The Self is infinite. The Self is eternal. You are that Self. Beyond words, thoughts, ideas, forms and belief systems. There is nothing but the Self.
It is only when you have become that true Self consciously, when all these illusions have fallen away, that you will be perfectly free and perfectly happy.
If silence only conveys the Self, if all words and thoughts are illusions, why do we discuss it?
It is because people exist in varyinig degrees of the dream.
If I enter into your dream and say, “wake up!” If you awaken, then the dream will vanish. We’ll be right where we always were and always will be, everywhere and nowhere – eternally perfect, infinite awareness.
Jnana yoga is a very demanding practice. It’s necessary for you to become conscious of the fact that you’re not human.
We have to constantly ask ourselves: “Who am I?”
We have to remind ourselves that we are not the transitory body, we are not the person who is having experiences, we are not affected by action or inaction.
A perfect life is to observe – to realize that you have no control over the events in your life, that there are no events in your life, that there is no life.
You can enjoy the beauties of this world, as long as you remember this world doesn’t exist.
Discrimination, viveka, means you know the difference between the transient and the eternal. That’s what discrimination means in Shankara’s yoga.
We must constantly remind ourselves that we are eternity, infinite, beyond birth and death.
Birth and death are illusions, they are part of the dream.
On waking from the dream, we see that birth and death, the sense of self, other – all of these things fade away.
In the white light of eternity, there is only eternity.
Discrimination involves reflection and absorption.
The path of knowledge is said to be difficult in that it is the path of Samadhi.
The yoga of discrimination is only practiced once you have started to go into Samadhi.
In India and other places, there are people who fool themsleves. They walk around all day saying, “Who am I? Who am I?”
It is impossible to know who you are until you enter into Samadhi.