Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.

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?

Did you know your kinsmen before their birth that you should seek to know them after their death?

What the mind has to do is not to suggest a reply, but to remain quiet so that the true reply can arise.

All that is needed is that you give up your realisation of the not-true as true.

Of all yogins, only he who rests his unwavering mind and love in me is dear to me.

The peace of mind which permeates the saint’s atmosphere is the only means by which the seeker understands the greatness of the saint.

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?

Action and knowledge are not obstacles to each other.

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.

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.

What introverted mind calls peace, outside as power is shown; Those who have reached and found this truth, their unity have known.

When the I is divested of the I, only the I remains.

The ultimate Truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that need be said. till, it is a wonder that to teach this simple Truth there should come into being so many religions, creeds, methods and disputes among them and so on! Oh the pity! Oh the pity!

A dreamer dreams that everyone else in his dream must awaken before he can awaken.

In the middle of the Heart-cave the pure Brahman is directly manifest as the Self in the form of ‘I-I’.

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.

There is nothing like ‘within’ or ‘without.’ Both mean either the same thing or nothing.

Everything in the world was my Guru.

The purpose of all these illustrations is to direct the seeker’s mind towards the one Reality underlying them all.

Controlling speech and breath, and diving deep within oneself – like one who, to find a thing that has fallen into water, dives deep down – one must seek out the source whence the aspiring ego springs.

Thoughts of bondage and of freedom last only as long as one feels, ‘I am bound’. When one enquires of oneself, ‘Who am I, the bound one?’ the Self, Eternal, ever free, remains. The thought of bondage goes; and with it goes the thought of freedom too.

Even in intake, the one steadfast thought is said to be the natural state. Nirvikalpa Samadhi will result when the sensory objects are not present.

Your concentration must come as easily as the breath. Fix yourself on one thing and try to hold onto it. All will come right. Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts. The dissipated mind is a sign of its weakness. By constant meditation it gains strength.

The fruition of this process is samadhi which yields release, which is the state of unsurpassed bliss. The revered Gurus also have said that release is to be gained only by devotion which is of the nature of reflection on the truth of the Self.

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.

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.

It is beyond words or thoughts.

They say that there are many saints in Tibet who remain in solitude and are still very helpful to the world… “It can be so. Realisation of the Self is the greatest help that can be rendered to humanity. Therefore, the saints are said to be helpful, though they remain in forests. But it should not be forgotten that solitude is not in forest only. It can be had even in towns, in the thick of worldly occupations.

People such as inventors searching for new material, make their discoveries in a state of self-forgetfulness. It is in a condition of deep intellectual concentration that this forgetfulness of the ego arises and the invention is revealed. This is also a way of developing intuition.

The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.

Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.

If the light of the sun is invisible to the owl it is only the fault of that bird and not of the sun.

Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.

To perform one’s duty is the greatest service to God.

All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.

One of two things must be done. Either surrender because you admit your inability and require a higher power to help you, or investigate the cause of misery by going to the source and merging into the Self. Either way you will be free from misery. God never forsakes one who has surrendered.

While God sustains the burden of the world, the spurious ego assumes its burden, grimacing like an image on a tower, seeming to support it. If the traveller in a carriage, which can carry any weight, does not lay his luggage down but carries it painfully on his head, whose is the fault?

The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.

Discover your undying Self and be immortal and happy.

First set yourself right, and only then set out to improve others. Change the hearts of men and the world will surely change. But one must begin somewhere; and one can only begin with oneself.

The body which is matter says not ‘I’. Eternal Awareness rises not nor sets. Betwixt the two, bound by the body, rises the thought of ‘I’. This is the knot of matter and Awareness. This is bondage, jiva, subtle body, ego. This is samsara, this is the mind.

Realization is our true nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need to be doubting whether we would gain or lose the self.

Mind your business. Take care of what you came here for. Find the ‘I’ first and you may afterwards speak of other matters.

Having set one’s family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.

The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.

The macrocosm is in its entirety in the body. The body is in its entirety in the heart. Therefore heart is the summarised form of all the macrocosm.

The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.

For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.

Such happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.

The man who prays, the prayer, and the God to whom he prays all have reality only as manifestations of the Self.

The Seeker himself becomes the knower. The thing to be known is already there. There is nothing to be known afresh. More-over there are no two things. There is only the seer, the knower.

The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.

See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.

That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness – the Self.

The revelation or intuition arises in its own time and one must wait for it.

Your duty is to be and not to be this or that. ‘I am that I am’ sums up the whole truth. The method is summed up in the words ‘Be still’. What does stillness mean? It means destroy yourself. Because any form or shape is the cause for trouble. Give up the notion that ‘I am so and so’. All that is required to realize the Self is to be still. What can be easier than that?

Whatever draws the mind outward is unspiritual and whatever draws the mind inward is spiritual.

Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.

Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows ‘I am!’ No one can deny his own being.

The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the ‘6I’.

Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.

If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.

A day will dawn when you will laugh at your past efforts. What you realize on the day you laugh is also here and now.

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.

Reality must be always real. It is not with forms and names. That which underlies all these is the reality. It underlies limitations, being itself limitless. It is not bound. It underlies unrealities, itself being real. Reality is that which is. It is as it is. It transcends speech. It is beyond the expressions ‘existence’, ‘non-existence’ etc.

That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.

There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all.

The enquiry ‘Who am I?’ is the principal means to the removal of all misery and the attainment of the supreme bliss.

If a person overlooks the faults of others, and sees only their merits, and thus keeps his mind serene, his whole life will be happy. To be unconcerned in all things, with the mind cool, free of desires and without hate, is beautiful in a seeker.

To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.

He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.

Peace is for the purification of one’s mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.

Liberation exists- and you will never be liberated.

Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.

Become conscious of being conscious. Say or think “I am”, and add nothing to it. Be aware of the stillness that follows the “I am”. Sense your presence, the naked unveiled, unclothed beingness. It is untouched by young or old, rich or poor, good or bad, or any other attributes. It is the spacious womb of all creation, all form.

The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.

Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you

Does a man who is acting on the stage in a female part forget that he is a man? Similarly, we too must play our parts on the stage of life, but we must not identify ourselves with those parts.

Peace is your natural state. It is your mind that destroys it.

You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.

All that one gives to others one gives to one’s self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?

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.

Seeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he has lost individuality, and now sees nothing but god.

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.

One who knows the secret of that LOVE finds the world full of Universal Love.

Eventually, all that one has learnt will have to be forgotten.

A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.

You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it.

There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.

He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this ‘I’ arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.

The mind is by nature restless. Begin liberating it from its restlessness; give it peace; make it free from distractions; train it to look inward; make this a habit. This is done by ignoring the external world and removing the obstacles to peace of mind.

Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.

We are in our Self. We are not in the world.

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.

All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.

What message is needed when heart speaks to heart?

When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.

Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?

Do what is right at a given moment and leave it behind.

Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action.

Grace is always present. You imagine it as something high in the sky, far away, something that has to descend. It is really inside you, in your heart. When the mind rests in its source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you.

You impose limits on your true nature of infinite being. Then you get displeased to be only a limited creature. Then you begin spiritual practices to transcend these non-existing limits. But if your practice itself implies the existence of these limits, how could they allow you to transcend them.

We loosely talk of Self-realization, for lack of a better term. But how can one realize that which alone is real? All we need to do is to give up our habit of regarding as real that which is unreal. All religious practices are meant solely to help us do this.

Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief,“I am the do-er.

The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise.

Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.

There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.

There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.

Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant meditation it gains strength.

God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.

Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.

See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away – the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness.

Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.

God’s grace consists in the fact that He shines in the heart of every one as the Self; that power of grace does not exclude any one, whether good or otherwise.

Real peace is happiness. Pleasures do not form happiness.

Silence is never-ending speech. Vocal speech obstructs the other speech of silence. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one’s thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.

The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.

Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.

Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?

The “I” thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the “I” thought has to be inquired into.

Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.

Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.

You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required.

The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True “I” enjoys the stillness of bliss.

This perception of division between the seer and the object that is seen, is situated in the mind. For those remaining in the heart, the seer becomes one with the sight.

The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.

There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.

Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation.

If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.

The life of action need not be renounced. If you meditate for an hour or two every day you can then carry on with your duties. If you meditate in the right manner then the current of mind induced will continue to flow even in the midst of your work.

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 Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.

Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.

Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.

The only useful purpose of the present birth is to turn within and realize the Self.

The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within your

The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.

The Self does not move. The world moves in it.

Whenever a thought arises, instead of trying even a little either to follow it up or to fulfil it, it would be better to first enquire, “To whom did this thought arise?

Grace is within you. Grace is your self. Grace is not something to be acquired from others. If it is external, it is useless. All that is necessary is to know its existence is in you. You are never out of its operation.

What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.

When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.

Love is verily the heart of all religions.

Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.

Guru, God and Self are One.

Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.

When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.

The source of the ego is God.

The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind. The world is seen with the mind; so you see the world by the reflected light of the Self.

Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state.

If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful.

There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.

Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.

You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?

The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.

You can only stop the flow of thoughts by refusing to have any interest in it.

All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.

Knowing the Self, God is known

Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.

You have to ask yourself the question ‘Who am I?’ This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems.

By constantly keep one’s attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.

The Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him.

If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.

The Higher Power knows what to do and how to do it. Trust it.

One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.

The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.

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.

He that sees the Lord in the temple, the living body, by seeking Him within, can alone see Him, the Infinite, in the temple of the universe, having become the Endless Eye

You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?

There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.

The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.

Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.

Let what comes come, let what goes go.

Then all this earth shines like one house.

Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.

An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart.

To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result.

There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.

The seat of Realization is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart.

See who is in the subject. The investigation leads you to pure consciousness beyond the subject.

Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.

Suffering is the way for Realization of God.

Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?

Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.

Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.

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.

Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.

One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.

Nobody doubts that he exists, though he may doubt the existence of God. If he finds out the truth about himself and discovers his own source, this is all that is required.

Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices.

It is within our competence to think and become bound, or to cease thinking and thus be free.