrender does require that you have no desire of your own, that God’s desire alone is your desire and that you have no desire of your own.
The revelation or intuition arises in its own time and one must wait for it.
. If one worships him with the ‘I am He’ thought, one will gain release. )
The body is the temple; the jiva is God (Siva). If one worships him with the ‘I am He’ thought, one will gain release.
The peace of mind which permeates the saint's atmosphere is the only means by which the seeker understands the greatness of the saint.
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He who has renounced (the ‘I-thought’) thus, remains the same whether he is alone or in the midst of the extensive samsara
The Power that created you has created the world as well. If it can take care of you, it can similarily take care of the world also. If God has created the world, it is His business to look after it, not yours.
The enquiry ‘Who am I?’ is the principal means to the removal of all misery and the attainment of the supreme bliss.
It is beyond words or thoughts.
Finally there comes a stage when a person feels helpless notwithstanding the sadhanas. He is unable to pursue the much-cherished sadhana also. It is then that Gods power is realized. The self reveals itself.
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So long as they make efforts they will not be sages (jnanis).
When the mind that is subtle goes out through the brain and the sense-organs, the gross names and forms appear; when it stays in the Heart, the names and forms disappear.
There is no doubt that the end of the paths of devotion and knowledge is one and the same.
When there is no ‘I’ there is no karma.
The purpose of all these illustrations is to direct the seeker's mind towards the one Reality underlying them all.
As the activities of the wise man exist only in the eyes of others and not in his own, although he may be accomplishing immense tasks, he really does nothing.
Action and knowledge are not obstacles to each other.
One can know oneself only with one’s own eye of knowledge, and not with somebody else’s. Does he who is Rama require the help of a mirror to know that he is Rama?
In the middle of the Heart-cave the pure Brahman is directly manifest as the Self in the form of ‘I-I’.
I do not consider anyone to be my disciple. I have never sought upadesh from anyone nor do I give ceremonial upadesh. If the people call themselves my disciples I do not approve or disapprove.
Be equally indifferent to both and abide in the faith of God. That will be so only when one’s faith is strong that God looks after all of us.
The man who prays, the prayer, and the God to whom he prays all have reality only as manifestations of the Self.
Remaining quiet is what is called wisdom-insight. To remain quiet is to resolve the mind in the Self. Telepathy, knowing past, present and future happenings and clairvoyance do not constitute wisdom-insight.
