What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.
The place where even the slightest trace of the 'I' does not exist, alone is Self.
Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one's Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.
He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.
Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.
Why should we... constantly worry ourselves... as to what should be done and how, and what should not be done and how not? We know that the train carries all loads, so after getting on it why should we carry our small luggage on our head to our discomfort, instead of putting it down in the train and feeling at ease?
Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind.
Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.
The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result.
The inquiry "who am I" turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.
The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
I Am' is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.
There is no reaching the Self. If Self were to be reached, it would mean that the Self is not here and now but that it is yet to be obtained. What is got afresh will also be lost. So it will be impermanent. What is not permanent is not worth striving for. So I say the Self is not reached. You are the Self; you are already That.
It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart.
Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.
There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.
To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.
It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon.
The entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe.
By happy fraternity amongst themselves, the embodied beings get the supreme peace. Then all this earth shines like one house. When the men, the embodied beings treat each other with equal respect and have good brotherly feelings amongst themselves, great peace and harmony abound. Then all this earth shines like one house. The whole world shines like the one dwelling house of the entire human family.